My boyfriend was meant to be just a ‘one night stand’ – but he got me pregnant and we now share three kids together
- Catherine Gault, of Lisburn, went on a night out in 2016 when her ‘life changed’
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A mother claims she had the ‘longest one night stand ever’ – as the man she shared a taxi home with after a night out got her pregnant and now they have three kids together.
Catherine Gault, 28, went clubbing seven years ago when her ‘life changed’ as she met Jonathan Gillespie after he offered her a space in his taxi home.
Just 21 years old at the time, she’d parked her car outside Limelight Club in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and didn’t plan on drinking, but a few drinks later found herself stranded and unable to get home.
The unassuming care worker, from Lisburn, ended up staying over at the 22-year-old’s house and only began to suspect she was pregnant a week later when she noticed her boobs felt sore.
Catherine recalls how she even had to sheepishly ask mutual friends for Jonathan’s surname to look him up on Facebook.
Catherine Gault (left), 28, from Lisburn, Northern Ireland met Jonathan Gillespie (right), 29, during a night out in Belfast, which led to a one night stand
Despite a less than conventional start to the relationship, where the couple felt too awkward to even go to hospital appointments together, they fell in love as soon as tiny 5lb 2oz Poppy Gillespie came along in 2017.
The mother-of-three now hopes to encourage other women to just ‘go on the night out’ because if she hadn’t, she would never have her beautiful family with Jonathan, now 29.
Catherine said: ‘I drove down and wasn’t going to drink. I left my car outside the club. I ended up stranded with no way home and then I met him.
‘He told me I could have a place in his taxi because my friends knew him. Obviously I stayed over but I kind of thought that was it. I was like “oh I’ll never see him again, like that was nice but you know, I’m 21′”I didn’t really think about it.
‘I was living with my friends and my sister and I remember thinking “Oh my boobs are so sore, like what is that?” I was like “there’s no way I’m pregnant because that’ll be silly”. I took a test and I was pregnant.
‘It’s crazy it all happened from that one night. I do feel like it was fate and he’d probably say the same I think.’
Taking two pregnancy tests to make sure it was really happening, Catherine immediately went to see her mum to ask what to do.
Despite the awkward beginnings, not knowing the businessman’s surname and not wanting to attend hospital together, the couple soon naturally fell into a relationship.
Just 21 years old at the time, Catherine (pictured with her partner and their children) had parked her car outside Limelight Club in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and didn’t plan on drinking, but a few drinks later found herself stranded and unable to get home
The unassuming care worker ended up staying over at the 22-year-old’s house and only began to suspect she was pregnant a week later when she noticed her boobs felt sore
Catherine and Jonathan are now a content family-of-five, alongside their three kids, Poppy, six, Escanor, two, and seven-month baby Max
Catherine said: ‘As soon as I took it [the pregnancy test], I was shocked. I went straight to my mum. I knocked on her door at midnight. I pushed my stepdad out of the way and was like ‘where’s mum?’
‘I woke her up out of a proper sleep and was like ‘what do I do?’ I had to ask my friends what Jonny’s second name was and find him on Facebook.
‘I think the message just said ‘Hey can you come to my house I’d like to talk to you about something’. I remember him saying ‘Is it good news or bad news?’
‘I thought well, obviously he’s going to have to make that decision. He didn’t come to the first few scans, I think we just felt really awkward with each other to be honest.
‘We were getting to know each other. Imagine dating someone but they have to go to your hospital appointments. It was more towards the second half of the pregnancy that he was involved.
‘We just naturally fell into this boyfriend and girlfriend thing. It was never even a conversation really. He looked at me one day and was like ‘we’re kind of boyfriend and girlfriend, aren’t we?”
When 5lb 2oz Poppy Gillespie came along in 2017, the new bundle of joy only solidified Catherine and Jonathan’s relationship
Catherine has gone on to have a further two children with Jonathan, and has urged fellow females to ‘just go on the night out’ – even if one is not feeling up to it
Catherine and Jonathan found the magical ending to their love story and now have one girl, Poppy aged six, and two boys together, two-year-old Escanor and seven-month baby Max.
The stay-at-home mother hopes to encourage other women to just ‘go on the night out’, thanking both her best friend for convincing her to go and the nightclub for ‘changing her life’.
Catherine said: ‘As all couples do, we’ve had times where I’ve thought ‘are we going to make it?’, especially back then.
‘Especially thinking back to when I got pregnant, I remember thinking ‘I don’t want to be with him, I’ll just raise this kid and we can co-parent’.
‘But now, I honestly could not survive one day without him. He is the love of my life and I am the love of his life. We can’t believe it just worked out.
‘I’m very glad my best friend convinced me to go out that night. I always say she’s the reason I have this beautiful family. And the Limelight in Belfast, if I could go and thank them – they changed my life.
You never know where you’re going to find the man of your dreams. If your friend asks you to go out, go out, just do it. Just go on the night out, don’t say ‘no’. If I said no that night, I’d never have this beautiful family.
‘For women in the same situation where you’re single and pregnant, it is scary. Not everyone will have the same magical ending I had. I thought I was going to do it on my own without him. It’s nice that it worked out but also don’t worry if it doesn’t.’
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