This is the latest picture of the baby. She weighs about 2.88 kilos (6.3 pounds) with around four weeks left. She`s supposed to gain around 200 grammes (7 ounces) a week from now on.
The beachball is increasing daily around Reiko`s stomach. As I`ve said before I`m happy it`s big because it`s being fed well and is obviously healthy. The baby is larger than most Japanese babies. It`s because of the superior Western genes in my opinion. According to the scan, the weight is 16 days heavier than the ideal but we think that is the Japanese standard and not true for Western/mixed babies.
We were reading a magazine yesterday which had the weights of babies in the womb and once born. Most of them hit the 2.8 kilo mark when they were born. The doctor says she isn`t fat but big.
We`re in the process of making the house baby safe – tidying up the bedroom, removing old things to sell and replacing them with nappies, bottles and clothes.
I`ve been looking at babies on the street and they seem to be gaining in cuteness. I told a random man in a lift that his baby was cute. I wanted to pick it up and hold it in my arms. In a very short time I`ll be able to do that with my own.
perhaps she’ll be born on the same day england win the world cup!
Don’t get that “due date” set in your plans—you may get a surprise before you’re ready!
We did our regular Wednesday night dining out routine, and my wife was feeling kinda lethargic, saying she just wanted to go home and lay down in the bed with the lights off… After we got home and she was getting ready for bed, her water broke, or rather trickled. We made it to the hospital between midnight and 1am, and the rest is history!
Oh, the thing about other people’s babies… I always felt like someone might be worried that I was a molester or something, because before our daughter was born, I was always looking at other folks’ babies with an adoring eye. I would think that parents in Japan are probably more accepting of this than in the US where everyone suspects their neighbors of being child molesters and NAMBLA members…
Yeah, the due date… I had to wait 10 long days beyond that date before my little one decided to bodge. He was 3.5kg when born, pretty standard weight over here, but kind of small for being so long overdue. So, really anything can happen. Every birth is different, things even seem to happen in different orders, quite confusing really.