Today has been simply the best day of our lives. It is with immense happiness that we can say that Deborah has given birth to a healthy and vital baby girl, Marcail Erin Begbie today at St. John’s Hospital, Livingston. She weighed in at 3090g, or 6lbs 10oz in old money.Continue reading
Category Archives: Parenthood
Open wide!
We had growth scans at 28 and 32 weeks with the result that the head circumference was somewhere just about the 50th percentile on both occasions, but the abdominal measurement was above at 28 weeks and below at 32 weeks. As a result we were asked to go back today for a further scan, carried out by the obstrician, to make sure that the baby wasn’t suffering from some inhibition in growth.Continue reading
Alien Inside
It’s getting to that stage where Debs is a different shape every time I look at her. This morning she woke up, then a short while later lifted the duvet followed by a shocked exclamation. Turned out to be nothing to worry about, just some stray limb that was attempting to leave her abdomen by an unauthorised route. No danger of doing a John Hurt though; thank goodness, we’ve got dark walls but a light carpet that would never recover…
A long time comin’
It’s been ages since I’ve written anything and time has flown by. We’re in our twenty eighth week, Debs is getting really pretty big now and Continue reading
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
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
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
Poke poke
So there I was lying awake for a few minutes at around 4:00 a.m. this morning when I felt two tingly pokes in succession in my womb. Up until now there have been frequent daily swishy, wavy sensations, but this was distinctly different. We’re heading into the ‘quickening’ phase of development when wavy feelings and even pokes can be felt as the Little One makes random contact with the uterus lining, but typically this really begins to be felt around 22 weeks. Keep you posted on any further ‘movements!’