Anyway

“When are you going to post about your Con­di­tion” Tim keeps ask­ing (we agreed I could post about it first). The word “Con­di­tion” has under­tones of Vic­tori­an Eng­lish euphem­isms to me, even without the adject­ives “del­ic­ate” or “inter­est­ing”. But I digress…

Our daugh­ter is due in June, although say­ing “due” some­how neg­lects the fact that she reminds me sev­er­al times a day that she’s already present. And act­ive. The now-obvi­ous bump (pre­vi­ously winter sweat­ers and jack­ets did dis­guise it, but not for the last few weeks) is lop­sided, depend­ing on which side she’s push­ing. Waves of move­ment travel across the bump, par­tic­u­larly after I’ve had cof­fee or chocol­ate; our son finds this all fascinating.

In the FAQ cat­egory: We will not be pub­lish­ing belly shots; the web does not need pic­tures of me to add to the large num­ber of preg­nant womens’ bumps that are already on dis­play. I’ll take some time off start­ing prob­ably in May for mater­nity leave, and Tim will be trav­el­ling a lot less than usu­al around that time. Pre­cise details will depend on the baby, my health, and all those oth­er unknown factors. 

And no, we haven’t decided on the name yet. We still have time for that.