Australian idle

We found out yesterday that our permanent residency for Australia has come through! While I should probably launch into a rousing chorus of “Advance Australia Fair“, I tend to break out in giggles at the line “Our home is girt by sea”. Also, any sense of Australian patriotism I’ve had is at an all time [...]

Game

We’ve been playing this great game lately. I catch Chris unawares by tickling or jabbing him. Then when he looks like he’s going to retaliate, I say, “NO! Don’t hurt the baby!”
It’s great fun!

Giving thanks

Sorry for the silence of late, I’ve been really busy. I’ve been writing and working on a presentation that I’m giving to a librarians conference on Thursday, and we had a full weekend of social engagements. Also, if the truth be told, not much is going on, with the pregnancy at least. The baby’s been [...]

Harvard Future Scholar

 
So Chris got back from his Boston conference yesterday… it was very exciting to see him. It was also exciting to see the haul of stuff he brought back. It was like a maternity-clothing-themed Christmas! He brought some lovely maternity clothes from Laura, plus also had gone maternity clothes shopping for me. In fact, he [...]

The quickening?

Wow, I just got home to some pretty exciting news. David and Clare, some good friends of ours, had their baby at 5.12am this morning! (Actually, re-reading over this sentence it seems totally crazy to use the third-person plural, since Clare did 95% of the work, I’m sure.) So a big shout out to the [...]

Baby loves rock ‘n’ roll

(Or at least folky, guitar-based country rock.) So baby and I went to our first music show last night. Actually, that’s not strictly true, we’d gone to a King Curly show a few months back, but I didn’t know I was pregnant then, plus the show involved sitting in comfortable seats and eating dinner, [...]

Tips

So far a couple good friends have given me first-rate, practical baby-wrangling tips. The first was that babies heads are larger than other parts of their body, so that soiled clothes can be pulled down, not over the head (sorry about the frankness but I got as euphemistic as I could with “soiled”). The second [...]

the space race

One of the things that’s a bit daunting about having a baby is working out how he/she is going to fit in, house-wise. You’ve got to work out where s/he’s going to sleep, eat, where you’re going to nurse, and where you’re going to store the mass of paraphernalia that babies accumulates (stroller, bassinette, clothes, [...]

First pictures!

I had my 19 week ultrasound this morning, and got some first pictures of the baby. This picture shows him/her in profile.
There’s a couple of other pictures here.

The woman who’s going to deliver our child

Yesterday we visited our obstetrician for the first time. I felt myself give a big sigh five minutes into it when I realized that she was exactly what I wanted in an obstetrician. She had a great kind of “business as usual” attitude. She gave just the right impression – that giving birth is both [...]