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And More Announcements About the Pregnancy

Creeva on July 15th, 2008

Every time it seems we are done and all the announcements that Xie is pregnant pass through the cracks, another one comes up.  This time around it’s a local community band that I play with and an announcement is being put out in their regular newsletter.  I put in all the relevant info and of course I mentioned parentphobia.com to get all the latest and gory details.

With this I do realize that I haven’t made the announcement to all my aunts and uncles yet ( and I have more then two).   I’m sure there is other relevant people that haven’t been informed.   I know some of my ex-co-workers follow my blog or via twitter or some such social network device so they are at least passively in the loop.  I’ve announced on a forum with all the ex-Star Wars Galaxies players I used to play with.   Most of my closer friends should follow the same route as my ex-co-workers.   My current co-workers, well some know, some don’t – I haven’t been shouting it from on top of the roof tops.  I don’t want to be that guy.

The guy that will pull out a baby picture every five minutes.   The guy that tells you about every little burp their baby made teh night before.  The guy that complains all day about the baby throwing up on him the night before.  I’m not that guy – at least not verbally.   I’m sure over the time I will be blogging about all of these things and more, but that’s different.  I’m broadcasting the information, but the people don’t have to tune and listen.  They can passively parse the information they receive by going to my blog or Xie’s blog or parent phobia or any social networks I crosspost to.   Getting information about me is easy.   Why should I scream something uncomfortably down someone’s throat.

If I’m asked about something related to the pregnancy or the baby afterwards I’m sure I’ll have alot to say.   I just don’t want to be the one to bring it up first outside of the immediate family.   I hope all of you reading appreciate that I’m doing it this way.

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And So Start The Baby Presents

Creeva on July 10th, 2008

You know I thought people at least waited a bit for they started getting out the baby presents.   Xie is only eight weeks pregnant and yet we already have our first baby gifts.   Last weekend it seems that her mother bought us a crib, we haven’t seen yet but we have a crib.   We told her mother we don’t even want it until we’re well into the second trimester.   Her grandmother, not wanting to be left out of the fun, purchased us a playpen, something we won’t need for at least a few months after the baby is born.

It seems everyone wants to get into the celebration and be a part of the pregnancy.  The best sign of that is that it seems we will have an excellent support network to draw from.  Of course there is always the chance that after baby is born everyone disappears when we need help.  I don’t think that will be the case.

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