Wow this week went by fast! If anything I learned that a planned week is just a guideline! I had such hopes for my series on our parenting plan, (I got two post up for those of you who want to check them out!) but alas, life happened and the final two posts haven't made it up yet. I'll have to put them up this coming week. They will be on a minimalistic toy approach with more of a focus on what is really needed for Teagan to meet each growth and cognitive milestone; and I'll end with some more of our plans on the non modern choices like glass bottles vs plastic bottles, home made baby food only, and even early potty training (from birth.. that's right from birth!). So keep an eye out for those this week if you are curious on any of those topics!
Any who:
Life Update:
So the hubby had 6 days off this week! And what I thought was going to be a nice relaxing stay-cation with the hubby turned into a week of cleaning.. (he's nesting). I'm happy to report the baby room is DONE! (except for the items I still have to get from my registries) but all the little projects I had planned for her room are finished! We also cleaned up our loft and reorganized it/ got rid of a bunch of stuff that has just literally been sitting in a box or in a pile FOREVER. Then we cleaned our room (sorry to admit but our room in the dump station for all things laundry, but I'm happy to report we put our stuff away and its stayed clean the whole week so far!) and had a talk with our dogs about bringing all their toys upstairs and leaving them all over our floor. We also vacuumed SO MUCH pet hair from our carpets!!! Its crazy, I sweep downstairs every day and vacuum all the time upstairs but my 4 pets shed SO MUCH. I should have made a pile of all the hair we vacuumed up.. I could have knit a life sized dog, and used the leftover fur for stuffing!! But the good news is with all the floors being clean its WAY easier to keep up with the vacuuming now! (and for those being like, eewww just vacuum your floors lazy lady! YOU try vacuuming my huge house at 8 months pregnant! AND I have carpeted stairs! Try that one out!)
We also had a week of "try this new food dish!" I went through my three years of Food Network magazines and cut out all the recipes I've tried and all the ones I forgot that I'd like to try (they aren't going to be made just sitting on a shelf being forgotten about!) and put them in a box of "try me." So the hubby picked some out and we tried them out and presented to be food critics and if we liked the recipe we put it in our recipe keeper with some notes here and there on what we would do different next time. But its a great new system because now if we can't think of anything to make, we just go to the box and pull out a recipe to try out and if we like it, we keep it, if we don't, it gets thrown away!
This week really became a week of getting rid of a lot of the excess stuff we keep holding onto. The less STUFF in the way in Teagan comes the less we have to worry about. I'll probably do a house tour post after she's born (we're getting our house painted next month so it will probably be in disarray a little bit before she comes).
I think it should be noted the whole reason my hubby took time off this last weekend in the first place was so we could take a birthing class. So Sunday we went to the natural birthing class at my hospital and learned that I hate essential oils; (apparently scent is one of the ways natural birthing mammas are encouraged to calm down or get rejuvenated through labor?) every bottle the instructor had made me gag so needless to say, THAT won't be used during labor! (ha) but in all seriousness she had a bunch of different methods to try out and I think my favorite is the "birthing ball," (or yoga ball or exercise ball for those of you that are like "what's that?!") It takes pressure off my back and has a bunch of benefits for the baby during the labor process. Its also something I've dragged out of our garage (its taking a break from being an exercise ball for the next couple months) and put it in our living room to utilize to keep my back pain at bay. (it helps!) The only down side is my yellow and white cat CJ thinks its his and keeps attacking it (got to make sure to keep his claws trimmed!) We were also given a rice sock to utilize as a heating pad (actual heating pads aren't aloud at the hospital) and I LOVE IT!
We also did a hospital tour of the women's center (the whole women's center and birthing/ birthing surgery center is separate from the main hospital) and got the low down on how progressive this hospital is! For example: they don't have a nursery! Unless in the NICU babies MUST be in the room with mom the WHOLE time (as it should be!) and no one can work on your baby without you present and they have to discuss everything in front of you (no leaving the parents out of the loop!). And the labor rooms are HUGE! They are super progressive there. This is the ONLY hospital I know that has jetted tubs to assist during labor; they won't let you birth in the tub, but you can use it during labor... in the hospital. I've heard of birthing centers run by midwives that have the tubs but not HOSPITALS. But yeah, they have two rooms that have these tubs and the rest of the rooms have showers with seats and high powered sprayers. Did i mention the rooms are HUGE? well apparently once you are checked in, you aren't aloud to walk the halls while in labor so these rooms are HUGE to give you room to walk during labor. Each room also has the birthing balls, rocking chairs and a bunch of the other stuff I learned about at the birthing class. If you plan on having an all natural birth, they have rooms just for you, as in they only way you are getting drugs is if you switch rooms. They seem to be super supportive of how ever the mom wants to labor and deliver.
Then the next day I did a breast feeding class (the hubby refused to go to this one and I was the only person there without her spouse *tear*). It was actually really informative and I learned a lot (sitting there all by my self...) But it went on FOREVER... I'm just saying the class was WAY longer then the birthing class. But this hospital is super pro breast feeding as in they won't even give your baby their first bath for the first 12 hours because they really want you to have that bonding time with the baby and establish a really good latch before they distract the baby with a nice warm bath. So yeah I'm super excited for these next few weeks to go buy so I can try out what I learned!
On a sad note, my ring came off this week :( it was getting super tight during certain times of the day so when I took it in to get its cleaning I had them box it up. I feel super weird because I haven't NOT had a ring on my ring finger since way before I even met my hubby! I had a purity ring then and after we started dating I had a promise ring he gave me and then my engagement ring, and then my wedding bands... I'm going to have to find a cheepy set from a department store or something in the meantime because I also feel weird going into public without a ring and thinking people may not thing I'm married and pregnant.
Developmentally:
I ALSO had another doctors appointment this week (see busy week!) and big surprise! I didn't gain ANY weight! BUT Teagan is now measuring a week and a half ahead! how does that work?! This new doctor has changed my weight gain goal too... my old one said between 25-35 pounds and this one said between 20-25 pounds :( So I've been cut off on my pound a week weight gain cushion! So My weight gain total is 18 pounds in 32 weeks, which only gives me 7 more pounds I'm aloud to gain till the end so I guess its good I didn't gain any weight these last two weeks! I have one more appointment in two weeks and then it goes to an appointment every week until Teagan decides she's ready to join the world (keep baking little one!) There is defiantly no question on me being pregnant now! I had a little boy come up to me in the store the other day and say "I know why you are buying that (I was looking at the prices of baby wash), you are going to have a baby soon, and they get dirty." haha out of the mouths of children hehe I tried to convince him I just had a really big lunch, but the kid was too smart.. plus Teagan decided to do a summersault or some crazy ninja move at that moment because my stomach did the water bed roll and the kid pointed at my stomach to prove his point.
As for Teagan measuring a week and a half ahead isn't a big concern to the doctor, she said if Teagan starts measuring at three weeks ahead then we need to do a sonogram to see whats up (I asked if we could do one anyway just so we can see her and we got shot down... apparently my pregnant is too normal to justify ordering a sonogram :/ ). But knowing that she's measuring ahead didn't give us a clue as to her ACTUAL measurements so I still have to go off my app and pregnancy book. She's probably about 4 pounds now and pretty close to 17 inches long (I totally believe the length with the amount my stomach moves around these days!) She should now have fingernails and toenails and hair on her head (SHE BETTER with all this heartburn!) And, as she puts on more weight she'll start to gain that baby chub that all adorable babies have when they are born :)
Symptom check!
I really haven't had any crazy symptoms this last week, I did have a day where my allergies got the best of my so I had a be a vegetable day, but that's not because of Teagan, that's because its Monsoon season here and the wind is knocking up a bunch of stuff in the air.
OH! I did have a day where I made the hubby take us (me and Teagan) to Red Lobster because I had an inkling for popcorn shrimp... why do I mention this? Well all you who know me know I HATE seafood... So clearly Teagan wanted the shrimp. And the hubby took advantage of the endless shrimp deal and had SIX plates of shrimp!
Question time!
One thing that kept being mentioned at my classes and the tour of the hospital was a birth plan. Did you guys have one? How closely was it actually followed? Or was it more of a just have some key points and wishes that I want and hope all goes well?
Well thats all for this week! Keep an eye out for my other posts on our patenting plan this week if you choose to!
Until next time!
Bre and Teagan (the bump)
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