Our baby will be here in two months. We’re getting prepared. Researching topics like bed-sharing and co-sleeping, cloth diapering, birth plans, circumcision, vaccines, and breastfeeding. We started our 8-week Bradley Birthing Course last week. I think that will be a wonderful resource for us. The instructor is knowledgeable, but makes us feel comfortable. It is an intimate setting with four other couples. We have one nurse and one doctor in the bunch, which I found comforting. It made us feel less crazy for wanting a natural birth experience.
My mom gave us our first shower last week and we were blessed with so many wonderful gifts! We are feeling much more prepared with some of the “essentials”.
Here is a photo of the diaper cake mom made for us. It was hilarious…it was stuffed with cloth and disposable diapers along with every imaginable baby necessity crammed in every crevice. When I got it home and started looking inside it, it was like Mary Poppin’s carpet bag! Things just kept coming and coming!
Our midwife has also been a critical part of our preparation. At our last prenatal visit, she instructed us on how to make the bed for the birth and where to order our home birth kit. (She also informed us that I have the “perfect pelvis” for giving birth…haha…Leo hasn’t let that one go!)
This is when things are really beginning to sink in. In just a little while we will have a little person in our home! We are getting very excited. We can’t wait to meet the little Snyder/Kempf combination.
31 weeks pregnant
Two months! Yay!!!
you are SO CUTE!!! bahhhh!
Oh, yay. By the time we actually meet, there’ll probably be three of you!
Love the diaper cake and that we both used Mary Poppins’ carpet bag as a means of comparison this week.
Yay for cloth diapering, and supportive classes, and two months to go!
OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHmygoodness, you are too cute!!!
We so wanted to do the Bradley Method and we visited a birth center and everything. Then we had trouble conceiving and needed fertility and ended up winning the 10% lottery and became pregnant with twins. The birth center wouldn’t take a twin pregnancy and it turns out it didn’t matter anyway because they were both transverse and would never have made it out of me. BUT…all those natural childbirth techniques I had researched were handy while I was waiting the 15 hours of my labor for my c-section! Good luck!