First feel!

This is waayyy overdue, but it’s been kind of busy around here and I don’t think I’ve really sat at the home computer for a couple of weeks.  And it was a couple of weeks ago.  Two weeks tomorrow to be exact. The first time I felt junior move.  So not only is my wife clearly an alien, as she has no belly button, but now there’s stuff moving around in there.

Seriously though, it’s a great feeling.  It wasn’t a throw you across the room karate kick, but it was definately pushing stuff out of the way.  Since then all has been going just great.  Debs is blooming, and growing to quite a size.  Any week now we’ll have to get one of those hospital bed things that slides in to act as a table.  Otherwise she won’t be able to fold enough to get to her dinner on our low living room table.

Land ‘o DIY and other stuff

Nesting? Not, we’re working on finishing off the last few remaining bits of DIY in the house so we can get it listed. We just finished stripping 50 years of paint from six doors and frames and now they’re getting a nice clean coat of fresh paint. Looking much better and like new. Hope to get a decorator in to finish off the front hall and kitchen…probably a week’s worth of full-time work.Continue reading

In the Clear

Today we met with Dr. Rane to discuss the results of our 16-week blood test and the fetal anomaly scan we had a week ago. Should mention that the scan came up normal, showing no signs of any congenital defects and on track development…you go Little One!!!Continue reading

Winter again

It was winter again last night.  I looked out some time mid-evening and it was snowing Winter in Tyler’s Acrequite persistently, but such small flakes that it wasn’t making any real inroads into covering the place.  But, you know how it is when you’re a kid, if it’s snowing you’ve just gotta keep checking in case the mother load has fallen and you’ve missed it.

I kept a lid on it for quite a while, but gave in Continue reading

Blood preliminaries

The first bit of good news is that at her last midwife visit, Debs was told that she will be getting further additional monitoring because of her greatly advanced years. As well as the 12 week dating scan and the 18 week anomaly scan she will receive further growth monitoring ultrasound scans at 28 and 34 weeks.  This is brilliant, especially with all our relatives in the prison colonies!  We’ll be able to give everyone regular picture updates of Junior all the way through – so, keep your eyes peeled.

The second bit is that we were really surprised to get the initial blood results back on the 4th, Continue reading

Winter at last

Twees in the schnow - click to enlargeAfter waiting since I was seven years old, when the snow was up to my neck and we had to run home lest we be burried in the blizzard, we’ve finally had a proper winter day again, yay!  Britain has been buckling under the strain of up to 150mm (6″ in old money) of snow falling in less than a day.  I know, I know, it’s not a lot by many standards,Continue reading

The Little One’s 16-Week Check Up

Saw Rita, the midwife, this morning and I really like her. She seems to really know her stuff and is very forthright and honest. Baby heartbeat is at around 148 beats per minute and very regular (she said, hmmm, a boy?). You could hear it moving around too. Baby has moved up out of my pelvis and is sitting high and well. Placenta is at top of womb too…which it can move around a bit, but it’s good and needs to be at the top towards the last few weeks so the bottom of the uterus can prepare for delivery.Continue reading

Doglet update

Doglet had a second trip to the vet today, for what I thought was to be an x-ray appointment. Because I was working in Glasgow today, Mark high tailed it out of the office a little earlier to take her in for the appointment.Continue reading