Day count - 9.
This week has felt like an eternity!
I awoke on Saturday 3rd October to find The Knit™ missing and the dog barking. She was in the bathroom doing "The Test".
Two blue lines, it said!
I was surprised by my reaction as I'd always thought I might get a bit emotional at being told I was going to be a father. Turns out I was more concerned with the validity of results given by a £1.69 pregnancy testing kit. Plus the dog was barking.
Having been untrusting of the slightly more expensive Ovulation Kit (another Wilko special) I pronounced that I would believe the news when we had it confirmed by someone other than James Kemsey Wilkinson.
(The Ovulation Kit had shown a negative each and every time we had used it, a waste of £5 if ever I saw one!)
Why couldn't we just "do it" every day I asked? Apparently the fiver was a better option, according to Karen. Funny that!
The weekend was spent feeling decidedly strange, as I would catch myself thinking about random fatherly things (teaching "it" the drums and looking forward to watching Mythbusters together etc), whilst still feeling like it wasn't quite real.
A doctor's confirmation should change all that!
Monday passed with a few more thoughts (would it be ginger? How much would my friends laugh if it was?) whilst waiting for confirmation of the doctor's appointment. The "coded" email finally arrived around lunchtime and confirmation was inevitably delayed until Tuesday @ 17:20hrs.
This meant a difficult task of cancelling a work appointment without being able to give any rational reason why. Somehow "I need to get off at 4pm because I'm going to test the validity of a Wilko Pregnancy Testing Kit" just didn't trip off the tongue.
Tuesday was raining, not a good sign I thought. Though, what was I expecting?
17:20hrs came and went, cue much grumbling about doctors waiting rooms, the state of the country, the youth of today etc. Fatherhood appears to have hit me already!
The doctor was, without doubt, one of the nicest I have ever met (not that you normally get much chance to appraise them, as they're writing the prescription and ushering you out the door before you've even sat down).
She congratulated us, confirmed the validity of the test (they can be -ve but really +ve but not the other way round) and scared me shitless with talk of 12 weeks of emotional hell. I still smiled!!
So, that was it. We are pregnant, or "expecting" as my Mum would say!
Now one thing we hadn't thought about was the "tactical" release of information. The Doc said it was upto us when we told people, so we naively thought we'd roll out the news as and when.
We then realised that a phased release would be impossible due to social events and the possibility of being "outed"!!
People would deffo notice when my little "Peter Barlow" was out socialising without a drink in her hand!
So, off to my Mum and Dad's....pronto.
They were suitably chuffed, with a few tears, as expected!
We then bombed over to see Justine & Nick (Karen's sister and B.I.L.) who were just as excited.
Nice feeling for people to be so happy for you!
It was the turn of my brother the day after, who reacted as expected.
1st laughter, then talk of small orange fruit. This disclosure was my main concern as Ashley now appears to live his life on Facebook (says me!) so he has been sworn to secrecy and has managed not to blow it yet (mind you, he is in a foreign country which helps).
Thursday and Friday were spent laughing at the fact we are going to be parents and Karen already playing on the fact (You've got to get me a drink from the kitchen, I'm carrying your baby etc)
Along with this we were worrying about Saturday. A pre-arranged trip to Alton Towers!
This definitely DID NOT fit in with our plan (sorry Shelly, but we couldn't tell you before we'd managed to get round the rest of our family! Even if it was your birthday!)
After much deliberation (and reassurance from the Doc) we decided to go and wing it.
Despite Karen's resistance, using a variety of excuses, she was cajoled by her work mates to go on a ride.
The look on Karen's face after her 1st ever Oblivion experience was priceless, though I know she was extremely worried about what we were doing to this tiny thing growing inside!!
Foetus at 4.5G just to make sure you tell your family & friends in the right order!!
Crackers!
My Aunty Susan caught me off guard with the question "Who's having a baby? Is it Karen?" when I told her she was going to be Great Aunty!
I had to point out (for the sake of my marriage) that I hadn't got another woman pregnant!
The final people to tell on the 1st phase were "best friends"
Kate jumped up and down in her kitchen and Joe gave me fatherly advice whilst walking over Midhope Moors! Fliss tried to sell us some baby items and worried Karen to death by condemning the Alton Towers trip!! I know both sets of mates were very pleased, which makes us glad to have them as friends!
So, that's it. You're up to speed (for now anyway!)
I'm typing this and only a handful of you know anything about it!!
Monday passed with a few more thoughts (would it be ginger? How much would my friends laugh if it was?) whilst waiting for confirmation of the doctor's appointment. The "coded" email finally arrived around lunchtime and confirmation was inevitably delayed until Tuesday @ 17:20hrs.
This meant a difficult task of cancelling a work appointment without being able to give any rational reason why. Somehow "I need to get off at 4pm because I'm going to test the validity of a Wilko Pregnancy Testing Kit" just didn't trip off the tongue.
Tuesday was raining, not a good sign I thought. Though, what was I expecting?
17:20hrs came and went, cue much grumbling about doctors waiting rooms, the state of the country, the youth of today etc. Fatherhood appears to have hit me already!
The doctor was, without doubt, one of the nicest I have ever met (not that you normally get much chance to appraise them, as they're writing the prescription and ushering you out the door before you've even sat down).
She congratulated us, confirmed the validity of the test (they can be -ve but really +ve but not the other way round) and scared me shitless with talk of 12 weeks of emotional hell. I still smiled!!
So, that was it. We are pregnant, or "expecting" as my Mum would say!
Now one thing we hadn't thought about was the "tactical" release of information. The Doc said it was upto us when we told people, so we naively thought we'd roll out the news as and when.
We then realised that a phased release would be impossible due to social events and the possibility of being "outed"!!
People would deffo notice when my little "Peter Barlow" was out socialising without a drink in her hand!
So, off to my Mum and Dad's....pronto.
They were suitably chuffed, with a few tears, as expected!
We then bombed over to see Justine & Nick (Karen's sister and B.I.L.) who were just as excited.
Nice feeling for people to be so happy for you!
It was the turn of my brother the day after, who reacted as expected.
1st laughter, then talk of small orange fruit. This disclosure was my main concern as Ashley now appears to live his life on Facebook (says me!) so he has been sworn to secrecy and has managed not to blow it yet (mind you, he is in a foreign country which helps).
Thursday and Friday were spent laughing at the fact we are going to be parents and Karen already playing on the fact (You've got to get me a drink from the kitchen, I'm carrying your baby etc)
Along with this we were worrying about Saturday. A pre-arranged trip to Alton Towers!
This definitely DID NOT fit in with our plan (sorry Shelly, but we couldn't tell you before we'd managed to get round the rest of our family! Even if it was your birthday!)
After much deliberation (and reassurance from the Doc) we decided to go and wing it.
Despite Karen's resistance, using a variety of excuses, she was cajoled by her work mates to go on a ride.
The look on Karen's face after her 1st ever Oblivion experience was priceless, though I know she was extremely worried about what we were doing to this tiny thing growing inside!!
Foetus at 4.5G just to make sure you tell your family & friends in the right order!!
Crackers!
My Aunty Susan caught me off guard with the question "Who's having a baby? Is it Karen?" when I told her she was going to be Great Aunty!
I had to point out (for the sake of my marriage) that I hadn't got another woman pregnant!
The final people to tell on the 1st phase were "best friends"
Kate jumped up and down in her kitchen and Joe gave me fatherly advice whilst walking over Midhope Moors! Fliss tried to sell us some baby items and worried Karen to death by condemning the Alton Towers trip!! I know both sets of mates were very pleased, which makes us glad to have them as friends!
So, that's it. You're up to speed (for now anyway!)
I'm typing this and only a handful of you know anything about it!!
What a week!
I'm going to be a Dad!!
Amazing!!
I'm going to be a Dad!!
Amazing!!
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