Preparation

Sorry I haven't been posting here much. I will probably do one later this week, because on Wednesday I'll be 32 weeks -2 months left, that's a milestone I think.

I just had to add this, which isn't original, I read in on this blog this morning... but it is what it is...

When a prisoner of war is forced to go without sleep for consecutive days at the hands of his captors it's called torture.

When a woman or a man is forced to go without sleep for consecutive months at the hands of their infant it's called parenthood.

Something to look forward to.

10 weeks left and some furniture

Well, 10 weeks left. And really, it could be sooner (or later) and I'm not quite sure how 'ready' we are. In our class this week our instructor asked us to start getting our bags packed... just to make sure we have everything when the time comes. Seem's a bit premature to me, but we'll do it. This whole thing is becoming quite real now.

Here's what babycenter has to say about the progress...

Your baby's about 15.7 inches long now, and she weighs almost 3 pounds. A pint and a half of amniotic fluid surrounds her, but that volume will decrease as she gets bigger and takes up more room in your uterus. Her eyesight continues to develop, though it's not very keen; even after she's born, she'll keep her eyes closed for a good part of the day. When she does open them, she'll respond to changes in light but will have 20/400 vision — which means she can only make out objects a few inches from her face.

In other news... we got the rest of our furniture a while ago. The only big thing left is a comfy rocking chair, which we'll probably try to get at the end of the month or sometime next month. Also, we hung the framed children's books around the room.

A new toy... for Justin

Justin and I went and registered at Babies R Us. I didn't really want to, but given the fact that we don't know what gender that baby is, I was persuaded by many friends to register for some basics.

When we signed up, the lady told us that if we put 100 items or more on the registry, they'd enter us in for a free drawing of stuff. We were lucky to get 25 items on the list. (I went back online and added a few more since then).

We did find this while we were there...

If you're smiling right now and thinking that this is an item for suckers and it can't possibly work, you're only partially right. It takes a fair amount of imagination to actually hear anything that sounds like a heartbeat. But... the microphone is pretty cool. We hooked it up to the computer and pumped some music into my stomach via small speakers and the baby went crazy. Either the baby really likes music, or it was pretty upset I was disturbing it with Mozart when he or she was trying to sleep.