Baby Update & Predictions

January 9, 2008 in Uncategorized | No comments

Ok, so I know, I haven’t blogged in a long time.  Again.  Whatever.

Here’s an update on our pregnancy/baby status:  The baby and mom are  healthy, we are at just about 29 weeks, so there’s not much time left to go (about 3 months).  We’ve gone for our first ultrasound (about 6-7 weeks ago) and the doctors and technician were very happy. 

We tried to go to UC Baby to get some 3d/4D (3D + time) photos & video, but the baby was being very uncooperative.  We will be going back again next Thursday to try again.  They said they will try 2-3 times before they give up (We’d only end up paying a sitting fee).  We got the baby’s heartbeat on a bear, but we really want the pictures to show it when it gets older. 

We do NOT want to know the baby’s sex.  We will be happy with either.  we have names picked out for both. though my sister stole our girls name, we may use it anyway.  people may find that strange, but I don’t really care, its a name we both love and we can actually agree on.

We are pretty set when it comes to clothes, and we have a basinet, but we still have to buy a crib & change table (and start stocking up on diapers, and other essentials).  We will probably get the crib this month, we just have to find one we like.

We are also hunting for a good used car, preferably of foreign make (I am a bit against domestics), so If you know anyone with a year 2000+ car for sale at a reasonable price (read: sub 10k), let me know.

We’ve been taking pre-natal classes, which for Rhonda is a complete waste of time (She’s been a nanny for 12 years and was a doula for 2).  I also find them a bit of a bore, they only go over what you’ve already read in books.  I was hoping they would get more into the "what-ifs", etc.  Or go over local resources, where to get things, etc.  That’s the stuff I don’t know.

At the first class however, we got a predictions quiz, and I finally got Rhonda to fill her’s out.  So here’s our answers, we’ll see how close we were when the baby is born:

Predictions Rhonda Christien
Date of Birth March 25 - Afternoon March 25 - Morning
Gender Male Male
Weight 7lb 4oz 9lb 4oz
Hair Colour Brown Blond
Amount of Hair Not Much Average
Type of Hair Short/Straight Straight
Eye Colour Brown * Brown
Head Shape Oval Oval
Behaviour N/A Calm, Sleepy
Resemblance Christien Mix
Boy Name Jack Jack Francis
Girl Name Isobel Isobel Reilly

* Rhonda pointed out that almost all baby’s are born with blue eyes that change colours with a short period of time.

Neither of us saw the other’s answers.  I just saw hers now as I was typing them in.  My answers were hidden from her as well.  Its pretty cool that we both answered so similarly, the only thing we’ve really discussed in the names.  Neither of us really has a good gut feeling on the sex, so we both just guessed.

It’ll be neat after the baby is born to see how close/far we were from reality.

Anyway, I gotta get back to work.

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