Birthing Classes

Couple of questions:

1. Are they necessary?
2. Which classes do you think are good?
3. Where did you take them?

Baby Developements

I was reading my email today about the baby's growth this week. His hair is starting to grow, his senses are beginning to fine tune, which means... He can start hearing us!

The moment I told Jason he started talking to BG, telling him how much we love him and are so excited to have him come be part of our family.

More exciting news:
-He weighs over half a pound.
-He is about the size of an heirloom tomato.

There's no way...

There's no way my baby is going to be able to be shy. Saturday and Sunday he was moving around all day! Now, I've hardly felt him move the last few days. I think he heard me talking to everyone about him moving around, and trying to get his dad to feel him move, so now he thinks he can hide behind my bladder and not move at all! Maybe he's already training to be a professional Hide and Seeker.

On a different note... I'm half way through my pregnancy! It already feels like it's been 9 months. I guess when you find out as soon as the stick can turn (+), you are bound to have a looo...ng pregnancy. No worries though. There are plenty of things I need to do before the little rascal gets here. Find a name for him is one of them. Get his room ready is another. With winter break here now, I will have more free time to focus on our house. That will be good. Nesting... here I come!

Rahpunzel, Rahpunzel...

My hair feels amazing!! It's so soft. It looks like it's getting longer and shinier. I can't stop brushing it and playing with it.

Not to sound too full of myself, but before I was pregnant I didn't think my smell could get any better than it already was. And, it did! I didn't think my hair could get any softer, thicker or prettier, but it did!

Maybe 2nd trimester isn't as bad as I thought.

appt today

i had another appointment today with the dr. we got to see BG. he wasn't very active, but you can really see his spine details now.

everything is still going very well.

i asked the dr about the scoliosis and how it would effect me. he was joking with me that i won't be able to get an epidural, but when i looked traumatized and told him i was already nervous by not getting an experienced anesthesiologist that may get the wrong part of my back and i am very much considering no drugs, he turned the laughter off quick. lol

he said it's up to me, and since i may not have time to get an epidural, we'll wait til the big show is about to start and then we'll decide. i'm ok with that.

things i really need to work on this month is:

• deciding where to deliver
• getting signed up for different classes (birthing, breastfeeding, etc)
• talk to human resources and find out my pregnancy rights since i am not allowed to split up my break to have a few moments of sitting through out the day

Showing

My friend at work, who is also pregnant (3 weeks further along than me), is this cute round thing. When we went bowling on Saturday, I wanted to use her as my bowling ball. LOL

I have been trying to show off anything. Or shape my belly into a more round thing instead of the chubby thing it is/was. Jason says he can tell that I am redistributing, meaning that he can see the weight go from one part of my body to my belly and he can tell that it's getting a rounder look, but I can't. I can tell that my favorite pants aren't beginning to fit.

I just want to look like I am pregnant. lol Is that too much to ask?! I just started my 5th month, and I don't look any different. I am guessing some of my regulars that know I'm pregnant may see differences, like Jason, but the others that I know and they kind of know me, will be like:

Customer: Where's that tall glass a water that's always here? Where's she been?
Co-worker: Oh, she's on maternity leave.
Customer: She was pregnant?!

I can just see it now. I will "blow up like a balloon" on my 8th month. I will look pregnant for a month. Won't that be great. Ya, just great.

Inspiration

Last night I told Jason I was going to sit in the baby's room and try to get some inspiration. He just laughed and told me that by sitting in the cluttered room, that is not baby ready yet, may not give me the inspiration I want. All I was wanting was maybe a name, how to decorate the room, etc. Stuff that will make him feel welcomed to this new world.

I only spent about an hour, maybe two, in the room. During that time, I didn't get any inspiration.

However, I went to Jo-Ann's with my mom to get some material for a quilt she's working on for a friend. It was pretty busy, and I thought we were done, but right as we were about to leave, I saw some AWESOME Superman material. Superman is Jason's favorite superhero. So, I thought it would be fun to have a Superman themed room for the kid. It will be able to grow with him.

The crib accessories will be this Superman material I got, the curtain will be red with a huge Superman "S" in the middle. Then, my mom is going to paint a 5x4 ish painting of Superman busting through the wall. I am so excited I can hardly stand it. I can't wait til it is all done and put together.

I also was trying to think of names that might go with Superman. Since his name on Krypton was Kal El, I was thinking, Kalvin, Kelvin, or something along those lines. I was then thinking of other superhero names and started pairing them.

Kelvin Parker Graf (Superman and Spiderman)
Kelvin Wayne Graf (Superman and Batman)
Kalvin Duke (Superman and Duke Nukem)

There were plenty that I came up with. Jason likes Kelvin more than Kalvin. We're still not sold on the name though. Though it's a cute idea and we want it to work, we still don't feel like any of these are supposed to be BG's name.

Thus, the name search still continues...