The Excitement Mounts....

Incredibly, it's now just over a week until the due date and the midwife has confirmed that the baby is "engaged".

Experience dictates that we have a little bit more time to go after that, but everyone I've spoken to has confirmed that the second one is easier and comes faster/ earlier. So, I could be called away in the middle of writing this entry... scary thought!

Michele is baring up fantastically well, although she is very tiredl. Harry is in great spirits and I think he is catching onto some of the excitement Michele and I are feeling. We really are very much looking forward to meeting the baby now, and can't wait to hold him or her in our hands.

We also can't wait for Harry to meet the new arrival. A colleague I've spoken to told of how her little girl laid on the hospital bed next to her mum and the baby and was incredibly gentle and loving to her new sister. Something seemed to pass between the two of them, perhaps a mutual realisation that they had both come from the same place - had the same Mum.

Everyone is on standby and we are just waiting for things to happen now.

The next blog entry will be after the baby's born...