I’m not feeling creative enough to give this a title...

Last night was a very busy night for us. As soon as Steve came in from work, we were out the door to go see Suzy and Tiffany (our midwife and Bradley instructor).

Let me just say...I love our midwife! At first I was a little hesitant about her, because of her absent-minded ways, but Tiffany recently had a home birth with Suzy and said that while she agrees about the absent-mindedness, she is absolutely the best there is. So, I started to think about and reflect on Suzy and realized just how awesome she is and Steve loves her too...which is AWESOME! :-) Suzy doesn’t coerce us into anything we don’t want to do and is probably one of the least judgmental people I have ever met.
Last night, she asked if I wanted to do the glucose test to which I responded, “Not really.” She said that was ok and that I didn’t have to do it if I didn’t want to. She said I’m in great shape, my BP is always amazing, and I have no immediate family history to have any cause for concern. Some people may disagree with my decision to opt out of that, but who wants to spend time chugging down a nasty glucose mix? No thank you!
She is also really cool with the placenta encapsulation and although she has never personally known anyone to do it, she is looking forward to being a part of it. She’s even bringing over her own equipment (pretty much just a dehydrator and food processor) to help us out and Steve is going to do it himself. My husband is pretty amazing, I tell you.

Ok, so our first Bradley class went well. Tiffany has a really bubbly personality and seems very passionate about what she does. She actually reminds me of my friend Ally with all of her happiness and excitement for life. We were at her home for two hours and went over exercises, nutritional information, and just a basic introduction to the course. Steve and I had already read the chapter in our Bradley book about exercise, so that actually went fairly quickly. Not to mention that fact that it helps that I know how to squat already and do a pelvic tilt - thank you yoga! To my pregnant friends out there who aren’t doing Bradley, please get on the pelvic tilt train. It feels ridiculously good! It also looks ridiculously silly, but who cares. Another thing about Tiffany is that she is a military spouse and is able to help guide me through the Tricare system since she just went through the same things that I’m working toward. All in all, I think this is going to be a great class for both Steve and me.

I’m so proud of Steve for being so incredibly supportive thus far. The only disagreement that we’ve had is circumcision and since he’s obviously a boy and Chase is obviously a boy, I’ll let him make that decision. The hard part is jumping through the hoops to get him into the specialist - yes, Chase has to see two or three people here before anything can happen - to get that done. Since we’re opting out of the newborn Vitamin K injection, we’ll have to wait a couple of weeks after he’s born to get it done.

That’s about it for now, ladies and gentlemen. Sorry no pics this week! Mainly because I still look the same as last week and I’m about to leave for a trip to the Chiro. It’s been about a month since I’ve been and I may be a little too excited about today’s visit.
XOXO

23 Weeks!!!

I’m guessing that most people can tell from the title that I am officially 23 weeks today. So far, so good with all aspects of the pregnancy and I really have nothing to really report on. I’ve been getting bigger (obviously) and that’s always a good time. Overall, I feel awesome and am completely over being tired and sick – or sick and tired. Haha! Not funny? Ok. Fine. It’s really not.

Chase has been a lot more active lately and moves around quite a bit. We can even see him from the outside now, but I think he knows when we’re looking – the minute we try to look, he stops. Little jerk. :-)

We set up maternity photos and we’re (I’m) super excited about that. We won’t get those taken up March, so it’ll be quite a while before anyone gets to see them. Also, we signed up for our birthing class – the Bradley Method – and I’m sure Steve is internally excited and just not showing it externally. LOL! We start next week and go for the next three weeks until we leave for Alabama and will pick back up once we return in March.

We’re going to Orlando tomorrow for the rest of the week and it’s a bit of a bummer that I can’t ride any of the roller coasters, but I’m sure we’ll be back again in the future. Friday, we’re headed to Tallahassee for me to FINALLY graduate from Florida State. It only took me almost 12 years to get here, but I’m here and stupid happy.




23 Week Pictures!!! When I’m a little bigger, I’ll do better belly shots.

Here’s info about the Bradley Method, just in case any of my other pregnant friends want to look into it or if any of the family wants to know exactly what’s going on in my crazy head.
http://www.bradleybirth.com/
I tried to make this a link, but I clearly have no clue what I’m doing.