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The remaining 10% is mostly the food and drink that we'll need to keep stocked in the last two weeks around my due date. House prep is coming together, installing more hooks to hang things and keep them off the floors, securing shelves to walls. I've been hanging out baby gear so it can air out or get cleaned. My new favorite activity is clearing out junk drawers. I have these beautiful glass containers we received as a wedding gift and since then I have crammed them full of workout gear, pens, pins, wires and chargers. I cleaned out those jars and 4 other boxes. While it's nice having all these clear spaces... I now have no idea what to do with them.
I also gave a try to this organic produce delivery company, Full Circle. There was a living social deal so I figured why not! They only deliver to Alaska, Idaho, Washington State and the Bay Area - goofy array of places, I know. Organic produce can really kill your budget so I wanted to see if this was a more efficient (and seasonal) way of obtaining good food stuffs. This is the big 'harvest' box and we'd just get the smallest box option which is about a quarter of this volume. So far so good, quality is excellent as is the amount... we'll see what the smaller box looks like! Ed pointed out how I'll have to be a bit more adventurous based on what comes in each box. Looks like this box will force me to find a couple parsnip recipes :)
In other news, I was talking to Ed about how big a disappointment the whole 'camaraderie of pregnant women' has been. I say this in full awareness of my own strangeness, but pregnancy makes these women and men completely insane. I don't understand any of them. Obsessing over the perfect diaper, the perfect pacifier, the perfect baby sign language book. We've been doing our research and are making choices too, but I'd never claim we're choosing the 'perfect' things or even the 'best' - just what we're comfortable with. Our midwife talks about it as a 'tribe mentality' where some women need you to agree that their way is the best so they can feel validated. I prefer reading these cross cultural parenting books to see how many different ways things can be done (see How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm and Bringing Up Bebe to name a few of the hundreds out there). There are 8 million ways to raise a baby, and nothing wrong with the majority of them.
I just thought with such a common experience, I'd find more people to talk and relate to - it's been the complete opposite. So far we've found some common ground with couples in the midwifery group (thank god), but in this childbirth prep class, online forums and even prenatal yoga... no connection, only misunderstanding and bewilderment. Still holding out hope that changes.
The birth class was pretty interesting. We're some of the younger people there. Poor Ed, he's been reading all the details in the baby books while I've been glossing over much of the nitty gritty, so he's getting a double dose of the information. I'm glad we're taking the class. At the very least, because it's a small group (only 6 couples), I'm practicing voicing more of my feelings and opinions without fear of of others judgment. It's all part of the Daring Greatly book I'm still reading and digesting. That's my goal for this year, to just approach things from a 'beginner's mind' and not to get so frustrated so quickly with things that don't come easily to me.
Enough talky, talky... Bump time!
How far along? 33 Weeks
How Big Is Baby? 17 inch pineapple, 4.25 lbs ish
Sleep: Still rising every 2 hours or so. Really hard to move around at a good clip. I'm getting pretty cumbersome.
Best moment this week: All the boxes from Mom's house arriving! So now I'm inundated with things from the baby shower and I'm in laundry up to my knees, but it's wonderful. I was eagerly awaiting their arrival.
Movement: This baby has found my soft spot finally. It's the left side of my belly and boy, does Baby looooove to kick and wiggle right there. I've been pleading with Baby for more movement anywhere else to give me a break. It doesn't hurt, but it's similar to hitting your funny bone. Ed gets to watch more and more crazy movement from the outside.
Symptoms: Tired, tired, tired. I'm ready for my first nap around 930 or 10 and for bed around 5pm most days.
Food cravings/aversions: No cravings or aversions, just no space. Appetite is definitely waning.
Gender: What's the old wives tale about where I'm carrying? This whole pregnancy has been quite low. I'm a little envious of women who have those crazy high riding bumps that look like they just stick straight out. According to a list of old wives tales my dry skin, low carrying, meat/dairy cravings, and healthy hair mean I'm having a boy...
Belly Button in or out? The shallowest of shallow innie while standing, outie while sitting.
What I miss: This is a funny one, but I miss amusement parks. We watched The Way Way Back the other night (highly recommend, great movie), which takes place at the beach and largely at a water park. I realized that for the foreseeable future, I won't get to spend a day riding roller coasters, eating funnel cake, swimming in the wave pool and getting sunburned and sweaty. Makes me appreciate all those summer days with friends and school trips during Theaterfest so much more.
What I am looking forward to: Eating to my heart's desire and getting back to some hearty exercise.
Funny moment of the week: There were several questions and comments that were so wild in our class that I wish I could share them here but I know I should keep them within the confines of the class. All of my hardest laughs came from the Golden Globes and from America's Funniest Videos - yes that show is still on and they play new episodes all the time!
Labor Signs: Nada
Weekly Wisdom: If you're taking measures for your health, you cannot stop when you see results. You've got to just keep on going. For me, it's taking baths and supplements. The aches and pains may feel "solved," but if you stop treatment, they're going to come back. Stick with the program!
Milestones: Nothing big for baby, but a big one for Ed! He went back for his first day of work this past Thursday! He's feeling good about getting back to old routines. He's not back to biking to work but he looks forward to when he can do that again.
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