Two more weeks until our 34 week appointment. Then two more until our weekly appointments start! AHHH!!! I can't believe we are getting so close :)
Today's appointment was pretty boring...aside from the whole "how would you feel about a Halloween baby" question hahaha. Our doctor came in the room with that question. She is basically saying that since everything is going really well and everything is on track...the only real worry we could have at this point would be meconium (the first tar-like poos for a baby) in the fluids. It is more likely that this could happen going past the due date...so she has given us the "go ahead" to start all the natural labor inducing tricks at week 39. I want to labor in water (or at least have the option to if I'm feeling up for it) and she said if my water breaks and there is meconium, I can't labor in the water.
I love that she is doing everything she can to let me have the labor/birth I have planned out in my head. At this point I am feeling pretty confident and happy with everything! Things are falling into place, slowly...but surely. I can't wait for our Birthing class...I think that coupled with the hospital tour will reallllly make things feel real and not just like plans anymore.
We washed a load of tiny clothes last night...it was so cute! And loud haha...those snaps really do sound like a bunch of pennies tossing around in the dryer :) We still need to prep the prefold cloth diapers...that's right. We are going for it!! We won't let ourselves feel bad if for the first few weeks we have to use newborn disposables...but we are going to be ready with the cloth if we want to start right away too :)
My pal text me on Monday "17 days" I can't believe he will be here in less than 17 days!!!!! He is decorating our nursery for us and I won't be able to thank him enough...I was really having a hard time figuring out exactly what I wanted for her nursery. He offered to fly out and do it for us! So while we are out he is going to decorate and then we have a shower the next day to add to the mayhem of his decor haha. It's going to be great :)
I think that is everything...We are going to be busy little bees for the next week, so I am glad I was able to write this out now! Until next time...
So here we are...over a year later.
9 years ago
I can't wait to see the nursery! What an awesome friend to do that for you guys. We've had Grace in cloth diapers since she was about 3 weeks old and she's still wearing them at 18 months. I'm sure you guys will get the hang of it pretty quickly. The hardest thing we experienced with cloth was finding a detergent free of chemicals, dyes, etc. because every one we tried made the diapers leak. After months of trying about 10 brands we found the one that worked the best. I would recommend Purex Baby. It has a pink lid. :)
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see everything put together!! I know it will be so cute :) Cloth since 3 weeks!! WOW! That is great. I hope we can get everything figured out and set by then too.
DeleteI can't wait to see this little one and I can't wait to see the nursery!
ReplyDeleteSo close! I would say not to do the cloth until after all the meconium is gone--it's one less thing to worry about for the first few days and then you will have PLENTY of time to get used to the cloth dipes! Can't wait to see the nursery!
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