Nursery…check
My dad came over last night and brought pizza and stromboli. Then he helped Jay set up the crib. So really the nursery is all together. I’ve officially cleaned out the closet, the crib is together, and we just can’t fit the rocking chair in the nursery, so it’s going to sit downstairs as well as the swing. The day was very long. The nerves or muscle or whatever pains that I’ve had occasionally on the inside of my legs when I’m walking were almost constant yesterday. It’s painful and almost knocks me off my feet. The ligament pain is still worse because it lasts longer. This pain is just quick and sharp on one inside of my leg or the other. I’m getting more fussy and irritated. I’m finding it hard to communicate with poeple without getting snappy or angry or upset. If I would have said what I was thinking or what my face was obviously showing yesterday to another teacher when she was concerned I didn’t show her a copy of a test I was giving to an LS student…that would have been bad. Even snapping at Jay over things he can’t control- doesn’t mean I still like it. I’m sure I’m snapping at the kids more. So if I snap at you- sorry, but I’m huge almost 38 weeks pregnant, in pain, and generally just tired of being fat and sore. I don’t know how women even have the energy to be nesting. Jay’s still into it a bit more than I am- just in a different way. He isn’t cleaning and organizing. He’s more concerned about finding and ordering a new strap for the extra base for the car seat. He still wants to get that together and the cars cleaned. He keeps saying – it could happen any day now. God, I wish that were true.
So now that I’m done complaining for the moment- and really that’s probably all that it’s going to be for the next two weeks!- Mom called yesterday morning around 7. My cousin Angela finally had her baby- a week and a half late. She did have the baby at home with the midwife- however, little Hannah Marie…turned out to be a he! He is now Tyler Raymond. She also tore really bad because the baby was so freakin huge. She just did out patient at the hospital to get stitched up and go home so her and the baby didn’t have to stay there. That’s really all I know. No pictures or weight or size info yet. I just told mom that if she has way too much pink, I’d share some clothes. Of course the whole thing has me wondering if our ultrasound was wrong, too. Jay keeps telling me he’s too certain it’s a boy. He better be right.
Well, I’m going to go switch the laundry, that way the new sheets that mom sent up can get washed and I can put the cute sheets on the crib. I’ll get Jay to take pictures then. He’s still arguing with me the purpose of a bumper and a skirt-some things guys just don’t get. I’ll just let him find his strappy thing for the car seat.
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I always thought that making the last weeks miserable was Mother Nature’s way of having women stop worrying about labor and instead feeling that they’d do anything just to get all of this over with. By the time labor begins, you’re sort of looking forward to it because you know in a day it will all be over. I’m a big epidural fan – makes the process more enjoyable for everybody, especially for you.
Tell Jay the crib skirt will let him hide some of his computer stuff under the crib; don’t let him do that, of course (unless it’s big stuff the baby can’t get hurt with), but it will lead him on. Jay is right to fuss about the baby seat; some hospitals do an inspection to make sure the seat is safe and installed correctly, and won’t discharge the baby if the seat isn’t in correctly, so he’s doing well to be looking ahead.
I’m glad Bill came over to help with the crib. If you have diapers at hand, some changes of clothes for the baby, a little bathtub, some soft blankets, alcohol to dry up the cord (no, not the Smirnoff’s kind) and a baby monitor set up, you’re good to go. The rocker may be better off in the living room; if he’s a fussy little one, one of you can rock him and watch some TV while the other grown up can be somewhere else, that works well.
Gender predictions can be off – friends of ours having their third child had chorionic sampling done, and were told the genetics were fine and it was a little girl…..but they had a boy. Whoops! Usually the ultrasounds that show a boy are correct; they can see the evidence. With little girls, sometimes they just can’t see well enough to be sure, or the umbical cord is misread – anything’s possible, but if they said boy I’d be comfortable it’s a he.
I think your body is telling you it’s time to take off; you’re irritable because you’re exhausted. I would let the two weeks pay go, hard though that seems, because this is too important a time in your life to take chances. Catch up on your sleep, rest and get little fun projects done. Let me know if I can be of help – I’ve had recent baby experience!
1 Abbie said this (May 10, 2007 at 1:44 pm)
I’m adding my vote in the “take off and rest” column. Our childbirth lady said that labor is easier if the mother is well rested beforehand. I’m stopping after next week- of course I have a good excuse, my arms are starting to swell, so I have carpal tunnel and I can’t play the piano anymore.
Anyway, little Moon Rishel should be good and stop pressing on your nerves! Good luck with your decision!
2 Jenny said this (May 10, 2007 at 5:00 pm)
Oh my… so two boys in the family now!!! Hahahahahaha!! What I wouldnt have given to see the look when she was a he! Glad all are happy and healthy.
3 Le said this (May 11, 2007 at 6:44 pm)
Actually that means three boys. Aurea is having a boy too….supposedly.
4 meg said this (May 12, 2007 at 9:45 am)