Welcome to Rabbits' Blog!

Hello! My name is Joseph Woodrow Stevens and this is my Blog. It's called Rabbits' Blog, because that was the name Mummy and Daddy gave me when I was still in Mummy's tummy. (Apparently Daddy's sister wanted to call my Daddy Rabbits when he was born!)

Anyway, Mummy and Daddy write stuff down here about me, 'cos they seem to think it's interesting. I just like all the pictures of me, 'cos I'm gorgeous! I hope you like what Mummy and Daddy have written here. Let them know if you do. They'd like to hear from you!

Lots of love and kisses!

Joseph xxx

Friday, November 25, 2005

Mrs. Sniffles

Oh wailey! Wailey! I have a cold and feel rough. I've been off work for the last four days because there's nothing I can take to make it better. Clearly it is not Rabbits' fault but all cold and flu drugs are off the menu so as not to risk damaging her. All I can do is sleep and take on fluids. Still, the rest won't hurt.
Rabbits has been keeping relatively quiet over the last few days, I think she's keeping out of the way due to the violent sneezing! Still once she gets going she seems to have as much energy as normal.

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Friday, November 18, 2005

She's moving!

I don't know, I turn my back for 2 minutes and Em's off and running with this old blog thing!

It really is quite incredible to feel Rabbits moving. Most of the time I can just feel the odd thump, or kick, but the other day, I could really feel her moving about inside Em's tum. I keep getting this soppy grin on my face, but Em keeps assuring me I don't look like an idiot.

I really can't imagine what it feels like for Em to have something wriggling about inside her - the closest analogy that I could come up with was having a facial tic - you have no control over a part of your body, it just moves by itself. Obviously facial tics don't hurt, like some of Rabbits' kicks do!

Work on the back bedroom/nursery continues at the usual pace of my DIY, so in other words, not very quickly! I'm going to make a determined effort to sort it out on Sunday. Promise.

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Cheeky little Rabbits

Rabbits was rather cheeky yesterday. I had an appointment with the consultant to check if we needed to do any thing about my high blood pressure. As it turned out my blood pressure was fine (90 over 70, down from 150 over 90 two weeks ago) but Rabbits decided not to play along when the consultant was checking the fetal heartbeat. I don't think she liked the ultra sound probe. Every time the consultant got close to the heartbeat Rabbits gave a good strong kick and knocked her off! It certainly made me smile.

Rabbits spends a lot of her time kicking nowadays. She kicks every evening and often during the day. It gets quite difficult to concentrate at work sometimes when she's giving me a real battering! Still it is a great thing since it means that she's a healthy active baby.

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Saturday, November 05, 2005

Uh oh, hypertension ahoy!

Yes, that's right, my blood pressure is too high. It's been high from the beginning and they sent me to the consultant early but hw didn't seem too bothered. I went to see the midwife on Wednesday and she decided enough was enough. My blood pressure is consistently high and it normally goes up after week 30 (7 weeks away) so she felt that something must be done. She is going to get the hospital to send me a new appointment with the consultant. Perhaps he'll do something this time?

Rabbits continues to rummage around and kick on a regular basis which is reassuring if a little tiring. The other evening I had my belly out and Craig could see Rabbits kicking. Craig looked really excited but I can't see that part of my tummy so I did not get to see.

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