Lindsay, Liz, and I went to dinner the other night at Roaster’s and, man, do I wish I had tried this place years ago. So good! And, believe it or not, so much better than Boston Market!
The dinner conversation, as most of them are doing these days, rotated around the topic of the new baby. Everyone has advice; everyone has suggestions. My poor husband has no idea what he’s gotten us into, and even he has suggestions for me!
At this time, though, the topic of what’s-best-for-the-baby came up. I was amused to find a pretty high dichotomy within both Lindsay and myself. Lindsay is very much pro-organic foods and all natural products during the pregnancy but strongly supports the idea of a drugged labor and delivery. I, on the other, am concerned (but not overly) with going all organic and natural during the pregnancy but am determined to go through the labor and delivery without any drugs. Add on top of that Shane’s and my decision to circumcise any son we have, and it gets to be a bit funny. How on earth can we be pro-natural in one circumstance, but pro-medical in another?
Speaking of, I found the place that I want to deliver! It's called the Austin Area Birthing Center, and as soon as I found it on the internet, I knew I wanted to deliver there. They offer individualized birthing rooms with queen size beds and tubs for laboring and/or delivering. Since it's all midwifes, they'll also support my plan to go au naturel. For those worried, it's located no more than ten minutes from two major hospitals - and only ten minutes from Shane's and my new apartment. Not the best part but still incredibly awesome is that it's all-inclusive (minus the diagnostic ultrasound and lamaze classes) and it's less than $4000.
It has been nine days since we found out that we’d conceived a baby, and the changes in my body are already evident – at least to me. It’s true what they say: you’re never just a little bit pregnant. In the last week, I’ve noticed my breasts getting larger and my stomach rounding out. I feel fat most of the time right now and have already began losing muscle mass in my stomach – meaning that it’s no longer quite so easy to hold it in. You know that line that most females have, moving horizontally across their belly button? Where the skin folds over itself when you sit? Yeah, that’s disappearing too. Quickly.
To prove that I’m not just losing my mind, I took the following picture. I'm 4 weeks, 5 days in it. Please excuse how blurry it is; for some reason, my camera is acting up. It does this every once in a while, especially since Shane likes to take it out to shoot thunderstorms. :-)
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