Welcome to my secret diary

Oh well I guess it won't be so 'secret' anymore as I'm gonna let you in to almost everything I'll be doing from this point on, as a first time dad of course.

A bit of background...

Well, where do I start? from the beginning? I guess so...

Who am I?

Ok, I'm Calvin and I'm just about to be a dad, a first time dad that is (I think I've mentioned that already but anyway) . I love football, in fact I'm almost a fanatic and I have a feeling that my son will be a very good striker, how do I know this? ask his mom and she'll tell you he never stops kicking, plus he watches almost every game of football I watch.

So after being married for 3 years, my wife and I decided it was time to bring a little one to our small family. And as you may have already guessed, I wanted a boy and she wanted a girl and guess who won? me of course :) So in April sometime, we did the deed (if you know what I mean) and my wife conceived, went to the doctor six weeks later and he confirmed that we were indeed expecting a little one. I promise you I had never been happier, I think I told everyone I know and I immediately started dreaming about how good a dad I was gonna be to my child.


Fast forward...

Today, approximately 32 weeks later, our baby is fully grown and perfectly healthy. He is a full term baby now as doctors put it, meaning if he were to be born today, he'd survive because his lungs have fully matured and ready to adjust to life outside his mom's tummy. With that said, Chantel (my wife) has started experiencing all the labour signs with the contractions becoming almost a norm now (I sound like I know what I'm talking about don't I?), which means the baby is getting ready to pop out just about anytime now.

It feels more real now than ever, I'm scared, happy, anxious, excited, nervous and everything in between. Scared particularly because early in our pregnancy I made one of the biggest mistakes any father-to-be can ever make, I watched a program called "Birth Stories" and that friggin thing scared the sh!t out of me, I won't even get to it now because I really want to be in that labour room when my wife gives birth. Basically fathers should never allow themselves to be tricked into watching that television program, it's traumatizing.

Ok, I think that's too much babbling for the first post, I hope I made sense though.

Till next time