Well, today is the day that puff is “due”. This – as we’ve known all along – is no guarantee of anything. We’d been given two due dates in the past, the 16th, and the 20th. As a friend points out, the date of birth 20-08-2008 would be quite a memorable one to have, but at this stage, it looks like puff is going to be late.
Waiting for a baby is unlike any other kind of wait that I’ve experienced before. What you’re waiting for is going to be incredibly life changing, but you have no control over *when* it happens. I suspect this is good practice for once the baby arrives, when there’s a continual lack of control over when things happen.
It’s a mixed sensation: I’d really like puff to turn up, but to get there, kel has to go through rather a lot of suffering, so it’s hard to be enthusiastic about everything starting.