Had our first pre-natal class last week at the Princess Anne 
Both of us were a little put off to start, Suzey found it hard to take off her teacher training head as we were forced clumsily through some training activities. And the trainspotter in me bristled to an obvious logic fallacy (”people who have birth complications are excluded from water births” followed up with “water births are statistically proven to have less complications”) which got my hackles up a tad. To be honest I think both reactions were more due to nervousness on our parts than any rubbishness of the course.
The women running the evening soon got in the flow of things and despite it being pretty large class they managed to keep it interesting and informative. Best of all they let us see where the water birthing rooms were as well as the standard birthing rooms. None of us have been through this before so any idea what it’s going to be like is based on watching Casualty. And it’s not like that thank god Having a look around a quiet and calm birthing area where no one was shouting “10 mills of madeupadon stat!” and weren’t stamping about in someone’s guts was nice, reassuring and probably what will be the most lasting memory from the evening. I wasn’t as keen on the water birth video they showed us of a very angry and knackered looking lady huffing and puffing like a WWE wrestler. We’re off to another one next Tuesday
In the mean time we’ve been stocking up on babies clothes, our radiators are adorned with many little articles right now Big thanks to Matt and Hiruko for sending some cracking presents for the nipper 
Today’s ludicrously lucky adventure is care of Hampshire plod. Back in Jan I drive Suzey’s car down to the pub eager for a birthday drink. Lost in a bit of pre-drink in car chatting I managed to zoom through a gatso doing 37mph in a 30mph zone. D’oh! It being her car Suzey got a letter which she sent back with my details as the irresponsible idiot with his hands on the wheel.
Eventually they wrote to me and gave choice of no points and £70 for a half a day being told off at a driving school or 3 points and £60 fine. The choice confused me. That or I’m lazy and I didn’t get round to replying. Last week another letter turned up and this is what greeted me upon opening.
Hoorah lucky again. I do worry that I’m wasting a lot of luck on the trivial rubbish though
This weekend was pretty good, a chilled day yesterday preceded by a more hectic one in London. In a pub in London to be more accurate where I managed to meet up with fair few friends I don’t get to see that often. I’m getting quite good at knowing when to quit and legged it home when I caught myself eyeing a bottle for champagne and checking how much cash there was in the wallet.
This week should be good. There’s a next step coming up to do with future work for the company that’s going to be pretty important whatever way it goes. We’ve also got our first pre-natal class on Thursday, an hour on water birthing, which should be good
Other miscellanies:
- Got an Apple time capsule which seems to be doing a nice job as network storage and backing up device.
- Bought Ratchet and Clank and Drakes Fortune the PS3. I’ve not turned the machine on for over 8 months but made the effort to actually play on the thing by getting these two games. Initial impressions are that Ratchet and Clank is technically awesome but so so to play while Drakes Fortune looks a bit shonky but is an excellent game.
- Downloaded the iPhone SDK and had a look at that. The emulator is pretty good but without being able to run code on the target hardware it looks like my iPhone Gridrunner++ port is on hold for a while
- Suzey got the baby measured at the midwife’s a couple of weeks ago and apparently it’s a little bigger than expected. The due date could be as much as two weeks earlier than currently predicted. Another visit next should give us more of a clue. That’d make it due about 8 weeks from now! It’s all go
Not blogged for a while but despite the silence life still goes on quite nicely Friday was a great day seeing Suzey’s Mum get married to her new husband in Pompey. Nicely relaxed ceremony and a lovely meal at the Still and West after and a lot of people seeing Rod and Joan tie the knot.
We’re getting closer and closer to baby day. Suzey’s nesting instinct has kicked in in full force and effect and she’s done a brilliant job of decorating what will be the nursery.
What was previously a bland little room is now shaping up nicely. We’re just under 2 months away now. I’m ignoring it right now but not in a bad way. Something I like about the two of us is we deal quite calmly with whatever life chucks at us. A baby’s going to be a massive adjustment but we’ll take it in our stride I’m sure so right now it’s carry on as normal.
