Last weekends birthing class went alright. I'm not sure I learned anything at all and Andy said he knew most of the stuff after hearing about my OB rotation... but Andy did get to experience something he will likely never forget. They showed a video with 2 vaginal births and 1 csection. One of the vaginal deliveries was with an epidural and without. When I say they showed a video, I mean they showed evvvverything. Like there was no editing or zooming out at all. One of the dads in the video helped pull the baby out after the head popped out... I'm not sure Andy's gonna be that involved. We had basically agreed that he'd just hang out by my head where everything is not quite so graphic and wait for them to put her up on my chest for his first peek as well :) We did all get on the ground and practiced a couple of breathing techniques which I felt pretty silly doing. They also had a bunch of medicine balls and were showing us these weird stretching things we could do. A few of them involved getting backrubs from dad though so I didn't mind that part :)
Our house is moving along quickly! We finally picked out all the paint colors. Our room is a pale bluish-gray color. I chose a very pale pink for Harpers room. The kitchen is going to be green after all! We took some samples over to paint little patches on the wall last week. The first green we painted was honestly pretty awful. It had too much yellow in it and appeared kind of pea-greenish. While we were at the house there were a lot of hispanic workers hanging the rest of the dry wall. We came back later that afternoon with a different paint sample to try out and when we returned there was a little note written in spanish next to our paint. I whipped out my spanish translator and realized they were telling us not to use that color!!! lol. I couldn't help but laugh because it was seriously pretty awful. Andy wanted to write them a note back asking if they liked our next sample better but unfortunately I didn't have a pen with me. We're possibly thinking we may be able to move in over Memorial day weekend but we'll see!
We also ordered our glider last week - I ended up going with plain white... I was too scared to commit to green when I still haven't exactly figured out the bedding situation. The bedding I had picked out is still backordered but I have found a backup plan that Mom offered to sew for us if we need to!
We visited our second daycare last week. It's a daycare at the Catholic church downtown - it's super close to Andy's work and would be on my way from our new house to the hospital. We liked it though honestly I still dread the idea of sending our tiny little baby off to daycare. We'd prefer to find someone to come keep her at our house but I'm just not sure when we should start looking for that? I don't want to spend my maternity leave interviewing people but it seems weird to hire someone without ever seeing how they interact with your baby either. I think I'd love to find someone who has a baby of their own and let them keep both their baby and ours - so if anyone knows of someone in Lexington who wants to keep a baby then let us know! :)
Harper is going to be baby model!!! :) I finally picked a photographer for our newborn pics and when I emailed her she asked if we would be interested in letting her be a model for a photog workshop at her studio. A photographer from Maryland is coming in to work with 10-15 other photogs and take pictures of 2 newborns :) In exchange we will get some of the files so we said of course we'd love to participate! hoping her head has time to become a nice shape before her debut ;)
We've got fun weekend coming up... it's Andy's 27th birthday on Sunday!!! And he's running in the Derby half-marathon on Saturday with Dad, David, Uncle Kevin and one of Andy's friends. We're going to run to Etown on Friday to get my bridesmaid dress worked on. Saturday I'm going to go up to the race to cheer on my favorite boys then we've got a soccer game for Olivia. Andy wants to go to the gorge and go for a hike for his bday so that's what we'll do to celebrate :) Plus his favorite strawberry shortcake cake that night.
Here's our update for the week!!
I had to share this picture from our birth class last week.. too funny. They made all the husbands try on the belly... which weighed 33 lbs!!
How far along: 29
Total Weight Gain: 18
Stretchmarks: Nope
Sleep:Good :) except my internal thermostat is much different these days so i've been getting super hot at night
Best Moment This Week: finally picking out paint, glider... feel like things are getting a little more organized
Movement: Her movements feel so much different now that she's bigger - not so much space in there for her
Gender: Baby girl!!
Labor Signs: some braxton hicks occasionally
Belly Button: innie - prettty shallow
What I Miss: acne medicine. lol
What I am Looking Forward to: Andrew's birthday!!!
Milestones: almost 3 lbs! :)
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