30
April
2006
Today was a bit of a mixed day, though at least S didn’t go to the office — instead she spent most of the day on the lounge opposite me, drifting through the day on a mix of bad tv, snacks and baby books.
Our biggest hurdle it seems is food. We had a bit of a spat in the afternoon over who makes what (me) and when it gets made (when S wants it) — tempers and frustrations rose to the surface surprisingly quickly. Our obsessing over food even showed itself when later making up and talking about how S went from a light simmer to a fast boil at a rate of knots.
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Posted: Food
29
April
2006
So I raced back from Singapore last night so that I could spend the weekend with S in all her pregnantess. Saturday morning I’m downstairs procrastinating online when I hear S’s telephone upstairs ring.
Saturday morning not yet eight am — a bad sign. A few minutes later I hear the sluggish steps of somebody who’d really rather still be comatose — a worse sign. Then S meekly walks down the stairs, slides over behind me and nuzzles my neck — Alert, alert — danger Will Robinson. — Then she mumbles “I love you … but…”
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Posted: Dealing with pregnancy
28
April
2006
I spent this afternoon climbing up and down, in and out and around and around Dad’s ship which has become pretty much a permanent attraction in Sembawang shipyard in Singapore — it recently set the record for number of dockings (that’s bad in case you were wondering). The ship originally carried bananas (I found that out when on the bridge I spied a lever labelled “Banana Loader”), then other refrigerated products and then was transformed into a live animal carrier.
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Posted: Nothing to do with babies
27
April
2006
So I’m in Singapore at the moment on a whistle-stop see-the-folks and renew a visa trip from Jakarta and this is the first time I’ve been away from the baby!
It is the first time but unfortunately won’t be the last time — the thought of being away later in the pregnancy, or even worse, after the pregnancy, is pretty depressing and I’m surprised how strong the feeling is already — after all she’s not even a lump yet!
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Posted: Buying for babies
26
April
2006
Word is slipping out. S is on Skype to her good friend J in the US of A and the cry just same out “We’ll…we’re going to have a baby!” Luckily J wasn’t on speaker, although I think I almost heard her congratulations flying over the Pacific Ocean to us here in lovely Java.
Overall we’ve done a pretty woeful job of not telling people about it — it’s difficult to keep something quite when you think about it 24/7. Even now we still find ourselves sitting on the lounge, S slowly rubbing her belly staring into space, me hypnotised with the circular motions of her hands — and there’s not even a lump to rub yet!
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Posted: Food
25
April
2006
We had a classic festival of food frustrations this evening. I hadn’t started anything for dinner by the time S got home and figured she’d have something in mind that I could whip up. Sure enough she did. Problem was the crave was comprised of high quality fresh pasta — preferably ravioli with a light sauce.
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Posted: Food
24
April
2006
Big day today — I got an email from my little sister saying the following:
Maddie saw the photo of you and Mum that sam took (one of her arty ones that I straightened up) and said, “Nannie – Unc Stu!”
So there you go, I’m going to be a daddy and my niece has finally figured out who the unshaven guy is who pops into her life every now and then.
I made some kind of rice and date pudding tonight on a special request from the pregnant one. Rice and Date pudding should carry a warning along the lines of:
“Warning — may send to sleep instantly.”
S almost keeled over with a rice and date layered spoon still stuck in her mouth and I’m not far behind her.
My god, I feel like I’m pregnant…
Posted: Baby pics
23
April
2006
S had a pretty rough old day today — a fair bit of boredom, nausea, stomach pains and cramps all suffered through to a background of bad tv, plentiful rain and fatcat dragging and hiding dead rats in the house.
The day didn’t start so bad — we spent some time paging through one of the I’m pregnant helllppppp books we picked up at Kinokuniya yesterday, and I have to say, it was pretty damn good.
Lots of pictures, diagrams, charts and summaries meaning that after a 15 minute sitting I felt I knew all there is to know about this stage of being pregnant — and I’m not even pregnant.
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Posted: Dealing with pregnancy
22
April
2006
S and I ventured out today to Plaza Senayan — one of Jakarta’s swankiest malls. We were on a mission to pick up what S explained to me was the bible of baby making, What to expect when you’re expecting. Unfortunately Kinokuniya were all sold out, but there was no shortage of substitutes.
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Posted: Buying for babies
21
April
2006
S got home about 5.30 tonight and since then has eaten half a tub of ice-cream and two pieces of rye bread in preparation for the beef stew I’m making…
She’s also repeatedly demanded pineapple juice — knowing full well there is none in the house.
She only got away with the “ice-cream before dinner thing” by spouting off with some guff about Japanese schoolkids always having desert before dinner — I won’t even try to explain that theory.
So for all those Japanese schollkids out there, here’s a post all about the craves of S.
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Posted: Food
