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St George’s Day

It’s St George’s day today, I love the 23rd April and look forward to it, I always always celebrate it by at the very least wearing an England football shirt to provoke comment by people who question why I’m wearing it or realise why and comment. I could go into a speech here about how we’re not allowed to be English for fear of being called racist yet we have to pander to all other cultures and country saint day celebrations so they can enjoy themselves here….but I won’t!

Jamie’s waking thought was pedicure…? Her reasoning, there will be lots of people getting pretty close to her feet over the next few days and she wants them to look good she also had her eyebrows waxed to (not sure of her reasoning there though?)
Went to see the midwife at 13:15 and Jamie mentioned the pains she’s been having and she told her it could easily turn in to labour so best have a high carb dinner because you need to take on as much energy as possible while you can. Jamie took this as a direct instruction to have a chippy dinner so we went straight to the chippy for fish’n’chips I’m not exactly sure that was the actual message but the dinner was bloody great!
I am sat here watching The Ricky Gervais Show an animated adaptation of his podcasts which if you’ve never heard them you MUST seek them out and listen “they’re hilarious!” Jamie is asleep in the chair next to me no pains no baby just sleeping so she doesn’t go to bed too early and end up waking up at 4am not able to sleep, there must be some logic there that I missed but…?
So no St George birth, maybe we will be one of the 10% who actually give birth on their due date who knows? Please don’t go over dudette!
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Jamie speaks!

It seems like our life is on hold and we can’t and daren’t do anything we just do our best to carry on as normal knowing that at any moment our life is going to change forever! Wake, walk, eat, work, walk, eat, walk, work, walk, walk, eat, watch tv and bed is about what my day entails at the moment so I asked Jamie to contribute today:

Alan asked me to write down just how I feel right now at 39w & 4d pregnant so here goes, the aches and pains that come with being pregnant with a full size human baby are getting really tiring. My belly feels huge and tight and I’m loosing interest in everything but the thought of birth. Don’t want to eat much or move too much, definately do not want to leave the house. I feel like I just want to stay in my little nest and wait for her to come out. I love feeling her move now they feel so strong! One little baby movement and my entire belly shifts! Like she is moving my organs around:) One of the weirdest things is hearing my belly rumble or the noises that normally come from your intestines are now coming from some very strange places….like really high up on my side! And everything is so squashed all the noises are very very loud now! Mostly I just wonder what she is like, what she will look like, and smell like, and sound like! I still can’t quite get my head around the fact that she is a little baby I guess I will get it when I see her. All the pressure I feel today in my pelvis is so so strong that I reckon it won’t be long till we meet our little miracle. Cramps are coming, pressure is there, hopefully she is ready to come out and meet us too!
All I know is that the minute our eyes lock all the discomforts of pregnancy will fade into distant memories……like forgetting a dream when you wake up. We are both truly excited and I absolutely cannot wait to bring Reagan home and sit down with her and Alan and just get to know each other as a family and to see my wonderful husband and best friend become a father……..it’s going to be amazing!
Thanks dude I have to say I try to write about how you feel but that about sums it, and the thoughts at the end are always the sort I have and never about sleepless nights and being knee deep in disposables its always sunny days baby bonnets and pims on the lawn…we’ll see lol!
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The Prologue

I have decided to blog my life, everyday for the next year? It may not interest most people but I would to think that in the next few days or weeks I will become a father and that this blog will also be a diary of our first year as parents and maybe one day she will be able to read this and see what it was like for us and her.

Ok in that first paragraph there is a lot of information I will elaberate on over the next few days, but for now I will give you a brief little prologue to set the seen.

My name is Alan and I am 39years old and will be for the next 12 days I am married to Jamie and we are expecting our first child anytime now. We live in England and have done for over a year now, I am from here Jamie is American we love our life together.

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This is us!

Blogging is something I enjoy doing and thought that I should do this now as there are lots of things happening in our life right now that I want to document and it will also be a point of reference for our freinds and family over in the states who I will be sending an invite to read this when I finish the first page. I hope to add a photo everyday too to show in someway what we were up to, did or saw. I’m sure it will evolve as time goes by and hopefully will be worth reading so keep having a look.

More later but for now this is a start!

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