Time seems to be flying by me these days! I think last week Ryan and I were only home one night together. Among our activites, I went to an Infant/Child CPR class at the hospital that was very education and informative – let’s hope I don’t need to use my skills on Linden and that if I do, I will remember everything This Saturday we have an all day child birth education class and next week is my breastfeeding class and then we’re done with our hospital baby education!

About 20 ladies at the hospital got together and threw me a baby shower at work, which was very sweet and we had a great time together! Even a couple of the vendors that I work with regularly came…everyone wore pink and my boss had a lot of the nursing staff wear pink scrubs that day – how cute is that?! Ironically, I was the only one not in pink… I am continually blessed by all of the sweet folks at the hospital who stop by to see how I’m doing or bring me little gifts for Linden – even people that I don’t know (our hospital has 1600 employees).

I have been trying to finish things up in the nursery. At this point we’re just waiting for the changing table & dresser to come in, but they have been out of stock for several weeks now, so hopefully we’ll be able to get those in soon and finish putting things together and I will get some pics posted. Ryan made some paintings last week to go with her bedding and they turned out so good! He is such a talented guy and it was a very sweet surprise to come home and find him with his masterpieces. What a great Daddy! (Although he would say the paintings were for Mommy, not Linden )

Overall, I feel great these days. In the past week or so I have had several days where I felt like I had no energy, but for the most part I feel good. There have been no more instances of foot swelling, so we’ll chalk that horrible incident up to my sunburn and pray that I continue to have normal feet. I am now going to the doctors once a week until she is born and I just had a doctor’s appointment on Monday. Dr. H. said that things look great, that I’m doing awesome and that Linden’s heartbeat is strong. At the time of my appointment Linden was head down like she should be for birth, and Dr. H. said that we hope that she stays that way, although at this point she could still move around a little.

I am kicked and hit constantly by her movements, which are comforting. When she gets really crazy moving in the evenings I usually go and sit in the nursery and rock just a bit and that usually calms her movements down so that I can sleep. My sleeping is really not that great these days and I figure that is nature’s way of preparing me for when Linden is here. Although, I will say that I am very eager to give the Mom’s on Call 3-night rule a try as soon as she is 2 weeks old. From this book I have read, the Mom’s on Call say that any baby can begin sleeping through the night once they are 2 weeks old. Some readers may be thinking that I am a crazy naive first-time mom, which I’m sure is true, but I am seriously planning to give the Mom’s on Call plan a shot. I have other friends who have successfully implemented this and I hope I can too. I will write more about it in detail when I actually try it out.