A Whole New Experience.....

Tonight we have a newborn class, this will teach us the basics such as diapering, burping, bathing and all that fun stuff. Neither Chuck or I have really had the opportunity to be around newborns so this will be a really good class for us.

My weekly update...
Your baby is still packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an ounce a day. She now weighs almost 6 pounds (like a crenshaw melon) and is more than 18 1/2 inches long. She's shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered her body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that covered and protected her skin during her nine-month amniotic bath. Your baby swallows both of these substances, along with other secretions, resulting in a blackish mixture, called meconium, will form the contents of her first bowel movement.

At the end of this week, your baby will be considered full-term. (Full-term is 37 to 42 weeks; babies born before 37 weeks are pre-term and those born after 42 are post-term.) Most likely she's in a head-down position. But if she isn't, your practitioner may suggest scheduling an "external cephalic version," which is a fancy way of saying she'll try to coax your baby into a head-down position by manipulating her from the outside of your belly.

The fun thing that I have had to deal with this week is our crib! We ordered our crib on July 16th and we were quoted a 12-16 week lead time. I have been calling since 12 weeks and each time they have told me it would be in the first week in November. So I call on Monday and they tell me it will be another 3 weeks, but can't even promise that. Well that puts us at my due date and that just made me mad. I know she won't be sleeping in this crib when we first bring her home but I want the nursery to be done, I want to hang things on the walls but I can't do that until the crib gets here and we know it fits where we think it should fit! Due to the issues we have had USA Baby is providing a "loaner" crib, which I think is totally stupid but at the same time it will give me an idea of how the nursery can look and I can get everything put together and hung on the walls. The one nice thing about all of this hassle is now USA Baby will also be bringing us our crib whenever it decides to come in and putting it together for us! The loaner crib is scheduled to be delivered to us on Friday so hopefully I can take pictures this weekend!