A long week

Hello lovely, soft, cuddly baby.

How is belly land? I hope you like it in there. Stay!

It was a very long week baby.

You are the size of a small blueberry. It was that knowledge that helped Papa and I struggle through work this week. Mommy is nauseated, has started crying a lot about the silliest things, and can't watch most commercials on TV without a emotional breakdown.

We've been taking turns reading you articles from our magazines, Papa read you a big long article about the idea that our universe is a holograph of a base universe. We are getting a basic understanding of particle physics and learning about the Higgs Boson and the CERN super collider.

He also has been reading you The Giver by Lois Lowry, it is one of Mommy's top four favorite books of all time. He is planning on reading you all the Harry Potters between twenty weeks and when you are born. Get ready for that!

Mommy has been chugging along on your blanket. Molly keeps laying on it though, so we hope you don't mind cat hair.

Mommy Going to meet the birth team. 

On thursday Papa and I woke up very early and went to meet with a midwife and birth team.


The first person we met was the nurse called Shannon and she practically sold Papa and I on the team as a whole with how warm and comforting and friendly she was. I could easily imagine her helping us welcome you into the world. We met one midwife and a midwife student, they seemed pretty nice. We have yet to meet the other midwife yet, her name is Diane and we are going to schedule an appointment for sometime in the next few weeks. Hopefully we can meet her then. If we like her we are going to choose them as our birth team.

Papa driving to meet the birth team. 

After that we went to a baby store and bought your first outfit and first pair of shoes. Converse, just like the tenth Doctor (you'll learn about Doctor Who later.)

Papa bought Mommy some preggo pops to help her not vomit all the time. He's been very nice about me being such a mess.

He can't wait to teach you to ride.

 The next day Papa and I took a long drive with your sister Bambina to visit a beach. In March, right before you come to meet us, Papa is planning to ride his bike nearly 100 miles from our house to Varn Park beach. We did a practice run of the path he will take. Its going to be a very hard and lovely trip for you daddy. We are very proud of him.

Bambina's first beach

The Atlantic Ocean

She doesn't like sand.

 Love you little one. We can't wait to meet you!

Oh the little things

Hi Baby B, how is life in there? Comfortable? Warm enough? Hope it is good. Stay there for another 36 weeks please. 

New this week; you are a pepper corn, I am nauseated. I am so tired, poor Papa is being very kind. He wakes up and makes me eggs when I finally feel like eating, then puts up with me when two hours later I have to go to sleep again. He gives me little meals and puts up with my mood swings.

We are planning a trip for next week to meet a birth team, they would do a home birth if possible. We're not sure we're going to stick with this one, it's hard to tell until we meet everyone, though I have to say options here are sparse.

We are going to tell your Grandparents about you soon. 

Love you

Mama

First Fetal Football Game

You should know, Baby B, that in this family when I say foot ball, I mean the kind actually played with your feet.

Daddy surprised us with a trip to a Irish pub, which even though I couldn't "pub" was great for me. Mommy loves the atmosphere and food in those places. Apparently you like vinegar covered potatoes as much as Mommy does. We got to walk around downtown Orlando a bit too. This is great for you especially. You are making your Mommy very tired and trying to get her to walk around for twenty minutes is not easy.

After that we went to an Orland City Football Club game.  Your first Football game!!! Sure it was in fetal form but you might as well know. They played against the Harrisberg City Islanders and won 3-1. They also wore pink breast cancer support jerseys. We like that, someday I'll tell you about your Great Grandma Scal, we called her Jam and Green Pees. We wore pink too, in support of her.

Here you are, dressed in pink and ready for the game.

Your amazing father. He was going for pensive here.

The pitch, and a beautiful sunset just for you (and a couple hundred other screaming fans

 Other then that let's see what has changed…

You are the size of a poppy seed, and might have a heartbeat. Mom is sore and nauseated but has yet to throw up! I started working on your blanket. Its going to match your furry sisters, that one was supposed to be yours but somehow over the last year was accosted by animals.

 Daddy thinks you're a girl and keeps calling you by your girl name. Mom keeps calling you your boy name just to create some balance. We have a broad idea for your nursery already and I do think your going to like it.

Moms been juicing vegetables and some fruit to fulfill any extra caloric intake requirements. Though so far I've just been making it in place of parts of meals. So far you seem happy about this. Growing strong.

Next week we will go pick out a midwife!

Love you Baby B, stay safe. Talk to you again soon.

Here we go little B

Ok baby B, we just found out you exist. We are very excited and Mommy doesn't want to forget a thing. Lets start at the beginning. Mom and Papa wanted a baby very badly for a long time. However we'd been waiting to get life to be just perfect until we asked you to come on over. We had only just started to think ok, now is the time, let's get Baby B on the way. Everyday when I woke up I took my temperature to see if it was time to put up the For Rent sign on Mom.

Monday morning August 11th 2014.

Mom and Papa work as nurses and had just gotten off of work, we went to sleep and when I woke up a little bit earlier than Papa, I took my temperature as normal and it was just a tiny bit higher than normal. This is sometimes a sign that a Baby B could be on the way. So I went to the bathroom and took a test to tell me if a Baby B was here. I didn't expect it to say yes.

I took one, and it had not one, but two lines. "That is strange," I thought. So I took another and again, two lines! Its just not possible I thought. We hadn't expected you to move in so quickly. Maybe you were as eager to meet us as we were to meet you.

I (barely) waited until your Papa woke up and very calmly stared at him and smiled until he asked what was wrong with me. I told him to go into the bathroom and see. Papa couldn't believe it either!

We took a couple more tests to make sure we weren't imagining things, but left and right they all said the same thing. Baby B was on the way.

So there is the start Baby B. We just found out you exist and we love you so much already.

Talk to you again soon.