Birthing Class and More

A little less than 6 weeks (40 days to expected due date which happens 5% of time) to go and I think we both are starting to get real excited and nervous about the arrival of Amabo. I know SC will be glad to have her ribs back to herself. I can’t imagine what she is going through but she is being a real trooper. We had a baby shower this past weekend in Asheville. The generosity that our friends and families have shown throughout this process has been simply incredible, thank you, thank you, thank you! We got some many great and wonderful gifts that they would not fit in the car and will have to be transported to Raleigh at a later time. We have a large car and a rooftop carrier yet had to leave stuff in Asheville. I refused to overcrowd the dogs in the back and Sarah was adamant that we could not leave her mother in Asheville. We can never express how thankful we are to all the folks around us during this time in our lives.

With new gifts there will come a new inventory. Not sure if we mentioned that, we have inventoried all of her clothes to see what gaps we have and what we need to fill and see what we are missing and need to get. There is a doctors appointment on Wednesday and after I think they increase in frequency to one a week. I am working a photography project her room. I am taking pictures of stuff in the world that looks like letter of the alaphabet and we plan to spell her name out in framed pictures. This has been a real fun project and I hope it turns out well.

Birthing class has been fun and enjoyable so far. Our teacher is this old and crazy (in a good way) lady and it is weird to hear talk about birth. On top of that she has a lazy eye and I never know which one to look at when she talks. We told her about Amabo being in a breech position and she talked to us during a break and gave us some off the record remedies that we may be able to use to entice Amabo to flip; off the record of course. One involves a Chinese Roman candle of some sort and touching your pinky toe. There was one that had SC putting an ice pack on Amabo's noggin side of her stomach while holding something warm at the the other end to encourage her to flip. We will let you know what method we use and the resutls. We watched the birthing video and I was not that impressed, I thought it would be a little more graphic. The tour of the hospital was informative; Rex is clearly the best place to have a kid in the area. The place is so secure that the kid will have an anklet and bracelet (hopefully only time she will have to wear these) and if she gets too close to the exits of the birthing center the place goes automatically on lockdown. Doors lock and no one is able to get out to the situation is resolved. Tonight’s class is a simulation of what will be going on during the process so we will see how that goes. That's about all for now, its getting more real everyday and I get goosebumps thinking that good lord willing, I will be holding her soon.