The book slings for the baby's room are done. I've sewn the first and middle names we've chosen onto them, so they're official. We can't change them now!
I'm getting so bored with the BabyCenter birth board I've been visiting. It's just a bunch of women whining about their awful symptoms, and most of the time it's things like peeing when you sneeze that are completely unnecessary if they'd only be bothered to do some Kegels. They're installing new carpet at work and have kicked up a bunch of dust and I've been sneezing like crazy, but I don't pee myself for Pete's sake. I do my Kegels and that eliminates any incontinence issues I might have otherwise have. And there's always someone posting about on the board wanting sympathy for their peeing problems, and I just have no use for that.
I mean, I know I've been extraordinarily lucky to have had a really easy pregnancy so far...but I just don't think it's all luck. A lot of it is work. I read up and change my bad habits if they could cause any issues. Even the bit of back pain I was having has been remedied by doing pelvic rock exercises. I was making plans with a friend for this weekend and she was hesitant to ask me to go out and do anything because she worried I might swell up in the heat. Uhm...I'm fine, thanks. My feet get a little puffy if I've been on my feet all day, and I tend to lose energy after about 8pm, but other than that, I'm good to go. I haven't changed my daily routine and if anything I try to be a bit more active than I normally would be inclined to be. Maybe I'm just lucky, or maybe I'm just not a wimp. It's hard to say.
Also, I left the final decision to circumcise or not up to my husband, and he's decided not to. Don't know if I'd mentioned that before or not. I'm totally okay with either way. There are advantages and drawbacks to both, but I'm a lot more comfortable with not doing it than I am with doing it, so I totally support his decision.
Our old couch was a hand-me-down huge old sectional. The sections don't stick together anymore and it's all broken down from being moved. Like, seriously, if the arm weren't propped against the wall, it would straight up fall off. And one of the recliners is jacked up and a metal bar sticks out of it. We decided it would be hazardous to a baby, so we ordered a new couch. We have specific space constraints, so we are having it custom made in Tennessee (yay made in the USA!) and it should be here in a couple of weeks. My husband keeps threatening to have the old couch picked up by the city trash disposal to make me sit on the floor for the next two weeks. Our Bradley class exercises say I should be sitting Indian style as often as possible, and I don't do it. Anyway, here I was thinking that having a new couch would be so much better for the baby, and then I get to listening to "Fresh Air" on NPR today which was an interview with author Florence Williams about her new book "Breasts: a Natural and Unnatural History" where I learned that stuff like the fire retardants that they put on new furniture gets into your body and aggregates in breast tissue, passing into your breast milk. That stuff is a serious carcinogen! So now I'm freaked out about the new couch. My husband e-mailed the manufacturer today to ask what kinds of chemicals they use and what we can do to mitigate our exposure. Sigh.
I signed up for a breastfeeding class close to the due date. I would have gone to the one at the hospital I'm using, but they charge $20 for it and the one at the hospital nearest my workplace offers theirs for free and they have monthly La Leche League meetings that are free and open to the public, too. I also signed up for a baby CPR class in August. They do charge a little bit for that, but it's only $10, so how can you go wrong?
I also ordered the invitations for the baby shower today. I'm a graphic designer and am super picky about the invitations I send out for things, so I nearly always have to design things myself and send them to a printer to be done on good paperstock. I also picked out the games and sent my mom a list of foods to make for the shower. Am I a bit of a control freak? Yes. Have I planned about a gillion bridal and baby showers? Yes. So, the way I look at is is that it's a lot easier for me to come up with ideas and send them over to mom than for her to grope around in the dark trying to read my mind. In any event, my good friend has taken over decoration, which was a big load off of my mind because my mom has an odd sense of aesthetics, to put it mildly. She likes tacky things.
There are a couple of parenting books that I've thought about buying, but I would just go nuts if I started trying to do things "by the book" or started quoting to people "well the book says not to do that". I don't know if I'd find the books reassuring or if they would just stress me out more by trying to follow all of the advice instead of just finding my way. But maybe I'll pick up Mayim Bialik's "Beyond the Sling" and Pamela Druckerman's "Bringing Up Bebe" anyway.
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