Life, now.

Category: Talking Italian

  • How early is early?

    I am getting a little concerned, as my wife keeps telling me she thinks ‘blimp’ will come early. That on its own doesn’t worry me, but her mobility – or lack of – has reduced an awful lot recently. Obviously health-wise, it would be better for ‘blimp’ to come later rather then sooner – but […]

  • Antenatal

    We are currently in the middle of attending our antenatal classes, and last night the topic was around the actual birth itself. The class was given by an amazing South African midwife who you could tell just had a passion for her job – the two hours went by so quickly. Among all the stories […]

  • Hidden Worlds

    Shops have suddenly got bigger and I don’t think that is going to change for a while. There used to be areas of a supermarket or department store – in fact whole shops – which we never seemed to know existed. A strange new world of little things, tiny outfits and baby must-haves has emerged. […]

  • Blimps first A380 Flight

    Dubai to London Heathrow – after days of uncertainty, LHR is open again and we can finally land.

  • Breaking the News

    Near the end of last month the first trimester of the pregnancy ended; up until that point we had not told many people of the news. Family was of course first, and I was actually surprised at the reaction. My birthday coincided with us starting to tell friends the news, and if I was to […]

  • A Whole New World

    I’ve been introduced to a whole new world, and in just one shop so far. I thought a ‘buggy’ was a buggy – and that is definitely not the case. The scenarios seem to be: Easy to assemble / disassemble Engineering – a lot of thought goes into those buggies, it is utterly amazing. Multi-purpose: Just […]

  • Island Living or Talking Italian – Decision made

    I feel sad and happy all at once. We picked our names a long time ago and a lot of thought went into them. And now one has gone, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be used again at some point in the future. Today we went for scan number 4, and this time they […]

  • Small Bump, Big Bump

    Yesterday afternoon we were visiting one of the local Malls and ended up going into two particular shops,  Mamas & Papas and Pottery Barn Kids. In the past visits to this particular shops have always been about finding a present for one of our friends who have just had a baby. This time there was […]

  • Movement

    We’ve just been to the first scan, or at least the first scan I have been too. In real terms this is the third scan. And it was moving – amazing. Little hands and feet, good looking jaw bone. Even ended up with a DVD afterwards of the pictures: (link updated as wasn’t working) Totally […]

  • Dates, Dates and more Dates

    We’ve just had the first Doctor appointment together – and they have given us a document which basically plans out the future. Dates for scans, dates for check-ups, dates for visiting the hospital, dates for everything. Planning them all so I can attend each one is going to be tricky. And what makes things worse […]