Okay Baby, you can come out now. As comfortable as my belly and ribs might be, I think your crib will be much more comfy. Your room is just about ready and I don't know how much more my belly can grow.
I'm making up a new rule for the universe. Pregnant people aren't allowed to get sick. It's not very nice to be up coughing most of the night when you're as big as a whale, have to pee every couple of hours, are sleeping on the couch so you won't wake up your husband, and can hear your upstairs neighbor listening (he's blind) to his TV really loudly and rocking like a maniac on his rocking chair, all in the middle of the night.
It's starting to hit me that I'm going to be personally responsible for a real-life human being, other than myself, in just 4 short weeks. In the words of my 3 year old niece, "It's totally fweakin' me out".
I mean, everyone who is a parent is a first-time parent at one point in their life, but some people just know what to do right off the bat. I'm not so sure that I'm going to know what to do or that I'll be capable of doing it. Example A: I have to wake up really early each morning due to a bladder that is about to burst. I walk to the bathroom bumping into EVERYTHING and basically keep my eyes closed the entire time. Right now, I'm only bruising myself, but in 4 weeks, when it's a baby and not a bladder waking me up, what will I do?
I'm just starting to realize I have SO many questions and NO idea what to expect. I keep telling myself everything will be okay because my mom probably didn't know what she was doing either and I'm still alive and ended up okay.
I know I'll get comments on this like, "You'll be great." Blah, blah, blah. But seriously, does/did everyone feel like this before their first baby? Totally fweaked out?
I'm also worried about...
1) Allergies. Is there a way to know if your child is allergic to something before they have an allergic reaction and go into anaphalactic shock?
2) How do you know if your baby is too hot? Too cold?
3) What if our baby realizes Seth is way nicer than me and thinks I suck.
4) Is there such thing as a SIDS alarm? Like if your baby stops breathing in the night, the alarm goes off?
5) Is my baby going to behind for his age because I didn't listen to classical music while he was in my belly?
6) Vaccinations. Jenny McCarthy and Oprah have me all fweaked out about this too.
7) I ate a lot of Doritos during my sick stage, will this make our baby predisposed to become a white trash food junkie?
8) If we really do name him Cash, will he really become a truck driver or a rodeo guy like the baby book said he might?
Saturday my aunts on my dad's side threw me a BEAUTIFUL shower at my aunt's house in Heber. So many people came and this baby and I got spoiled. Look how great just the table looked!
