10
Jan
2010
Things I forgot about having a newborn – part two
This is me.
For those of you who didn’t read my earlier brilliant analysis – here is a link. I almost forgot to write a second part. Yes, I do see the irony in that. (Is that actually irony? In amongst the whole Alanis Morisette irony debacle I think I actually forgot the real meaning). Anyhoo, I’m four months in now and still my brain is remembering things that I had forgotten. Call it baby brain, call it Mother Nature’s insidious way of getting you to have another one, call it my memory was never that good to start with. Whatever, here are some more…
1. If you are a freakish nerd trying to get your beloved child into a routine, they are extremely difficult to keep awake for soooooo long. And then suddenly one day you realise you haven’t had to walk them outside all day and they’ve been playing on their mat happily for half an hour without passing out arms up and legs akimbo. It’s about this stage you can start to really get into day time telly. Just don’t get sprung by your husband watching it with a bag of crisps on the couch and the baby on their playmat in the corner. What? No, didn’t happen to me. I hate TV. And crisps. Mmmmmmcrisps.
22
Dec
2009
The dad’s role in pregnancy.
a pathetic attempt to appeal to the males
I wrote a whole post about Christmas traditions. Then the Captain told me he was over Christmas. And my traditions. Hmm, thought maybe the rest of the world was too (yes, I am aware that not EVERYONE in the world is reading our blog – more fool them) and I am all about pleasing the readers. One of his friends had some helpful suggestions about how I could improve the male readership of this blog. The key one was introducing sports coverage – specifically, blow by blow accounts of any event where England is playing Australia. Probably not going to happen today, but you’ll know when I start cutting and pasting the BBC sports coverage that things have got dire.
In the meantime – how about some thoughts on the male role in pregnancy? There are any number of books on the topic and hundreds of articles written every year. Most of them focus on loving support. It’s true, loving supportiveness is good, but there are some more specific steps you can take to ensure you remain the father of your unborn child. So here are Kate’s top tips on how you can be the best pregnancy person ever:
20
Dec
2009
Things I have wasted money on
If you ask my husband — most of my wardrobe, half the bathroom cabinet, all of my top drawer, the spice cupboard, the bottom three shelves of the bookshelf and everything in my half of the CD rack — falls into this category. But for the purposes of this post I will keep it to Items I Have Bought for Children or Childbearing Purposes. Also known as Things Kate’s Friends Should Have Told Her.
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12
Sep
2009
We had a girl!
As of last week
Kate is a proud mother of two! The latest addition to the onedayyoullthankme gang is a lovely little girl. Kate reports from the new-born-baby frontline that things are going better than expected. Although her love of forward planning has backfired somewhat after assuming that second child would be similarly ginormous size as the first and buying large baby clothes for her. In fact the baby is on the petite side and consequently, according to Mum, she has passed her first few days looking “like a bald chicken in giant clothes”. Which, whilst wasn’t the fashion forward start Kate had hoped for, sounds very cute. Congratulations to Kate, Captain Sensible and Big Brother (who, in the lifelong tradition of big brothers will hopefully be hatching new ways to torture little sister as soon as possible)!
9
Jun
2009
Looking freaky with 10 days to go
Sometimes I wonder what all the staring is about. Then I get a side view and I understand.
Official date is June 19, although could be any time now. Says the doctor. Who actually, as far as I can tell, has greater chance of forecasting the weather than arrival date.
I am running out of clothes and as you can see these ones are barely cutting it. Top will not take slightest growth and the pants are yoga pants. There’s no place to go after stretch fabrics. Except maybe indoor confinement and giant mumu.
So I hope baby arrives sooner rather than later.
15
Apr
2009
Talking about ‘IT’
I find that talking about your pregnancy can have some awkward moments in general. Given the very close alignment of the duration of my pregnancy and the time passed since my wedding, I often find myself feeling the need to talk about when The Spaniard and I actually starting trying to get pregnant. I don’t like to talk about the “trying” all that much because, let´s face it, it´s basically a nice way of talking about us having sex but with the added detail of it being without contraceptive. It´s not your typical light conversation. When I see that that look of concentration that I rapidly conclude is people mentally crunching the numbers to see if we actually fall in to the “shotgun wedding” category, I have a tendency to launch in to defending myself. I find myself going in to the detail of The Trying not starting until after the wedding or that there is a very good chance that it may have been The Trying on the actual wedding night that resulted in the outcome we have before us today. Confirming that there was Trying on the actual wedding night is particularly weird. It´s getting waaayyy to specific. It only ever occurs to me afterwards that defending my honour isn’t really important enough to put people through this excessive information sharing. Possibly it’s not the level of information they were after. I must try and let go of my need for accuracy and spare people the mental image of my husband and I having sex. Unless you´re Brangelina no one really wants that image in their head.
