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From adulthood to parenthood, or something like that…

Jul 7

Baby Needs and Wants

by Lisa

I did something silly. I created an Amazon.com baby registry for Baby-button. It can be found here.

For starters, I’m really drooling over this woven wrap and think it’d be a great way to carry the baby around in the summer heat and warm fall. (If you’re looking to splurge on me and the baby, order Size B, please! 😉 )

I didn’t add many clothes to the Wish List, mostly because we won’t know baby’s gender until s/he is born. Last night, I sorted through all the baby clothes and laid out the newborn to 3 month sizes and realized I badly need more summer clothes. A lot of my rompers are fleece and that just won’t do in this heat! We probably have enough onseis, but certainly not enough rompers/shorts/light pants. For summer (and always, really), I really want to dress the baby in 100% cotton or light wools; no polyester because it doesn’t breathe.

Toys – I have a very strong preference for natural toys (wood, cloth, etc) over plastics and synthetics. Really don’t need my new baby exposed to more chemicals than are necessary for as long as I can help it. You’ll get an idea of what I have in mind from the wish list, although obviously Amazon doesn’t have everything.

What else? Mostly just your love and support, which we already have and thank you for!

It’s hard to believe the count down to the big (estimated) due date is 7 days! It could be as long as another 21, but I have a feeling we’ll be meeting this new little person in the next two weeks. And I’m soooo excited!!

Howeberry, v. 2

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Nov 30

41 Weeks and Still Pregnant

by Lisa

So here we are. Forty-one weeks pregnant and still no sign of baby.

If this egg doesn’t start hatching by Saturday night, the State of New Jersey will no longer let me have my home birth and we’ll be back to the original plan of birthing at Morristown Memorial Hospital. For some reason, me trying to explain this to my very round baby-belly has not been working to encourage things along. It’s starting to feel like I’m running out of time. I’m sure this can’t be helping things.

Last Sunday we had a non-stress test with the Midwives. After sitting in a very comfortable chair for 20 minutes, feet up, watching an awful Sunday afternoon movie, my midwife was happy with the results. Baby is healthy, active, and not showing signs of stress. She gave us a couple suggestions of things to try to encourage things, but there is no rush since baby is doing well.

We mentioned to her that both my sister and I were 13 days late and the midwife suggested it could just be a family trait. She has a patient who’s family generally goes 42-43 weeks and that’s just normal for them. She suggested I could blame my mom for my baby’s lateness (like mother, like daughter!), which is fun but doesn’t help relieve the “is that baby here yet?!” pressure.

Oddly and happily, and with the exception of being terribly sick for two weeks, I’ve been and still am rather comfortable. I still get around rather well, although much more slowly than I use to. My main complaint has been trying to roll over in bed and getting up from laying down. Try rolling over with an 8-pound ball attached to your tummy. It’s not easy! Oh yeah, and my belly bumps into things all the time.

At this point, I REALLY miss not being pregnant, being able to wear normal clothes, being able to enjoy wine, sushi, and tuna steaks. Don’t get me wrong, the random conversations with strangers in stores has been fun. I’ve discovered that not everyone in the Garden State pretends that no one else exists and everyone who’s started a conversation with me has been really excited for me and my baby-to-be.

With it being 6:30 PM on the last day of November, Howeberry will most definitely be a December baby. This also means that’s I’ve been pregnant for most of the last year and I’m really ready to not be anymore. The only month I will have not been pregnant in 2010 is January. Joy…

And so we wait. We wait for my body and baby to decide it’s time. We wait for nature to take it’s course.

That does not mean we won’t be trying some of the suggestions we’ve been given. Tonight, we’ll try Chinese food.

3rd Trimester

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Nov 21

November 21

by Lisa

Today is November 21st. November 21st is my due date.

I have to think of it like baking. Just because the recipe says 40 weeks does not mean it’s ready yet. Baking times and ovens vary and it can take up to 42 weeks (before the state of NJ will encourage things along). So now the waiting and wondering begins.

I’ve been told baby’s considered full term at 37 weeks. But somehow a due date just feels so firm in a world that goes by schedules and planned events.  I’ve also been told that first time moms generally go 7-10 days late. So what was unknown before is still unknown and will only become known when little Howeberry decides to make his or her appearance.

Of course this does not mean that I wonder if baby is getting ready every time baby dances in my belly.

I’ve looked and felt like death for the last week. Despite me being very ill, baby has made progress in dropping.  The Midwives said baby was looking good, agreed he/she had started moving down, and said baby’s heartbeat sounded great. So baby has been more or less unaffected by my nasty cold, and has hopefully developed resistance to whatever has filled my head with bottomless phlegm the last 8 days. If anything, I hope baby waits to make his/her way out until I am 100% healthy again and have the energy to labor, push and deliver.

For the sake of my parents’ travel plans, I hope baby is patient and waits until Wednesday the 24th to start making movements.

At 11 PM on November 21, looks like baby will be waiting for another day.

I’m taking bets. When do you think Howeberry will make his or her appearance?

3rd Trimester

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