Dear unborn child,
Now that you are at least 50cm long and weigh nearly 4kg it is time for you to come out.
There seems to be no room left for your mama’s lungs or bladder or heart or stomach, everything feels very compact and like it is working at half ratio’s. I am ready to return to the days I could take in a full breath of air and eat a plate of food in one sitting. Also, when I push your foot out from under my rib cage it is no longer done just in love but with a tinge of annoyance, please stop sticking it up there, it’s rather unpleasant. Did you get that spicy food I sent down? At least the 1000 chilli’s we grew this year are going to some use i suppose.
On the plus side your room is all ready for you, Oma finally finished knitting the most gorgeous soft wool blanket for your bed and your aunty Lou painted a picture for the wall and yesterday pa made you another toy to play with but I won’t tell you what, you’ll have to come out and see it. We have even re-organised the living room so that we can pop you in the centre of the rug and admire you from each and every armchair, so seriously, come out, otherwise we stare at an empty spot of white fluff where there should be a baby. There is a pram in the hallway lined with thick warm sheepskin just for you, pa is dying to take you walking in it, it’s like a cool gadget that doubles as a baby thing, you’ll understand when you meet him in person how important this is. ps. that’s the voice you hear reading you Grimm’s Fairy Tales at night (how weird was that one about cinderella that ended with happy henry the frog?! don’t worry if you didn’t get it we were both confused too)
As you can see your pa and I are incredibly impatient and have told you on numerous occasions that ‘today would be good’ but you seem reluctant to acquiesce. On Sunday it is going to rain, you would love the rain, it stills the world and pa and I sit inside and watch films and eat popcorn and vege soup or roast some nice pork. This would be a good day for you to come. We’ll be waiting just in case.
Lots of love from your mama.
