POSTS BY

November 28

WHERE FOR ART THOU?

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: 1st Trimester, Thoughts
No Comments

28
NOV

So, we’re at the 10 week mark, and I’m feeling a sense of distance between us…

About 3231 miles…to be exact!

Absence makes the heart grow fonder…but totally worries the shit, out of the mind!

Dorothy is back to Oz (for 4 weeks), while I man the fort in Bali, and move all our stuff into another villa in Seminyak.

Our only communication is through dodgy video Skype chats, with strict instructions to only let me see her…

From the “boobs”, up!…No sneak belly peeks, ’til her return.

Who am I to complain at that suggestion? (Okay…it was my suggestion). (more…)
November 24

OH, WO-ES HER

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: 1st Trimester, Body Functions
No Comments

24
NOV

I never realised MORNING SICKNESS, would be a bit like…

The opening beach scene from…Saving Private Ryan!

It’s violent, gruesome, incessant and…I’m sure I heard a lung come up, (at least once).

And just as it was, as a spectator to the atrocities on the beach from the safety of my cinema seat, I find myself squelching and squirming at the atrocities happening in our bathroom…and feeling equally as powerless to do anything to help my poor, lovely, Private Ryan.

I wish there was something I could do to help. I feel as useless as a no-armed man in a frisbee throwing contest.

That sweaty little face with the morky expression, the reddened cheeks of total exhaustion, the complete and utter depletion of a body, fully spent…(I can’t believe I look that bad, when all I’m doing is watching).

But remember…the “no touching” rule, is still in effect! (more…)
November 24

TIP #1 – KEEP HER HAPPY

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: 1st Trimester, Tips
No Comments

24
NOV

So, being a first time dad at 40, I’ve made an interesting discovery, very early on.

Keep in mind, your lady is going through some changes. Physically, emotionally…mentally.

Assume…NOTHING.

Embrace…CHANGE.

Change of mood, change of mind, change of personality…and it can all happen in an instant!

#1 tip for keeping your lady happy – LOVE HER

She needs your love. She wants your love and the best way to support her through those changes…is to love her…

BUT…

Don’t touch me!

Don’t breathe on me!

Don’t move around me…please! (more…)
November 10

ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN…

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: 1st Trimester, Ultrasound
No Comments

10
NOV

Another giant leap, for mankind…or womankind, (still too early to tell yet).

And no…that’s no crater on the moon, that’s a bubba. Holy cow, it’s really in there!

That just makes it all so much more “real”. We could even see the heartbeat, beating like a little flicky thing, that…flicks…more often than a couch potato channel surfing. (more…)
October 19

FOUR LITTLE WORDS

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: 1st Trimester, Thoughts
4 Comments

19
OCT

It’s funny how four little words can suddenly turn you’re life upside down…

“You’re f*#king kidding me?”

Okay, that was probably my four words…

“We’re having a baby!”

– that’s hers.

Now, that may not be big news for some people, but considering we’ve been doing IVF for three years; 9 viable embryos (none of which worked out), 2 miscarriages and a witch doctor’s mojo later and still “no dice”…not only had we resigned ourselves to the fact it was never gonna happen, but, we’d already made future plans with “just the two of us…la-de-la-de-da-de-da, the two of us”.

Now all that’s out the window at the grand “middle” age…of 40!

And it is nothing short of an absolute MIRACLE!

PREVIOUSLY ON 40YROLDDAD