My current obsession: my baby registry. I do not know why I am obsessed with my baby registry.<\/i> There are things I can’t\/won’t add until we get our “big” ultrasound. There are many things that I am unsure of, like clothes, because people get you clothes anyways, whether you want them to or not. I am irritated with the BRU “checklist” and have gone through it meticulously and crossed about half the items off. My shower won’t be until at least<\/i> christmas. My shower here in the states – where people can use the registry – won’t be until Jan\/Feb.<\/p>\n
And yet, here I am, obsessing. I have never done this before. And as much as I am excited to have this whole list just for my baby – MY BABY – and I am thrilled beyond belief that all this cool stuff will be someday in my house, being used by my baby – I am also panicking because I feel like I don’t know what I’m doing.<\/p>\n
Reviews can be somewhat helpful. Somewhat, because there are loads of items where half the people LOVE it and half the people HATE it. Really no way to know until I get there, and I can’t exactly try out a breast bump beforehand, if you know what I mean. There are things like swings and bouncers and bottles that is totally up to the baby.<\/p>\n
I am obsessed with finding the best<\/i>. And by that I don’t mean the most expensive all-organic. I mean items that work well and reliably, and a decent cost. I want things that look nice, without being pretentious. To show you how far I am going with this – I read reviews and debated over a bottle brush<\/i>. An item that a) I only plan on using as an emergency (since I want to 100% breastfeed) and b) costs all of $2.<\/p>\n
I’m also entirely annoyed with BRU Canada. You see, all my<\/i> family lives in Canada. We’re going there at christmas and there is a very good chance people will buy us (the baby) stuff. So I thought, hey, why not create a registry on BRU Canada to make things easier! Sounds great right? WRONG. First problem: everything is marked up by about one and a half times the US cost. Which is a serious problem, because the Canadian dollar is ON PAR with the US dollar right now. And it pisses me the fuck off that my family lives 5 minutes from the border and could try 15 minutes to a mall to buy stuff for me at 2\/3 the cost they could in their home down. Fuck you, BRU Canada. Second problem: BRU Canada’s website SUCKS. It’s the same website as the US version except they have NOTHING ON IT. They list a tiny tiny amount of items. I found a couple of bottles that I have on my registry, and that’s it. Nothing else, except the big gear items that are far to effing expensive up there.<\/p>\n
I feel like my obsessions are just going to keep happily flopping along, switching from thing (cleaning) to thing (registry) until this baby comes and I can stop freakin nesting. Yes, this is my version of nesting.<\/p>\n
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In much better news, I went shopping yesterday and, for the very first time since I purchased my bella band, bought maternity clothes. I have been relying on that bella band since about week 6, in order to fit into my jeans and my dress pants. It’s still working fine, it just gets annoying. It STILL insists on sliding up my back whenever I sit down, showing my underwear. Irritating. So I went out and bought some maternity pants. I found out that there are several types<\/i> of maternity pants. The above-the-belly waist bands, which I tried on before, are aweful<\/i> They don’t fit me now, and I venture to say that I will still hate them even when they do fit. But there are under-the-belly<\/i> styles. Nice small elastic waist. Voila! Fitting jeans! They fit me in the ass and the hips! And the waist!! Hallelulia. I think I’m keeping these pants for my “fat days.” Why did nobody tell me about them before? They could totally have helped me with all those horrible bloating days during IVF. Anyways. One new pair of pants, $25, at Motherhood Maternity. I am very pleased with that.<\/p>\n
I also bought two 2-shirts and 2 sweaters. I love the sweaters. One’s a turtleneck, the other not. VERY comfy, very warm… and very long. A little too long at the moment, but Den’s first comment was, “Finally! I’ve been trying to get you to wear longer shirts for years!” Apparently he doesn’t appreciate all my so-small-and-very-shrunken t-shirts that I still own and insist on wearing. Hmph.<\/p>\n
Plus I bought a bra. Now I have a small issue with the bra, because she measured me at a 32E. o.O Of course, they do not carry anything close to a 32E. Plus, my current band size is 36 and it is a tad too tight, so I don’t know WTF she did. Anyways, she got me a bunch of 36Ds to try on, and I bought a very comfortable, padded, no-underwire nursing bra…… however it doesn’t *quite* fit me yet. (Den helpfully pointed this out when I got home.) However, I’m not entirely upset by this, because it is obvious these boobs are growing, and will keep growing. I have no doubt I’ll be fitting into that D-cup in a couple of months. And until I do, my C-cup is working fine. And some may say that it’s foolish to buy a nursing bra (which are very comfortable, btw!) when you don’t have to. But you know what? Nursing bra was $18. My current bra, which has no fancy nursing function? Was $30. So I’m not complaining.<\/p>\n
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I think that is all from my brain tonight. I kind of wish that the exhaustion would come back, so my brain could stop spinning off its wheels.<\/p>\n
Oh, plus I made my next appointment with the new midwives. They only had a few slots open for mid-november, so I didn’t even bother asking about next week, lol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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