May 17th, 200630 week update
I’m starting my every other week visits to Dr. K and today’s went well. My weight (ugh) is okay (by pregnancy’s standards, or by my gain since the first trimester, but this is the one part of the pregnancy I can’t wait to shed), blood pressure great (124/60; I have no idea what the numbers mean but my nurse was pleased). No protein in the urine, although the urine wasn’t really pleasant to look at - but what urine is, really? A couple of weeks with strep throat, a yeast infection (yay for antibiotics!), and then last night eating pizza with anchovies made me thirstier than if I’d spent a week in the Sahara made my pee look unpleasant. But, no protein, so score.
I asked Dr. K a slew of questions and he answered them all admirably. He told me what pain options were available (advised me not to be a martyr), said he’d look at what pediatricians I had available with the insurance and he’d recommend a few for us to meet, won’t do an episiotomy as a matter of course unless he thinks it’s better than how I’ll rip naturally (and OW OW OW I DON’T WANNA RIP OR BE CUT OKAY CALMING DOWN NOW), is very pro-breastfeeding, will see me for a follow up visit six weeks after birth.
I adore him. I am going to miss him after the baby is born.
Anyway, I got the order to get another ultrasound (next Friday) to check up on the alien’s progress, and have to do another A1C to check on my blood sugar.
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Yesterday we went to a “Caring for Newborns” class, the first of two parts, and that was a lot of fun. We learned how to change a boy’s diaper (phew, because how the hell do you clean a damned penis?) and we talked all about swaddling, holding, different positions, bathing the baby, etc. Very informative. Next week is the second part of the session and a pediatrician comes for part of it, which should be a good experience.
Today, we signed up for a weekend Lamaze workshop. Josh’s mom recommended it, if only so I would know what to expect and feel more in control of what’s going on.
Oh, and nesting - turns out I might not have to nest after all. My husband nested all day yesterday and mopped and cleaned the kitchen, vacuumed the carpet and washed the bathroom. Everything is spic and span!!
May 20th, 2006 at 8:03 am
From my experience, it’s much easier to clean a baby boy than a baby girl. Girls have all those folds and creases; boys have it all right there in the open, with no place for poop to hide.
And I don’t know your views on circumcision, but if you don’t do it, you just leave the penis alone until the foreskin starts retracting on its own (which can take years!), at which point you just teach them to pull it back to clean.
Don’t fret the penis.
(I need a tee-shirt…)
May 25th, 2006 at 3:57 am
Late to the reading of your entry. Remember to point the penis down when changing the diaper otherwise you’ll have pee coming out in the oddest places. We learned this rather quickly with Brendan.