Trucking along

Hello from babypants land!  We have been really quite over here as you may have noticed.  I guess its because we are doing fine, trucking along, and it does not seem like there is much to report.

Sprout seems to be doing great.  We have another midwife appointment next week so we will get to hear the heartbeat again, which will be really wonderful.  (A great birthday present for me!)  L keeps asking me if I think that Sprout is doing well.  Judging from how L’s body is changing (which is all we have to go on on a daily basis), I assure her that Sprout seems just right.  L’s bre.asts are ever larger.  It seemed like they couldn’t get bigger, but they have.  Then there is the growing belly.  Now even someone who didn’t know her would assume that she is pregnant and not merely a beer guzzler. 

We are both feeling really good about how things are going in general.  When it comes to Sprout, we are both going with the assumtion that everything is fine unless proven otherwise.  I think this is  in large part because of L’s mom, who was a home birth midwife and is totally zen about pregnancy and birth.  It feels good to trust that things are going well.  If we find out  later that there is a problem we will deal with it then, but for now it is nice to relax into the pregnancy a bit. 

We took a tour of the birthing center where we plan to meet Sprout face to face for the first time .  It was really nice and we both feel good about our decision to deliver there.  Hopefully we will be able to stay in the birth center where I would be able to spend the night with L and Sprout, and we could have whomever we want in the room with us when L delivers.  However, if we do have to move to the labor and delivery floor for some reason, it is still pretty nice and they are open to people having as close to their desired birth as possible.  It was exciting to take a tour.  We have to take a class in Feb about the birth center in order to deliver there, so that is the next step on that front.

We have been slowly accumulating baby things.  This is in part because we are excited, but more than that we are trying to practical by jumping on great deals and give aways from a kid’s stuff version of craig.slist.  It has felt good to start gathering things for Sprout, but now we need to figure out how to store it.  We have exactly as much stuff as out apartment can hold (as is true for most New Yorkers I suspect) so bringing in baby stuff has tipped our delicate equilibrium.  We have been getting rid of stuff to fit the new stuff, but have more to do on that front.

Well, I think that is all that is going on over here.  I am so thankful that things are going well enough for us to just be relaxed and happy. 

(L may feel less blissful because she’s the one having sleep struggles and ligament pain, but she’ll have to write her own post to talk about that.)