I'm not sure why I'm awake at this time but it's probably down to being kicked constantly. This may be long 
I rescued my beautiful cat from someone I knew through friends who didn't feed her and subjected her to loads of parties/noise/people and smoking horrible stuff around her from 8 weeks old. She was so tiny and starved when I got her home and now she's a big confident kitty. She sees me as her mother and rarely takes to other people because of being traumatised at a young age. She is very vocal and interactive with me, I never feel alone if it's just me and her.
Ever since I became pregnant she has become very protective of me and my LO. She sits around my bump and purrs when she can feel her kick and move. She has been amazing ever since I've been living on my own. I get very very anxious because the previous resident owes a lot of dodgy people money and have had people coming round and banging on the doors and windows. Obviously I can't really protect myself if anyone does get in as I don't want
my LO to come to any harm. My cat sleeps by me at night and stays by my side during the day. Whenever she hears noises or detects movement outside she's on it like a shot, growling at anything that moves. Even when she's sleeping soundly and I get a knock at the door or I get post she's straight there growling. It's good if I don't quite hear anything because then I'm aware that there's something going on outside without having to look. She used to hide if she heard noises but now it's like she is protecting us and it makes me so happy. Anyone that is pregnant/planning on having a baby and think they need to get rid of their cats, don't. I can only imagine how protective she will be over my daughter when she is born.
Look at this cute face though 