Endgame

Between reading Ina May's Guide to Childbirth and spending 3 hours meeting with our doula last night, we've got the actual birth of our baby on the mind lately. Last two nights I've had dreams about the baby being born - in one, it was a boy instead of the girl we were expecting. Last night, I dreamed that we had twins and my husband and a friend named them without consulting me. In both, my brain skipped over the actual labor part of the experience, straight to the prize at the end.

Despite all my high hopes of finishing the mural yesterday and being able to start putting together furniture and moving the baby stuff into the nursery, I made a painting mistake that will take 2-4 days to undo, and everything else is on hold. A big bummer.

In general, things continue to go well and I don't feel very slowed down. I have had to start power napping after every climbing session, but otherwise my body has been working correctly. We finally bought a new car, one with backseats, which was a project I was getting a little worried about. Once it arrives I will start messing with how to put the infant car seat in - from what I understand, that process is complicated enough that it may merit a blog entry all itself.