Little Cherub

Little Cherub at 21 weeks :). Not the best scan picture ever, but at least you can see there is a baby there. And according to the sonographer everything is in the right place and looking as it should. The only downside is that Little Cherub is ... well ... little! Chugging along at the bottom of the growth charts, though not at this stage alarmingly so. I am to go back for another scan at 28 weeks to check whether he or she is growing at the right rate. That also means we get another chance to find out if the baby is a He-Cherub or a She-Cherub (is that a theological impossibility?), as he / she was very modest and determinedly keeping his / her legs shut and knees up. I warned Little Cherub that if "he" was a boy he had better let us know, or "he" would end up with an very girly, mauve nursery - the baby will be having Star's old room, redecorated when she was in her purple phase. Even that threat had no effect. Maybe "he" is a "she" and likes the idea of mauve? Not that he or she will be sleeping in there for a while, so there would be time to redecorate later, but it is the principle of the thing! There is something special about preparing a space ready for a new little person.

Tevye and I had a long talk about what we can do to ensure that Little Cherub gets the best possible chance to grow into a nice big Chubby Cherub, and decided the time had come to accept that at 45 and struggling with an asthmatic cough and breathlessness my body simply isn't coping with pregnancy the way it did in my 30s and needs more rest. That perhaps the way to deal with exhaustion isn't simple to battle on doggedly, but to accept that my body is giving me a message I should be listening to! I'm now under instructions to spend an hour or two after lunch lying down in my room in peace and quiet, either reading or sleeping. Angel and Star are under instructions to ensure that I get the peace and quiet, on pain of some unspecified fate worse than death. He is also planning to send me over to my mother for occasional weekends of complete rest and relaxation while he holds the fort here with the girls. She only lives 30 minutes away, so it is a practicable option. And tomorrow we leave for a long weekend in our all time favourite hotel, which should get the new rest and relax regime off to a good start.