Yup last Wednesday little Johua Kai finally emerged and is now home and well as is his Mum. It’s really an amazing feeling that is half shock and half awe. It’s been less than a week and you can already see him getting his own little personality and everything just feels right. I’m sure I have my sister in-law and her husband to thank for that as they now have a 5 week oldand I’ve picked up lots of tips watching them. It was only yesterday when we were left on our own that it’s finally all sunk in.
The birth itself went well and Teenie was amazing using only Gas and Air and the birthing pool, no screaming but that was because she had the gas tube firmly between her teeth. After the birth I took him as she got out the pool he fed straight away but Teenie had lost too much blood as I could see in the pool. I can now never EVER watch Jaws in the same way again. (A bit like how Fathers who attend a Caesarian start seeing John Hurt everywhere).
She got rushed to the labour ward and was surrounded by Doctors leaving me with Joshua, everyone was amazing and letting me know that it was all just for precaution but it still scared the hell out of me.
After a few days in hospital and blood transfusion later we were all finally home I was more exhausted from all the worry and travelling than now with little Josh here, so the tiredness and napy changing hasn’t been so bad.
Better get going but my words of advice to any Dads to be are, it changes everything but in a good way, and not in a way you can really explain or understand till it happens, and of course it’s going to be amazing! (oh and saying “over” on a baby monitor ever gets old).
including Netvibes with a sparkly new application designed to make the facebook addicts of the world’s lives that little bit easier. And here it is.
Now I’ve been on facebook since May and pretty much ignored it for the first few months now EVERYONE has a page I found a friend who’s emigrated to Australia today, and an old workmate who’s now in Amsterdam. It must be the biggest social networking movement for my age group (Late 20’s early 30’s). I guess it’s for people who were up for the idea of Myspace but who’se retinas just couldn’t take the terrible terrible design and music on every bloody page, which is a huge pain in the arse for firefox users like myself who like to use multiple tabs and then just have a huge wall of noise thrust upon them.
Having a module on Netvibes is nice but Facebook still doesn’t allow feeds of your news so be sure to join the group if that’s something you are after.
My schizophrenic blog lurches back over to all things personal as today is Teenie’s last day at work before starting maternity leave, so it’s all feeling very imminent at the moment. There’s about 5 weeks to go but there are plenty of babies due around that time popping out already and looking very healthy so really it could be any day, though 5 weeks time would be a bit more ideal.
Becky, her sister who lives just 5 minutes on the bus from us is a few days over due so fingers crossed I’ll be an uncle next week, hopefully a good deal earlier than when I become a Dad. Last night Joshua (did I mention we have a name…) was kicking like crazy the belly felt paper thin and you could clearly make out a foot when you touched it, he was kicking all over the place so that would be the Brazillian half of him.
Since I’ve last been on here we’ve had a couple of anti-natal classes which have been surprisingly cool, two male mid-wives have been talking to us both very chilled and funny putting our minds at ease, I’ve also had a baby yoga class, now I’ve done yoga before and really enjoyed it but, this was just a little bit patronising with a couple of very softly spoken touchy feely yoga teachers.
The nurseries done(ish),
but now that Teenie’s off, I believe the nesting starts Monday. Still feels a long way off (Sep 7th) but I know it’ll fly by, can’t wait to finally meet him.
Manhunt 2 won’t get a UK release, the BBFC have refused to give it a certificate, just too damn violent, now of course the US can put banned all of the box and sell loads!
Well it’s been a hell of a long while since I’ve been here…. A lot has happened so where to begin.
Well for a start we’ve had the 2nd scan and………….
IT’S A BOY!
Big surprise for us as we had convinced ourselves it would be a girl, but it helps us out a lot with the naming which will be Joshua Caiqui (pronounced kai-eekee, it’s a native Brazilian name). Lot’s of kicking which is amazing as it feels like you are actually playing with him, if you poke the belly, he’ll kick back at the same place. As of today we are officially in the third Trimester. We’ve also started to play him some music and he kicks like crazy, so far we’ve played him Moon River (Our first dance), Don’t worry be happy (A song I’m using for work), and some samba.
As well as changes with Joshua we’ve also moved somewhere new with two bedrooms as our old place was tiny, and it’s amazing, our backgarden is right on the Thames with an amazing view, but it takes over an hour on the bus to get to work but it’s worth it. We’re all unpacked and have just started on the nursery putting the cot together buying the pram, only downside being we are still renting so we can’t decorate completely so we are going for stickers for the nursery. For some strange reason I’m thinking a jungle theme, a boy should have a monkey.
Okay enough with the baby talk and back to what’s happening on the net
Netvibes have had their new Coriander version out for a few days now and with one simple button in my opinion has just wiped the floor with the competition, just as I was drifting over to Google reader every now and then,
If you have a look at the top right of that picture you’ll see a new button, which switches from feed view to website view. This tiny little button will completely change the way you use the net.
The big problem with RSS feeds is that not all of them are great, sometimes you’ll just get a title and then you have to go to the site to see if the story is actually worth reading. Now however, you can switch to a view of the actual website not the feed whilst still being within Netvibes. Try it out and you’ll see what I mean it changes everything and makes the whole web viewing process so much cleaner.
Well done to the team, and keep up the improvements!
Well it’s a week on and I still get the shakes when I see a pram. Got a text last night that my best friends wife’s water has broke. It is officially now raining babies. Everywhere I turn there is someone pregnant and it’s getting more and more frequent that I know the person. I am offically alledgedlly grown up (And so is Dib! Happy Brthday). Well on top of the iminant birth of my friends kid, I’ve read The Blokes guide to Pregnancy and suddenlly it’s dawned on me that
a) At some point a birth is going to happen, it’s going to be scary and painfull and that’s just for me never mind the mum to be!
b) After said birth a baby will appear and I’ll have to look after it.
c) Baby will soon turn into a little person with a personality, hopefully they’ll like me
d) Baby will eventually turn 16 and start having sex with a hairy biker called Geoff, what the hell do I do then! (For the purpose of this post I’m assuming I’m either having a girl or a very camp boy with an affinity to either bikers or men named Geoff).
I have to say the book is cheap, short, a good read and will earn you those ever so valuable brownie points, to Amazon with you! It’s a nice mix of banter and facts, sometimes a little too blokey for my liking and with the amount of times it lurches between blokey blokey football football and give your wife a foot rub, I’m very suspicious of this Jon Smith, he could well be a woman on a crusade to gently get men to treat their wives better. In all seriousness it does a very good job of simply explaining some complicated procedures and jargon, which my wife had no idea about it. (That’s where those brownie points I was telling you about start hitting home).
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Well this was a few weeks ago but here’s the first scan of the baby! Finally it’s feeling a bit more real.
When we went to the Doctor in January I was expecting all sorts of tests and things to confirm the Pregnancy but he just took our word for it and asked where we want to give birth. So this is the first time an actual medical professional and not a £5 piece of plastic from Boots has confirmed we are actually having a baby and this is what it looks like.
Teenie is now 14 weeks and this weekend was just a baby frenzy. I ended up going to the Baby Show in docklands and I fell into all the new Dad stereotypes and really could not take any of it seriously at all. I wandered around pointing at Baby’s saying things like “How much for that one” or “Does he come in Blue?”. I also challenged my Brother in-law to a pram race.
We also went with my Sister in-law who was also pregnant and also with some friends who had just had a baby. It was weird seeing baby Andre as he’s only 3 months old but last time we saw him he was tiny, didn’t know what was going on, and slept a lot. Now three months on he couldn’t stop laughing and it’s amazing how quickly they grow! He really has a personality already.
Looking around the show it felt like a bad episode of Dragons Den, some ridiculous contraptions for taking your baby in the shower and some truly terrible terrible T-Shirts for all members of the family. There were just so many things you are told you must have and I don’t really believe any of it, and how the hell do those pram / car seat / carry things work anyway. I don’t even have a car but apparrantlly if I don’t have a car seat the baby can’t leave the hospital.
When we finally escaped with nothing but a huge selection of the heaviest baby catalouges known to man we met up with some more friends who you guessed it, were Pregnant but this time with their second baby, Nye their first is about 3 1/2 and so damn smart it’s frightning. I didn’t know they would grow up that quick! I then phoned my best friend who’;s wife is giving birth in two months and found out another friend is pregnant
