31 Weeks and counting!

Good lord this is flying by.  I always read these tidbits on pregnancy sites and posts on how it never seems that couples have everything set or done to what they were expecting to accomplish by the time Lil’ Bean arrives.   Well that’s inevitably going to be me as well, I suppose.

So here’s what’s been going on in JenBebeLand –

I’ve been laying low and trying to come to grips with this new eating regimen and trying to keep my blood glucose steady for the past week and a half.  My nerdiness paid off by making Excel spreadsheets of my diet and blood readings – nutrionist said I didn’t have to see her anymore, but just to continue on the same course of action;  midwife was *very impressed with my healthy-diet-obsessive behavior and cut me down to only 2 blood tests per day (woo hoo!), and even showed the receptionist the product of my overachievement.  I haven’t been this proud of myself since I got an A+ on a dissertation I wrote on “Taxi Driver” for a film class in college.  QUITE the accomplishment, I might add.   And hey – I even made it through my birthday dinner and dessert at Madeline’s without a spike in blood sugar! YAY ME!!

Last night, Anthony and I took a tour of the CayugaMedicalCenter maternity facility to get a good look at where in two months I’d be presumably screaming/swearing/offending random passersby, and subsequently ogling our new little bundle of poopy joy!  The tour really set my mind at ease, as the ward was fantastically calm, the staff was super attentive, and the rooms were an absolute blessing to behold.  Not at all as I imagined – no doubt from years of misrepresentation from bad romantic comedies – it was not the bright fluorescent lighted environment I feared it might be.  Nice lighting, comfortable accommodations, and WOW that calm tub room that was fit to be part of a spa.

One thing that got me though was that it was so CALM there (I know I’ve said that a few times now, but seriously…) and Anthony commented to our guide that it was like a ghost town.  I asked her, “Are there even any mothers here right now?” She said that there were like 6 moms/babies there at the moment in the post-partum section, as she motioned to all the doors around us.  THAT made me even more at ease… all these mommies and bebes, sleeping soundly all around us, all well tended to and content.  I like that.

Now let me just take my rose-colored glasses off for one second, as I’m sure it’s perhaps not ALWAYS like that, at least in the hallways, as I would fully be the one loudly losing my composure while being wheeled in there in the throes of labor…  but from what we saw I was impressed.

Next step, a childbirth class, which I’ve yet to sign up for.  Oh boy, this should be interesting.