Miscellany and Midwives

Firstly, thanks must go to Timaree and Mulberry for the awards they bestowed upon us. Please consider yourselves awarded right back!  We are honoured. However, we aren’t going to be giving out any more awards, I’m afraid, because we simply can’t choose 5 more people, and because Mulberry blatantly encouraged us to break the rules – so consider them broken! Ha.

News on the pregnancy front is that vee is showing ever so slightly. It’s both weird but kind of unmistakable, even if she does insist it’s because she isn’t holding her tummy in so much these days. In fact, I just turned to her and asked, “Am I allowed to talk about your bump?” and she shot back, “I haven’t got a bump!” then laughed to herself as if I was doing it all wrong and imagining everything.

But it is there.

At the weekend, I went to see an old mate; one of our first prospective KDs, in fact, but that never got off the drawing board largely because he “wasn’t ready” – about 5 years later, he still isn’t.  Another story! Anyway, just after telling me about someone’s 4th and someone else’s 2nd pregnancy, he reminded me that another mutual friend would soon be moving to the area “to start a family” with her husband. “She wants 5 children!” he said, to which I could only reply, “Ha, well, she’d better get a move on!” Rather alarmed, my friend asked me what I meant, so I explained that she’s the same age as me (33) so if she wants to pop 5 sprogs out in swift succession, she’d better get a move on.

Later, vee and I worked out that if she didn’t have any IF issues, she’d be able to birth 1 kid every 18 months by the time she’s 40. Seriously, though. What’s this with people and their assumptions that all will be well and 2.4 (or 5.0) and go according to plan? Because if you’re in the IVP, Nothing Goes To Plan. As we all know! Good luck to them is all I can say.

Finally, it is nearly 4pm and the midwife is still not here. This is only blogworthy because she was meant to come at a random time that suited her (i.e. when she wasn’t delivering babies or something like that) and there’s just about an hour of the working day left. Should we worry, or do midwives just do what they feel like all the time?

And no, I haven’t got used to the fact that A MIDWIFE IS COMING TO OUR HOUSE yet. It’s crazy. It’s what the pregnants do, innit?!

- jay xx