tim's posterous

Sleepless in Reading

Well it is 9am and my wife and baby are asleep upstairs, I am sitting on the couch and writing this through half closed eyes. No I didn’t sleep much last night.

My little girl was obviously hungry and daddy got up three time to make a bottle, feed baby, wind her, then clean her up and get her back to sleep. I think I was lulled into a false sense of security by our son who was a real expert at this sleeping through the night routine.

It can only get better from here, I need my beauty sleep.

It is official she’s a Poppy.

After lots of parental worry, tubes, (babies should not have tubes - channellers, call them what you will - I just don’t like them) and the tender care of the team on Iffley Ward at the Royal Berkshire Hospital my two girls will soon be on their way home.

Poppy was born at 9.34am on November 12th 2009 by cesarian and had already had a very lucky escape as she had tied a perfect figure 8 knot in her umbilical cord whilst still in the womb, a midwife pointed out that if she’d have pulled the knot tight we may have had a very different outcome. 

Since the birth both girls have had a few issues. Poppy’s didn’t want to eat and had an infection - hence the channellers, my wife Bekky has also had her issues, as you would expect after major abdominal surgery but a very nice doctor has been round and ministered to her every need as well as giving the best possible care to Baby Poppy.

I cannot praise the ladies and gents of Iffly ward highly enough. All them have calmed a worried father, cared for a new mother, - as well as bringing Poppy into the world.

The flu descends on the house.

Two weeks before the baby is due all of the family is down with flu - perhaps the dreaded pig flu.

Bert - my good lady wife - is having to literally hold her sides when she coughs. Having coughed so hard she pulled a muscle yesterday.

Jr is just about over it with a dry nose for the first time in weeks but I am just starting to come down with one… We really should buy shares in paracetamol.

Coming Attraction

Dotty (working title) will be born soon. She is expected at about 8am on November 12, 2009. She will come into the world through the sunroof as we call it or a C-section as it is more often known. And I am as excited as I can be.

We thought we’d never have children you see. We’d been given the impression by the doctors that Jr would never happen, a miracle, a one in a million shot - best not get your hopes up… then we found out we were having one child now we’re having a second.

So mid November I’ll have a daughter.

So, this is me.

So, this is my first real post here. Leo Laport and Andy Ihnatko are to blame. They have been plugging Posterous and so I thought I’d try it out.

My name is Tim Jennings. I work in Westminster, London, England.  I was for many years a Disney Cast Member and I run http://afterthemouse.com but that is not what this site is about, it is about me and my family.

My Wife, lets call her Bert (don’t ask), our son Jr (well - obviously) and our impending daughter, Dotty (working title) live in the UK and have a nice life for now. We are both employed, happy and in love. The names have been changed to confuse the innocent.

This will be my space to talk about what matters to me that is not covered on my ‘real site’. So expect no real themes, no insights and absolutely nothing of any value. Just my stream of consciousness. 

The End - so far.