37 Weeks

Today I am 37+4 (wks+days) along in this pregnancy. I’ve become more and more uncomfortable as the days go on … the end is near!

Sleep is difficult, getting comfy in bed is super-difficult. It’s hard to get up from lying down, and hard to get up from sitting on the couch, and hard to get out of the tub … ugh.

Things have been such like that for over a month, but ramped up of late. Am I waddling yet? My hubby might think so at times, I’m not sure. Waddling comes with the baby moving down –engaging, lightening are some terms for it. I just la-la-la through it all and know that it’s what it is and that is whatever it is and I just roll with it. 😉

Baby is quite active often, and that is getting more-so un-comfy too. Pokes and prods and pressure are super duper.

Now then, as for names: we haven’t really sat down to truly discuss any yet, sort of rambled about “what was the girl name we had picked out for our last pregnancy that turned out to be a boy?” — but haven’t had a serious consideration at all, not even nominally so, about boy names this time around –yet.

There are ideas I have, for a boy, for using family names in the middle maybe, but going away from the tradition that our family unit has used for our two boys thus far. So our two boys have a first and middle name, and then if this baby is a boy he might have a first and middle, and another middle name? Nah, not good. But to use a “family name” as a middle name and not use the traditon of middle name that we have used (some sort of Christian male name of a past prolific Christian) would seem odd to me, but I’d like to honor the family line I have in mind.

For a girl, we have a name, but I’m not sure we want to use it (the one we picked out 7 years ago.) I am sure about the sort of middle name, but not certain about a first name, and then some first names I would consider mightn’t go with the middle name, but there are other choices in the tradition I am using for girl middle names, so it’s not really a problem to use another name, but I tend toward names for girls that hubby turns his nose at.

A certainty is though, no “J” or “G” names. I don’t like them much for us. Not many “M” names are nice (and yeah, I’m an “M” myself …) I don’t like plain names like I have, or hubby has. I don’t like naming something that other people around us have, I like odd names, distinct, different, but nice.

So that is all something we need to solve in the next few weeks. (Before or after baby is born.)

I did order some DSQ Infant diapers today. Also 2 Stacinator wool covers. That will get us through the beginning some, but I’ll need something else in the “cover” department. The Stacinators are pricey, but worth their price due to how they work, needing less of them than “other” types of covers, but they don’t “fit” for very long, so … I’m mixing myself up over what to do.

I have one small RikkiWrap in small, which is a Mother-Ease velcro type cover. I haven’t found any other covers in small yet, from my mass of clothing stashed in the garage that may or may not be in good condition anymore.

I did find one of my Aristocrat Wool Soakers, but it’s a larger one, somewhat shrunk, but not shrunk enough for a newborn. I do have a small one somewhere, and it’s super shrunk, and I want to find it, it would be perfect for a newborn since it’s “shrunk” so much (whereas a new small Aristocrat wouldn’t work well on a newborn, mostly.)

The thing about getting ready for baby is that I don’t know how big this baby will be, and no one really does know until their baby is born, and then to see how much they grow and fat up in the first month. Will the Stacinators work out for long enough, or should I get the next largest size in reality. Maybe I should have ordered just ONE of the smaller size. My first baby was 9lbs at birth, and the next two were like 8.6 and 8.0 –> which kind of means … what will this one be? More or less? My last was smaller than the first two and stayed more “normal” all along, whereas the first two were big and beefy, the first one from birth, and the second one got going with that baby fat after a month old.

I did get the prefold diapers to use however seems right, without pins with a wrap type cover, or with the Stacinator covers. I could pin, would need to pin, under an Aristocrat type soaker cover, or other snap type covers (which I do have ME versions in larger sizes.) I do have 9 snap ME diapers, which can  go under any cover. The prefolds can be doublers later on in most any diaper setup.

So it’s really about covers, for me right now. I’m in a quandry, not having a surety about what to do in preparation. I can get other things later, I’m mostly unsure about how it will be in the first weeks … oh well.