Yurgh, that last post and its subsequent comments sort of took the wind out of my blog posting sails. I've chosen not to comment back though except for to say one thing: I'm aware that lots of things piss me off and I have always been up front about that. Since I'm now pregnant and all full of hormones its even worse and I'll probably wind up writing about it more so if that bugs you you should probably not bother reading this blog.
ANYWAY, life is truckin' along over here. Paul and I are both working as much as we can in order to get bills paid and buy stuff for our impending kid so we tend to be pretty busy and somewhat grumpy. We're used to getting lots of time together and not getting as much is a bit taxing; but of course worthwhile. We get very little time to relax these days so I'm thinking for our anniversary at the end of the month we might both take a 'mental health day' and go have a nice little date or something like that.
The baby's room is coming along in leaps and bounds all of a sudden. I was so overwhelmed by the massive quantity of stuff that this child is going to need that I wasn't even sure where to start so I started with a list...and then wondered how I could ever possibly afford to get all of the stuff. But, two weeks ago Paul's parents came for a visit and they brought us some fantastic hand-me-downs; a swing type thing, a bouncy seat, a bassinet and a huge box of clothes. Then they told us that they wanted to buy us the crib and last week we found a coupon for 15% of cribs at Babies R Us so we went and got a gorgeous 'lifetime crib' for a decent price this weekend (Paul even set it up this weekend, it is GORGEOUS). When I mentioned to my Mom about these great coupons that we found she said that they had wanted to buy us the car seat as our 'baby warming' gift so we used another 15% coupon and got the car seat. It is one of those cool ones that is a combination stroller/car seat so you can take the car seat out and plop it into the stroller and then when the child is bigger it is just a normal stroller for them to sit in - two birds with one stone! We also used some other coupons to buy a bunch of miscellaneous stuff and since a few people had asked us about it we registered at Babies R Us too (which was rather fun let me tell you and they have a neat combo online/in store system that made it really easy).
So, we're probably about halfway there, stuff-wise which is pretty good. All of my baby books and websites say that you should ideally try to have the nursery ready 6-8 weeks before the expected due date since you never know when the baby will actually arrive and also because you may be too tired and off-balance to work on it towards the 40th week. But, since my previous sub-chorionic hemorrhage makes me a good (bad?) candidate for premature labor I'm hoping to get the room pretty much done by 30 weeks - which is scarily only 5 weeks and 2 days away.
Everything else is going well with the pregnancy too. We had the one hour glucose test today which involved drinking something nasty and then trying not to throw it up for an hour. Hopefully I will pass the test because if I don't I have to go do the whole thing again for four hours. I feel mostly okay, very tired and frankly somewhat bitchy since I get very, very little sleep because of SUCH sore hips but other than that and the heartburn that regularly makes me throw up I'm pretty much okay. Baby's heartbeat and my measurements and blood pressure were all good today and my doctor said that everything was going really well. I've only gained two pounds so far which means that even if I gain a pound per week for the rest of the pregnancy I'll still be on target which makes me very pleased.
Oh, and we may have figured out all of Smeagol's FREAKISH behavior over the past few weeks - I think she has a false pregnancy. The poor girl is even lactating! I think my hormones have caused her to believe that she is pregnant which is just so weird I can't express it. And hey, if you want to feel sorry for someone feel sorry for Paul who is, in essence, living with two pregnant bitches. God bless him.
3 comments:
I'm so glad things are progressing so well for you. That is totally strange about the dog.
Trust me girlie, have that 30 week mark as a goal for an end date is REALLY smart! I'm at 30 weeks and I'm feeling EXHAUSTED all the time. Not to mention getting a good nights rest is getting harder and harder to do. Good luck on getting all your baby stuff done by your goal date. I said when I began that I wanted to be done by 7 months and I made it happen...this is my first child but for some reason I knew it would be tough after 7 months to lug around this huge belly and put stuff together and organize...I was right!
I am glad to hear that things are still going well with the baby! I would say don't stress too much about the baby's room. For the first month I imagine you will want the baby sleeping in a basinet or something in your room. Not that you will have any energy once the baby is born to complete his room!! Just remember, it is so worth it after!!!
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