Time is passing by very fast. Ana is still in Madrid, taking things slow, avoiding stress and trying to relax although the heat in Madrid makes it difficult at times to be comfortable.

Her pregnancy is proceeding very well. The only thing that is a bit strange is that the doctor mentioned that Pek looks like a small baby. He should weigh more that his current weight. To correct this little underweight Ana had to loose weight and at the same time eat more. Sound a bit strange to me, but that must be because I lack a medical background.

I am still very distant and that is a pity. I wonder if Ana’s belly has grown even more. Two more weeks and than it will happen.

I have started the countdown. This is Ana’s last month being pregnant and it is going to be the first month in our lives as parents. Still only 21 more days. If everything goes to plan I will leave in a little less then three weeks to Madrid to join with Ana just one day before giving birth. The next day we plan to go to the hospital together.

Ana is already in Madrid, taking it easy and trying to relax. I could not join her because I want to save my holidays (I don’t have so many) for when Pek is born.

What I am doing in Las Palmas, without my wife? Well, she left me a big list with chores, but still I find time to read, go our running, watch some movies, listen to music and relax a little. Might as well enjoy myself now, because my life is about to change.

My Dutch tax return has been finalized. This week I planned to figure out how to validate my Dutch diploma for use here in Spain. Still I need to make an album with the photos of our wedding and I want to make a little album with photos of Pek because by now we have gathered a huge number of echo-photos. Enough to make an album.

Finally, if I can find the time, I would like to finalize the project for the red cross and maybe publish our own ‘project‘.

Once again we were offered a look into our future. In one month Pek will be born and he will stop being called Pek, because at that time he deserves his new final name.

Ana will leave for Madrid next week where in a month, the 24th of August, the birth of Pek will take place. He will be born during a vasectomy in the Alcala hospital. The same city as where we got married.

Pek is kicking quite a lot every now and then. Also he gets very happy and excited after Ana has something to eat. This time we had a test where they made a graph of Pek’s movements and his heartbeat. Everything started out really relaxed, but when Ana was given a lollypop the action started.

The top line in the graph are the heartbeat or the movement of Pek. The vertical stripes are an indication of movement. Ana had a little button which she needed to press when she noted movement. Every press on the button resulted in a little vertical stripe. The bottom line is movement by Ana. This bottom line indicated that Ana had two mini contractions during the test.

The little one weighs 2046 grams and it is a small baby, but that was to be expected with such a small mother.

In een week gebeurt er niet veel, maar toch hebben we weer een paar leuke fotootjes.

De statistieken:

• 29 weken en 3 dagen
• 1184 gram

Er is nog een foto, genomen uit een zeer ongebruikelijke hoek. Deze kan je hier bekijken door als wachtwoord een nummer in te tikken. Dit nummer kan je achterhalen door een van de onderstaande raadsels op te lossen.

• Emmastraat …
• IP-0…
• int(Adrie min A) + 1

Let wel, deze foto is niet geschikt voor tere zieltjes.

In tegenstelling tot de vorige keer hadden we dit keer wel een paar goede foto’s. Zie hier het edele gelaat van onze kleine.

Hij weegt inmiddels een goede 1100 gram en alles ziet er goed uit. Ana moet wel door gaan met het slikken van ijzer pillen, maar voor de rest verloopt de zwangerschap voorspoedig.

Het gaat goed met de kleine. Onze Pek weegt inmiddels 733 gram. Op de echo valt niet veel te zien, maar het was de enige die we kregen.

Op de foto wordt het bot van zijn bovenbeen gemeten om te controleren of de groei op schema zit. Dit bleek allemaal goed te gaan.

Naast deze ene onduidelijke foto kregen we ook een filmpje.