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Baby blabber | 12 septembre 2008

This week had been long awaited by Pan and I and now its over. With the second scanning showing all ten fingers and toes, a moving (and we like to believe happy) baby, and a doctor looking fast between its legs (hmmm I think I might have seen a big bump.. but since I was the only one.. it might have been hallucinations) we are reassured. Not that there was anything to worry about but still its good to get it out of the way.

The funny thing about expecting a baby is that everyone has pregnancy stories to share with you. Sometimes they´re nice, about cute babies that do what they´re told but often its about the hassle of birth (something I am not even close to want to think about), horror stories of a 59 year old having triplets or milk powder inducing kidney stones in infants (ok I will admit these two last ones are media stories..that is, from my new best friends :) thank god for CNN I watch everyday). But all in all people tend to be just lovely, saying Hello like the waiter downstairs (what´s up "la grosse" ? translate fatty), giving me their seat at the bank and friends stroking my stomach. Its weird the effect the pregnancy has, mostly on other people. Pan being the greatest, often asking questions like "did that person bump into you???" in a crowded street or metro - as if I would say " yes honey, it wasn´t on purpose but can you please punch her/him in the face". Its nice to be protected

Also - clearly the most common question is to ask pregnant women what it is they are expecting. I have my answer all worked out: "Well, we are keeping it as a surprise but we are hoping for either a boy or a girl." In all fairness, people are just trying to be nice and strike a conversation.

Apart from that "rien a signaler" or RAS as we say in French, except that the lovely but slightly overweight midwife at the hospital is doing something with the balance there. At my last check the silly little thing showed that I had gained 10 kilos "Mademoiselle, here in France we try not to go over 10-12 kilos for the whole pregnancy". Aha.. well.. if it is anything like your calculations for the due date (only country that counts 41 week while others count 40, and then it seems that most French women have their babies 10 days before the due date!! hmm hmm.. ok but lets still say its 41 weeks.. just for the sake of it) then maybe you should rethink these measurements of yours. Like my cousin said, icelandic babies and women are big and strong so dont you worry about my kilos. Apparently its more the nordic gene, because according to our danish pregnancy book the baby should now weigh around 600 grams (it weighs 550) while the european numbers count around 350 grams (tiny little thing). So let me rephrase the answer to the ever so popular question:

"We are definately having a viking!"

Publié par Kolka à 17:21:27 dans Miss baby blabla | Commentaires (1) | Permaliens

11-10-2008 19:10

De Line Sujet: I think its a girl
Its so cool to sit and read it all. I wish I had money for iceland, but Im buying half of Berlin for my up coming Niece (I had a dream- you got a girl).. ;)