Last night we checked off an item on the ‘things to do before the kid comes’ list that I’d been looking forward to for a while – we started our antenatal classes at the hospital.
Full Story »Shopping spree(s)
We’ve gone to town over the past few weeks, buying up big for our boy! My wife and I heard an ad on the radio for the ‘Big W Toy Spectacular’, which started at midnight the other night and I didn’t think much of it, until she asked if we were going. I thought about it and it twigged – this is the sort of thing I will be doing for the next phase of my life, buying toys for kids! I did get a bit excited at the thought of building up a Lego collection as my brothers and I had a sizeable one when we were younger and loved it.
Full Story »Excited, yes, but capable?
While every day is filled with excitement and anticipation about my baby boy, some moments I wonder if I can be the father he needs me to be. I’m not a bad bloke (if I do say so myself) but is that enough?
There is so much that I’m responsible for now. There are the obvious things to start off with, like how to sit up, and how to swallow food. Those two I pretty much have covered. I’m also fairly confident in the toddler years – I can use the big boy toilet with best of them and I am a dab hand at drawing shades on the sun. After this though, have I got what my boy will need?
Full Story »Hi Daddy!
Thursday before last, I felt our baby kick for the first time! It was the weirdest – yet coolest – feeling in the world.
I’m a bit of a sentimental person (much to the chagrin of my steelier wife) and it just blew my mind when I realised that our baby boy was kicking my hand. His feet would be all of 2cm long and yet there’s a bang. And I can feel it!
Full Story »We dub thee…
We have decided on a name, we were pretty definite on a boy’s name anyway and seeing him as we did made it feel like it was right.
Full Story »And the gender is…
The previous two days passed so slowly, I thought they were never going to end. Nights of little sleep certified my excitement and impatience, and a low tolerance of anything non-baby was its manifestation.
We left nice and early, getting over to Heidelberg a good hour before our appointment time. We filled some time by getting a coffee and a bite to eat at the nearby McDonalds; a lot of people and families have no doubt done the same thing at one time or other.
Full Story »Things that make it all the more real
I think we’re at a point in the pregnancy where it’s a bit quieter than at other times. By this I mean we’ve had our first ultrasound, my wife hasn’t got a massive belly yet, it’s four weeks until our second scan and finding out the gender, we can’t organise very much just yet as knowing our baby’s sex will make it easier, etc etc.
Given all of this, at times it’s almost like the pregnancy is a bit like thinking about Christmas in February – you know it’ll happen one day but it seems like a long time away yet.
There are things though that make me realise how close we really are to having our first child. Yesterday, for instance, I purchased our first lot of nappies!
Full Story »It’s (almost) introduction time
Today is Wednesday the 16th of April. In two more sleeps we have our 20-week ultrasound, the big one where we get a good idea of how the baby is coming along, and also where we find out the gender!
Full Story »The first flutter
My wife felt the baby move for the first time last night! She said it was just a feint flutter where the baby is, like a little twitch of muscle.
I’m sure it must have been a special moment for her, that first sensation of knowing she’s carrying a child.
I can’t wait until it makes bigger movement that I can feel!
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