Swaddle Blankets?

Baby girl weighs one pound now! Overall, I have been feeling pretty good, but find that I can get overwhelmed very easily. Just thinking about everything I have to do this month makes me want to crawl back into bed, pull the covers over my head and hide until May. I keep remindong myself that things will slow down once my two big work events are done and I finish my classes for the semester. May cannot get here soon enough. 

I know that pregnancy can cause anxious feelings to surface more than normal, and I have noticed that I am worrying about a hundred little details relating to the baby. I feel pressure to make sure everything is ready for baby girl, even though I am barely halfway through my pregnancy. Evan was born so early that I didn’t even have his crib set, up. While I know that this pregnancy is different, it still weighs on me. I’ve also been worrying about labor. Because Evan’s birth was classified as an emergency, I didn’t have many options. My hope this time is to have a natural birth. The possibility that this might not happen stresses me on top of any normal anxiety about this new experience. The list of worries continues to nag at me, but I will leave it at that for now.

This weekend we went and did some nursery shopping. Baby girl now has a crib to sleep in and we’ve register for baby gifts. We enjoyed looking at all of the different cribs and noticing nursery themes. I can’t wait to get started on setting up the nursery! Hubby was pretty cute during our shopping trip. Word of advice to those who have never gone registry shopping with a guy: always let the guy use the scanner; it makes them feel important and it keeps them busy so you can shop longer. You may end up with a few random items on your list, but you can log into your registry and delete them later. (Not that I have or would ever do this, Honey!)

While we were browsing the selection of blankets, hubby picked up a pack of blankets, looked at me and asked, “Swaddle blankets? What are these for? And, what is a swaddle?” Oh boy, does he have a lot to learn!

The men in my life sure do have a way with words.  Evan made me smile the other day when I picked him up from school. As soon as we got into the car, he looked at me very seriously and said, “Mom, I don’t mean this to be rude, I mean this as a compliment, your stomach looks bigger!” What a sweet big brother he is going to be -- it was exactly what I wanted to hear.