Cot
Amby
Changing Table
Rocking Chair
And
PRAM!!!
🙂
Conversations with My Baby
I talk to the baby on the interior. All the time.
I tell it to hush and calm down when its kicking vigirously.
I’ve given it a tour of its room.
I’ve told it about its pram, which is currently in pieces in boxes.
And I tell it, every day, how much its Daddy and I love it.
The exact same conversations I will have with it once it becomes the baby on the exterior. Long before it will be able to understand me.
Luckily, Simon thinks its cute that I do this.
Even if he didn’t think it was cute, I would still do it. But at least he doesn’t think I’m totally bonkers! 🙂
As If Having A Baby Isn’t Grown Up Enough…
Simon and I are off to the solicitors today to have our wills made! Not that we have tons of assets or anything, but we do want to have something in place for the baby in case, god forbid, something happens to both of us.
I know some people who refuse to make a will. They think it is tempting death, or something. How incredibly stupid is that?
Did I stupid? I meant stupid and selfish.
The only way to guarantee that your belongings, whether worth £1,000,000 or £10, go to whom you want in a timely manner is to have a will drawn up. Without it your estate can be tied up for years in the courts, eaten away by legal fees and such. What a horrible legacy to leave for your descendants.
Not that wills are never contested, of course. But everyone should have one, regardless.
And, certainly, anyone with children should have, in writing, in legal terms, who is to look after the children if something should happen to the parents.
Anyone who doesn’t is stupid, selfish and a fool.
Letter to My Baby – Gestational Age 36 Weeks
Dear Baby
One Month Left. 🙂
Have been very busy getting your room ready. Your clothes are almost all washed and put away. The bumper is on your cot. The sheets will be on tomorrow or Thursday for sure.
You are being a major wiggle worm, constantly stretching and moving in my tummy. Its so nice to feel. It lets Mummy know that you are okay in there.
Mummy has been sleeping very well, which is a nice change from normal! I think it helps that I have no real stress at the moment. The lack of going to work is ace!
Daddy totally charmed Mummy this week when he was helping out taking your laundry out of the dryer. Cries of ‘Oooh little socksies!’ was just wonderful!
Mummy didn’t see the doctor today, so she’s not exactly sure how big you are now. She knows you were 6lbs last week, she imagines you’re even bigger this week.
Next Tuesday she’ll see the OB again, and quite possibly have your eviction date. How exciting!
Love
Mummy
And So It Begins
the baby’s laundry, I mean. 🙂
Just spent 45 minutes unwrapping, reading wash tags and separating in preparation for washing. First load is in washer.
The problem with not knowing the gender is that almost everything is white or off white. I am actually doing a white load and an off white load, there is so much!
And I was right…I still do need booties, hats and mitts. My mum keeps asking why I need those for a June baby. Well, it is a June baby in Belfast! Could be 5 C when its born. Although we are having some heat at the moment. That will probably end soon though.
After baby clothes are washed, I can begin putting them in the baby’s dresser, which doubles as its changing table. By the end of the week, the baby’s room will be ready. So very exciting!
Excellent, and Quick, Customer Service
So, when the OB said ‘come back in 2 weeks and then we’ll schedule a C-section for 10 days after that’ I went into panic mode a bit. Not about the baby nearly being here, but about being ready for the baby to nearly be here!
I still did not have:
The Amby Hammock
Sheets for the cot
Bumper for the cot
So I went online on Sunday and bought the Amby. It was delivered yesterday. WOW!
Then on Tuesday, I remembered that a friend on Mumsnet, when I had expressed concern about the lack of a baby bumper, which are not recommended for small babies due to possibility of suffocation, whereas I was worried about baby hitting its head, told me about the Airwave Cot Bumper. That was ordered Monday. I received it yesterday. WOW!
Then Wednesday I popped into Mamas and Papas to look at their sheets, as they had been recommended by a friend. The problem I had was that they had no waterproof mattress covers. In fact, when I asked about them, the sales woman looked surprised I would even want them because ‘all of our mattresses are specially covered already.’ To which I replied ‘lovely, but I didn’t buy my mattress here.’ And promptly left. So a web search for waterproof mattress covers sent me to: John Lewis. Where I also found sheets. So those were ordered on Wednesday. They arrived today. WOW!
So within 5 days, I had everything left on my list for baby.
Now I just need to put the sheets and bumper on the cot and set up the Amby.
And have a baby. 🙂
Well, It Finally Happened…
I had to take off my rings. They still come off and on, but are really tight and uncomfortable. My claadagh ring will stay in my jewelery box for the duration, my wedding and engagement rings are on the necklace I always wear. I now clang when I walk. 🙂
Bit of a eye opening moment when my 5 weeks left were reduced in about 3 in the mouthing of the sentence ‘come back in 2 weeks and about 10 days after that we’ll schedule your C Section.’ Gulp.
Has given me a little shove. Finally ordered sheets and the cot bumper (its one for newborns, that is breathable, so it will protect little heads but they can’t suffocate against it). Amby cradle is on its way.
Still have to finish setting up the baby’s room, in terms of putting things like cotton wool and such on shelves!
Oh and packing the hospital bag.
But I have nothing else planned other than antenatal appointments, antenatal classes and a meeting with the solicitor about wills.
Bring on the baby!!
Letter to My Baby – Gestational Age 35 Weeks
Dear Baby
Well, here we are. On Maternity Leave. And not a moment too soon!
Mummy is exhausted. Even with a good nights sleep, she is tired by lunch time. Today she has an antenatal appointment so she won’t get her nap this afternoon. Too bad!
You are still being a very active baby. Kicking me regularly at all hours of the day and night. It is so lovely!
Every day Mummy does a little bit to get your room in order. Today she ordered your Amby Cradle, so you’ll have some place to sleep in her and Daddy’s room. Hopefully it will be here next week!
Tomorrow Mummy is pampering herself at a Day Spa. Lots of beauty treatments scheduled. She’s really looking forward to it.
Mummy was at the clinic today. You are still measuring large for your dates. OB said to Mummy ‘come back in 2 weeks. We’ll probably schedule you for a C Section 10 days after that!!’
*GULP* Suddenly your birth is imminent. I mean, of course I knew it was coming. I have been keeping track. But those words just made it all seem so real.
And I.Can’t.Wait.
Love
Mummy
Simon Asked Me Two Questions This Week
that made me think.
- Knowing how much you’re not liking the 3rd trimester, do you appreciate your mum more for going through it?
- If you knew 7.5 months ago what you know now, would you still do this?
My first response to #1 was no, I didn’t. And then I thought about it some more and realized, yeah, maybe I do. Not because once upon a time she carried me in her tummy. But because she’s never mentioned it. Not that I would expect my mum to be moaning about something that happened nearly 41 years ago, but because it gives me hope that I really will forget how huge and uncomfortable and awful I feel once this baby is in my arms. As unlikely as that seems right now.
As for #2…I honestly don’t know. On the one hand, I am so in love with this baby already, I can’t wait to meet it and find out who it is. And I love the feeling of it moving inside of me. To the extent that I wonder how much I’ll miss that part of being pregnant once I have babe in arms.
On the other hand, I’m exhausted, I hurt, I’m out of balance, walking down the hall from the front room to the bedroom puts me out of breath. I do not, for one second, regret having a baby.
But I sure am thinking awfully hard about ever doing this again.
My Thoughs on Star Trek…
warning SPOILERS!!
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