Okay, so my last few posts have been a little on the heavy side. Onto something more lighthearted....

I am in nesting mode. Yesterday, I bought some baby detergent and some tiny clothes-hangers and decided to wash all the baby clothes. Well, most of our baby's clothing is @ my momma's house 900 miles away since we had the shower there...but I've had a big pile o' nice hand-me-downs stacked in the crib that I've been wanting to organize for a while. If this child is a boy, we have a ton of nice boyish 0-9 month onesies and sleepers. If it's a girl..... well..... she'll be wearing lots of blue :) I know I'm showing my first-time-momness here, but I meticulously washed each load (including baby towels and blankets) with the baby detergent and added an extra rinse/spin cycle to make sure all the suds were out. Anything that had even the slightest stain got pre-treated and scrubbed, and if the stain didn't come out, I threw the garment away. (I only had to do that with 3 things) A friend of mine recently told me that after a while, I'll stop caring about that kind of stuff and just rip the tags off the new clothes and put them on the kiddo without washing them first. But I prefer to wash my OWN clothes, used or new, before I wear them, and DH's as well.......so I assume I'll always do the same for our child. As for being neurotic about stains....well, I'm sure that I'll have to get over that pretty fast.

Everything got hung up, including onesies, since we don't have a dresser for that room yet.

I saw a little $40 blue dresser at the junk store down the road yesterday that would look great in the baby's room . It's a bright primary blue (would go nicely with the changing table that my mom is painting red and the clothes hamper she's painting bright yellow) I think I want to get it.

I bought a play-mat thingy with one of our gift cards.


We have accumulated 3 cases of baby wipes and a few packs of disposable dipes, sizes NB-2.


Bag O' Socks


I had my 32 week appointment yesterday and everything went well. Baby is still vertex and has a heart beat of 140. My BP was 121/78. All the things my midwife checks w/ my urine were normal and she said I look really great. My fundal height measured at 33.

I ordered our birth kit today. Who knew it would be so exciting to purchase things like a plastic cord clamp, chux pads, and a sitz bath? :) When I told DH that I was going to order the birth kit, he was like, "What, like ponchos and stuff?"

Labels: baby gear, prenatal appointment