The bump

My sister’s baby is officially due in mid-July. Chances are he’s coming out a lot sooner.

Like me, my sis is diabetic, and one of the many issues regarding pregnancy and diabetes is that at this point the baby begins to grow. Enormously. Like something out of a sci-fi film.

In fact, in the past three weeks, Badger Bulldog has achieved an alarming seven-week’s-worth of expansion.

Having sailed through the first trimester with only tiredness and the occasional hint of nausea, Sis now has the issue of sporting a near nine-month belly with more than a month still to go.

The major issue is that though Badger is accelerating his growth, he’s not speeding up his development. This means his lungs, heart and other sort of important things are still at the stage of any other 7.5-month-old foetus.

Sis has been told that the optimum scenario is that Badger’ll make it to three weeks before the birth date, when he’ll officially be ‘cooked’.

Fingers crossed he’ll make it that long, and that my sis doesn’t burst at the seams in the meantime…