Pippa Middleton has confirmed she is expecting her first child.
The Duchess of Cambridge’s sister, who is married to hedge fund manager James Matthews, announced the “happy news” in a fitness column she writes for Waitrose’s Weekend magazine.
The 34-year-old also revealed she had passed the first trimester without suffering the morning sickness her elder sibling experienced at the start of all three of her pregnancies.
Ms Middleton said she found keeping the news she was pregnant under wraps “hard”, but said she would use her monthly column to keep readers up-to-date.
“I was lucky to pass the 12-week scan without suffering from morning sickness. That meant I was able to carry as normal and continue my sports,” the fitness enthusiast said.
“Who knows what the next few weeks have in store,” she added.
Speculation over Ms Middleton’s pregnancy first emerged in April, days before the birth of the Duke and Duchess’ third child, Prince Louis.
Also an aunt to Prince George and Princess Charlotte, Ms Middleton will be able to turn to her sister, 36, and mother, Carole, 63, for pregnancy tips and advice in the coming months.
She said she had noticed her body change and weight increase, while the marathon runner has also stopped pounding the pavements to give her body a rest.
![Tennis – 2012 Wimbledon Championships – Day Thirteen – The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club](http://image.assets.pressassociation.io/v2/image/production/4057d8ab341d9943881b207c6d11b549Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaCwxNTI4NTA4Nzk3/2.13990252.jpg?w=640)
Kate was admitted to hospital and treated for a number of days for hyperemesis gravidarum during her first pregnancy in 2012.
The condition, which causes severe vomiting, can lead to dehydration, weight loss and a build-up of toxins in the blood or urine called ketosis.
She suffered the condition again while pregnant with Charlotte in 2014 and had to cancel engagements while she was treated by doctors at Kensington Palace.
Despite suffering another bout of severe morning sickness while carrying Prince Louis in April, Kate battled through to carry out a significant number of engagements, but missed George’s first day at school.
Ms Middleton and Mr Matthews married in May 2017 at an event billed as the society event of the year.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here