I’m sort of hoping for tomorrow since it is Pi day and Einstein’s birthday, so I think 3/14 would make a good birthday. Now just need to wait and see if she agrees.

I’ve been having a bunch of crampy contractions all day today, nothing bad enough to worry about yet, but enough to make me wonder, but then again I’ve had them before, so I’m not wondering that much. I’m hoping she arrives soon though!

Had my appointment yesterday everything still looks good she is still head down. She just needs to decide she wants out now. Anytime now, today would be good, tomorrow would be fine, Friday would work too, anytime she wants to come out I am ready. Really I am!

No real updates though, still contracting some, she just needs to get into position and she should be ready to come out as soon as she does.

So we set up the living room for bean yesterday. We put the co-sleeper in one area and the swing in another area. Which meant today when Desmond came down he had all sorts of new/old things to play with. Anyways I was checking something on the computer and turned to see…

Someone apparently really likes the swing, he’s been up and down swinging on it all morning. The weight limit is 25 pounds, and he is right around 28, so I haven’t worried too much about it yet, since it has kept him happy and quiet, now as long as he doesn’t try to climb in once bean is here and in the swing!

Or no news, is no news. I am still having contractions, semi painful ones, but nothing is overly happening otherwise. I am hoping she will be arriving soon, by Monday or so, but I’m not holding my breath either, it maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Monday or maybe the 20th of March, I just can’t tell at the moment. I am hoping it is sooner rather then later the semi painful contractions for hours on end get annoying rather fast.

So we put the infant car seat into the car today while Desmond was napping. Desmond’s car seat has been in the middle and we’ve been hoping to leave it there, fortunately we knew it was unlikely. Desmond is now behind the driver’s seat and bean is behind the passenger’s seat. Both seats and in nice and tight, but no one else will be able to sit in the backseat, unless they are an anorexic 12 year old and want to be squashed between two car seats.

On the plus side that was the last big thing we had to do before bean arrives. We still need to organize the living room and clean it up a bit better, but the car seat was the big thing, so we are now ready. I am just hoping she waits till Tuesday at least, since we’re suppose to be getting a bit snow storm tonight and I want pictures of Desmond in it tomorrow!

I’m not scared about how life will change once she is here, though maybe I should be. I’m not even scared about how we will all adjust to her, including the toddler. I’m scared of having her.

Now yes I have a 2 year old, so obviously I’ve been through child birth before. In fact I even was dilated to 10 and pushing before my emergency c-section with Desmond. BUT! and this is a big but, I was unconscious when Desmond actually arrived. See the local they gave me didn’t do enough so they had to give me general anesthesia, which meant I was unconscious and didn’t see him being born. Which did suck, but at the same time, by the time I saw him he was 5 hours old, which really sucked, but he looked like a baby and he was nice and clean and everything. Oh and I was a bit out of based on the no sleep and morphine, so I am not sure how much I really even remember of that other then being beyond annoyed at the labor and delivery nurse that took 5 hours to move me to the maternity ward so I could finally see Desmond.

Anyways, I never actually saw him being born or saw him even right after he was born, so I really don’t know what it is like and it kind of scares me. I know once the moment is here, I will be fine, but thinking about labor and having bean is just scary since yes I know what will happen and yes I’ve been through it before, except I haven’t been through that final step where I see the baby right after they are born and that is the part that kind of scares me. I’m not sure why, but it does.

Oh and if these contractions don’t stop soon, it won’t be an issue because I’ll have done insane before the birth anyways.

…well maybe once Desmond feels better. Since I don’t want to catch what he has or expose a new baby to it. I received my Viacord kit today though so we are all ready to go as far as the birth is concerned at least. Probably a good thing, since I’ve been having contractions on and off for at least 2 weeks now and had a couple of painful ones yesterday. I doubt she’ll arrive for another week or two though, but it is nice to be ready at least for the hospital part.

I had my 30 week appointment with the midwife today, everything is looking good, beans heartbeat is 155ish and she is head down already. This could change, but it is nice to know. I go back again in 3 weeks, I had my choice of 2 or 3 weeks, but since 2 weeks is inauguration I decided to make it 3 weeks since they were mostly booked that day. Plus all they are going to do is weight, blood pressure, measure fudal height and check heartbeat which takes 5 minutes or so, so I’m not to worried about going back in 3 weeks rather then 2.

In Desmond stuff, he still loves the pool, we are getting our money out of the fitness club membership just from taking him there, we have gone about 4 times a week since we joined, he loves it, and is getting really good at kicking, now we just need to work on floating and he may be swimming on his own some by summer. He’s a little fish.

Dan and I are slowly working on getting the house ready for bean, we’ve decided to stop sending him to my in-laws on Friday for awhile so we can use them to watch him on Saturday or Sunday if we need them to so we can clean, since it is hard to move things and get to the attic with Desmond around “helping”.

Here s a cute picture of Desmond tonight eating dinner, and drinking from his cup. We’ve started giving him a regular cup at dinner, he is pretty good at it, though he does like to dunk his food into the cup. So tonight he ate some yummy milk dipped shrimp!

So this weekend we’re working on clearing out the nursery, and doing some toddler proofing.   We figure we won’t actually need the nursery, we never did with Desmond, but we figured it would be nice to have it ready if we do end up using it.  Since Friday is the day my in-laws watch after Desmond for me, which is really nice, I decided to start early.   So I emptied out the dresser of all of Desmond’s clothes from this summer and grabbed the ones in his closet as well.

I then went and boxed them all up for the attic, and can I say the boy has a lot of clothes!   All the summer 24 month and 2T clothes are now boxed though as are last years winter 18 month clothes.  I just need to figure out if there is a box with room in the attic for the couple of summer 18 month stuff I have or if I need to make a new box for it.

All the newborn and 0-3 month clothes are also now in the dresser.  I noticed that most of the newborn clothes are fairly boyish and most of the 0-3 stuff is fairly gender neutral, and then I remembered why.  We bought almost all 0-3 stuff before we knew if Desmond was a boy or a girl and we actually bought most of the newborn stuff after he was born and we found he fit in it better then the 0-3 stuff at least for the first 2 weeks or so.  I’ll have to take it all out and wash it before baby gets here, but for now at least it is put away and ready for her.   I also noted I have 1 dress for her in newborn size and 1 in 0-3 size, but I figure I’ll end up with a few more as gifts and if not I’m sure she’ll end up with a ton in 3-6 month and up clothes, since it is a  girl and I can’t see my Mom resisting buying her the cute little baby dresses *grin*, I can’t see me resisting it either.

We use cloth diapers with Desmond and plan to do the same with bean when she arrives.  So in the beginning of November I went through the newborn/small sized diapers we had from Desmond to see what we had and what we needed.  We didn’t start using cloth with Desmond till he was around 3 weeks old and he grew so fast he was out of newborn/small diapers fairly fast.  So we had some, but we were a bit lacking in the smaller sizes.

So Dan and I agreed that we probably needed about a dozen more diapers to have enough newborn/small diapers.  We figured we’d get the same person who has done all of Desmond’s current daytime diapers to make them up for us.  Tammy at Tinkle Trap, who rocks fyi.   A couple of days before Christmas the 21st I e-mailed her to get a slot.  I figured she would get to them sometime mid-January or so.  She e-mailed me right back and apparently started working on them immediately.  So she finished them on the 27th and shipped them out on the 29th.   We weren’t expecting quite that fast of service, but it was great.  Anyways the arrived last night.  They are so tiny.

Desmond was playing with them trying to figure out what they were for, since they definately are not diapers for him!  It was fun watching him take them out of the box try to figure out what to do with them and then discarding them as defective because they didn’t work right.

Anyways I figured I’d post a comparision between the newborn diapers and Desmond’s current diapers.   They are just so small and cute!

Diapers on Top of each other

side by side comparision

The three diapers open on top of each other to see the size difference.

Side by Side look with them open

Comparision between the India diaper and the newborn diaper

The 4 styles of the new diapers