The last post was a sucky attempt at updating everyone. Here's to making up for it... *clink*...
I've lost track of society. I can't tell you the date let alone the time. I've fallen (once again) into the statistic of pregnant women that SUFFER from "Pregnancy Brain." The only "evidence" that proves pregnancy brain exists is that of those that complain about it. Other than that, pregnancy brain is a figment of our imagination. But let's call it real for the sake of my sanity.
Where it (meaning I) all went wrong:
I washed all of our clothes, the babies clothes and finally the sheets. With the clothes, I emptied every pocket and flipped each sock right side out. With the sheets- I guess I never thought about shaking/checking them before throwing them in the wash. I didn't even notice my phone was gone until I heard the clink-clank sound coming from the dryer... and once I did... Man. You know that feeling, "It could only be one thing making that noise..." Well, my phone is completely unsalvageable.
It could have been different, I could be here writing this post via the Blogspot app, but no. I chose to not use my LifeProof these past few weeks. You may ask, what is LifeProof? Well people, it's a life changer.
Without sounding like I'm trying to sell you an item, I think you should own this. It's a case for your Iphone 4/4s that is completely WATER, DIRT, SNOW & SHOCK PROOF. Bloggers honor. The one that I am putting back on my phone (once I get one) is purple, but you can get it in white, black or pink too. Well worth the $80. It's everything you need as a mommy/daddy/human.
SPEAKING OF HUMAN- Oh our little human is just one big lump of joy. Except at 4:30am. At 4:30 I wake up for two hours and cant manage to go back to sleep till 7. Not a huge deal but it makes me wonder why. I wake up at 4:30, I stay in bed, don't roll around too much, maybe use the toilet and drink some water, but thats it. Around 5:30am she starts moving, and I mean MOVING. She's kicking, punching, probably crying (I would be if I had no room to dance.) This baby, at 33 weeks, is moving enough to wake Mr. Big Spoon (Ev, if you didn't get it) up. Either she's up because I'm up or I'm up because for the past few weeks she's been waking me up, thus my body is prepping itself for midnight duty. I like to think the second one is correct... but hey, you never know.
At the baby shower, there was a due date estimator calendar my friend Jenn made for guests to put in when they think the baby will be arriving. It was precious. Everyone had their reasons for picking certain dates and the month was packed. Each date had a name, if not two or three names on it. Ev chose a week before the due date and I chose a week after the due date. His reasoning is that the baby will be too big for me. My reasoning is that the average length of pregnancy is actually 41 weeks. BUT now that I think about it (
TMI ALERT) my menstrual cycle before pregnancy was whack and could lead to a miscalculated due date. I was having cycling every 14 days, lasting 4-5 days each period. Now, I apologize for those who may not have wanted to know that, but it may become of some interest when labor begins. The more accurate due date would make sense a week earlier than the Dr's original due date, which then adding that extra week on to the due date would calculate to April 18th. So back to the original due date I guess, she will come when she is ready of course.
I just took you in one big circle, my baaaad.
Homebirth, on the rocks.
I'm considering how much of the birth I want to be viewed. I would love to document the whole labor and share the video to those interested in natural/homebirth but have to think deep here. It's going to come down to how much of myself, my body, our experience will be shared. The video's I've watched (via DVD or YouTube) have inspired me to have the courage to have this experience and I want to make it easier for someone else to be able to make that decision as well.
What's best for someone and their expected child is up to the parents. Without getting into too much controversial mumble jumble, I wish more parents would have the knowledge that they have the power to plan a natural/homebirth. If natural doesn't work out the way you hoped (pain/scare) or if the Midwife decides you need to go (complications), 30 minutes is what's suggested you need to be in distance of a hospital.
The following is the reason
Ev and I want to have a natural/homebirth. Please take what you wish and leave the rest.
We want to have a homebirth to be able to bond with our baby for as long as we can as soon as we can. The same reason we want to have a natural birth, too allow our bonding experience to be completely drug free. Sure, be "safe" and have your child at a hospital or birthing center, but don't medicate unless you or your baby is at risk. I'm talking EMERGENCY Cesarian "risk."
Delivery stories are about "getting 'that' baby out." I do NOT like hearing
delivery stories. I do NOT want to hear
delivery stories. I choose to keep TLC's A Baby Story, Babies First Day etc off my DVR list. I know what those shows are for and I don't see why anyone would watch them. It's degrading entertainment, that's it.
Question: How often do you hear "The doctor and staff saved our lives!"
Question: How often do you ask "What complications were implemented BY the doctors and staff before they had improvise?"
I apologize for offending anyone that didn't or has yet to choose natural birth, but it's so simple. Research people, research. Overall, I want to hear
birthing stories, beautiful
birthing stories.
Birthing stories about how the only pain medicine the mother took was locking eyes with her child. I'm jumping the boat on this topic before relationships are altered.
Anyone in the mood for some pictures of the nursery?
The bedding, side tables and mirrored birds were purchased at Home Goods. The accent piece over the window and the twig wreath are both handmade decorations from the Baby Shower in Fairhope, AL. The baby foot was a gift from Ev's Aunt Leslie & Uncle Bob.
Crib is from Babies R US &
Canopy is from World Market. The bedskirt and bumper is from a thrift store (dry cleaned) and toys are all gifts from friends and family.
The dresser is from Ev's brother Adam! Ev and I gave Adam all of our old bedroom furniture resulting in a very beautiful feminine dresser for the nursery.
All of her newborn sized clothes and diapers are ready for use! Frames ready to be filled!
(We are still using
gDiapers but want to have some disposable diapers available for that first big POOP.)
While Ev and I were back in our home towns, his in AL and mine in CA, we packed up our favorite childhood books for Lee Ila. We are looking forward to sharing them with all of our children. The clothes, oh so many clothes, were all given to us. A few weeks back Ev and I bought a lot of baby clothes sized 3-6 months off ebay... suggestion for future parents (maybe this is just for girls) DON'T DO THIS. We have two huge boxes full of clothes we don't think we will even open.
RANDOM <3
Last weekend we managed to take this lovely picture.
What wonderful parents we will be.
