Congrats! What a wonderful joy!
Thank you everyone! Yes, the technology that is available for us to be able to see and hear our babies while they are still inside is incredible. I’m still reeling from the fact that even though my baby’s heart isn’t fully formed yet, it’s still beating, and I could hear it!
I thought I posted a reply yesterday but I think it got lost in the “you are not logged in” quagmire, and at that time I was in queasy mode so I didn’t follow through.
OKAY, is my spelling ability supposed to go out the window this early? I know that as the pregnancy progresses, you develop “mommy brain” (ie spaciness), but I cannot spell worth a crap anymore! Everything is taking twice as long because I have to go back and correct things! This can’t happen, you see, because I am the human dictionary! Everybody comes to me on how to spell things! Noooooooo!
Got that out of my system. RedElvis, I wonder how my other ‘kids’ are going to react to an infant- I have 5 cats, one of whom is my “baby”. We recently took care of our 14-month-old niece for a weekend, and 2 of the cats hid the whole time, 2 were indifferent, and my ‘baby’ overcame her fear enough to hang out with us and let my niece pet and hug her. Until the kid started to get excited about the “soft kitty!”, then she ran away. I call this cat my baby because I got her when she was 2 weeks old, bottle fed her, wiped her butt, burped her, taught her how to eat solid food, etc. For all intents and purposes, I’m her mom- I’m not sure if she thinks she’s a furry human, or I’m a not-furry cat! I wonder about her most of all- will she get jealous, because she is used to crawling in bed with me and sitting with me and all. She loves my husband too, though, so she can get lovins from him too.
MsRobyn, I was wondering if that book was any good. I’ll have to check it out. I like Your Pregnancy Week By Week, because it has drawings each week of how big the fetus is, and tells you how it’s growing. That’s been helpful in involving my husband- I think he feels so helpless when I’m feeling yucky because there’s nothing he can do, really. And to be able to say, “Look, honey, this is how big our little sprout is this week!” has been good. I’ve been calling it “the little sprout” because I read that blastocyst means ‘sprout pouch’. (For those of you that don’t know, the fertilized egg is referred to as a blastocyst during the period right before it burrows into the uterine lining, then it becomes an embryo.)
I’ve got a lot of different pregnancy and delivery books. The one I like least is What to Expect When You’re Expecting, because it’s tone seems to be Follow This Advice Or Else! It still has good information, but it’s like the friend who tells you every horror story they know.
Pregnancy for Dummies was also made into a series of specials for the Discovery Health Channel, which is how I found out about it. The book itself is really nice because it doesn’t have that alarmist tone. It doesn’t short-shrift problems, and it does tell you what to call the doctor about, but at the same time, doesn’t overload you with information about stuff that’s statistically rare. It’s also information and advice for dads, and a whole section for them as well.
Robin