Dear Baby, part 3...

Dear Baby,

Well, over the last week you have let me start eating again. I greatly appreciate this. You are still picky, but I'm not minding that so much. One thing that is slightly irritating is that you appear to be trying to make up for lost time, and require food about every 3 hours. You are so cozied up in there, that you don't know the difference between day and night, so I'm up at 3am eating Rice Krispies. But, at least I can eat, so I feel better that you are getting some good nutrients. I was feeling guilty there for a while that I was starving you...the start of what I'm sure will be decades of mom guilt.

So...we start with feedings every three hours now...6 months before your birth. Your Mama says that I should get used to it. My reply was that if we are planning on simulating the first months of your life, I'd wake her up every time I have to get up to eat. She was much nicer after that. :-)

Your Mama has been reading everything she can on keeping you safe. She spent an hour last night listing off all the things we needed, should have, shouldn't have. Sometimes I wonder if the internet has too much information. But, she is getting prepared. Me...I'm just hoping to get through labor. She can be in charge of all that. She'll do a great job.

Your Mama is also dying to finalize a plan for decorating your nursery. You'll find over the years that she has a small addiction to decor. For the most part, it is quite enjoyable. Every so often, something weird shows up...like a little ball on a shelf in the livingroom that is covered in seeds. It looks good, but I can't imagine going into a store and looking at a ball covered in seeds and thinking "fantastic! that's just what I need!". But I digress...

So, she pulled some old wive's tale last night with dangling a ring from a piece of string over my hand. Supposedly it would move in a circle if it was a girl, and back and forth if it was a boy. It went in a circle. Your Mama was rather distressed because she had no idea what she would do with a girl's nursery. Me, I'm waiting for the more scientific method of an ultrasound. That whole thing felt like using a Ouija board to me.

Anyways, we are at 14 weeks, and doing great. I hope you are growing nice and strong in there.

Love,

Your Mommy