Matt's Journal

Little man is here, there isn’t a more splendid looking fellow on this earth. Noah joined us at 00:57 on Sunday 17th January after a very traumatic two weeks of anxious waiting, contractions and false starts. Wondering what all that entailed? Let me explain…
It all started on the 31st December when Katie’s labour had [...]

It’s what we are putting in our Christmas cards (the title). Yet another year has passed, this one being the fastest in known memory but things are going to be a little different in the coming year.
Katie has been doing her incubation thing and is whipping up a child of epic proportions. We know that [...]

Pregnancy, it seems, is a difficult thing to quantify if you are the NHS. As the weeks have rolled by, the scanning department at our local hospital have done all they can to keep Katie’s baby development at the same stage. When I say this, according to them, Katie has been at twenty weeks of [...]

This morning Katie and I drove down to Chelmsford for our twenty week baby scan. In the weeks before, Katie had been told she wouldn’t be allowed any further scans with the NHS because she “had exceeded her quota”, even though she is classified as a high risk pregnancy.
So this scan was a private [...]

One of the downsides of broadcasting a pregnancy via your blog is that when something happens or changes, you feel the need to update friends and family on the situation should something change.
We found out a few weeks ago that since Katie’s last scan, one of the babies had unfortunately not developed as it should [...]

Firstly, I just wanted to thank all of you that have commented on my previous post about the forthcoming arrival of twins. Katie and I have been busy planning every eventuality, deciding what is going to go where and how much everything is going to cost.
On Wednesday, Katie received a call whilst at home asking [...]