Connie leaves the house today and comes back three minutes later crying her eyes out.
She has reversed into my dads car. Its not like it was bright red or anything and was in plain sight when she left the house. No, it was clearly camoflauged and hiding in a fucking bush and just as she was about the reverse out our massively driveway, the micra leapt out and into her path.
We have a row. and she says that the work around the house is getting on top of her. This is the reason that she crashed the car. As housework is clearly linked to bad driving and being blind in the pregnant zone guidebook.
Dad, I and the kids clean the entire house from top to bottom leaving no stone unturned in less that an hour.
Job done.
I wish that I could be a house husband, sit at home drinking tea, eating cookies, watching montel williams in teh morning then claiming to your partner that youve been slaving in the house ALL day.
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Week 27 update
Mother:
Welcome to the third trimester. The home stretch! Around this time you will begin to really put on the weight, this will last until about week thirty-six. Although some cultures dictate otherwise, weight gained during pregnancy is not fat or unhealthy, but rather, necessary for a healthy pregnancy and baby.
The weight that you gain will be distributed in several places. The average breast before pregnancy weighs about 7 ounces and during pregnancy each breast can weigh up to an average of 28 ounces! Some of the weight will go to body fluids (amniotic fluid, blood volume, etc.).
Baby:
Your baby's skin is very wrinkled from floating in water. This will stay this way until a few weeks after birth as your newborn fills out into a baby. Although take heart in the fact that your baby's looks are assuming the looks that they will have at birth! Baby has also hit the 2 pound mark (900 grams).
Dad:
If mom is starting to complain about her weight remind her of the importance of weight gain in pregnancy for a health pregnancy. You should also help her by not tempting her with sweets and setting a good example yourself.
(i havent been drinking anything at all in sympathy for her being up on blocks, with of course the exception of getting bladdered with paul and leslie last month on guiness)
Welcome to the third trimester. The home stretch! Around this time you will begin to really put on the weight, this will last until about week thirty-six. Although some cultures dictate otherwise, weight gained during pregnancy is not fat or unhealthy, but rather, necessary for a healthy pregnancy and baby.
The weight that you gain will be distributed in several places. The average breast before pregnancy weighs about 7 ounces and during pregnancy each breast can weigh up to an average of 28 ounces! Some of the weight will go to body fluids (amniotic fluid, blood volume, etc.).
Baby:
Your baby's skin is very wrinkled from floating in water. This will stay this way until a few weeks after birth as your newborn fills out into a baby. Although take heart in the fact that your baby's looks are assuming the looks that they will have at birth! Baby has also hit the 2 pound mark (900 grams).
Dad:
If mom is starting to complain about her weight remind her of the importance of weight gain in pregnancy for a health pregnancy. You should also help her by not tempting her with sweets and setting a good example yourself.
(i havent been drinking anything at all in sympathy for her being up on blocks, with of course the exception of getting bladdered with paul and leslie last month on guiness)
Sunday, 8 June 2008
Death
I wake up this morning thinking about death
Its gut wrenching, I can feel my stomach churning
I dont know why, maybe its just getting older and panicking there is nothing out there.
Maybe its realising that for every baby being born, somewhere in the world someone is expiring.
I believe in a higher power, Im not sure that i favour any particular religion, but they all have one simple thing in common regardless of how you dress it up and that the existance of something out there.
I hate talking religion and politics, but for some reason I have a moment of severe lack of faith liying in bed today. Its a sinking feeling.
I find something to occupy my mind and the feeling goes quickly. I write this without becoming emotional about it, the moment has gone.
Its gut wrenching, I can feel my stomach churning
I dont know why, maybe its just getting older and panicking there is nothing out there.
Maybe its realising that for every baby being born, somewhere in the world someone is expiring.
I believe in a higher power, Im not sure that i favour any particular religion, but they all have one simple thing in common regardless of how you dress it up and that the existance of something out there.
I hate talking religion and politics, but for some reason I have a moment of severe lack of faith liying in bed today. Its a sinking feeling.
I find something to occupy my mind and the feeling goes quickly. I write this without becoming emotional about it, the moment has gone.
L baby scare today
L is worried today, she says she hasnt felt her baby kick in 4 days.
She had a planned mid-wife visit for today and when she gets there she sent a txt to say that the midwife cant detect much movement and the heartbeat is racing and she has been sent to the hospital.
I tell her to txt later,
Skip to Following morning,
Her car isnt in the car park and I have an instant panic to myself that something is the matter. A txt arrives and everything is Ok but she got home late. I feel instant relief. The thought of anything being wrong with her baby or my baby is just soul destroying.
She had a planned mid-wife visit for today and when she gets there she sent a txt to say that the midwife cant detect much movement and the heartbeat is racing and she has been sent to the hospital.
I tell her to txt later,
Skip to Following morning,
Her car isnt in the car park and I have an instant panic to myself that something is the matter. A txt arrives and everything is Ok but she got home late. I feel instant relief. The thought of anything being wrong with her baby or my baby is just soul destroying.
Beatnik
What do I look like just now, am I am hip dad, or an ageing hippy dad, I cant quite make up my mind.
I have nice jeans on today, a zeppelin t-shirt, a pair of chelsea boots by timberland. My hair is quite long, surfer dude style and I have a coral necklace on that my daughter gave me, or i might have stole......
My mate at work (sandy) is not impressed. He calls me aBeatnik
I think that I quite like this and Im not insulted in the least.
Oh Yeh, check out the funky beatnik dad......
Daddy, Daddy Cool, Daddy, Daddy Cool........
I have nice jeans on today, a zeppelin t-shirt, a pair of chelsea boots by timberland. My hair is quite long, surfer dude style and I have a coral necklace on that my daughter gave me, or i might have stole......
My mate at work (sandy) is not impressed. He calls me aBeatnik
I think that I quite like this and Im not insulted in the least.
Oh Yeh, check out the funky beatnik dad......
Daddy, Daddy Cool, Daddy, Daddy Cool........
Its not a bulge
We had a right laugh in bed tonight.
Connie referred to her bump as "a bulge"
I was like NO, you can call it a bulge thats horrible, its a bump, dont worry baby, mummy didnt mean to call yuo a horrible nasty bulge...
Suddenly there was a massive kick
I had my face against the bump at the time talking to it (do other men out there talk to their baby bump) and whoosh, definately a foot or a hand right in the mush.
Im giving it, ok, give one kick for a girl and two kicks for a boy.
I think its a girl.
Mind you, considering that I have three girls already, I am not very surprised.
Connie referred to her bump as "a bulge"
I was like NO, you can call it a bulge thats horrible, its a bump, dont worry baby, mummy didnt mean to call yuo a horrible nasty bulge...
Suddenly there was a massive kick
I had my face against the bump at the time talking to it (do other men out there talk to their baby bump) and whoosh, definately a foot or a hand right in the mush.
Im giving it, ok, give one kick for a girl and two kicks for a boy.
I think its a girl.
Mind you, considering that I have three girls already, I am not very surprised.
Bad Dreams & The Washing Up
Connie has had two bad dreams this week.
She is petrified of spiders and awoke earlier this week imaganing that bright red spiders were scurrying over her bump. This was scarey enough for her to jump out of bed and switch the light on.
Adding this to the 9th pee journey, the tossing and turning, the snoring and the generall lack of room is not good.
Last night, she dreamt that the baby had died, but for some bizarre reason we were displaying it in a zip lock bag on the mantlepiece.
I do not pretend to understand the finer points of the inner working of the female mind, but there we go.
This is confirmed in todays argument with the pregnant hormones leading the attack. Connie was doing the dishes and I merely ask what I could do to help her, world war 3.
Mental Note;
Could this be a good reason to turn gay ?
She is petrified of spiders and awoke earlier this week imaganing that bright red spiders were scurrying over her bump. This was scarey enough for her to jump out of bed and switch the light on.
Adding this to the 9th pee journey, the tossing and turning, the snoring and the generall lack of room is not good.
Last night, she dreamt that the baby had died, but for some bizarre reason we were displaying it in a zip lock bag on the mantlepiece.
I do not pretend to understand the finer points of the inner working of the female mind, but there we go.
This is confirmed in todays argument with the pregnant hormones leading the attack. Connie was doing the dishes and I merely ask what I could do to help her, world war 3.
Mental Note;
Could this be a good reason to turn gay ?
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