Getting Ready for the Baby!

Well, we took a birthing class at my doctors office last Saturday, it was really informative. I always thought that you should go to the hospital when your contractions are 5 to 7 minutes apart, but boy was I wrong! I guess now they want your contractions to be 2 to 4 minutes apart, consecutively for 2 hours before you go to the hospital! What?! Well, when I was telling my mom about that she was a bit shocked because I guess when she had my sister Lisa, which was her first baby, she had her in just 2 hours! They say with your first baby that it always takes longer, but that wasn’t the case for my mom! The longest labor and delivery experience she had was only 6 hours, and it was with her second baby. When she went to the hospital about to have my sister, they checked her out, she was 3 cm dilated and they told her she was going to have a long night ahead of her and told her to go home. Well, when she couldn’t walk down the hall to leave because of the intensity of her contractions they admitted her. Good thing they did too because she went from being 3 cm dilated to 10, one or two pushes and my sister was here within the hour! Now, I don’t know that it’ll be the same way for me… Although I’m hoping a little ha ha. I’ve read about it and I guess it just depends, so I’ll talk to my doctor about it when the time gets a little closer and then I’ll just have to wait and see! The only downside I can see with having such a quick labor and delivery is that I may not have time for an epidural if I decide I want one, which would suck, but oh well!

We have all of the big stuff we need for baby now! My mom and dad bought us a stroller this weekend, David and I bought ourselves a Pack N’ Play a few weeks ago and then this weekend we ordered the rest of the stuff we need for the nursery! We were planning on borrowing a truck from David’s parents and going to Ikea and a few other places up in West Jordan area to pick up all of the furniture we needed for the baby and then hauling it all back down to Provo and then returning the truck to them in Alpine. Basically it was going to be an all day affair, and we weren’t even sure on the items we really wanted yet. But the other night I was browsing on the internet checking out other stores prices for cribs and rocking chairs and dressers. Well, I went to Walmart.com and found myself quite a good deal. I found a bundle for a crib and mattress for $135! Which is really good! We were going to spend $120 on the crib alone and then another $55 for the mattress! So yeah, that saved us like $40 bucks just on those. Also, they will deliver it to our house, which means we don’t have to borrow the truck anymore! Yay! So after we found that deal we thought we might as well order a dresser and a glider chair too! Everything came by yesterday and I was really excited for them all to arrive so that we could set them up and have our nursery all ready to go and beautiful for the baby! We were so excited that we set up the crib and the chair the same night we got them! Now all we have to set up is the dresser and we’ll be good to go! They are all beautiful and they match really well despite the fact that they are all different brands, you can’t even tell! There are a few things I’m going to make for the baby room still too. I’m going to make some curtains that will block out light, so since I’m doing that I thought I could make a matching crib skirt and pillow to sit on the chair out of the same fabric. I haven’t picked out fabric yet, probably won’t even go looking for a few weeks still, but it’ll be fun. 

Yay for the baby! She’ll be here in just 8 weeks now. We’re both getting really excited. I went to the doctor today and he said everything is looking great! He said I’m measuring right where I should be and my weight gain is right on track. I was starting to get a little worried because everyone always comments on how small I look still, so I was starting to think that maybe my baby was too small and not getting enough nutrients or something, but the doctor said she’s totally fine and that it’s probably just the way I’m carrying. I think it might be because I have a longer torso, so she has more room up and down to stretch out, rather than only growing out. Oh yeah, and David’s mom and sister Julia are throwing me a baby shower in a few weeks! They are so sweet to do it for me! I’m excited and I love them for offering to do it for me!