I have a c section date set. 38 weeks and 2 days, due to the hypertension diagnosis which i still think is prob an overreaction and not true. so i’m a little worried about evicting baby a week earlier over that, but ob and mfm insist it is no big deal for a week difference and that they want baby out sooner to lessen the chances of bp issues at the end. it’s a good date considering it’s a monday before bel weekend so we’ll be home before her weekend and don’t have to waste any of her time being at the hospital, and it’s early in the week so chris won’t have to go back to work until the following monday. but that’s kind of an issue in itself, because he’s taking his leave starting beginning of june. we get bel two weeks in the summer, so we don’t want him to start his leave too early, but i got pregnant two weeks before we had planned, so now the baby is coming and there’s going to be a few weeks where he’ll be back at work and i will have to do it all alone and i just realized i’m probably not going to be allowed to pick up finn! since my mom just had her second knee surgery last week, i don’t think she’ll be able to really help by then, probably won’t even be driving yet. so i’m going to see about getting a step stool and i can help finn climb into the crib that way. really he could stay up late until chris gets home at like 11 (obviously very late but still doable i guess), but it doesn’t help with naps, and there’s no way i’m switching the kid to a bed when he’s happy in the crib right when he’s about to have this major change.
It’s wild how fast it’s all going and I’m really not doing much to prepare, we still need to get a bigger car so that is the main thing.But with my mom being down and out and my dad being out of work, i don’t know if he can help me qualify for a good loan rate like he usually does, so i haven’t even gotten there yet. We have bassinet, so I’m not too worried about her crib situation for a while. But we definitely need to get out the newborn clothes and see what we can use, check that swing and infant seat aren’t moldy and still work, and need to figure out stroller too. Can’t decide if i’m going to get a peg perego double so the infant seat can go into it, or get the zoe double which is really lightweight, and just wear the baby until she’s big enough for the stroller. i wish i could drive the zoe to see if it feels as nice as the peg will (based on having the peg single). not sure what we’ll do for the beach either, we have a bob single that i take him to the beach in but i don’t even think i can maneuver the bob double and i don’t know where we would keep it since it’s prob too big for the car all the time!
Doc also asked if i wanted to get my tubes tied. Not sure. It does reduce your ovarian cancer risk, which is cool. And we have 3 embryos, so in all likelihood if i did want to try again, I would think I’d be happier using those anyway at my advanced maternal age? But it seems like a big decision and I was unprepared for it. Likely, this is our last kid because we have nowhere to even put another kid. And we are getting old. So in theory, it sounds like a good idea and i almost feel like the only thing holding me back is the mental part of “i’m done having kids” even though i think we are done, like i just don’t want to acknowledge it and be sad seeing Ruby do all the “last baby” firsts.
I’ve been sick for like two weeks, got a bad sinus infection, and went to Vermont for my brother’s wedding. I know someday i will be so glad i was there, but in the meantime, holy shit, do i feel terrible, even now. We were like 40 mins from an urgent care and apparently my insurance doesn’t cover that out of state, so i didn’t go, and then we had to travel home for a day, and didn’t leave early enough for me to get to urgent care that night, so i finally went to doc on Tuesday like an entire week after i started getting sick, i’ve done an entire week of antibiotics, and I still can’t hear and still am almost throwing up sometimes from coughing hard (I did throw up a bunch from coughing before and during the antibiotic though so i am definitely doing better). I am just still sooooo sick. Finn got it a few days ago (weird?? like two weeks after i got sick??) and was sick for like a day and is totally fine. So i got to do walking pneumonia, norovirus and the worst sinus infection of all time this pregnancy. It’s been an absolute blast. lol.
Did get to see Ben and Jerry’s (not the tour but got to visit and get ice cream), a little general store, and the Von Trapp Lodge and bierhouse (very cool, looked just like austria!). They got a beautiful snowy day and went skiing that morning, and then had a quiet 5 minute ceremony in the living room and a catered dinner. It was very very nice. And happy to have my new sister. Her family was nice and seemed really eager to be one big happy family, so that was nice and honestly best case scenario when we were sharing a house for the weekend!
Finn is growing up so fast, and so funny. Today he went in the ball pit and was laughing and saying “i funny.” It really is amazing to see all the things he picks up on. He loves superheroes, and his favorites are “hulk” (a few weeks ago he was hulking out instead of saying hi when he saw new people, he did it at the aquarium to strangers lol), “bitey” (spidey) and “Ghostie” (ghost spider). Very opinionated with the tv so now we have to break him of the all day tv habit and he’s being kind of mean about that lol. Other current things “i fall” “i don’t know” “i like it” “i didn’t do it” are his big sentences. When you say i love you, he says “welcome” which i believe comes from the penn state cheer “we are!” “penn state!” “Thank you” “You’re welcome!” and he also sometimes says welcome when he means thank you, lol. I really need to get better about writing this stuff down. He can basically just sit down and do a new puzzle, very imaginative and plays alone (has the characters talk to each other, and sometimes “i sad” “i cry” even assigning them emotions). We think he is pretty bright and my mom says so too, although she says in some ways, i came off smarter (but that’s pretty good if she’s not even sure who was smarter because not to toot my own horn, but i’m pretty smart). He’s also a very sweet affectionate boy who gives kisses to us and his favorite “guys” the superheroes. Right now he loves his mickey blankie and the tag on it, and his paci with mickey stuffy attached. We also won’t be taking away that pacifier before baby is born because that’s why we can get him to go to sleep!
He also loves the bath, and I bet he’s going to be super super fun in the pool this summer. and at the beach, he loves going down to our beach for walks and picks up shells and picks up sand and drops it through his hands. Oh and he loves sharks! We are letting our aquarium membership run out until the baby is big enough to go back, but we went a couple times in the past few months and he was pretty into the sharks now, a very proud moment for me (esp as i used to work there and spend everyday with those same sharks!). We will do the zoo this summer instead since its outdoors. I was already worried enough last time, and now I guess we have to worry about measles for our babies too. Sigh.
Thanks everyone for all your entries that keep me entertained even when i barely post!
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