I am 33 Weeks as of Friday and have less than 50 days until the due date. I can't believe how fast it is coming. People keep telling me that soon I will be tired of being pregnant and want it to be over. I still have a little ways to go, but I am very happy to keep the baby inside where I don't have to worry about him.
The past week or so we have been keeping very busy finding a doula. A great website www.doulamatch.net was recommended to me. I figured that 3 would be a good number to interview so I emailed 3 doulas to start and all of them emailed me back to say that they were already booked or we were out of there coverage area. I emailed 3 more and only one of them was available. I decided to email 4 more expecting that some of them wouldn't work out. this time all of them were interested. So we got to meet 5 awesome doulas and we loved them all. I made fact sheets for each doula that had their pros and cons listed to help us make the decision . We ended up going with a woman named Jennifer who we both really liked and felt really comfortable with. Her website is www.bellytobabies.com and a link to a snippet on doula benefits is http://www.dona.org/mothers/why_use_a_doula.php for those of you who might not know what a doula does. Tomorrow we will start the process of interviewing pediatricians.
Lots of nesting still to do with the house, but the nursery is almost cleaned out. Just have to find a few more nooks and crannies to put all the stuff that used to be in that room. Then we can start the setting up and decorating which will be much more fun.
The 33 week report: Buddy is over 4 pounds and around 17 inches from head to toe. His skeleton is starting to harden and he is rapidly gaining weight. I am also rapidly gaining weight now that you mention it, but I am still comfortable.
Stephen Says: Buddy is moving around a lot now, and when Lauren asks me to feel her belly I don't have to wait for 5 minutes for something to happen anymore. He stretches a lot and moves around a ton, and I can't believe she deals with that all day long every day.
That's all to report for now.
1 comment:
YOU CAN DO IT! So close! Doulas are great. We used ours a lot before and after our birth and a little bit during :). If it wasn't for our doula yelling at the ER staff at the hospital who wanted me to pee in a cup when I checked in, I would have had the baby in the ER instead of in the birth wing. And don't worry about the baby room, you won't really use it until the baby is a little bit older anyway. It's not like he's going to trip over furniture when he's a week old.
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