A blog by James: Gamer, Father, Geek.

A couple of posts ago I made a vague mention on how the universe, having seen what a shit day I had, paid me back big time. Well I no longer need to keep it a secret, so I am happy to say that Kat (my wife), is almost 13 weeks pregnant! Here is the 12 week scan, below:

For those that don’t see anything, on the left side you can see the two eye sockets forming, and it’s hard to make out but there is a nose and mouth forming too. Yes, it does look like an alien at the moment, but I’m assured that it won’t be born that way.

I wish I had gone to see the scan. I suppose the reason I didn’t was that with the previous pregnancy (which sadly ended at 11 weeks), we had a scan at 6 weeks and you really couldn’t see anything but a tiny blob. In my head I didn’t really think it through that this would be another 6 weeks older, and it’s amazing how much of a difference that makes in the early stages. So I thought I won’t bother to see it, I’ll just go to the next one. Which of course I will!

We have both been on tender hooks for the last couple of months. They say the first 12 weeks are the most dangerous and where most miscarriages occur. So now we are relatively safe we have decided to let it be public knowledge, though most good friends and family already knew. 

So the due date is November 26th. I am crossing everything I can hoping that the rest of the pregnancy goes well, and above all else that the baby is born with perfect health. That is the thing I think I worry about the most, that it will be born with some kind of disability. I know that we would cope regardless, but above everything else in my life I want our child to be healthy.

On a final note, we had pretty much picked names before we even started trying to conceive (which was 14/02/07. I remember well because it was Valentines day, and it was three days before our wedding) For a girl, Hannah and for a boy, William. I picked Hannah because there is a girl in my form group who is very intelligent, talented and full of personality which is just how I’d like a girl to be. We initially joked about Will, because a work friend had a girl called Grace, and we thought it would be funny to have “Will and Grace”. Then we said that actually, we really like the name. Of course things could change, although I like William, I am not as attached to it as I am with Hannah. 

Anyway that’s enough on that for now.