Shopping spree

I had my first baby oriented shopping spree today. Unless you count last night when Marty and I registered at Toys R Us, which is sort of a shopping spree, but you don’t have to spend any money. Actually, that’s the best sort of spree isn’t it?

A friend of mine told me that there was a big sale on baby stuff at Old Navy (thank you Denise, I think!). So while Marty was sleeping today, I went. Just to see. Well, an embarrassing amount of money later, I came out with a giant bag of baby clothes. Marty and I realized yesterday, that we have been given all the big stuff (crib, car seat, change table, play pen, etc) for which we can’t say thank you enough, but we don’t have anything to dress poor Junior in. So now Junior has some very styling and unbelievably cute things. He is going to be the best looking baby around. But I didn’t need to tell you that. There is still a whole whack of things we need, but one shopping spree at a time…

Tanya - The Midwife

We met our midwife on Thursday. Her name is Tanya. We were a little taken back when we met her. When most people think midwife, they think super granola, mother earth sort of look. Tanya was wearing dress pants, nice sweater and heels, and has a thick Russian accent. But looks can be very deceiving, as usual. She’s a real sweat and lovely person and we are very happy to have her as our midwife. She’s been a midwife since 1987, so I didn’t even need to ask how many babies she has birthed. She just moved to Ottawa from Burlington, so that’s how we ended up getting her. And how can you not like an appointment that ends in a hug!

So we now see her every two weeks until week 36, and then every week until the big day. We will be birthing at the Montfort now, which is great as it is 5 minutes away by car. Which means that if I am comfortable, I will be able to labour at home as long as possible. In the delivery room there will be Tanya, her secondary midwife and probably a student as they are a teaching group. We are also allowed to have whom ever else we want in the room, but Marty and I decided that it will be just the two of us. No one else needs to hear my potty mouth, which I am sure is going to be very blue!

Ten weeks to… Holy crap!

Belly Watch Episode 4 Week 28, er...29.

OK...so it's a week late, but progression is certainly on display. At Julie's appointment today, they arrived at the conclusion that she is showing 31 weeks, so we are either in for an earlier due dater or a large baby. For Julie's sake, I'm hoping for the former, but for my goal of producing the world's first triple-pro athlete, I must assume it's the latter.



...and a warning to all those that believe our child will wear any hockey paraphenelia other than the glorious blue and white of the Leafs, you are sadly mistaken. You may think it funny that to give a gift of PJ's emblazoned with the Canadiens logo, but it's not. Take comfort in the fact that our child (and your nephew, Matt), will have some luxurious baby wipes for his first few days on earth.

Exciting news

We have a midwife!! At six months, I finally got the call that there was a midwife that was available for a birth in April. How excited was I!? Considering I haven't even seen the obstetrician yet, I figured it was perfect timing. We meet her on February 15th. I can’t wait. Though this means that I have to make the awkward call of letting the doula that we won't be needing her services anymore. Which I feel badly about, but she has mentioned before that she gets calls right up to a couple of weeks before a couple is due. And we are taking our prenatal classes with her, so I guess I shouldn't be feeling too bad. Not only am I very excited that we will be birthing with a midwife, which is what we wanted from the very start; the more practical part of me is excited that we are going to be able to save the $600 that it would have cost to have the doula.

I’ll be sure to post after we meet the midwife to let you know how it goes. Though I’ve been told by Marty that I’m a little too wordy in my posts. I will try to be more to the point, but I am a Barlow, so I don’t know how that is going to work out.