The End and the Beginning

Here I was at the end of my pregnancy, in full bloom so to speak!  I was definitely ready to not be pregnant anymore, but no one could have prepared me for the new life ahead!  Here is Keane just after he was born at 9 lbs  5 oz.  He was born by ceasarean after a long unsuccessful induction which luckily was not painful as I decided to go with an epidural before they did the hormone drip.  In hindsight it was a wise deceision because after over 18 hours of labor, I had only dilated 3 centimetrers which they informed me did not even constitute "established labor" so they were able to top up the epidural and present me with a beautifil baby boy on my chest within about 15 minutes.  The wait was over, and our little (well not so little)

My Pregnancy

Here are some pictures of me as I grow bigger and BIGGER!  I am certainly getting pretty big these days.  It is now beginning to get a bit difficult to get into the car or to get up off of the couch which is funny.  The last picture was taken on our last baby-free holiday to the Isle of Wight at the beginning of April when I was about 30 weeks pregnant.  I'm now 35 weeks but certainly bigger than I was then.  I am lucky to have had 2 baby showers, one via skype with my American family back home and one yesterday with friends and English family.  We started our pre-natal classes and have met some nice people, and I also have a good friend who is due a couple weeks before me and also having a boy which is nice.  We had a nice holiday for a week just the two of us before Easter, and we are now working on getting the baby room ready.  It's all starting to feel real now since I only have about 5 weeks to go!

It's a Boy!

As you all know by now, we are expecting the arrival of our first born due June 9th 2012. We are very excited and have enjoyed getting our sneak peeks of our little one at 13 and 21 weeks. As you can see, the baby is looking more like a baby now, and I personally think I can see a little bit of Tim in the profile. The exciting news that we found out last Friday is that we are going to be proud parents of a beautiful baby boy. We had been wanting to find out since I got pregnant, so it was very exciting when the moment finally arrived. we were actually both surprised because we both had a hunch it was a girl. It was a very nice surprise! Since the news, it has been fun imagining what he will be like. We have started thinking more seriously about names, but we are not telling any of our favorites. Any suggestions are very welcome, but the name will certainly be a surprise until Baby Webb makes his appearance. The joke around the house now is that I will have a house full of me and sweet boys! We always call the cats, the sweet boys, and of course there is Tim, so I will certainly be one outnumbered female. We are looking forward to spending time with our little boy, and I hear that Uncle Phil has already ordered a Barnet Football Club one piece for his nephew. I think he is hoping that they will have another instant Barnet fan! Of course, as a protective mother, I will make sure that our boy is a bit bigger before he starts attending games and make sure he is wrapped up warm against the windy football weather. Needless to say, Tim is looking forward to some family soccer coaching in the future.