As the current pregnancy ticked over into its 32nd week on Friday, I paused to consider what was happening in my life 2 years and 9 months ago while I was expecting Jonathan. Around that time, I had 4 weeks of work left before 4 weeks of much-anticipated leave (yay!), I was busy training my [...]
Checking my recent blog entries, I’m all too aware that they have been scant of late. And of course I’m going to put the bulk of the responsibility for that firmly on the aforementioned pregnancy.
I will admit that it’s definitely been easier being pregnant (so far) the second time around. If you don’t [...]
… that we’re expecting another little one. You may recall that previously we rushed to get a photo of the positive pregnancy test to record the momentous occasion. This time we did the same and, as you can see, already in two short years, baby technology has moved on – the tester is now pink, [...]
Christmas is just 4 days away — good grief!
This year we are once again being hosted by the lovely Simon and Nicola, who very kindly offered to have us back again, even knowing that we’d be bringing along our delightful, but potentially noisy, family addition this year!
(And that was before we asked if they would [...]
I spent today with Julie and Jonathan.
Julie is walking around (slowly). Jonathan is still in the neonatal high dependency unit. They think he’s not making enough surfactant for his lungs. This should resolve itself fully in time, but until then they want to keep him on the CPAP machine.
We’ve been advised not [...]
It’s official, his name is Jonathan Henry Thomas Brazier. Thomas is in honour of my maternal grandfather who I sadly didn’t know well enough what with growing up in a different country. But a deep, strong man who I respected and loved greatly.
Julie is fine after the caesarean, but obviously not massively mobile [...]
It’s been a very long week, but finally as of 04:53 this morning, 28 June 2007, we have a little boy. Here he is:
Julie and baby are both fine, despite the mass of appliances he’s attached to. He weighed in at 3.2kg, or about 7 pounds 1 ounce.
We don’t have a name [...]
Turns out that Amazon stock some pretty cool stuff for babies…
People have been really generous to us in the way of clothes and baby hardware, but we’ve not really looked at any baby toys and books. So for those who like having a list to choose from, I’ve been having fun [...]
Doing the paperwork for when our 37 weeks are up:
Eek! It makes it all feel so final! :zipit:
This entry originally had the title “The longest week ever”. That was the predominant feeling as the Tuesday of my last week at work dragged to a close. Not because I was hugely uncomfortable at work, but all the mundane stuff to get through had each day feeling like a week long…
Then came [...]
