6 Month update!!

“Your tiny diver has a few new moves, thanks to her buoyancy in amniotic fluid. She can turn, spin, somersault, and jackknife. Her motions are becoming more forceful and coordinated”

You don’t say? Driving back to VA this weekend, I SWEAR I felt this bebe do a flip off my bladder into my pool of my cervix. I believe also that this little bebe is using Morse code to communicate the MORE CHOCOLATE distress call. I think last night I started to feel the beginnings of pummeling my back – now I KNOW gas doesn’t feel like that, so I’m pretty sure that’s what it was but since it was my first time, the jury is still out!

“At just over a pound and almost a foot long, your baby is long and lean. And your uterus is growing along with him - it's now about the size of a soccer ball [emphasis mine].”

Daddy was thrilled with the “size of a soccer ball” comment – Mammacita on the other hand, woke up wondering if they meant “if he’s all curled up in fetal position is that the size of a soccer ball” OR “holy f*cking sh*t a SOCCER BALL?!?!?!?!?, how am I going to get a SOCCER BALL out of ME?!?!?! Seriously, I woke up about 3 times last night thinking this over. I will have to make a 110% conscious effort to not think about this too much or I will be screaming for drugs. Not the visualization I’m sure the Lamaze instructor has in mind…

Speaking of Lamaze instructor! She did call me back last week sometime & let me know that she teaches at the PW Hospital but isn’t the instructor for our class in June – she was going to check to see who our instructor who and if she was a certified Lamaze instructor. In the meantime, she was going to send me a ‘magazine’ that they basically use as their “textbook” so that I could go over it and familiarize myself with the practices. She also wanted me to have a “discussion” with my OB the next time I’m in – to gauge his reaction to no drugs and how he feels about Lamaze in the delivery room.

Then she emailed me this week:

As per our phone conversation, I have placed in today's mail the Lamaze parent magazine for you to read prior to attending class. Interestingly enough, after we spoke I received a call asking if I could teach the very class you and your husband have signed up for. Is that weird or what!!!!
We will discuss/practice comfort measures to manage mother's response to labor pain which include relaxation, breathing, use of heat- cold, position changes, visualization, massage and medications.
See you on June 4th!

YAY!!! Of course, I totally take this as a good sign.

THEN!

I just sent in my registration form for PRENATAL YOGA!! Matias is treating me!! He thinks he might even sit in on a few classes so we can practice it together!! YAY!!

THEN!!

A few months ago, Matias asked if I wanted to go on vacation before the bebe came…like any NORMAL human being, I said, yes please!

SO!!

We just booked our trip yesterday to go to CA and crash my parents Spring Break trip with the Other Grandkids in Tahoe and then drive up the coast and hit up Seattle!!! YIPPPEEE!!!!

NINE DAYS OFF FROM WORK!! ON VACATION!!

I haven’t been to CA since 97 – haven’t even seen my brother’s house. Ever. Last time I was in CA was for (come on, you can guess this one…) was for a DMB show. I’m going to show Matias around San Jose – kind of an Old Stomping Ground Tour!! I wont be able to partake in any of the winter activities in Tahoe but I can still have fun!! YOU BETCHA!! And we have a hot tub!! And Matias can go skiing. I WILL miss skating though. Wonder if I can toboggan? HA. Kidding. Or am I? I’ll just take pictures of everyone else doing everything else and pout and possibly whine.

I wonder if TOGOs is still open?? Who thinks I get tragically lost in San Jose when I’m driving us around?

TWO WORDS, PEOPLE: In n’ Out.

So, I’m mildly excited about this trip. In the pregnancy circles it’s called a Babymoon – works for me!

I have no idea what to pack though (yes, I am already thinking about this) since I barely have a wardrobe to begin with. And with Tahoe being still in Winter Phase, I think I can pull that off but I HOPEFULLY wont be needing sweaters in Seattle or Oregon…

AND I will only be missing one YOGA class while on our Babymoon which I can make up!! No harm, no foul!

I meant to post our ultrasound pictures last night but I think I got distracted by doing 2 loads of laundry and putting two more away…so I promise to do that this evening! And I think I’ll take a 6 month picture soon too…