Week 16: Registry Ruckus

This week was pretty crazy. I had so much going on all week and it ended perfectly with a celebration of my Mom’s birthday on Saturday night. During the week, I took a pre-trial registry test trip to Babies-R-Us out of curiosity. I’ve been there before several times to pick up gifts for friend’s showers but I was usually in a hurry and frustrated with the ultra slow printing pace of the dinosaur registry printer so I cheated and bought gift cards. Well, without ever having thoroughly explored the baby super mega mall that is Babies-R-Us, I was completely overwhelmed. They should offer tour guides for first time moms! I’m serious, there are like five different types of Diaper Genies (I just want to know what the difference is and which one works best). There are fifty different types of bottles to choose from, high chairs, pack-n-plays, strollers, you name it. I was about to have a panic attack trying to figure out if and when I had to buy an infant car seat and a toddler car seat, when to switch them out, rear or forward facing AHHHHH?!? I could just picture a hospital staff nurse escorting Carlysle, baby and me to our car to go home from the hospital, taking one look at the wrong car seat I bought and screaming: “Oh no, you’re not taking the baby home in that!!! In fact, your car seat is SO bad we’re keeping the baby until you come back with the right one!! (In case you can’t tell, sometimes my mind wonders to the worst possible and most ridiculous scenarios!) But it seems like kids have to be in a car seat until it’s time for them to get their driver’s license so obviously we’re going to need a couple different sizes right? (Can you picture driving your sixteen year old to the DMV in a booster seat haha!)

And then, when you think about it, we invite our loved ones and dearest friends to our showers … so why on Earth do we make them spend one of their precious Saturdays at crowded Babies-R-Us standing in line to print out 25 pages of products with 18 digit SKU numbers waiting to play hide-and-seek with their latest victim in a store the size of Wal-Mart? I mean really, that’s just cruel.

Weekly Womb Workings

This week, Baby G is about five inches long and weighs about 3.5 ounces (OUNCES?! So why am I putting on POUNDS?!). Baby’s body fat is beginning to form and will accumulate throughout the pregnancy…hopefully he will have lots of juicy fat rolls for me to love : ) He is listening to all kinds of noises now. Apparently he’ll know Mushy’s bark before we even bring him home from the hospital and should sleep right through any outbursts (that’s good news for Mushy). Although the eyelids are still sealed, Baby can perceive some variances of light. Most survival reflexes that he will have at birth are being developed in utero right now.