Birth Plan, Birthing Suite But No Baby…Yet.
I was going go write about how this week we had our midwife come over and do our birth plan and how it was all a bit hilarious because we have cats and very useful because she is lovely. I...
Tagged: third trimester
Week 35 – Midwives, Anaesthetists and Pokemon
It’s Week 35 and I delayed this week’s post so I could write about our appointments which we had today instead of on a Thursday as usual. This was mostly because it was easier for me to take the Friday...
Ready Or Not Here I Come?
My wife is having contractions. Okay so it could be Braxton Hicks, and it’s pretty normal for this time in the pregnancy – we’re 34 weeks in and anywhere from two to six weeks from the birth. The actual date...
Here’s Looking At You Kid (Again)
It’s Week Thirty-Two in the pregnancy and things are getting close. In less than eight weeks we will have a baby to put in all this stuff we have. We have appointments now every other week of some sort –...
“If I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.”
We’ve already chosen a name. The sonographer confirmed we were having a boy at the last scan, which basically just confirms our choice of name and means we don’t have to decide between the two female/gender neutral names we’d narrowed...
Baby Kicks
I finally felt the baby kick. We’re six months in, so my wife has been feeling Snappy moving around for a little while now: when she eats, when she’s trying to get comfortable, when the cats are purring…but not when...
Two Trimesters Down, One Trimester To Go
We’re six months in now, on week twenty-six and very soon it’ll be August and we’ll have a baby. It feels like bethend has been pregnant forever but not really that long all in one go. We were trying to...
