Baby ruins all the fun

Sue wants to fly to Australia in September for a wedding. No problem there, she's always flying to Australia for various reasons. This time, however, she wants to take the baby. Only trouble is, the baby isn't a baby yet, it's still a foetus. By September, of course, it will have been a baby for months.

Try buying a plane ticket (or at least pay the taxes) for a person who legally doesn't exist yet. When you can't tick the "name" or "date of birth" box for the travel agent, they tend to come back with a "not enough information" response.

Now that the baby is 8 days late, we're hoping it'll arrive soon, with the task of getting cheaper airfare added to the list of reasons why.

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Now playing: Bloc Party - Kreuzberg
via FoxyTunes

hospital visit

went to the hospital today with all hopes of Sue having a "sweep" and coaxing the baby to come out. The mid-wife came to the conclusion, quite quickly, that the cervix wasn't ready. She then sent us on our merry way with a "see you next week"... argh! just what we were given LAST week!

On top of that, one of our NCT couples gave birth on our due date! They were due on the 7th. Irony of ironies would be us giving birth on the 7th.

Baby will arrive sometime, just wondering what it's birthday will be.

and then there was... none

Well, today was supposed to be the birth day of our new child.

What did we do to celebrate? We went for a coffee at Nero and made something to eat.

That's right, we're part of the 80% of first time parents whose child is late.

When's it coming? Who knows. We have an appointment at the hospital on Tuesday and hopefully we'll learn more then.

Kinda glad it's not coming now as I feel sick as a parrot and need a couple of days to recover before an all night session of brow mopping and bedside coaching.