Baby's Room: work in progress

Lo's room is painted.....crib and changing table are assembled....woo hoo.  Hopefully, this weekend we'll have some of the wall hangings up and the window treatment complete.  It's almost baby time......even though he/she will spend quite some time in our room after the birth.  So exciting.........

34 down, 6 to go!!!

Today, we had our 34 week appointment with the ever-not-so-friendly Dr. Kanter.  The great news is that everything is right on track.  Baby's heartbeat sounds great and mama is doing well too.  After the necessary checks, the doctor is ready to walk out without even asking if I had any questions.  Of course I had questions, so I stopped him.  Dr. Beaven has spent a lot of time talking with me about my birth philosophy, but I wanted to run it by Dr. Kanter to get a second opinion.  When asking him how I could successfully deliver naturally, he responded -- it will be close to impossible with your first baby.  I told him that women have been doing it for centuries and I wanted to hear his POV on what things might help me -- standing, walking, breathing, etc.  He just said 'good luck' and plan for it to be at least 16 hours of super intense pain.  Really, thanks genius!!  I'm sure he's a wonderful delivery doctor, but his impatience was truly agitating.  Crossing my fingers that he's not the doctor for Lo:-)  Next appointment is in two weeks, then we go to every week.  Craziness -- it's right around the corner;-)

Amazing friends, family and co-workers!!

Hugh and I are very thankful to have so many great people in our lives -- our family, friends and co-workers have spoiled us with many nice showers for the lil' one.  Thanks to the Hoopers, Sandy & Emma, and Jen, Amy, Amo & Christy for hosting amazing showers these past weeks.  Baby Lo has everything he/she may ever need:-)  A few funny memories from the showers--

• Onessa, the new way to say Onesie:-) Jamie Hellkamp
• You and Nick were the only Wrights on the Ohio Target registry.  Shannon Hogan
• What's going on with the giraffe in this picture.  Shari Ernst w/r/t the ABC book
• (Via the creative stories)  Hugh burps after drinking his beer... Stephanie basks behind the sun curtain.  Jeanette Franks
• Can I get you some ice?  Sure.  Did you bring any?  Oh no, call Amo.  Jen McCoy

32 week check-up GREAT:-)

Another successful visit with Dr. Beaven this AM.  Healthy heartbeat, great blood pressure, great measurement, yadda, yadda.  The results of the glucose test also came in great.  Woo hoo - no more blood work until the big birthday.  Next appointment is in two weeks.  Can't believe we have only a few more weeks.  

Also, Hugh and I had our first baby class this evening - we are now experts in breastfeeding.  Nothing like finishing your day learning some good latching techniques.

Baby Furniture Update

Back in July, Hugh and I finally agreed upon the baby furniture.  Woo hoo!!  I decided to order it from Baby's Room in Lexington because their prices were $100+ cheaper than the Kenwood and Louisville store.  It was due to arrive mid-late September.  Well, two Friday's ago, the lady called me and explained that the company had placed all ChildCraft furniture on backorder.  It was now due to arrive in late October, early November.  Yeah, the same time as the expected arrival date - yikes!!!  The company had been bought out by another company and all their furniture was on backorder, not to mention most employees had quit because the headquarters was being relocated.  I asked the woman, if she thought early November was firm.  She replied that she had limited confidence.  They were willing to reimburse the full amount, if we wanted to find a new set of furniture.  I looked high and low and found very few alternatives.  Well, the few alternatives I found were more than double what we had paid.  Plan B.  I started calling around to see if any stores were willing to sell their floor models.  Kiddie Kastle in Louisville was a savior!!! They had both the crib and changing table in the color and style we wanted.  Kathy checked them out for us and confirmed that they were in great condition.  What was a late September delivery and became a November delivery is now a tomorrow pick-up.  Yeah!!  I can't wait.  This past week, Granny D painted the baby's room, so once the furniture is in, we'll be ready to go!! Yeah!!

Glucose Test - mission accomplished:-)

Soooo.....you're supposedly due for your glucose test between 24 and 28 weeks.  Well, the Dr. kind of forgot to mention this to me, until I asked him at the 30 week appointment -- whoops!!  I'm glad Kelly mentioned this to me or else I would have not known.  Pretty simple - you chug a cup full of sugar water, wait one hour and then get some blood work taken.  The problem is that the last time blood was taken, I managed to pass out while humming to Hugh and ended up in a hospital bed with wet rags and many nurses looking overhead.  I asked Hugh to come to this appointment too -- just in case it happened again.  I got to the hospital and they too forgot about me:-(  After 30 mins, I went to the receptionist and she apologized over and over.  Finally, I filled out the paperwork and begin to chug the 'oh so delicious' orange sugar water.  The first few sips tasted like a melted popsicle -- not too bad, I thought.  However, the full glass was quite rough.  The crazy part is that you hype yourself on massive amounts of sugar and then they want you to sit there and patiently wait for one hour.  I wanted to run sprints around the hospital to burn off a little energy.  Finally, an hour later the male nurse called me back.  I reminded him of the episode from May when I passed out, so he decided to let me lay down and then draw the blood.  Only 2 vials this time -- not as bad and the four from before.  He was finished, I laid there for about 5 minutes drinking fully leaded Gatorade (not Powerade  Zero) and felt fine.  Phew!!!  Blood work #2  = success.  Now, I have to wait for the results.  Assuming they come in fine, I shouldn't have any more blood work, but if there are any concerns, it's back for round three.

Lo's first baby shower

A huge thanks to Stephanie, Kelly, Elizabeth and Mom for throwing Lo's first baby shower.  It was wonderful.  It was great to see everyone who came and we couldn't be more appreciative of the many nice gifts for the lil' one.  From the cute crab plates and the blow-up beach toys to the fun baby games, it was a blast.