She definitely FEELS different when she moves around.\u00a0 Those tiny little jabs are feeling more like actual limbs in there.\u00a0 Bigger limbs.\u00a0 Incredibly cute limbs.\u00a0 Okay, I don’t know how an incredibly cute arm or leg would feel different than a marginally cute one, but I’m quite certain that I’m right. =)<\/p>\n
The uncomfortable part…I am starting to feel more of the pressure on my ribs.\u00a0 Sometimes it feels a little bit like a mild burning sensation, but usually just pressure.\u00a0 I guess pressure is the right word.\u00a0 It’s hard to describe.\u00a0 And sometimes it feels like I can hardly take a deep breath, but I read that I’m actually taking in a lot more oxygen than I did before.\u00a0 It’s really generally fine during the day or when I’m standing.\u00a0 It’s most noticeable at night when I’m just lazing about.\u00a0 She’s trying to teach me to have perfect posture.\u00a0 Good luck with that, little girl.\u00a0 I’m a horrible sloucher when I sit. =(<\/p>\n
I’ve gotten so used to feeling my baby in my belly…her movements and just her presence in general.\u00a0 Sometimes I wonder if it’s going to feel weird NOT having a baby in there.\u00a0 Is that weird?\u00a0 Like, does it feel like something is missing?\u00a0 Will the lack of movement be unnerving?\u00a0 I suppose, by that time, I’ll be so happy to not be pregnant anymore and so distracted taking care of and enjoying my daughter I’ll barely give it a thought.\u00a0 I’ve just really gotten used to it.\u00a0 The only thing I still really miss is sleeping on my stomach, so I’ll be excited to do that again!<\/p>\n
It has been a while, but I forgot to mention at the time that I had a really weird birth dream.\u00a0 At this point, my memory of the dream is foggy at best (it was pretty foggy as soon as I woke up), but I remember a little.\u00a0 I was just hanging out at some house.\u00a0 It might have been my parents’ house, but the floor plan was totally different than their real house.\u00a0 There were a bunch of people over, just hanging out.\u00a0 It might have been a Christmas gathering.\u00a0 Anyway, I was in labor at the house.\u00a0 At one point, there was someone there to help me (don’t remember who), but after a while I was just sitting in some room laboring by myself while everyone else was enjoying snacks in the dining room\/kitchen area.\u00a0 And I didn’t mind one bit.\u00a0 Probably because the “labor” was ridiculously easy and absolutely NOTHING like the real thing.\u00a0 I don’t even have to know the real thing to know that much.\u00a0 So then the baby came out, I wrapped her up, and I took her into the other room to show everyone who was over there talking, laughing, and eating.\u00a0 Weird.<\/p>\n
Sunday before last, I finally got around to registering for baby stuff.\u00a0 Before that, I got the registry started by shopping online.\u00a0 It was a grueling process…probably because I made it a grueling process for myself.\u00a0 Researching every little thing.\u00a0 Silly example, but it reminded me a little bit of optometry school when we had to buy all our equipment before we ever really learned how to use it.\u00a0 But it is kind of like that on a grander scale.\u00a0 So many baby things we’ll need before we really know how to take care of one.\u00a0 But it was a learning experience.\u00a0 Some of it I’ll love, some of it I won’t.\u00a0 Some of it I’ll use all the time, some of it I’ll hardly ever use.\u00a0 Some things, I won’t even know I need it (or that it exists) until I need it.\u00a0 But that’s the way it goes.<\/p>\n
Anyway, Pete, my mom, and I tried to marathon it in one Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 We grabbed lunch, then went to Target.\u00a0 Since I had already registered for a lot of things online (especially the “big” stuff), I figured it wouldn’t be too<\/em> bad.\u00a0 And it probably wasn’t, relatively speaking.\u00a0 But some things are better to register for in the store.\u00a0 Like blankets and onesies and miscellaneous smaller items.\u00a0 I already know I registered for too many blankets.\u00a0 As I went, I’d find some I liked better, so I figured I’d register for those too, then remove a couple of the others from the registry online after I got home.\u00a0 But after I got home and looked, I discovered that most of those were in-store only, so I had no idea what was what.\u00a0 So I’m either going to just leave it as is and re-evaluate the need for blankets at a later date, or go back to the store sometime soon to figure out what’s what.\u00a0 Probably the former, but who knows.<\/p>\n I just rambled a lot about blankets.\u00a0 Finally, we accomplished all I felt we could accomplish at Target.\u00a0 Time to hit Babies R Us.\u00a0 At this point, Pete was flagging, I was doing fine, and if my mom was having any problem, she didn’t show it.\u00a0 So off we went.\u00a0 Only a few more items to go.\u00a0 About halfway through Babies R Us, though, I started flagging, too.\u00a0 My brain was overwhelmed with baby stuff, my list of what I needed and what I’d already registered for was completely unintelligible, and I was getting cranky.\u00a0 So I zapped a few more things and decided I was finished.\u00a0 There were still some things left to research, but I didn’t care.\u00a0 Some of it I’ve since added; some of it I haven’t.\u00a0 I’ll be buying loads of stuff in the next few weeks anyway, so it doesn’t really matter. =)<\/p>\n One thing that really gets on my nerves though.\u00a0 Babies R Us keeps changing the color (at least online) of the bottle brush and some of the bottles I registered for.\u00a0 I’ve fixed it twice, and it reverts back every time.\u00a0 I think I’ll just leave it since it seems there is no permanent fix.\u00a0 Maybe my daughter will like blue sailboats better than pink and purple flowers anyway.\u00a0 I had a few problems with the Target registry at first too, but at least none of those are recurring.<\/p>\n Last night, we signed the doula contract and gave her the down payment.\u00a0 So that is all official. =)\u00a0 On the to-do list: register for childbirth and other classes and pre-register at the hospital.\u00a0 I need to call my insurance company to see about pre-certification before I send in the pre-registration form.<\/p>\n Took another belly pic almost a week ago.\u00a0 Not the greatest picture in the world, but here it is:<\/p>\n Also wanted to share a picture of our Christmas stuffs.\u00a0 Just because the tiny stocking in the middle makes me smile. =D<\/p>\n Cartoon baby!<\/p>\n Holy crap, I haven’t had a period in 214 days! Holy crap, I’m 75% done being pregnant! Last two weeks or so, my belly has been growing by. the. minute.\u00a0 Little girl has to fatten up in there, so I’m just gonna keep on growin’. =)\u00a0 So far, it’s mostly belly, so I guess I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Week-29+3-Edit1-Resized-for-YT.jpg\" "\\"Week")
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