Woah, baby Archel on the way! (Do not read if you hate me (or Matt) (or um, babies)).

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Or as teeny so memorably put it: omg knocked up! Yay! The poor sod is due on Boxing Day, but we all have to be born sometime don't we?

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Hello!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/slightlyfoxed/scan2.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

Very pleased. Congratulations, etc.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

huzzah!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

Ohmigod, amazing! Wow for babies! Wooooo!!! Congrats to Archel and Matt.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

hooray hooray hooray

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

Wow - congrats Arch!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

YAY!

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations. Looks like Goldies baby though.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

wow congratulations! exciting stuff :)

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

ohmygod!!! i am SO FREAKIN EXCITED FOR YOU! I have the biggest smile on my face :) Congratulations, Archel :)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations and good luck!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Haha it looks like it's fast asleep on its belly to me, which is one of my favourite positions to be in too. Though ideally not squashed in a womb.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

aww, awesome! good news on a bleak morning is a good thing.

Congrats to you both Archel. :)

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks everyone! I have had a smile on my face for 13 weeks now, so nice to be able to tell you all at last :)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

CONGRATS ARCHEL!! sooo exciting!

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

Congrats, Archel, that's great!

― Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, congratuations!

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations!

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

Well done!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

YAYY!!!! Happy day, ARchel!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Bloody hell, congratulations!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

(if the mini-ArchMatt is born on Christmas Day you will have to play "I Was Born On Christmas Day" by St Etienne to it over and over again. Until it screams.)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

wow. congrats! are you glowing? pukey? smelling things from a mile away? craving weird things like dirt?

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

oh wow, congrats!

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

First babies are usually late so I'm hoping that a) I'll still get my Christmas dinner and b) we won't be tempted to call it Noel.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

What everyone else said, yay!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

I've had one bad episode of morning sickness and almost fell asleep at my desk several times, but I think I've been fairly lucky really. All I'm craving is crisps, and though I'm not glowing or anything like it, I do have a lot more energy now (13 weeks). Nearly passed out at the bus stop today due to overpowering (to me) tar smell though so yeah that stage isn't over yet apparently.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations (again, but I want it noted in history that I congratulated you, and this thread is more likely to be that history ;) )!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

You'll be lovely parents. Lucky baby. Congratulations, dear.

No, don't call it Noel.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hey! wot! wow! AMAZING!! Congrats to you both! (Um, I thought you were getting a little broody on that there parenting thread)

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yay you! Rest of thread OTM.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

(Can I also say I am not the least tiny bit surprised? Which might mean I am quite clever. Or just too tired to be surprised. I mean about the baby, not the tar smell.)

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

That obvious eh? :)

xpost to Nick but apparently to PJ too...

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

although I am happy for you two I am chilled zero at the bone by a sudden thought: OMG SHE ONLY DID THIS SO SHE CAN POST ON THE HELLO MUDDAH HELLO FADDAH PARENTING THREAD

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

I TOTALLY DID

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

Crumbs, conGRATS! Perhaps you can be like the rest of my father's side of the family who are ALL born around boxing day - makes wobs a fair trial on the pocket I tell yer. Hurrah!!

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

haha so all that broodiness amounted to something after all! Congratulations dear, fear not, that first trimester can kinda blow but the second is great!!! Oh and then later you get a baby!!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations! Hope the kiddo won't be born on Christmas Day, so you won't have an excuse to give her only a one set of presents per year... But you wouldn't do that, would you? ;)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Yay baby! Yay Matt and Archel! :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Zowee, congratulations!

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

Nice one, congrats.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations Archel!

― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

One in tree is a child (4)!

Brilliant news, congratulations Archel!

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

More babies! More babies! More babies! Yay.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Congrats Archel!

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yay, congrats!

― Offisa Pump (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

You know, logic would dictate that any Archel-daughter would have to be named "Abby."

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Wow! Congratulations, you two! Is this my last chance to convince you to come and Try Glasgow More before you get lost under a pile of nappies and teddy bears? Then I can say congratulations in person and give you both great big HUGZ!

Friends of mine be having kidz! Makes me feel all growed up!

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

(Neil says "woo! congratulations" too - actually he was a bit more understated then that, but, y'know...)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping 237 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Oops, too big. Which is how I feel at the moment as well...

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 18 September 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

She's sucking her thumb! Yay for the halfway point!

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

She looks great! And yes, the halfway point is awesome...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm 26 weeks tomorrow so nearly two thirds there now GULP ARRGH etc etc!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'll never forget what someone said to me during my first pregnancy as I continued to get bigger and feel more ungainly: "That kid will never be more convenient than he is right now."

(I hope you'll forgive me for passing that on, Archel...)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, that thumb sucking pic looks suspiciously like she's smoking.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray for mini-archel!

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

We've just had our 20w scan and all seems to be in order with him/her. Feeling pretty relaxed apart from inevitable anxiety when the little fella/lady goes quiet for a while - sometimes a day or two goes by without feeling any movement. I'm sure this is normal, but then I'm sure feverishly poking abdomen / shifting position / coughing to try to provoke a wriggle is normal too...

― Meg Busset (Mog), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

as my first time pregnant best friend says when asked if she wants the gender to be a suprise: "i think a human being coming out of my vagina is going to be suprise enough"
-- sunny successor (sunnysuccesso...), July 31st, 2006 1:07 PM. (katharine) (link)

errr did they think an alien is gonna pop out?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/mogbasket/20weeks.jpg

― Meg Busset (Mog), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

Oops sorry about the giant baby. I am not v technologically minded.

― Meg Busset (Mog), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

Congrats on your giant baby Meg! It's weird, I feel anxious when there's no movement and then anxious when there is - like, what did I do to disturb her? Playing music seems to provoke movement, as does eating chocolate, but does that mean she likes it or she doesn't? At the moment I'm getting huge earthquake style rolling movements which keep me awake all night, so I guess she's changing position a lot in there.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

I would sometimes shine a torch through my pregnant tummy - putting the torch right up against my skin - to make the baby do backflips of excitement.

― C J (C J), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

yes that's fun!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

that baby looks like it has the bone structure of a supermodel

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

That baby looks great, congratulations!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

I think moving to music is a sign of approval, Archie.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

Oh well in that case the infant likes Vivaldi and Nightmares on Wax.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

meg's only a week ahead of me

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

did you not find out if it was a b or g?

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

so did you have a 20 week scan? and did/will you find out?

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

I read sunny's post as "did you find out if it was a borg". Man, that would NOT be a good thing.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

whoa whoa whoa whoa - what? i didn't even know sunny was pregnant! and that pregnant! where have i been? (not on the parenting thread obv). wow! congratulations!

btw archel, you look supercute and happy in that pic where you're beaming at the baby. (and i like the plum colour of your top.)

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, congrats sunny! and go packers!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

Baby made up for two days' non-movement with a volley of kicks last night, while watching 'Banged Up Abroad'.

Congrats Sunny! Go Aquarius babies.

― Meg Busset (Mog), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

Im not getting any kicks at all but i refuse to worry. REFUSE. We find out the sex on monday morning.

Thanks for the congrats. I still dont believe its real even though ive seen the kid. Whenever I tell someone im pregnant i feel like im totally lying to them.

Whats a borg?

Meg, my kiddo will be a pisces ie a martyr with a christ complex. woo!

Robyn, if its a girl im so calling her princess sparkle. The jury is still out on captain oats for a boy.

Mookie, go packers indeed!

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Sunny's baby? (Was a direct image link but on second thoughts it's slightly too freaky to be on this thread!):
http://blog.titerenet.com/wp-content/upload/babyborg.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

cool!

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

do you think it vaccuums and dusts?

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Haha I like the fact that you're not bothered about the SCARY DISEMBODIED BABY HEAD, just interested in its potential as a domestic slave. Bodes well!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to make the same recommendations I've made to everyone else I know who's either expecting or a new parent:

1) http://thehappiestbaby.com/
2) http://www.miracleblanket.com/viewpoint.htm

Dr. Karp's calming method, along with the Miracle Blanket, saved our sanity after our first child was born. It hasn't worked as well with the second child, who's a much lighter sleeper, but it's still taken off some of the edge. Everyone we know who's tried these swears by them. They work!

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

yes, seconded!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

I can't find the previous baby thread in the little time I have on line, so i'll announce it here: our little second baby daughter Lea was born last September 19th. She incredibly sleeps and eats only, gets me worried how quiet she is, actually...Her "older" sister Sara (who used to cry her lungs out for 4 months in a row) seems happy to have her here, and we couldn't believe life could be even happier.

― misshajim (strand), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Aw congratulations misshajim and welcome to the world Lea! (Lovely name.)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

congrats!

I want bebes. :(

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

i'll second those two recommendations even if the Karp book gets repetative, and you have to keep in mind that you still have to have patience even with this method, it's not always instantaneous.

we just went back to swaddling our three month old at night this week after not doing it for a month, because he does sleep better that way (and by extention, so do we). he barely fits in his miracle blanket now though.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

you're like six weeks out aren't you? how is it going?

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

13 weeks left for me. But only 6 til I go on maternity leave. w00t!

― Meg Busset (Mog), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yep, 6 weeks to go! Today is my first day of maternity leave (well, some holiday prior to maternity leave anyway). I'm at home and I don't know what to do with myself!

Getting some backache these days and I have a cold but apart from that feeling ok. Baby is head down apparently so we're good to go...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

yay archel!

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

15 weeks to go for me and 15 weeks til I go on maternity leave. booo!

meg, do you know the sex of your babe?

archel, have you come up with a name? also, did you go to birthing classes or are you going to wing it?

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

We have a labour workshop in two weeks' time. My sources disagree on the usefulness but I figure it can't hurt. Unlike the real thing :(

As for names, hm I'll get back to you on that one...

Haha my boss just phoned me because she got stuck with how to order stationery.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

As for names, hm I'll get back to you on that one...

Ned or Nedwina. Both fine names.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Write poems, Archel. To yourself, your baby, your husband...because your baby is going to be the greatest poem you have ever written.
Good luck for the next few weeks!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Xpost: Sunny, we don't know the sex (see upthread, hospital won't tell us) - this bothered me at first, but now it seems like we'll find out soon enough. We have picked the name if it's a boy (which most people seem to think it is - apparently I have a 'boy-shaped' bump) but are still umming and ahhing over girls' names.

Also, does that mean you're working right up to your due date?!

― Meg Busset (Mog), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

because your baby is going to be the greatest poem you have ever written.

Have you not read her horsecock poem?

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear. Nobody tell my baby I wrote that.

But yeah... writing!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

yaay archel!! and pregnant ilxoras!

maternity leave - you will find something to do! i would: play guitar/music, write poems/stories too! (have to keep brain in shape even if baby is leeching its power), cook/bake, knit, watch so much tv on dvd omg, do yoga n stuff, keep smile on face, try not to fear. good that the baby's head is down!

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

in US you pretty much have to work until you pop, you get six weeks unpaid leave and it's best to save it all for after if you can. :(

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

I remember joking that if I was busy on the day that my first kid arrived, I would simply plan to give birth by the copying machine.

The sad thing in the US is that the 6 weeks of unpaid leave is a huge improvement on how things were before the Family Leave and Medical Act that Clinton signed in early 1993.

Enjoy your leave Archel!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

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