Today is the football transfer deadline day. What’s that you say, football? Really?
Yes! It’s a day I’ll now always remember as a year ago today it was also Eliza’s due date, which was coincidentally fitting for a baby with a sports-obsessed father, grandfather and uncles.
Throughout my pregnancy her EDD had been a pretty abstract concept as I knew that most first babies are as late as I usually am. So it was less of a full stop, and more of a TBC. However, at about eight months my consultant scheduled in an induction for the actual date. My lovely husband joked that he’d be watching Sky Sports News in the delivery room.
So the 31st of January saw Alex and I and all our bags sat in the hospital labour ward waiting room, impatiently waiting for the next chapter of our lives to start. A woman with a tiny newborn was wheeled through on a bed, and I remember it suddenly hit me, along with a wave of mild panic – I’m going to actually have to get the baby out now.
And then a midwife appeared and told us they were too busy, and could we come back tomorrow when they might have a bed? Talk about an anti-climax. So Alex and I and all our bags went back home, went for lunch with my mum, and actually did end up watching the football. And Eliza arrived shortly after.
Photos are the pre-birthday girl dressed up as a character from a children’s book for National Storytelling Week at nursery. She’s a bear from that children’s literary classic, ‘That’s not my bear’. I’m feeling really emotional already about her birthday! Does everyone feel like this? Worried I really might spend her whole party in – happy – tears…
6 Comments
Shirley
January 31, 2013 at 2:40 pm
I still relive each childs delivery and birth on their birthday and usually wake up at the same time (unusual hours of the night), why are most babies born during the night like Eliza was
gillian
February 10, 2013 at 2:51 pm
Yes! This happened, she actually woke up at the time she was born. Really funny coincidence x.
Alison, Not Another Mummy Blog
January 31, 2013 at 6:33 pm
SO. CUTE.
Eliza looks adorable and loving the Toots jumper.
gillian
February 10, 2013 at 2:50 pm
Thank you! It’s brilliant isn’t it? They should really make them in adult sizes, they’d sell SO many…x
farfromhomemama
February 1, 2013 at 9:05 am
A big happy birthday to Eliza and I hope you have a fab day remembering her arrival x
gillian
February 10, 2013 at 2:50 pm
Thank you so much! It was really lovely, still slightly surreal that she’s one though.