1. Car seat check
2. Itty Bitty Yoda
3. 35 week bump
4. Clover jumbo hooks
I had our car seat installation checked at the hospital. Of course it was installed wrong. The stupid latch system makes no sense. "They" tell you the safest place for a baby in the car is rear facing in the center back seat yet most cars don't have the latch system in the center back seat, only on the two sides. So Brian used one latch from the right and one from the left to secure the base but you aren't supposed to do that. Sooooo you have to use the seat belt in the middle seat to hold the base in. IDK I just do what they tell me. It feels looser now though with the seat belt which makes me nervous.
Then on Friday we met up with an L&D nurse to go over our birth "wishes." I appreciate that it isn't called "plan" because things never go to plan and we all know that. While there, I pre-registered and answered a hundred health questions so I don't have to when I arrive in labor. I really like the department there. Oh, and I finally chose a pediatrician. Weekend hours was something important to me as well as after hours on-call docs. And guess what? They are located right across the street from where our embryo was made haha.
I also put together a few baby things we received from my shower. The rock and play (I'm linking these things so you can see if you want because I had no idea what the hell these things were until I was pregnant) is super cute and in the family room for now, but the automatic bouncer my mom got us didn't work so we took it back for an exchange. I hope the next one that comes doesn't have the same defect. It's super cute and I like the automatic bounce function, it's not just a vibration, so I really want it to work. Then Brian put together the pack n play which we'll be using in our room as a sleep and changing station at night. Only 4 weeks and 3 days till my due date and I wanna be sure all the stuff we got works and isn't broken. I also got a big exercise ball I plan on using as a birth ball. It feels really good to sit on my knees and lean forward on it since that's as close to lying on my stomach as I can get. GOOD GOD I miss sleeping on my stomach. So do my hips and back and arms and shoulders.
And I suppose nesting has started to kick in because out of nowhere I completely cleaned out all the drawers in the kitchen and purged a bunch of crap leaving us with 2 empty drawers for baby things. I freakin love throwing out old useless shit!
Let's see, non-baby related things: we are binge watching season 5 of the Walking Dead so we can watch season 6 on Sling as it airs...I nearly got sick during all the cannibalism parts. Rick looks so handsome since shaving off his beard. We ate out a bunch of times this week...breakfast, chinese, bar & grill. Brian is working on stripping the deck so he can repaint it. There's lots of areas with chips and stuff needing repairs. And my wrists and hands are hurting even more now at night but I won't let it stop me from crocheting since it's all I really feel like doing at this point. I'm starting a new project making an ombre ripple lap blanket. I'm ready to be done being pregnant and meet this little guy!
Use that ball now! I replaced my desk chair with a big ball for the last few weeks of my pregnancy and I think it helped get that baby in position. I didn't experience any back labor (my BIGGEST complaint about my first birth) at all!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see your ombre ripple blanket!! Is it gonna be blue or green? OMG orange would be so pretty! like a sunset!
Those hooks are so cute! I'm really excited for Season 6 of The Walking Dead. It's been a loooong summer waiting.
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I've never heard that about the Latch system. Before we left the hospital a nurse checked ours (it was in the middle, locked in using the Latch system) and she said it was good to go. SO CONFUSING.
ReplyDeleteOkay I just realized that our anchors are on either side of the middle seat, not all the way on the sides. WHY AREN'T THEY ALL CONSISTENT
ReplyDeleteSo you've been using one from each side too? The base feels way more secure that way, to me though. Let me know what you think...latch vs seatbelt. The lady at the hospital even re-installed ours so she can't possibly be wrong!
ReplyDeletei bet! the wait is rough!
ReplyDeletethat's good to know about the ball. i was joking the other day how this entire pregnancy, the baby has been head down and ready to go - for real. and now watch him flip breech at the last second. good god i hope not. bad joke lol
ReplyDeletethe blanket goes from green, to cream, to grey :)
Someone once explained to me (and I am going to do a terrible job of it) that the seat should have a LITTLE wiggle to it, in order to absorb and displace some of the energy if in a crash. Not like the seat's flopping around totally unsecured, but not belted in super tight with no motion whatsoever. However, this is Canada, and that may be totally different.
ReplyDeleteDo you have a fire department that will do a class/seat check? I have one in my town where you can go every Wednesday and the fire fighters will check it and reinstall it if necessary. Not that the nurses don't know what they're doing, but if it feels really uncomfortable then get a second opinion. It's a human, loved, baby child - not a sack of groceries to worry about.
that makes sense about the wiggle room. they mentioned that in our baby safe class. but the wiggle room was supposed to be like one inch side ways and it feels like it's more than that. perhaps i'll have the fire dept check. they are literally right at the end of our street!
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