Week 19

I had an appointment with my midwife on Wednesday to go over the rest of my blood test results and have my monthly check up.  Everything came back normal on my blood tests for which I'm thankful.  She said I was measuring right on track.  I asked her if she had a preference between the Bradley Method and Lamaze classes since I'm trying to decide what childbirth classes I want to take.  She said that she didn't really have a preferred method, but that you can get good things from all of them.  Then she said "What I'd really recommend is hiring a doula that way if I'm unable to be there or if I have to be in and out during your labor, she can help you."  She also recommended hypnobirthing (I told that to Michael and his response was "Oh gosh, they are going to hypnotize you?" lol).  She gave me a few phone numbers for doulas that she recommends and told me to check them out.

On Thursday I went back for my anatomy ultrasound appointment.  Little girl decided to be nice and still for the ultrasound tech, unlike my gender appointment where she was bouncing all over the place! The ultrasound tech confirmed that it is for sure a girl (I was worried that she was going to tell me it was a boy and then I'd have to take back the nursery stuff! Thankfully that didn't happen!).  She measured her arms, legs, abdomen, chambers of the heart, brain, skull, and other things that I don't remember.  She said that baby girl is measuring right where she should be at this point and that she weighs about 10 ounces.

Here's the little one:

I'm still waiting on the correct item to come from Pottery Barn Kids to complete the nursery bedding.  Everyday I was anxiously waiting for the UPS man to bring me a package and he visited both of my neighbors closest to our house, but never brought me anything.  I finally got fed up and called customer service again.  Of course I couldn't get a hold of the guy I had spoken with before, so I had to explain the whole situation to a new lady and walk her through their website to show her how the mistake was made (they have two different sets listed for the same item number in two different locations).  First she was like, "Oh well you just need to send back the quilt and we'll send you the bumper that you were supposed to get".  I had to explain to her that they were supposed to send me the bumper for free and that I get to keep the quilt since it was an error on their part.  After waiting on hold for a few minutes she came back and said that I was correct, that a supervisor had already looked at this order issue, and then told me that the bumper is on back order until August 1st which is why I haven't received it yet. Oh man, that's not good! I need that bumper to pick a paint color so Michael can paint while I'm out of town next week.  The bumper is the only thing with the paisley pattern.  I asked her if they had a fabric swatch or something in that pattern that they could send me.  She said that they didn't, but to try one of the local stores to see if maybe they have a fabric swatch.  I called the local store but of course they don't have it because it is a catalog and internet only item.  So I guess I'm going to just pick a color and hope that it works.  If you know me and know what a perfectionist I am, then you can understand how nervous this makes me.  Michael was sweet about it and said "It's fine... if it doesn't match, I can just repaint the room again." Hopefully he won't have to do that.

I leave for my annual week at the beach with all the girls in the family tomorrow morning.  Things around the house are almost ready for the painting party while I'm gone.  Our sweet friends in our bible study offered to come over on Tuesday night and help paint rather than doing our normal study this week.  The guest room is mostly ready- I've taped off the baseboards, taken down the blinds, taped the windows, and covered the floor.  My goal for today is to finish the office, although I won't be able to do everything since I'm not allowed to move the furniture out I'm just going to have to work around it.  Our poor doggie, Cooper, is probably wondering what in the world is going on in our house lately.

I know that I'm going to face some resistance from my family when I explain that I want to use cloth diapers.  My mom has already told me that I'm crazy and that it will probably last for two weeks before I start using pampers instead.  Yesterday, I bought a cloth diaper like the ones I will be using so that I can show them and explain it to them because when they think of cloth diapers, they think of what was available 30 or more years ago and like everything, things change over time.

Anyway, that's enough for today.  I need to get to work finishing up preparations for painting and I also need to pack for the beach.