Hope everyone is doing good! I might not be around as much (obsessively
) as usual because I just figured out we're leaving for beach in two weeks and I still have school to do! Time to get this house cleaned and pull out the summer clothes. Time flies when you're pregnant!
Oh, and if anyone is *FACEBOOK* friends with ZPT her husband posted baby info. I'm sure she'll be by soon enough to let us know, though.
Have fun at the beach - that sounds like fun! Good to hear ZPT had her baby, hopefully she posts soon with pics! I really need to get on FB one of these days.
Everything is great. Baby is measuring right on target, a solid heartrate of 178bpm and was wriggling around today when they did the ultrasound....that was very cool
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That's great news!
Is anyone here looking at or made the decision to do cord blood banking?
I looked at it with DS, and like many others couldn't get past the cost. If we had the money, I would probably do it, but we don't.
I checked the link KPM posted about donating, but it's not an option anywhere in my state - I wonder why that is?
I don't really have strong feelings about it one way or the other since I don't really understand the equipment involved in the way DH does!
This is the way I felt with circumcision when I was pg DS. DH has one and I don't, so I let him make the decision. I checked AAP info, and they didn't make a recommendation either way, so I left it up to DH. We did not end up circumcizing DS, because DH is not circumcized and he wanted them to be the same. DH's brother had a son 3 weeks before us and their son's boy part never fully came out (looked like a turtle), so it was painful for him. I don't think they had the "new" way of doing it, though. One of my friends that used our same pediatrician in IL had it done the "new" way on both of her sons and said they did great and didn't seem to be in any pain after it was done.
Also, we take no extra steps to clean his *****. We wash it just like the rest of his body: we don't pull the skin back, which is what a lot of people have asked me! Finally, in my son's preschool class there were 8 boys, 6 girls. None of the boys were circumcised---I could not believe it! I thought we were the only ones, so I was very relieved to know that he was not the sole kid!!!
We don't pull DS's skin back either to clean, though I think the ped has done it a few times just to make sure everything is ok. What a funny conversation to have at a pre-school class!
We are leaving on a quick road trip tonight to pick up our new bulldog puppy tomorrow morning. I am excited, and hoping I can have him potty trained by the time Colton arrives!
Congrats on the new puppy! I don't know much about bulldogs, but we had our beagle puppy potty trained within less than 2 weeks, I want to say. She was figuring it out by the 3rd day home or so.
We're also going to be getting a new puppy the first weekend in May. We lost ours this past November and had already put a deposit down on one before we found out I was pregnant so we would be potty-training during the summer when it's a little easier. I'm excited to get our little Abby (she's an australian terrier) but probably would have waited had I had any idea I would end up getting pregnant so quickly after it taking forever!!
Abby was the name of my dog growing up!
Supposedly my father had named her after some gangster Abigail Hoffman
Congrats on your new puppy!
Oh, I started that thread.
I remember when that thread was started - there was a previous "new mom" thread that I was a member of from when DS was born, and we all felt old when you started that thread so we changed our name to "toddler moms"
I called my Dr. because the kicking baby is doing feels wierd; then I had a little cramping after lunch (no bleeding or anything, but it worried me). Now I think the cramping might have been gas...it is pretty much gone. Oh well, I'm sure they will think I am psycho, and I'm sure I was calling over nothing, but better safe than sorry!
Did you get to talk to the doc? What did they say? I hope the cramping is gone for good!
I'm exhausted too. The darn phone woke me up 2 mornings in a row. I always panic at first because I immediately think it's an emergency with a family member (DH primarily.) No, its some kind of crap, every time.
Ugh, they're doing construction in our neighborhood, and start building @ 6 AM every day, which always wakes me up. Stupid DH & DS still manage to sleep until 8 which drives me crazy!
Oh well, we'll be back soon enough...but it will stink to be so close and yet so far 
I try to avoid it, or I just say my peace and probably offend people and leave, lol. But yeah, the holier-than-thou thing is a little much for me. I'm SO far from perfect, I just do what I gotta do and that's that. "Perfect" isn't even in my vocabulary.
AND I got to schedule my big u/s - April 27th! 12 days away - I'm so excited! 
Then, maybe, it wouldn't be as expensive because so many people would be doing it. 
