This is a sweet, informative, sometimes stressful piece about pregnancy and labor. Sarah has a great voice, good pace and earnest, true narration. And it was interesting to hear the trials and tribulations of having a baby, beyond the pain and the goopy birth-stuff. However, it didn't strike me as much more than "cute". Which isn't a bad thing, but I was hoping for more. There were some distracting sound moments, too: the baby's heartbeat early on and Sarah's incredibly heavy breathing towards the end. The former is jarring because I didn't know what it was for some time. The latter was off-putting because she was breathing as if she'd just gone through hours of labor. Then we learn she'd had to have an emergency C-section. A sweet piece, though, with great baby noise at the end.

This is a classic diary piece, dealing with subject matter that seems perfect for such treatment. The piece starts a few weeks before the due date, so there is no sense of what the first 2 trimesters held for the soon to be parents, nor any feel for the mounting tension and excitement that you might expect if the diary covered the whole pregnancy. The piece is short, perhaps too short, I would have liked to hear how 5 weeks bed rest due to gestational diabetes affects mom for instance; We get to hear from baby Max via fetal monitor before his birth and he gets to have the last words, or gurgles too. All round a satisfying listening experience.