The Missing Five Months - Part I

Apologies, apologies and even more apologies.

Gosh is it really five months since I last updated my blog? Blimey, you won’t believe how much has changed in that apparently short period of time – and it’s still all good news without any doom or despondency about my previous lack of love life.

Rounding things up in a nice and short way, P and I are still together and we’re still happily loved up. The biggest, no the hugest, news ever to have to have occurred in my life is that P is currently seven weeks pregnant!

We weren’t really expecting things to happen so soon, especially given that we’re both approaching 40, and we thought we’d be “practicing” for a few more months yet. But when P’s period didn’t materialise on our holiday, I began to suspect that a bun might well be in the oven! As soon as we got back home from holiday P duly performed the embarrassing task of peeing on a stick – twice. And, low and behold, both came out positive.

So, there you have it, I’m to become a Dad. So far, I think I’ve been very calm about things – especially since P is still not showing any symptoms or is there a bump to look at (and rub!). But today P came back from the doctors with a book all about pregnancy and, as I flipped through the pages, it sort of started to hit home of what is ahead. After all, it’s not as if you can hand over a screaming little imp and clear off back home – this little bundle of joy is for keeps!

But, given our relative ages, P and I are naturally concerned about abnormalities such as Downs Syndrome so we’re going to pay for a special scan. Also, given that P suffered from pre-eclampsia in her last pregnancy I made the mistake looking it up on the Internet and terrifying my self in the process. Still, the midwife said they’d be keeping a closer eye on her – and they’re not the only ones!

So, there you have it, you even have an exclusive as not even our respective parents or friends know about the (very small) bump yet and we’re waiting a few more weeks to make sure things are OK before announcing it to the world.

Given my lack of time these days (doing heaven knows what!) I’m going to try and do a bit more blogging over the next few months – after all, I’m going to have a lot to blog about!!