27 July 2005

Gallagher's bump of joy

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The Canberra Times is carrying this heart-rending story of Katy Gallagher’s pregnancy, announced at 17 weeks.

Ms Gallagher’s now-8-year-old daughter’s birth was surrounded in tragedy, with her fiance being killed while cycling in Merimbula (nicely tied in with the death of Amy Gillett in past weeks). Ms Gallagher was 13 week pregnant with Abigail at the time.

Interestingly, ” Ms Gallagher no longer listens to the radio in the car, knowing news reports about accidents can bring on crippling attacks of anxiety”.

She credits the Labor Party for helping her to keep going after her fiance’s death, and said she ran for election as a way of returning the favour.

I don’t doubt this will be a hard time for Ms Gallagher and will bring back many tough memories, but a small cynical part of me can’t help but wonder why she has chosen to announce her pregnancy at this particular time. It couldn’t be because of the warm and fuzzies pregnant women get, even if they’ve just revealed plans to shut down schools, could it?

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Fair call; MEGA it is, but it has to be in caps.

Didn’t we decide to call it the “ULTRA SCHOOL”? or was that just me….

Great timing to deflect attention from the dismemberment of the education system as we know it.

Congratulations and best wishes to Katy.

But the Canberra Times piece looked like a PR concoction to me.

thumper – we do have a decent world to live in, the grand Principality provided for by Stanhope!

I notice that the Labor Party and Union Movement funded K-K-Katy’s “legal costs in a lengthy court trial which saw a 86-year-old, yes 86, female pensioner narrowly avoid a jail term”. So much for Labor’s social conscience.

miscarriage of justice (?)

LG, Stephen and RG, but what about the baby ?

I thought you were talking about the school closure being a miscarriage..

*g*

Strange. Slow news day?

Yep, the first 12 weeks is a real danger period for miscarriage. Till thats well past it’s premature to announce it.

Or because most miscarriages happen in the first 3-4 months so after this time it’s pretty safe to announce the news without fear of something going wrong? When did you want her to announce it? When it popped out? At 17 weeks it’s starting to become a bit obvious and hard to hide.

Most likely she just wanted to announce it before it became obvious.

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