So…25 weeks this week. In produce terms, Baby Girl is the size of cauliflower or a rutabaga, whichever you prefer.
I had a midwife appointment last week and everything looked and sounded good. I’m at 5lbs of weight gain at this point and I’m satisfied with that. She suggested a support band to help with my round ligament pains and I ordered one that afternoon. I’ve worn it a couple times and it seems to help. I’ll be doing the ever-so-loved glucose test next time which will now be 4 weeks apart instead of 6. It’s also time to start scheduling any classes I/we’ll be taking to prepare. We have to take a First Time Birth Center class and I’m considering doing another Natural Childbirth Preparedness class. We also made a stop at the Resource Area and grabbed every doula’s business card that was there so we can start the process of choosing one.
I also had a call with a registered nurse to enroll in the Maternity Support Program through my employer. The first call is basically a run-down of questions so she can get an idea of my health before pregnancy and now and if there are any red-flags that they should be aware of. I came away from that call with a few takeaways…schedule a dentist appointment (so important for preggos – hoping to write about that soon), find a source of DHA to supplement my prenatal and look for an infant/child CPR class. I also found out I need to call my benefits department to get info on the breast pump benefit and to do it soon because they are back-logged due to high demand.
As far as baby preparation, we’re making slow steady progess. After I thought we’d finished sorting, washing and putting away all Brooke’s old clothes, we found another tub of clothes as well as a big bunch of blankets. So we got all of that taken care of and I’m pretty sure that now we’ve got everything put washed and put away.
Keith and I toured a daycare center near my office. Since the place Brooke attends only accepts kiddos 12 months and up, we need to find another spot for Baby Girl. So we took a morning to drop in to one of the places we’d considered for Brooke when we first moved to Knoxville. I was very impressed…close enough that I can go for a mid-day nursing session if we want/need, they accept cloth diapers, very accomodating to family schedules/requests for the babies. They even take the babies outside for fresh air!! So we put our names on the waiting list and hopefully things will work in our favor and Baby Girl will be there this fall.
This past weekend, Brooke and I had a girls’ weekend while Keith was away at the SEC Women’s Basketball Championships and got some more shopping crossed off the list. First we hit up a cloth diaper consignment sale and got some good deals!!
Then, armed with a 20% off coupon (!), we headed to Babies R Us to order the crib that coordinates with our crib. Although the crib is in our room, this will actually live in the playroom and act as dresser/changing table combo. I think that finishes up the “major” purchases and we’ll just need to fill in things here and there.
So we’re just chugging along…if you look at my ticker on the sidebar, you can see I’m almost to single-digit days until my due date! Whoa!! Don’t forget you can still put in guesses for Baby Girl’s birth stats at ExpectNet. Just click on the button under the ticker on my sidebar to link to the game.
Until next time!!
