http://adamsonbaby.blogdrive.com/ adamson baby blog Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:15:00 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2007. Parenting Family & Home http://adamsonbaby.blogdrive.com/archive/31.html Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:26:58 GMT Hi All. I've been having some really bad problems with the blog so I've moved service providers. This means we've got a new address to get to the blog. You can now find it at: AdamsonBaby.Blogspot.com I'll explain more at the new blog. Cheers. nick. http://adamsonbaby.blogdrive.com/comments?id=31 http://adamsonbaby.blogdrive.com/archive/30.html Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:24:21 GMT Hi All. Firstly an apology. My intention was to write a blog post last Wednesday evening after the first antenatal class and then another one again after Fridays midwife checkup but life ran away with me and I've only just had a couple of seconds to sit down and write the posts that I wanted to. So sorry this post is going to cover both events. First antenatal class. The first antenatal class was last Wednesday, (the 4th). The Class is held at the birthing centre we're hoping to be using in September. As the lovely NHS have been trying to save money people... (more) http://adamsonbaby.blogdrive.com/comments?id=30 http://adamsonbaby.blogdrive.com/archive/29.html Sat, 30 Jun 2007 21:46:06 GMT It's a very good question you know. There are quite a few similarities between us. He's got a wife called Sarah and one of my best friends which came to Gem and mine wedding is called Sarah. He's Scottish and I love Scottish short bread and Aberdeen Angus beef burgers. And a fact that isn't that well known is that under the description in the Disability discrimination act he is visually impaired as he's blind in 1 eye. To read documents he has to have them in large print. What I love most is that he doesn't make a big deal about it and just gets on with his job. That's... (more) http://adamsonbaby.blogdrive.com/comments?id=29 http://adamsonbaby.blogdrive.com/archive/28.html Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:34:35 GMT Hi All. Sorry it's been ages since I've written a blog entry but to be honest not a lot has been going on. Yesterday was 6 months in to the pregnancy which seems hard to believe. How did we celebrate? Well, Gem did the ironing and I cut the grass. No stop action in our house! While I was pushing the mower round I was thinking about my previous blog entries and I realised that if you read the blog with out really knowing me you'd maybe get the impression that I'm not excited about the baby. As we get closer to the end of September I'm getting more and more... (more) http://adamsonbaby.blogdrive.com/comments?id=28 http://adamsonbaby.blogdrive.com/archive/27.html Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:56:26 GMT Hi all. Well gem and I have had a couple of pretty eventful days. Firstly yesterday the plasterer was in doing the nursery. When we got home it all looked good but as we were sitting down for tea last night there was an almighty crash from upstairs. About 90% of the new plaster on the sealing had fallen off of the aertex which it was covering. The plasterer has been really good though. He came around late last night to have a look and they've been in again today and have cleared up all the mess and redone it. It seems to be holding just fine this time! Over... (more) http://adamsonbaby.blogdrive.com/comments?id=27 http://adamsonbaby.blogdrive.com/archive/26.html Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:43:03 GMT Hi All. Well from that wordy title you can safely assume I'm in quite a contemplative mood to night. It happens to me when I've been decorating, stripping walls and generally getting pretty grubby. Today Gems Mum and Dad and grandparents have been over and we've been working on the nursery. I'll post a picture of it in it's current state if I get a chance but basically we've been stripping around 40 year old wall paper and getting it ready for the plasterer who's in on Monday. Once that's done we can actually start the good work of turning a grotty bedroom in to a lovely... (more) http://adamsonbaby.blogdrive.com/comments?id=26 http://adamsonbaby.blogdrive.com/archive/25.html Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:34:32 GMT Hi all. Well we’re now in to week 24 which means a visit to the Midwifes. It was a really good visit and Gem and Bump seem to be doing fine. The last time we went to see our midwife, back in week 16, we weren’t really impressed. It seemed like we were on a conveyor belt and she just wanted to get us in and out as quickly as she could. Gem and I agreed that if she wasn’t any better this time that we’d contact the midwife team we’re under and request a new one as we didn’t have much confidence in this one. I was reading somewhere that because the midwifes so... (more) http://adamsonbaby.blogdrive.com/comments?id=25 http://adamsonbaby.blogdrive.com/archive/24.html Thu, 31 May 2007 22:43:54 GMT Hi Everyone. As I posted a week or so ago we were a bit worried about Charlie my guide dog. Well the blood tests came back and it looks like he has got a thyroid problem. He's on a course of pills for 6 weeks to see if that brings it under control. If it does then he'll be on the medication for the rest of his life but at leased we now know what's going on. Next week Katy from Guide dogs for the blind is coming to give me and Charlie a driving test, or what's properly called a home-care visit. I think she'll also be doing a retirement assessment on him. In March... (more) http://adamsonbaby.blogdrive.com/comments?id=24 http://adamsonbaby.blogdrive.com/archive/23.html Thu, 31 May 2007 21:58:07 GMT I suppose that one of the main questions that Gem and I get asked is about baby names. Strangely enough for quite some time Gem and I have had a couple of names in our mind. We always thought that our first girl would probably be called Amy Louise. However since we actually got pregnant we've had a couple of changes of mind. We've thought Emily, Amy and Blodwhin. Well maybe not blodwhin, but we think we've settled on Chloe Mai. Mai being the Welsh version of May and it's pronounced as May. So what do you think? Any other suggestions? Although at the moment we're... (more) http://adamsonbaby.blogdrive.com/comments?id=23 http://adamsonbaby.blogdrive.com/archive/22.html Thu, 24 May 2007 23:51:01 GMT Hi All. For the last 17 or 18 weeks, since we've known about the baby, I've been waiting for Gem to start having cravings. It's got to be said I don't know much about pregnancy and babies but cravings was something I did know about. Back in week 9 or so Gem seemed to be having some sort of weird cravings for baths. Her record was 5 in an 18 hour time slot but I'm not sure baths really count as cravings. Now we're in to week 22, I think we've now both identified what Gems current craving is. All week last week she kept saying she fancied coco pops but we didn't... (more) http://adamsonbaby.blogdrive.com/comments?id=22