WOW! Welcome all the February preggers!!!!!



May your pregnancies be fast and easy!!!

to all those who are moving. I'm secretly jealous as our furniture moving has been all about rearranging our current space. The living room rocks but our bedroom, where Cate will spend the first four months at least, is a disaster. I would LOVE more room!!!! Hopefully though, we'll move some time next spring/summer because the apartment really is just too small for two adults, two children, and two cats!
AFU - We hired a doula!!! I am so excited and now so at peace with the fact that this will be a hospital birth. She teaches the Hypnobabies live class (as opposed to the home study) every six weeks, and has worked in the hospital we are delivering in, so she really knows her stuff. She is completely within our cost range too, which doesn't suck

She also confirmed my gut feeling that this child may very well be early and come fast. DD came at 38w5d in 16 hours (which was vastly hindered by an epidural...never again!) and I'm expecting just as early (hopefully not earlier!!!) and between 4-6 hours since my first labor should have been closer to ten hours and if Hypnobabies works for me, well...they do average faster labors than most! I'm starting week 2 of Hypnobabies tonight and will be on that one for the next two weeks. As I mentioned earlier, furniture rearranging has commenced, and although there are still two rooms to go (ours and DD's), it's all just HAPPENING. I'm hoping to dig out DD's newborn and 0-3's, plus blankets, swaddling blankets, etc to start tossing a handful into the wash every week in the hopes that it gets mostly done before Cate gets here.
Yeah, I'm an overachiever at 27w5d, but I'm just thrilled to get GOING already, you know??