Reserving the Poop Cloths
Tuesday, August 01, 2006

I am on day 23 of my current cycle. My "visitor" is due in 9 days, on August 10th. I don't much like this waiting game and hope that we are either pregnant right now or we will be within the next couple cycles. It's so easy to trick myself into thinking I have early pregnancy signs. I'm probably just extremely aware of every little thing my body does. If my stomach gurgles or my breasts are tender, I notice it. If I pee twice during the night instead of once, I notice it. If I'm extremely emotional...ahem, see my last post...I notice it and count it as a signal that I may be preggy. Reading things like the "Early Pregnancy Symptoms" on Two Week Wait helps my mind play tricks on me. Some of the common symptoms listed that (I think) I have experienced are:

strong smelling urine

"pinchy" feeling not-quite menstrual cramps

"prickly" feeling in nipples

nausea

I'm sure that I'm just being crazy and it's probably way too early to experience pregnancy symptoms anyway. All those things may happen to my body around this time every month, but I've never had a reason to pay attention. I'll be glad when August 10th comes and goes with no sign of "Aunt Flow" and I start feeling really puky.

My mom said she had a dream that someone handed her a naked newborn little boy. She says that she dreams the sex of the unborn babies in our family all the time. If I remember correctly, she has been pretty right on with most of the babies she's dreamed about. But I'm really not putting too much stock in that. I'd be ecstatic with either a boy OR a girl. I want it to be a surprise, but I can imagine that it will be very difficult to not break down and want to know when I'm far enough along to find out. DH and I are the kind of people that give eachother our Christmas presents a week before Christmas. I know, it's awful.

When my friend dropped off the little guy I babysit this morning, I thought I had no diapers. That woudn't normally be a problem, but DH took my car to work because it is more comfortable than his truck and he's got a pinched nerve in his shoulder. His truck is here, but I'm a silly timid idiot and don't know how to drive a standard shift vehicle. For a moment, I thought I would have to take a crack at using cloth diapers for the first time and it kind of scared me! Well, I'm not sure that the sizes I have made and bought would fit this chunky 30 lb baby anyway, but even if they did.....I'm ashamed to say that I might be too selfish to let another baby poop in the diapers that I've carefully collected for my own baby. Just as I was about to get dressed, put the baby in the stroller, and walk to the grocery store to buy some disposables, I noticed the tied-up Wal-mart sack in the foyer next to his carseat with a week's work of diapers inside. Whew! Good thing, because I had just realized that baby's stroller is in the trunk of my car. Looks like I can save my pristinely clean and new cloth diapers for my own little one to have explosive diarrhea in.

Labels: babysitting, cloth diapering, ttc

posted by Unkempt Mommy @ 7:46 AM,

1 Comments:

At Thu Aug 03, 12:17:00 PM CDT, Jae said...: Ugh! I remember the waiting - with my first that is (the 2nd pregnancy came as a "suprise!"). You are hyper-aware of your body right now. I sure hope that the first month is it for you two. :)