15 weeks and 4 days today.
Been having strange dreams lately. I dreamed we had 3 boys at one time and then I insisted we leave the hospital immediately. Then another night I dreamed my car kept stalling on the railroad tracks. Last night I dreamed I had the baby but left him at home while I went on this trip with half the people from church. I wanted to hurry home to feed him but everyone was taking their time and we all road on a bus together. Very strange.
We are debating hospital or birthing center for the birth of this baby. The only thing that has been decided is that I will tour both (with Kendra) and make a decision. At that point Mark will just go along with it. So if I decide birthing center none of the ones in the DFW area are covered by our insurance so I will have to go through the process of certifying the one I want to use so they will pay for it. I think it just might be worth the headache. Not thrilled with my current doctor as she just rushes me in and out. I have no idea how much weight I'm supposed to gain, what should be happening with the baby and me from week to week or anything. The only exception is that I have googled all that so I don't have to ask her a ton of questions she should have already given me answers to. My personal opinion anyway. So the reason for the birthing center is for several reasons: I hate hospitals, I don't want to be bullied by well meaning nurses who are just doing what they are told to do, I don't want to be stuck in a hospital for 24 hours after birth just because that is their stupid rule, I'm not planning to take any drugs, and the birthing center has a whirlpool tub in the room. Oh and a birthing center is much cheaper. Sounds like a perfect place to me. The only thing Mark (and me a little too) is concerned about is what happens in an emergency? But that is just a question I will have to ask when I go visit. I have already read their reviews and they can handle things like breach babies and even cords wrapped around the neck. What more could go wrong? I have been perfectly healthy up to this point.
I'm getting bigger and bigger by the day (if not the hour). I have not gained any weight so far and am at 15 weeks, but my stomach is huge already. I went shopping for maternity clothes yesterday. I got the cutest gray cargo pants ever and a pair of black pants for work and 2 t-shirts. A good enough start I guess. I already have a few things from a friend too.
While I have told my boss, the other supervisors and my 2 departments, the rest of the company is slowly finding out about this pregnant woman through the old fashioned way....Gossip and the rumor mill! One lady insisted I was pregnant to another lady. The other lady insisted I'm too stuck on my looks and am too obsessed with being skinny to actually let a baby invade my body, so I must just be bloated. So that's what she really thinks. Lovely!!! Well, I'm not too obsessed or bloated. LOL. I just think one should take care of themselves no matter the situation...prego or not. I guess I could have made some sort of announcement at one of our Monday meetings, but honestly at this point it is pretty funny to hear what people really think.
9 days until we leave for Ohio and tell the parents. I'm really going to have to select creative outfits that hide this belly for 3 whole days until Hannah's graduation is over. If my belly was not so rounded I could just get away with weight gain. A sweatshirt in May??? Ok, so I still need to figure this out. To make it worse I believe a swimming pool is involved for 1 of the days. Oh my!
That is just a few things that have happened lately.
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