Pregnancy Journal

Of course, the best news I can give is that I will be 28 weeks pregnant on Saturday, May 10.  Now the countdown to the delivery date can begin.  Starting Saturday, I will have 12 more weeks until my due date.

On Monday, May 5, I met with Dr. Zimmerman again.  I was so glad to see her because I was stiff as a board and my left leg was acting up again.  On the previous Friday, Brandon and I had been riding our bikes all around Mebane.  I was having a hard time kicking off so I could start peddling and making it up hills.  We had to get off and walk our bikes several times.  My sciatic nerve was not excited about all the extra exercise.  Over the weekend I tried to do the recommended exercises, but they were killing me. So when I made it to Dr. Zimmerman on Monday, she wasn't able to do all the maneuvering to my left leg like she had done in previous appointments.  She was telling me that the baby was lying directly on a muscle next to my sciatic nerve and I was feeling the impact of that.  Because of the amount of pain I was in and the stiffness of my back and left leg, I have to see her at least 3 more times.

On Wednesday, May 7, Peanut's furniture arrived.  I'm sure MiMi (Grandma Val) will be excited since she was so concerned about the furniture arriving on time...she didn't want her grandbaby not having a place to sleep and constantly complained about us taking so long to get the furniture ordered.  Why? We had the hardest time trying to get this furniture.  We were on a waiting list at Babies-R-Us for the Oak Heritage collection (crib, armoire, and combo dresser) for well over a month now.  I would check back and forth periodically to see where the list was and if it was getting closer to our name.  I called one day and spoke to some lady who told me all 3 parts were in the warehouse and that I should stop by to place the order.  When we got there, the furniture was already sold out.  This made me extremely mad, and the associate working with us assured us we would be put on some urgent waiting list.  Well, I don't know if that happened or not, because the next time we went by there, the page with our name on it had been removed from the waiting list book.  I don't know if it was done deliberately or if the urgent waiting list is located somewhere else.  Anyway, with our luck we were finally able to order the furniture.  I'm assuming that we jumped someone else on the waiting list, but so what!!!  Others had jumped us too.  Furthermore, delivery was a beast as well.  Brandon had to keep calling just to get the furniture delivered on yesterday.  If he didn't stay on them, someone else probably would have gotten that set of furniture too.  All of that being said just to say that pictures of the nursery will be posted shortly.  Bran will be putting the crib together some time this week and we'll show you where Peanut will be staying.

The short of it all: week 27 wasn't that bad.

Last Friday, May 2, was the 1st time I experienced swollen feet, at least to the point where my feet didn't look like they belonged to me.  It appeared that I had no ankles, like my legs just went straight into my feet.  I was hoping to avoid the swollen feet by continuing to walk daily and drink plenty of water.  I guess that's not how this works.

More to come later....

Thursday, April 24, must have been the biggest party of the year and it must have been one that I wasn't invited to, but I crashed it...Peanut must have been the life of the party.  I was feeling kicks and punches and possibly some hiccups the majority of the day while I was sitting at my desk at work.  I was too excited.  When I told Bran about it, he was ecstatic as well, but when we got home, Peanut wouldn't so much as move an inch for his/her daddy.  I don't know if this means anything or not, but it is pretty interesting.  Could Peanut be setting Bran up for his/her stubbornness?

Oh, and today, Peanut actually kicked so hard that my shirt moved.  Again, I was sitting at my desk at work and noticed it.  I straightened my shirt tightly against my belly, and Peanut kicked it again.  I had to tell Bran about it.  This is either a future field goal kicker or a good puncher.

I forgot to mention that after we saw the doctor on Monday, we went to visit Arron, our financial advisor, because he didn't know that we were expecting and we wanted to surprise him.  Well, he guessed it right off because he said I had this glow about me.  He was so excited.  He has already jumped on the bandwagon with planning for our financial future to include little Peanut.  He's going to help us find daycare or a nanny, whichever seems to fit our situation best...better yet, the one that settles our nerves when it comes to leaving Peanut with them.  And you can already guess that we will be installing a nanny cam if that's what we decide.  I would hate to have to come home and beat the fool out of someone for doing something "out of bounds" with my child.  Ok, so back to Arron...he was giving us all types of stories about his family.  He has 4 children - all boys.  We ended up staying there quite a while listening to advice about parenting and talking about our plans after the baby comes.  I don't know if you remember the commercials several years ago where there was a wedding reception going on and the man speaking was assumed to be the Father of the Bride, but he was actually the financial advisor.  All of those commercials remind us of Arron. He wants to be called when we get to Durham Regional Hospital so he can lend his support.  He reassured us that it would only take him 20 minutes to reach us.  This was too funny.