09-10-2003 15:59									#1
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I found out a few months ago that my girlfriend was pregnant when she was rushed into hospital with pains in her stomach. They thought it was an ectopic pregnancy, but thankfully it was just a sist in the fallopian tube. We only found out she was pregnant about 3 hours earlier so a lot of things were rushing around our heads.

At first we both were 100% on an abortion as I am at university and still have 2 years left, and she hasn't started her career yet.

About 2 months passed and we were both seeing a counseller as it was getting harder and harder to get the abortion due to the fact we were both undecided. We hadn't told her parents or mine yet so we were both going through hell on our own.

The time finally came where she told me she wanted to keep the child and I had to accept the decision. At first I was pretty gutted as I knew life was going to get a million times harder.

We told both our parents, hers were delighted as they get on with me really well. My parents were very dissapointed and shocked as I knew they would be. Eventually they are coming to terms with it all and are helping us out loads by finding information we need.

The baby is due on April 7th and I'm so excited. Just thought I'd share the news with any old friends that still post on this site.

(any parenting advice is welcome )

	09-10-2003 16:00									#2
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Congrats

	09-10-2003 16:07									#3
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Apolyton poster has sex shocker!!!

Congratulations and good luck Matt.

	09-10-2003 16:08									#4
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congrats!

	09-10-2003 16:09									#5
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Sex? She said a stalk delivered it to her. She said it might be black too.

	09-10-2003 16:10									#6
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quote: Originally posted by MattHiggs Sex? She said a stalk delivered it to her. She said it might be black too.

Lucky it wasn't a stork.

	09-10-2003 16:20									#7
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Babies are cute.

	09-10-2003 16:20									#8
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I'll conduct an experiment and play it 'Unholy' music in the womb.

	09-10-2003 16:23									#9
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Get him or her to post on Apolyton from the womb, we could do with some more informed opinions on political matters.

	09-10-2003 16:23									#10
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You'll be naming it Ming I preumse? And Minga if it's a girl...

	09-10-2003 16:26									#11
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Hardman if it's a boy.
AnnC if it's a girl.

	09-10-2003 16:26									#12
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Michael if it's a boy
Princess Michael of Kent if it's a girl.

	09-10-2003 16:34									#13
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The only downside of the situation at the moment is my lack of free time. I'm at university 40 hours a week, pluss the 28 hours of 'home-work' time we are supposed to do and working 25 hours a week. On top of all that my girlfriend wants to go 'baby shopping' all the time. AAAAARRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHH

	09-10-2003 16:35									#14
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Why do you need to shop for a baby? You are getting one for free!

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I knew that was coming when I wrote it, then I figured no-one would be that obvious, well maybe except Provost Harrison.

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You forgot I posted here for a second didn't you.

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A contribution to Baby Cutefest thread is due by end of April.

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quote: Originally posted by MattHiggs The only downside of the situation at the moment is my lack of free time. I'm at university 40 hours a week, pluss the 28 hours of 'home-work' time we are supposed to do and working 25 hours a week. On top of all that my girlfriend wants to go 'baby shopping' all the time. AAAAARRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHH

You better hope he/she sleeps through the night (some do by 3mo or so------ just not my girls).

	09-10-2003 18:36									#19
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quote: Originally posted by MattHiggs The baby is due on April 7th and I'm so excited. Just thought I'd share the news with any old friends that still post on this site. (any parenting advice is welcome )

Excellent news, Matt.
Congratulations to you and the little lady.
My mom's birthday is April 8th, so tell your co-creator to keep her legs crossed on the 7th.

	09-10-2003 18:41									#20
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o_O@ slowwhand.

Congratulations, Matt, this is a very big step, I am sure that everything will work out just fine.

Lots of good Luck!

	09-10-2003 19:10									#21
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On another bright side, you now have proof that you're one of the 1 % of poly-posters who actually have sex (with someone else)

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"I'm going to be a dad"
Your life is over; from now on your are just an auxilliary support unit for other beings.

	09-10-2003 19:28									#23
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Matt, are you two going to get married?

	09-10-2003 19:45									#24
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They're having a baby, how could they afford to get married as well?

	09-10-2003 19:52									#25
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Actually Matt there is a serious reason why being married is good. This comes from what happened with my old housemate who was in a similar situation.... anyway if you aren't married then legally you aren't considered to automatically be the baby's guardian if anything should happen to the mother (let's hope not anyway). Which shouldn't really be a problem but if you fell out with her parents it might be.

Still, you need to make sure she has something legal stating that you are the father and if anything happens to her it's you she wants to be the baby's legal guardian. A will would do it. You might want to find out more about that from a proper legal source to make sure I have it correct as well.

	09-10-2003 20:55									#26
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You were practicing dirty things before marriage.
You will burn in hell. Your souls are lost forever.

	09-10-2003 21:00									#27
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Congrats as well!!

Anything I can help you with?

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quote: Originally posted by Heresson You were practicing dirty things before marriage. You will burn in hell. Your souls are lost forever.

How do you know it was dirty

	09-10-2003 21:14									#29
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Congrats Matt!
Nooooo problem with university. When my little son was born, I thought I'd need maybe a year for my major. Daniel is 16 months by now and I still need a semester.

	09-10-2003 21:21									#30
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How do you two plan to support yourselves?