Many people across the world have made this pledge:
I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same.
Here is mine, and although I didn’t have to think very hard about who to post about, I still admire her more than anyone in the world.
Hannah is 39 weeks and 1 day pregnant today, and she’s still working hard at Netbasic. She’s not exactly a pro programmer, but she’s learning so quickly. From knowing nothing at all about HTML or CSS or Photoshop, she’s come forwards in leaps and bounds with the help of everyone here. It’s certainly not easy for her, she gets aches and pains all day, Braxton Hicks contractions, extremely painful kicks, and all sorts. She’s under the weather, tired and very drained, yet somehow she is carrying on, she’s still working hard and creating pages that are helping keep the company going!
I suppose this is just my way of saying how proud I am of her, and how awesome she is.
929 tweets later, and I finally got around to customising my Twitter page. I used the basic colours from my blog, with a huge mug shot on the side. How attractive! It was much simpler than I thought it was going to be…
I think it’s rather fetching personally… Hannah disagrees, but I don’t see her with a fancy customised Twitter page…
Yeah, so our Sunday evening hasn’t really been that productive, but Hannah and I both had a really busy week and we took the evening out to just chill and spend some time together, chilling to the max.
We dragged out an old favourite, but varying a little with the Here and Now UK Edition of Monopoly. Playing reminded us both of why we never play it, because it’s such a long game, and boy it drags. Hannah eventually gave up trying and I managed to settle hotels on half the board and own the rest of the board… which I suppose is the aim of the game really.
Fun nevertheless, but it’s off to bed for me, ready for another busy week in the office… and a whole new week’s worth of Twitter updates.
A couple of what seems like days – in reality weeks – ago, I posted announcing our pregnancy, and here we are already at 20 weeks and 1 day. As shown here, he’s still there growing all the time, kicking Hannah whenever he wants… and just generally making her tired.
For those unable to really understand these ultrasound scan jobbies, the head is on the left facing the screen, and the larger right hand blob is the upper torso. The whiter line at the bottom, and the tiny little paw-print looking thing is it’s hand.
This photo is actually from the second scan over 2 days – we had a regular 20 week scan yesterday, and the sonographist spotted that the kidneys were slightly larger than normal. We doubt it will be anything major, but we were referred to a consultant we saw this morning to check the scan in more detail. The placenta is a bit low, so we’ll be having a 32 week scan, and possibly even a 36 week scan as well… we’ll see.
The other thing we got from the scan is our initial suspicion that it’s a boy may indeed be wrong – neither the sonographer yesterday or the consultant today could find any winkies, and today it was in a very good position for checking. The rather annoying thing about that is that we’ll have to think of a girls name (on which we have still not agreed, and probably never will, heh!). Freyja is a name we both seem to like at the moment… but we shall see!
Whatever you’ve heard, it’s probably true. Hannah and I are having a baby, and she is 17 weeks gone so far. Which means in under 5 months, I shall be father to a tiny little baby, and have even less time to do things I want to do!
The scan to the left is indeed our baby at 12 weeks and 2 days old, and at that point, he was just 6cm big. By this time I think he’s nearly twice that, and Hannah’s bump is getting bigger by the day (although still hardly noticable to the casual onlooker).
In addition to the random posts about Airsoft, Frosthold, and general computer-related bits, it’s pretty likely I’ll have a baby category, and this is the first post. Cheers!
We’re pretty sure it’s a boy, but we’ll find out at the 20 week scan with a bit more certainty. If it is a boy, we’ve decided on the name, and if it’s a girl, we haven’t. And we probably won’t. So it’ll be called “Baby Girl” heh.
