The bean is growing.
We’re preparing like crazy for the birth. Hopefully things will continue to progress well and it will be ok to have it at home. Sherry wanted a birth pool to use during the labour, so I bought a nice little aquarium style one from Amazon the other night. It should arrive this week and then I’ll work out how I’m going to fill it with air and water while it’s in the middle of our sitting room.
We’ve been to some ante-natal classes, with highlights including the midwifes continued assurances that the babies wouldn’t just “fall out”, and an exclamation and apology from the same midwife because she hadn’t “finished knitting the uterus yet”. Oh my.
Sherry’s parents have bought us a heap of stuff, including our Pram/Buggy which we picked up on the weekend. Living where we do on a farm, and considering the nature of most of the walking we do (dirt tracks, fields), we needed something solid that was actually going to survive and work well, and the only one we really liked was the Jane Slalom Pro (ours is a nice dark navy colour).
This is how it looks with the travel system attached. The travel system comes off so that other standard attachments can be used when bean grows up a bit.
I also bought a car seat on Monday. We have an awkwardly shaped car with short seat belts, and most car seats just didn’t fit or weren’t considered “safe” enough. Fortunately after much drama we managed to get the one we wanted - a Britax First Class Si Pro. For the first 9 months it faces backwards, and then once bean gets to a certain age and size we can sit it up, turn it around and it becomes a normal forward facing car seat.
We’ve picked up a heap of clothes, a great little room thermometer that changes colour depending on the temperature (blue if it’s too cold, yellow if it’s ok, orange if it’s ok but a bit warmer, and then red if it’s too hot). Isn’t technology amazing?
There are quite a few things we’re hoping to get at some point. Things like this and this and especially this. Eventually we’ll also want to get some of these and these and these.
With a dog about the house, I’ll also have to look at getting a reasonably solid playpen so that bean can lay down without fear of vicious dog snuggles and licks. How horrible! I really like the look of this one from Mothercare.
For bedding, the cot size versions of the fitted sheets and other “bedding stuff” will probably come in handy.
We both love the Doomoo seats too! Beanbags are always great.
Other than that, the only other thing I think we need is a change bag. As I’ll probably be the one who has to carry it around, I’m thinking that something like this one would do ok.
So there you have it. A brief summary of the current bean situation, including some details about what we have bought, and a few things we might need in the future. Now it’s just a case of working out whether to live blog or tweet the birth!
