Have you taken a moment to look at that baby ticker on the menu area? Does that say I have less than four weeks left until I become a member of the parenting awesome children society? Where has these past 35+ weeks gone? I swear I was just breaking the news on my blog that I was pregnant.

My pregnancy has been pretty rock solid, besides the small bump in the road that I talked about previously. That bump has not even been spoken of nor thought of since that week in time. Why should it bother us? Our baby does not going to have a tail! As well as the fact that all other tests and visual inspections in ultrasound point to a baby who is developing “normally” as it’s legs are in the 60%ile so “average height” (I would think, or on the shorter side?) and the only downer is that little baby bumble bee’s head is in the 80%ile (It has a big smart brain!) Though these numbers were from my 19 week ultrasound so who knows somebody might have had a crazy growth spurt and have even longer legs, and hopefully not a larger head.

I have been having lots of people ask me what I like most about being pregnant, well I would have to say I like the fact that I am able to grow and develop a living thing. Just that thought of how it all goes down, the egg, the sperm the magic between mommma & dadda results 40 weeks later with an amazing new human being. I often “forget” that I am 35+ weeks pregnant, as I just feel so good, it is not until I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror or see my own shadow that I realize just how pregnant I really am, or perhaps I am reminded that I am actually pregnant with the fact I have a very active bladder jumper and I feel like I have to use the bathroom all the time (I actually always seem to be in there). I love the feeling of every bump, jump, kick, flip, hiccup, punch, stretch etc. It is truly an amazing feeling that I will never grow tired of feeling (& I’ll miss it once it is all over with) I even enjoy the “big” kicks, the foot under my right rib cage, the little baby bum that rises on my upper left of my stomach. I swear it likes doing that when people are talking about the baby.

What I have not been enjoying? That would be simple, the multiple midnight bladder emergencies, the lack of ability to sleep peacefully and the fact I cannot roll over without feeling like a whale, late night heartburn. As well as the recent swelling I have been getting in my legs and ankles. Though I guess that is all apart of being pregnant now isnt it?

Last Sunday was my family & close friends baby shower. I had all my aunts from my dad & mom’s side of the family as well as all the aunties on Bryan’s side of the family getting together to celebrate my ability to grow a baby. There were even a few other random and great people there, from my sister in law’s mother in law, my female cousins, a few of my best friends… It was a really great time had by everyone. Not to mention the little baby bumble bee got some pretty wicked toys and well needed items. I’m in the middle of hand writing out all my thank you cards. If you got me something for the little one, your card is in the mail very soon.

Bryan and I finally got the babies room all set up, and ready to go. I just need to buy a few mattress covers as I don’t want leaky diapers to soak through to the nice mattress (icky!) as well as pick up crib sheets as well as a few odds and ends and the babies room will be ready for its arrival. I also planning on picking up a bassinet so we can have baby close to us in our bedroom until it gets the routine of life and can sleep the night.

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I saw this meme over at DeltaEchoZulu.com and thought it was a great idea! Besides the obvious, health, prosperity and peace to all my family and friends this holiday season I do have a few materialistic items on my list. I might as well make it known what I want.

Step One
Make a post to your blog, tumblr, facebook, myspace, what have you. The important thing is to make sure these wishes are things you really want and that people can see the post. If you wish for real possible things, make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it’s your address or just an email address at which you can be contacted by potential wish-grantors.

Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your post, so that the holiday joy will spread.

Step Two

Surf around your friends list/blogroll/RSS feeds (or friends friends, or just random places ) to see who has posted their list. If you have a list be sure to leave it in my comments section so I can view your wishes! If you see a wish you can grant, and it’s in your heart to do so, make someone’s wish come true. Sometimes someone’s trash is another’s treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don’t want or a gift certificate you won’t use–or even know where you could get someone’s dream purebred Basset Hound for free–do it.

Wishlist

If you happen to want to send me a gift, please email me at x@aidanwynn.ca or comment and I’ll be glad to send you my address. Thanks in advance!

• Disney DVD’s (used is fine)
• Tupperware freezer containers
• A new toaster (must fit a bagel)
• A BabyHawk Mei Tai Carrier
• Wii Points Card
• Cloth Diapers: Bummis Organic Cotton Newborn Pack (2),
• Gift Certificates: Babies “R” Us Canada, New & Green Baby Co.

So if you have posted your own wishlist on your blog or would like to send me a little something leave your comment below.

Other Bloggers Wishlists

Leave a comment and I’ll add your wishlist to this post.

I am still alive and well, just been busy working two jobs and growing a human being inside my uterus. I’m currently 34 weeks pregnant, and I have approx. 6 weeks left. It still surprises me just how much time we have left until I get to meet my little one as there is still so much to do around the house to get ready for its arrival.

I am just going to give pregnancy & live update using some bullets as there are some things I want to have documented before I forget the dates they happened.

• When I was 14 weeks I experienced some mild bleeding, and I went to my local ER to get everything checked out. After waiting over 4.5 hours to be seen by someone who could “confirm” that everything was ok. I got to see my little one for the first time on ultrasound. The technician was the nicest person I experienced that whole day, he even gave me a hug as well as gave me a long strip of pictures of the little one.
• A few weeks later (2 or 3) I got a phone call from my midwife saying that some blood work for genetic testing came back as a possible “positive for having a chance of down syndrome” I was given the odds of 1/200. When my age range for DS should be 1/1200. I was given basically 24 hour notice and was set up with yet another ultrasound, this one was more of a “dating” ultrasound to figure out just how far exactly I am along as that can skew the results of the genetic testing, even being off by a week. That was the moment my pregnancy became real to me.
• Bryan and I talked about our options and discussed the odds we were given. A half a percent chance, when you break it down. We went to the dating ultrasound and we are right on schedule for where baby should be at 16 weeks (?)
• The following week we got in for an appointment at the local Women’s Hospital where we had a genetic screening ultrasound done, where they looked at how the baby was developing and to see if there any visible genetic abnormalities. After that appointment we met with one of the top genetic specialists at the hospital, who went over our results and talked about what it means to have a special needs child, what our options were (abortion, do an amniocentesis to find out 100%, or keep) and just to talk about our feelings with her on the whole issue at hand. She had me crying on a few occasions, but I chalk it up to the obvious stress of the situation as well as the pregnancy hormones. She explained to us that the ultrasound showed no visible abnormalities, as well explained how my previous bleeding in my 14th week could cause the blood work for the genetics stuff to come up as a false positive. The women we talked with was very “doctor” and kept pushing that we should do a amniocentesis to find out for sure, and to put this issue to rest. When discussing the procedure turns out there is a 1/200 change of a miscarriage. We opted not to have the procedure done, we would rather not take the risk of something happening. It is our baby we will love it no matter what. Over the next few days Bryan and I talked some more and decided that all the signs (ultrasound good & the fact there are often many false positives for this type of test) that we will just continue on our happy little way, and decided against the amniocentesis

This past Thursday I had the day off due to a later afternoon midwife appointment, why I had the whole day off is beyond me, I’ll just blame my supervisor as he thinks these baby things are cheap and taking a whole day off without pay is beneficial to my financial gain. Oh well, I still enjoyed myself none the less running around town doing various errands and then meeting up with my belly buddy Lisa at the mall for some baby related shopping.

We walked around the mall for a while just window shopping and talking babies and what super power our babies might have. As Lisa had already finished her pre-wedding related shopping she was wanting to get some childrens books so her and her pre-husband could read books to their growing baby “Sprocket” as it can hear them right now and has been responding to their voices. I thought that this was an excellent idea for my own developing human to pick up a few new child related books that it can call its own, as some of you may or may not know my personal collection of children’s books are for my hands only! I don’t think I talk enough to my belly enough, but I do talk telepathically to it all the time so off to the book store we went.

I think I spent more time picking up random children’s books and reciting the first few pages, or giving a personal review and summary of just how awesome or awful the book actually is. I hope Lisa did not think I was to children’s literature crazy. I ended up picking up three great books. “Alligator Pie – Poems: Dennis Lee” “Good Night Vancouver – David J. Adams & Anne Rosen” and “Baby Beluga – Raffi”

I had to leave our shopping adventures earlier than I had wanted as I had to get to a midwife appointment and battle traffic which is never a fun thing to do on a beautiful hot summer day in Vancouver. My appointment went well, just general chit chat and getting to hear the Belly Bumble Bee’s heart beat again (it sounds like a train – chuga-chuga-chuga… I cant remember what my midwife said the bpm were, I was to busy listening to my little one), I go for yet another ultrasound next week (more on the previous ones at another time)

I had also bought a few baby clothes from Old Navy, I could not resist myself, as baby jeans are just to adorable to resist buying. Also do you realize how hard it is to find gender neutral baby clothing? It either has frills & lace, or has sports related rugged masculine theme to them. I do think these outfits can easily be worn by a little girl or little boy. Rock star Baby! Oh yeah!

Bryan and I went camping near the end of June, as with all the stresses of life, baby and always feeling like we are running around we we decided to go camping. We checked online at our regular campsites for availability, and of course knowing our luck everything we like is full. We had been talking about camping for a few weeks previously, even setting deciding on the date we would go, and of course we never did get ourselves organized to actually reserve a campsite. We did get around to seeing what was available only a few days before we planned on leaving, turns out the only camp ground within a reasonable driving distance was at Cultus. We both have never camped there before, nor did we want to as that area is very tourist oriented. We decided to book a spot as we just wanted to get away for the weekend.

Here are a few shots from that weekend…. more »