For those of you who have never seen me, or have not seen me in a very long time: I have all-of-a-sudden become very fat!
This is my favourite of the profiles. It was taken at 16 weeks. I had another scan today, but unfortunately Hap-the-contortionist had fallen asleep folded up into a bundle of arms and legs that could not all be brought into focus.
Congratulations!!!
Hap is lovely.
Aw, wow. Even though I’m in the same building, I haven’t seen you for weeks, so had no idea. Congratulations!
Congratulations :-))
How exciting! Congrats. Several of my friends are having babies in the next few months. Must be something in the water! :)
Congratulations!
Thank you all for the kind comments.
It is always really pleasing when other people agree that Hap is lovely – the ultrasound images allow parents to start the pride (and paranoia) really early. :)
Can I be the first bloke to offer hearty felicitations?
Come on guys. Get in touch with your caring side.
xx
No I can’t – Sorry Matt, didn’t see you hiding there :)
Smilingly heartened by both your kind wishes and that you missed dear Matt hiding amongst all the ladies, Richard.
Corie: Forgot to mention that I recently got back in touch with a close school friend (we used to play piano-and-flute or piano-and-oboe duets for hours and hours) and found that she was due to have her first at around the same time as me. We are talking about going on holiday together during the maternity leave – which I am sure that people who actually have children might find “amusing”.
Many congratulations, Bronwen.
We are talking about going on holiday together during the maternity leave …
I have children and I think it’s a grand idea!
While adding my congratulations I’ll add this reminiscence, that when Mrs Gee was expecting Gee Minima, Gee Minor (she of the Unicycling Girrafes) was then 2 and, looking at the uktrasounds, asked excitedly whether Mummy was going to give birth to a Triceratops?
From a certain angle, Hap seems to be holding a puppet Punch.
I foresee a great career in politics.
Delighted to read your news, Bronwen, congratulations! And as Matt has said, I had not realized even though I sit in an office above your head and often walk past your desk. Possibly this is due to my weak powers of observation, or possibly because while sitting down you have artistically arranged yourself so that your Hap parts are out of direct view.
Looking forward to reading more about little Protocollus or Protocollina.
career in politics
Well, this possibility had not even occured to me! Perhaps I should be tuning into Prime Minister’s Question Time instead of singing and playing tunes on the piano; though if there is any prospect of producing a Triceratops I probably have bigger things to worry about.
Maxine: Part of me would quite like to blog about Hap (and related things), though I have a background feeling that I should partition this off in some way so that people can know to avoid the blog if they don’t want to know. Perhaps I should re-introduce “Dear Mom” posts for this purpose…
Congratulations!!
Great news Bronwen! When I saw some of Hap’s photos the first time I thought, silently, that they bore an uncanny likeness to the alien from the Aliens movie.
Is this “Alain” the “Alain” you occasinally mention in your blog, Bronwen? If so, welcome Alain and I hope this was not the first time you heard this news ;-)
Maxine: Yes, this is The Alain, and he has indeed been aware of the news since the beginning. Perhaps it just seems new as it is has now, in this blog, been separated from my litany of twinges. :)
Alain: I don’t think that Hap looks anything like the alien! Though perhaps if we change the scale from white-black to green-red the similarity may become clearer… (please don’t!!)
Sorry I did not speak to you at the NN event last night, Bronwen, I saw you looking radiant across the room, surrounded by an audience fascinated at your pearls of wisdom (that’s what it looked like, anyway!) but by the time I made my way to your quadrant you had departed. That is the peril of living so far out, I guess. I left not long after you but still seemed to get home inordinately late. Sarah, to whom I was talking, lives in Luton.
By the way, somewhere above you note a “maternity leave friends’ holiday” – good idea. On my first materinity leave my friend Michelle (who lived round the corner) has her first baby just after me, and it was nice to spend some time a quatre. Unfortunately, our second times round failed to conincide: I missed the boat and she had twins (boys). She now lives in York, and the boys are both bigger than we are – and neither Michelle nor I is short of stature.