Instead of a bullet point
post, I’m going to do 4 mini-posts in one.
I know you are excited!
Nesting
The nesting has begun. We cleaned out the “scrapping” room to make
way for the baby furniture we bought. I
still have to clear out half of the closet but we are well on our way to having
a real nursery. We even installed some
shelves in the closet. The lady at work
that had her baby girl 7 weeks early gave me a box full of clothes that her
little one has outgrown. I can’t believe
that I have baby clothes in my house. We
brought the crib and dresser home and set them up in her room. I fought tears a couple of times because I was
just so overcome with joy and love and disbelief that this is happening for us. BJ didn’t see the tears. He went down to the neighbor’s house for a
little while and I took that time to hang out in baby girl’s room and have a
talk with her and God. Of course the
flood gates opened up at that point. We
had put her bedding in her crib to get an idea of if we liked it (we love it)
and to see what color(s) we want to pull from the bedding in order to
paint. I kept looking at the empty crib
in awe. There’s finally going to be a
baby in our house (hopefully) and it’s so emotionally overwhelming that
sometimes I just cry. I pulled myself
together and by the time BJ got home I was fresh faced again. He doesn’t like it when I get over emotional
like that so I try to keep it all to myself until I’m alone. It makes him uncomfortable and he knows there’s
nothing he can do to prevent the tears so I try to protect him from feeling
like he can’t protect me…confusing, yes, but it works. We also started clearing out the
basement. We have a huge load of stuff
to take to the thrift store this weekend.
Once we do that he will have room to work down there whenever he feels
like working. It will be nice to get
started on the basement finally. I
really need my scrapping space back. :-)Registering
We started a baby registry when we picked up the crib and dresser. We picked out the bigger ticket items that we’d both need to agree on and then added some smaller things here and there. It was so fun to watch BJ with the scanner…he walked passed a teddy bear and scanned it and looked at me with a sly smile on his face and said, “she needs a big bear”. There are some things that I still need to research to make sure we didn’t pick something that got bad reviews. There are many, many small things that still need to be added. BJ said that he was fine with whatever I picked as far as bottles and breast pump and stuff like that go. I don’t blame him for opting out of another big visit to the store. It’s so overwhelming to have to choose what we want. So here’s my question…I plan on nursing but know that I still need bottles. What kind of bottles did you moms out there love or hate? I want to make sure that baby girl isn’t getting too much air and that she’s getting a bottle that is as close to the breast as possible. Also, are there things that you really couldn’t live without in the first several months? What did you get that you had no use for? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Melting
So you all heard about BJ feeling
baby girl for the first time and now you get to hear about the Little Guy’s
first experience. We ordered pizza from
Dom.ino’s on Sunday because we were so worn out from working in the basement we
didn’t feel like cooking. Anyway, I had
2 and half slices of pizza and the boys had pizza and wings and then we all
crashed on the couch. The LG always sits
between us while we watch TV. Baby girl
started kicking and wiggling away in there.
I thought I’d take a chance and told the LG to give me his hand. I lifted my shirt and gently placed his hand
on my stomach. I told him to be very
still and concentrate. Sure enough she
kicked! I asked him if he felt it and he
said he did. AWESOME! Then she did it again. Then BJ wanted a turn. His hand is so much bigger and he knows what
he’s expecting and he could feel her rolling around. Then the LG wanted to try again. He felt a very small kick and then couldn’t
feel any more. She was moving around a
lot so she either liked the pizza or didn’t like the pizza. Then the LG said to me, “it seems like she’s
never going to get here.” Awwwww…so
sweet. I assured him that she will be
here before he knows it.
Worrying
I had my regular OB check up
yesterday. Now is the time she’ll start
measuring me from the outside and I was very excited about that. She showed me where my uterus was and how to
feel for it myself. I thought that was very cool since I had been
unable to detect it up until that point.
Baby girl’s heart beat was between 147 and 152 bpm, which was perfect. When she measured me, however, I’m only
measuring 21cm, which is basically 21 weeks.
I was 22 week and 5 days yesterday.
She said that at this stage it’s nothing to worry about as long as I’m
within 2 week either way. I scheduled my
glucose test, my flu shot and my pertussis shot and was out the door. Then the worry set in. I did a little googling and decided that I
wasn’t going to stress about it. But of
course that is easier said than done. We
had our anatomy scan less than 3 weeks ago and she measured exactly with her
due date. How is it possible that now I’m
almost a full 2 weeks behind? Then I
started to worry about the amniotic fluid.
I know baby girl is fine, I feel her kicking and dancing and
cartwheeling in there all the time…but what about the uterus? Is it too small for her? Will I go into pre-term labor and lose
her? Oh my gosh I’m tearing up just
thinking about that. Then the cashier in
our cafeteria was amazed at how small I am for 5 months. I almost started crying right there as she
was giving me my change. BJ has been
trying to reassure me that everything is fine.
He even looked up pictures of 5 month pregnant women on his phone while
at work to see how I compare with them.
He told me we have nothing to worry about right now. We’ll see what happens at the next appointment
before we start to worry about anything.
Yeah, easy for him to say. So I
will just have to pull out my mantra of “baby’s fine, baby’s fine, baby’s fine”
to get me through the next 4 weeks. As I’m
typing my baby girl is doing flips and spins to let me know she’s ok. It’s not her I’m worried about right
now. It’s the uterus in which she calls
home. Anyone else have this experience
that can set my mind at ease, at least a little?
