Rocker-bye Baby
Marie is carrying a little hellraiser…
Looking up at the London Eye, I smiled. I’d been keeping a secret from my partner Darren, now 33, for a few weeks.
Now on our day trip to the capital, it was time to reveal all.
‘I’ve something to tell you,’ I said. ‘I’m pregnant!’
He wrapped his arms around me and burst into tears.
This was Darren’s first child, and he was over the moon.
It was my fifth, and I really loved being a mum.
Darren and I had been together for nine months, but had known each other for years.
We’d talked about babies since day one, too. And music!
‘I love Ed Sheeran and Olly Murs,’ he admitted when we started dating. ‘Me, too!’ I replied.
Two months into my pregnancy, I found out we were having a boy.
I kept it a secret from Darren at first, then revealed the gender to him and all the family with blue balloons in our garden!
He couldn’t wait to have a little lad.
During my pregnancy, we’d play our bump all our favourite tunes.
After 15 weeks, I felt flutters in my belly.
Thinking nothing of it, I cranked the music louder in the car.
Still, my baby was dancing away.
‘I think he likes the music!’ I told Darren.
Every time we played tunes, the baby would go crazy. Almost daily, he’d bop and bounce along to the rhythm.
If ever I was worried
I hadn’t felt him for a while, I’d play music and wait for the jigging!
‘He can’t be yours,’ I joked to Darren. ‘You’ve got two left feet!’
Then on the day of my 20-week scan, I hadn’t felt anything. Strange. Not even Ed Sheeran could get him going.
But, once the sonographer saw our baby on the screen, she gasped.
‘He’s very active!’ she laughed.
The jelly must have got him jiving!
Suddenly he turned towards the camera…
And with his fingers, he gave us a devil-horn sign!
We were stunned.
Our baby was rocking out! The sonographer quickly snapped a picture.
‘I’ve never seen that in all my years,’ she laughed.
It’s a hard gesture to do. Babies usually suck their feet, or give the thumbs up.
‘We don’t even like rock
The gesture is also sign language for, ‘I love you’
music!’ Darren laughed. ‘I think we’ll be hearing it a lot more when he’s born,’ I said. Our son, who we’re going to call Fletcher, is due on 16 September.
We’ve still been playing him music, but not heavy metal... The horns are said to have been made famous by Black Sabbath’s Ronnie James Dio, though Kiss star Gene Simmons recently tried to trademark the hand gesture! Rock isn’t our cup of tea, but the horns are also American sign language for, ‘I love you’. Maybe that’s what he was telling us. I wonder if our lad will come out rocking?! We’re thinking about getting soundproofing. After all, you’ve got to roll with it!