Don’t worry be happy!

I saw a lot of nervous tears throughout this morning, I first noticed there was something wrong when I was about to leave for work and Jamie was crying and saying she can’t do this! I re-assurred her that everything would be fine and she can do it because she will have me with her every step of the way, UNLESS THE PUBS OPEN!… I’m joking of coarse.

She seemed to listen but I knew all that we were about to go through and all we have been waiting for will begin today ‘possibly’ was racing around her mind. Telling her there was no need to worry and you will be fine doesn’t always work because she forgets that I am right occasionally! Anyway off i went to work leaving Jamie with her thoughts.
The time came to travel to the hospital for our 40 week appointment and a possible sweep which I know Jamie was scared about but in the car I reassurred her again and we went in together In the office I held her hand while the midwife\nurse talked to her and the consultant did the sweep and no sooner had it begun than he was taking his gloves off and saying he’d done it and whilst there touched the babies head and everything pointed towards labour very very soon and see you over the weekend it went perfectly and good luck.
Jamie’s face was a picture, from controlled breathing and a look of fright and scared anticipation with a tear running down her cheek, to surprise and “Is that it?” A big grin broke across her face and her usual bouncy persona re-appeared, immediately, along with the excited chat and confidence and well….Jamie!
In the car on the way home she was all “the consultant said this and the consultant said that and he wrote this and I’ll be in labour soon. Too early to ring her mom she said she would ring my mum when she got home lol It was killing her that it was too early to call Denver but she would burst if she didn’t tell someone…what a difference from 30 minutes ago when she was quiet and scared?
I pointed out that I was right, there was no need to be scared or worry but she dismissed me with a “…whatever, anyway the nurse was great and I really liked the consultant he reminded me of a Beatle and…” but I know I was right 🙂
Got home from work and there was unfortunately little change and no contractions let alone labour…so we walked into town, there an back along the canals then home for spicy food, a hot bath yoga and a bit of bouncing to finish the night off 8D lol
Listened to a local radio show on iPlayer ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005l0xp 34mins in if you want to listen) our friend Patty was on tonight talking about ‘life in the UK’ and how its been to live here for a year which was really good.
Anyway hopefully I won’t get a full nights sleep tonight but I think I might ‘damn it’ although we just watched Jamie’s belly go wild so there could be more news later….
We also videoed it:

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Bouncing Bouncing Bouncing

A cold day today well cooler than the last few but who cares I was back at work, and not in maternity or labour ward. Jamie is becoming desperate but I think its because she’s so close? Four days till our due date and we are trying all the ‘old wives tales’ on how to bring on labour and its becoming our only thought all the time Jamie has just spent ALL night bouncing on the birth ball while watching GLEE!

I love walking and especially when we all walk together but I know its tough going at times just now for her but she does not want to be pregnant any more
Not a great deal happened today although I did, even if I do say so myself, make some fabulous Cheese Potato Chilli, Garlic and Coriander rosti’s for tea! No wine this evening thinking it was a bit of booze roulette last night because if Jamie had gone into labour we would have had to go to the hospital by taxi so coffee only tonight 🙁
More waiting tomorrow…?
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Red Red Wine\Mist…

Sitting in the sun and relaxing with a morning coffee and newspaper is without doubt the best way to start any day. We did similar today as yesterday walking into town and back because there’s still no sign of Reagan.
Mums for Sunday dinner and nodded off in the chair after it, only to be woken by Jamie saying RIGHT, I’m going home! LOL……. Anyway once at home we decided another walk was required so did the same walk as this morning but, the opposite way around? (radical) While out we (jamie) needed to pee so halfway round we stopped off at Kings Arms but on the way in a car passed, this was verbatim what Jamie said “don’t give me a dirty look, you Emo piece of shit!”
A word of warning to anyone seeing a 39 wk 2 day hormonal pregnant lady walking in to a pub a a sunday evening….do not look at her as though she’s obviously going for a drink, or do so at your peril!
With the possible opening of the BEST wine I’ve ever owned I want to try and appreciate it when it hits my palette. I want to be able to say why its different to the other reds I regularly choose to drink purely on a financial basis. If it costs £3 – £4 I buy it and drink it and don’t give a flying….what it taste of!
Tonight I opened a bottle of wine with the intention of tasting it (a first for me!) and I have read a bit about how to do it as well. So we both wrote down what we tasted:
Wine

Gallo Family

Sycamore Canyon 2008
Cabernet Sauvignon
Jamie
Dark berry, Blackberry, Vanilla, Black or Raspberry Plum or Blueberry
Al
Fruity, blackcurrant.
Jamie got almost all the tasting notes on the label correct and I didn’t but the instructions I read said you can’t be wrong because its what you taste I only wish I’d wrote Vimto because it has such an after taste of it, but apart from that when she mentioned blackberry and vanilla I could see what she meant. For a first attempt I was hopeless but you have to start somewhere?
The life of David Gale and bed to finish!
One final thought: Is this what happens when your waters break?

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A Sunny Day

What a day, from start to finish we had a great day the only thing missing was the appearance of Reagan.

Woke up after sleeping in a while and the sun was already “crackin’ the flags” Jamie was off to yoga so I woke her up and went to make the coffee and take Jack while she got ready. After breakfast I dropped her off in Lostock for her yoga class and I went to run some errands calling at me mums and Keith & Lena’s picking up some turf to patch up the lawns where Jack had ruined them.
After picking Jamie up we went to walk around the garden centre which we both love and bought some compost to plant out a couple of bushes aat mums which is where we went next Jamie sat sunning the while I dug the holes to plant those bushes
At home we pottered for a while in the sun before walking a long the canal where we fed bread to the ducklings taking our time and taking in the sun while we can. Sitting on the bull ring watching the world go by was great and eventually returning home a couple of hours later, to sit out back until the sun went down and when it does boy does it go cold.

Hot spicy food for tea was one of the requests from Jamie, and while eating the fajita’s I cooked both of us were sweating and blowing our noses because of the heat so that was mission accomplished and 😉 the other request was sorted too….Reagan your mum can’t do much more to prompt you?
I’m sat here watching Match of the Day with Jamie asleep next to me with not even a twinge so we start again tomorrow!
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Baby Shower

So the big surprise was a baby shower for Jamie (which I was actually in on but was sworn to secrecy) and late last night Jamie returned home with me mum and Karen all had arms laden with baby goodies. I want to thank everyone who was there because she has has the biggest smile on her face ever since your gifts are overwhelming to say the very least and REALLY appreciated, it means a lot to both of us, but especially Jamie to know that you think enough about us to do things like that. THANK YOU!

As for Jamie’s health and Reagan’s too they are both doing really well considering how worried she was just over 48 hours ago. A midwife’s appointment this afternoon confirmed all was well but despite the pleadings from my wife she could not be swept today but was given a time scale of a sweep next Thursday, they won’t let her go two weeks over they will induce before then but all this if she doesn’t give birth beforehand. Her branston’s are quite regular at times now and sometimes she can time 2 or 3 at 20 minute intervals but they haven’t yet turned into proper labour but we will walk a lot over the weekend and do anything else they recomend to induce labour too, no matter how tired I am 😉 lol!
So walk we did and… tea was lovely too
Brassed off later always a good film to watch before bed!
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Now you see her now I don’t…

Today was dominated firstly by how Jamie was feeling when she woke up in hospital but I needn’t have worried because she texted me at 07:05 to see if I was awake and to tell me she felt ok and had felt Reagan all night so she just wanted to come home.

The doctors wanted to monitor and scan he again so she had to stay put but the results of those were really encouraging because the tightening had increased from yesterday and the scan showed no bleeding or damage to the placenta and baby is fine, which made us both very pleased indeed!
She came home at 12:20 and made some macaroni and cheese for dinner and as soon as I left to go back to work she went up for a bath and got into bed because she had been kept awake all night by women in labour huffin and puffin pantin and groaning their babies out lol. In fact that’s where I found here when I got home from work some hours later although I am pleased that was the case because if she’d have lifted a finger I would have been “pissed” (to give it a Jamie term)
She was feeling a lot better and was up to going around to her mates house for a planned get together, little does she know loads of friends and relatives will be there to surprise her so I am sat here waiting for her return to see what it was all about and why the secretive nature of the “get together”?
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Bump the Bump?

Short blog today because of one single event:

Jamie tripped and fell at the end of the drive today landing on her bump, although she put her hands out and her knees were grazed her “huge” bump hit the ground!
It shook her up and she was in a little discomfort but I think when shock took over she felt every little ache pain niggle and pull was magnified and she was upset. We decided to go straight to the hospital to get her (and bump) checked out. The staff were magnificent, and put her on a monitor where straightaway we saw that she and most importantly bump was fine, although Reagans movements were rare compared to what we have come to expect. The midwife brought in a glass of COLD water and said drink that…..with in seconds we had Jamie’s bump moving to and fro and a heart rate for Reagan of 160+ she was fine just asleep lol!
We both looked relieved and Jamie’s smile returned, they said they would take blood as a precaution but the results won’t be ready until tomorrow so they wanted Jamie to stay over night so they could just monitor her which we both agreed was shitty but for the best and the only choice. So as I write this she is in Leighton Hospital feeling ok but miserable and lonely in a ward full of women in labour 🙁
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Limbo

First of all Jamie and the family Forster so far…chilaxing

I feel a bit in limbo now, I’ve turned 40 and don’t feel any different (but knew I wouldn’t) and we are waiting to be parents and can’t do anything now until that happens. I thought today that we will wait for this beautiful thing to happen then…I feel we’ll have to wait again to do stuff with her, just such a wierd thought to have but I think it comes from my ignorance of what we can do when we first have a baby…?

Everyone is saying that we are having a baby at the perfect time, with summer coming we can get out and about which if I’m honest is what I want to do “the proud dad showing his daughter off” something I never thought about doing!

The weather has cooled off today making you realise it’s April and not summer yet but we still walked into town in shirt sleeves when I came out of work at dinnertime. Bought some picture hooks to hang our new wedding photo frame from Kate & Dave for me birthday ‘thanks guys!’ and the for the picture that we have for Reagan’s room too.
Noticed today that with the better weather comes

HAYFEVER great?

Jamie was up most of last night with Branston’s and then they annoyingly stopped when it was time to get up, in my opinion she’s not far off but there is nothing that will make her give birth until Reagan’s ready!
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Gardening in the spring sun

Jamie made the statement last night “Can you believe we will be parents, in TWO weeks?”

I said I can and I am so excited at the prospect! I’m not scared of becoming a parent and explained to her that she shouldn’t be either, we are such a good team that whatever happens we will cope with it. Plus we will have all the help we could possibly need, especially now Pam will definitely be here for two weeks in May\June (more of that in a minute)

Branston’s coming thick and fast now but keep subsiding Jamie’s bouncing like a mad woman on the birthball hope they won’t subside and turn in “JUST SHUT THE F&%K UP AND GET ME TO THE HOSPITAL!” but they haven’t yet!

…and jealousy (or maybe frustration) set in earlier when I told her my boss’s wife had given birth early this morning but she is pleased to hear about all birth’s when they’re healthy I did think, when I told her that Sarah had been sick in the night and her waters broke, that I would find her with her fingers down her throat when I got home? I asked her and she said it had briefly crossed her mind lol

We spent the evening in the garden because the weather was amazing again, we were tidying up pruning back bushes that have not wintered quite so good as usual, mowing the lawns and cleaning out the water feature which was stagnant and sent her running for the house when she smelt it lol

Jack loved it being outside and spent a long time chasing the ball Jamie kept throwing even though he has a tough time remembering he can sniff it out even though he can’t see?

It can be tiring though throwing a ball…

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Party on!

Last night was great, with so many friends and family turning up to celebrate with with me and who also blessed me with so many wonderful cards and gifts! One special note should go to my best friend John who gave me an Anti Nowhere League T-shirt for Reagan I am sure she will cherish it for years to come!

Having got in at 2am very drunk and suffering hicups my wife apparently put me to bed but that is a little hazy from my perspective? One bad bit of the night was being ripped off for the butties which we agreed a price of £30 last week and when I paid for them with 2 x £20 notes Sue said there’s easily £40 worth of food there and took the 40? Well I let it go last night because I didn’t want to cause a scene on my birthday but if you agree a price thats the price so I will be going back to remonstrate and get my £10 back even though if we had agreed £50 I would have paid that no problem but there is a principle here and its just not right!

 
All that said great night and thank you all who came

 

Arose at 10am…slowly and had coffee, then because it was a nice day again and because I was suffering a hangover from my party we decided to go for a walk to blow away the cobwebs… We took our time and walked into town along the canal calling at the bookies to pick my winnings up 🙂 it was a really nice feeling to be winner!

Got home and set off to me mums for dinner and was surprised that there was a birthday cake for afters, thankfully with just 6 candles not 40 (that could have been dangerous) I made a wish but she hasn’t appeared yet.

 
 
 
chatted to Karl and Karen and me mum for ages then with my hangover diminishing we decided enough was enough Jamie’s Branston’s have been pretty consitant all day and she was tired so we left so Jamie could go to bed
 
 
 
 
I leave you today with a few pics from the party, thankgoodness they stopped about the time I became incoherent…!

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