I'm going to be a father... :-)

Congrats dude

Congratulations! I hope everything’s going well.

Don’t forget to marry her .

OOO CONGRATS MAN, YOU ARE NOW A PAPA

Wow...even more congratulations. Thanks, y'all!

The short version: all is well and fairly okay.

The long version...

I can really say the renovation plan is well within its limits. The kitchen, living room and...erm...leisure room are considered 'done' (there is some parts on the ceiling that have to be corrected, but those are details). The floor's okay, the walls are papered and painted, and about half our garage is empty again (note: because a lot of that was furniture, it doesn't take even half of that in space in our living area).
The heating was added relatively late (31st of december), but at least it works now. Floor heating has the odd feature that it has to warm up gradually in order not to crack the floors, but 18.5° is...well, not exactly "hot", but more livable than anything the last months.

The next steps are the bathroom and the 2 bedrooms. The former should be fairly okay after coming weekend(1). The bath and (especially!) the sink of the bathroom furniture are quite heavy, but the water connections are in place and the walls are currently being papered and painted.
The bedrooms are relatively easy at this stage: remove the clutter of the largest one (it's mostly work materials for the bathroom), paper, paint, finish the work on the windows, put the laminate floor on the floor and put the (mostly ikea) furniture together. Then repear that for the smallest bedroom. Perhaps this sounds like a lot, but it's hardly a weekend's work when everyone's helping out.

This isn't ALL the renovation work, but it's these things that need to be done before the due date.

Which brings me to the next thing: yes, my girlfriend's health is A LOT better than before. 'Healthy' still isn't the best description, but she's probably up to par with other women in their 8th month pregnancy.



(1): important exception: we still need to put tiles on the walls. I haven't done this yet, so my estimation of "this can be done in 4-5 hours" might be too optimistic. But even so...it'll be done before the end of the month.

Thank you.

This all sounds a lot better now.I am very reliefed...

yes, my girlfriend's health is A LOT better than before

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"A LOT better" sounds very,very good.That is nice to hear.

Heating works,that are really good News.

"this can be done in 4-5 hours"

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oh yes, a House is a life's work.

Then all is ready.....overall.

Thank you for keeping us informed.

To be honest.. I congrats you for being a new father. However, I have seen many new fathers are not take care of babies. They prefer women to take care of babies like wipe, feed, carrying them around. Many fathers are terrible fathers. They just wants their girlfriends or wives to take care of babies and what did fathers do ? Nothing but have a child, a father of child and that's about it. That's sad and terrible things to do. Many father in the world are horrible and don't take care of children. Only women have to do everything for children. That's sad and women are dumb too. They don't know how to speak up to fathers to do something about it.

Sorry but that's the truth.

@alexander1970 : keep note that these tiles don't have to extend all around the bathroom: it's "just" above and around the bath. I've gotten in the habit of doubling roughly every early estimation of how much work something will require.

@azoreseuropa : erm...I assume you don't mean offense here so I'm not going to take it as such. Since it's my first child it's hard to defend myself on this at this point, but that doesn't mean you are right by default . I don't think I can achieve to be the world's best dad, but I certainly intend to be there for her when it needs to be. We've gotten a dog because my girlfriend wanted one, but the very least I can say that we spend equal time in raising her (before my girlfriend became home-tied due to the pregnancy, I even dared say that I took care of most of the duties that come with dog ownership).
So no, I don't intend to have my girlfriend have to do all the chores (which she certainly won't let me get away with to begin with. Carrying and cleaning the baby will probably be either split or mostly rest on my shoulder, and when not counting breastfeeding, I assume the (rest of the) feeding will be about a 50-50 split as well.

I won't deny that there are terrible fathers on this planet (or mothers, for that matter). But I don't intend to join their ranks...

@Taleweaver,

You just do your best as you can but don't let woman do everything for you ? I mean you should cook too, take care of laundry like women does. Yes, some women are terrible too. That's what I am saying.. We are all human being. Me, I am the best father, yes, because I say it and because I do everything.. I am not "try my best as I could". No. I want to be great father and I will do everything for my child. I made child and I will take fully responsible such as wipe baby's poop, bathe him, feed him, take him out for fun even when I don't have a free time because I asked for baby. And tuck him in the bed kiss good night. Baby is a huge responsible but I am VERY proud father taking care of everything that MOST father because they ARE terrible and suck fathers.

I have seen many fathers even mothers in McDonald's letting kids watch smart devices so they can talked themselves to death and neglect those poor kids stare at smart devices. You know if you talk with your kids a lot.. I mean everyday and you will discover amazing things about kids that we never knew before.

I am just saying it out of my point of view and my experience. I am not happy with many fathers even mothers treats children even thought they thinks they are good parents or so called *tried*. Thats not good enough. Thats all I can say.

Again, for you, you do your best as you can *not even try* because you are going to be a new father. Its your huge responsible because if you don't raise your kid right and your kid is going to be neglect you and go out at late and hang out with wrong friends and many more.

I am not going to let my kid neglect me when he is getting older. I want him to be closer to me and spend time with me knowing that I am great father he ever had. And I am going to teach him everything about this bad World and bad television that bad influence children. My child is my 100 percent treasure and my world that I don't need woman to take care of child more than I do. I do my work for my child too. Sad, only rare fathers are awesome like me. And most fathers are not doing a good job at all including mothers. Very sad!

Happy belated first-child-birthday, but happy early Father's day!