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 still will tell you about that and how I spent …
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 off than rearrange the appointment. At least I thought so. …
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 is August 18th but only 4% of babies are born …
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 – midwife, scans, the anaesthetist. Today we had another scan – …
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 it down to. The naming process started at twelve weeks …
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 I’m feeling it. They stopped moving entirely whenever I put …
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 figure out what would be causing some health problems that …
