Nursery is coming along =) Today Kim painted the mural in the baby's room and it looks so cute! It is just so sweet and feminine - i love it!
One of my customers gave me a matching Dresser, changing table, rocking chair and crib...so the next project we are going to tackle before Mia is born, is to spray paint that furniture to match the trim and theme we already have going in her room...which is a dark brown.
I'm looking forward to our baby shower on the 24th! It should be a lot of fun and ofcourse, I can't wait to see what baby items we get. Then after, that my nesting will really kick in! Organizing all the gifts and seeing what all we need to get before the due date gets any closer. I'm thinking about going ahead and packing my hospital bag maybe next week... or the next...it doesn't hurt to be prepared.
I have been so sleepy today.. I think I'm going to take a nap.
2008-04-28 (29 weeks)
28 week ultrasound We had an ultrasound done this past Friday and got to see our little Mia. :) She is now 2lbs 10 oz. and already has a head full of hair! So cute! We got to see her face and she was moving her mouth around...perhaps practicing her sucking. My grandma has this nervous mouth movement thing that she does and I was joking, saying that she looked like grandma in the ultrasound. hehe Her development is right on track though. So that is good news to me, because i have had so many people (WOMEN!!) tell me that I don't look big enough and it was starting to make me paranoid. So now I can tell them to shove it! haha I've gained 16 pounds so far - NOT 60! So yah, i'm not using pregnancy as an excuse to gain a lot of weight and eat a lot of junk food. I still want to feel good about myself and look good for my husband. So I'm eating healthier than I ever have before in my life - for my baby and myself.
Anyways, we also had our first Childbirth class this week. I thought it went well. We both learned a lot and it is helping me understand exactly what the body will go through during labor and delivery. I really want to have her naturally without any drugs. I really wish that Beaumont had a birthing center, but the nearest one would be in Houston and I wouldn't want to risk driving over there. At St. E you have to have an IV in case of an emergency which I'm afraid will make me less mobile and I really want to be able to move around as I choose, in order to deal with the pain in different ways. We still have two more classes to go to. I think my mom will be a big help during labor because she is a nurse and had all of us naturally. So I think she will be able to help me focus during labor. I don't even want to be offered an epidural or any kind of pain medicine. I'm afraid it will only slow down the labor and progress. Plus, it may sound strange, but I really want to be able to FEEL the baby come out, that relief, joy and sense of accomplishment. I have a few friends that had their babies at home without drugs, and they say it is an amazing feeling to feel that relief when the baby comes out. So, that is my plan....to have her naturally. ONly , I'm just afraid that being at the hospital, they will offer me the epidural while I'm in pain and I'll be tempted to say yes! So I'm going to make my plans clear to my doctor beforehand and to the nurses when I am admitted into the hospital.
Well, I guess that is the latest .... I'm off to bed.
