Quick update: We’re now nine days overdue - yes, nine whole days and still no signs of the baby coming out. The midwife has been over to the house again, though, for another check-up as normal. She’s done the once-over on Claire for the week and deemed her fit to carry on, which is good.
Well, I’ve done something a little different today and interviewed my wife. Yes, I am a little sad. And this is my first ever interview for blogging purposes! Enjoy.
Interview with Mrs Rigby at 20:00 on the 30th January 2009.
BR: So, wife. How’s your belly feeling?
CR: Hard – my belly is currently rock solid to touch, and is a little tender in places.
BR: Did you imagine going 9 days overdue?
CR: No – I think I always thought that because my belly was so big, I was going to be nearer the due date (21st January), or even before that. But instead, I’ve had five and half weeks of my maternity leave at home when I would have rather been at work!
BR: How late do you think that you could have stayed at work?
CR: Don’t know. I couldn’t be there full time, as I’m too big. And, the people I work with couldn’t wait to get rid of me!!
BR: I know you’ve been back to visit work whilst you’ve been away – have they changed anything since you’ve been gone?
CR: YES! They’ve rearranged things and made it ‘better’ - that’ll give me something to do when I get back!
BR: When are you planning on going back?
CR: October.
BR: Full-time? Part-time?
CR: I’m planning to do two days a week until Christmas.
BR: What’s your favourite moment of the pregnancy so far?
CR: You feeling the baby kick inside my belly, because he’s our baby and that was the first time that it felt to me that it was real to you, rather than just an photo from a scan, even though you didn’t seem to really realise that you’re having a baby until about December!
BR: Well, it’s a bit different for men! It’s a bit hard to get excited about you throwing up in the mornings and getting up in the night to wee all the time! Anyway... what are your thoughts about the pending birth?
CR: Pain. It’s going to hurt! They’ve told us that Jack is a 9lb baby or thereabouts, but even if he was tiny, it’s got to hurt. Excitement and apprehension too, I suppose.
BR: Have we got everything that we think we’re going to need for the first week or two after the baby is born?
CR: Don’t know - Have we, Brett?
BR: Yes – I think we, namely you, have done a marvellous job in spending large quantities of money! I’m just worried you might be getting a little too used to it!! Ok.. moving swiftly on. What’s the worst bit being pregnant?
CR: The worst thing about being at home waiting to give birth, is not being able to plan ahead. I want to be able to organise myself and say that next week I wanted to do so and so, I can’t. Before, we’d ask friends over, or go to theirs, for a takeaway or go to a restaurant, but not knowing if I’m going give birth at any moment makes it a little different!
BR: Anything else?
CR: Not being able to lie on my tummy at night to go to sleep! It’s so awkward having a big baby strapped to the front of you, especially doing things you take for granted, like rolling over in the night!
BR: Really? Hadn’t noticed...
CR: Hmm.
BR: All bags packed and ready to go at a given moment’s notice?
CR: I’m ready.
BR: Shall we take bets on the time of day that it’ll come out of there?
CR: Well, I think we’ve proved that we can’t even pin down a day, let alone a time!
BR: Ok, good point. We’ll leave that one.
CR: Stretch-marks – that’s another bad thing about being pregnant! I got all the way to my 36th week before getting my first stretch mark! Now I’ve got 40 million of them on the underside of my belly!
BR: Do you think that’s a slight exaggeration?
CR: Well, more than I wanted! I think I ought to have shares in Bio Oil, as I’ve spent a small fortune on it!
BR: Isn’t that supposed to stop you getting stretch marks?
CR: Or you put it on stretch marks and it’s supposed to fade them. It’s just supposed to keep your skin supple really. I’ve been putting it on every night too, and it’s done well really.
BR: Well thank you very much for your thoughts so far. I’d like to say that you’re doing a sterling job of growing our baby. I would say ‘keep it up’, but if you could just squeeze him out now, that would be great.
CR: Ok, I’ll try!
Interview over 21:00!!!
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