baby-related

I feel like I should start all blog posts, emails, and telephone calls with “NO BABY YET” for the next few days until there’s a baby. (Don’t you like how I optimistically say “days” instead of “weeks,” even though I think it’ll still be a while?) Yeah, there’s no baby here yet.

We do, however, have all our birth supplies really ready to go (I think!), including the kit we had to order from a midwifery supply company, the stuff we had to shop for locally (hydrogen peroxide and rubbing alcohol and baby wipes and… I don’t know, other stuff), and all the things I had to get out of storage and wash (receiving blankets, baby clothes, cloth diapers).

I even checked out a couple of videos from my midwife’s lending library to remind us all of the mechanics of the miracle of birth. And having watched one today, let me just say: I really think my babies’ heads were smaller than that. Or at least this baby’s will be.

And we’ve fielded a number of suggestions for baby names from the kids lately: Honeymoon, Jelly, Peanut, and Kate, to name a few. (Why Kate? I don’t know. And I assume the other three are gender-neutral, though I didn’t specifically ask.) I don’t think we’re going with any of those, but I’ll keep you posted.