I am not quite sure how I will push this large baby out of me, but I am trying to have faith in my body and in the fact that we as women are made to do this. And if all else fails that's why we have modern medicine!! Seeing her little face on the ultrasound screen brought tears to my eyes and has made my husband and I both even more anxious to meet her, to hold her, kiss those lips and pinch those chubby cheeks!
I decided that I am going to walk every night and go up and down as many stairs as possible & do lots of squats in hopes of getting her head to get into my pelvis. My mom laughs at this as well and said that I can do whatever I please but it really comes down to the baby. (Why must she always be right? Can't she humor me?) But I figure that walking at the very least will help my mental state and I can feel like maybe I am doing something each day besides continue to fatten up this buddha baby. If you can't tell I like to be in control of things, and although I recognize I have no control over the next few steps, it will feel good to do something.
I love the midwifery group that I go to. Thankfully I had an appointment the day after our ultrasound and she talked me down a little bit. I can't focus on her estimated weight right now, she probably isn't quite that big and she might not stay in there until her due date, we can just take it day by day and I am doing my best with that. The very best news though was that has begun to dip into my pelvis which is a new development and that night I felt a lot of pain there and had my first contraction. It was small and light and I know she is still far off from being born, but it was such a relief to finally feel like at least we are moving a bit toward the next step. That my body & the baby are working toward her birth day.
In the mean time I keep talking to my little girl and trying to ply her out of me. I go into her nursery & say "look at this beautiful room don't you want to see it?" The nursery is still lacking a dust ruffle and the mobile I am making for her but I don't care much. We have time for each of those. For now it looks like this:
The Details
Colors & Chair Rail - I knew that purple would be the main color in nursery, and I loved the idea of the purple and gray with a chair rail dividing it. So slowly with the help of my awesome cousin Chelsea our yellow spare room began to transform. You should have seen me trying to decide on the exact paint colors!
Plus the chair rail gave my husband an excuse to buy a new tool
Gallery Wall - I saw something similar on pinterest and started collecting images that I liked, so that I could easily add more colors to the room. I was able to paint a lot of old frames that I had, and picked up a few others at Micheal's frames with coupons and was excited to find a pack of round mirrors at walmart. We don't have a color printer at home, so I brought the files to Office Max and printed them there on good paper for under a dollar each.
My favorites are the framed lyric from our wedding song & elephant, while my husband loves the Yoda quote I included, something about doing & not trying, star wars, yadda, yadda :)
TIP - To get a good layout & know how it would look, I traced the frames onto brown paper (you could also use the back of wrapping paper)
Window treatments - I wanted to try using sticks from our tree as the rods, so we coated them with lots of polyurethane. The little bird is one that I have made for the mobile but since I haven't finished it, I decided to perch a few up there. I had seen someone use a star scrap booking punch on a shade & I really wanted to try that. I couldn't find a single star punch that could go all over the place but was able to find a multi-star all over Martha Stewart punch. It gives the exact effect that I wanted. During the day it dances happy little stars across the floor and walls.
Lantern & Puffs - I had originally wanted to make these yarn ball things but when I tested them I decided the simple cheap tissue paper puffs were even better! {Here is a link to a good tutorial on making them}
I bought the lantern on clearance over a year ago, I knew I'd do something with it. I was able to find doilies at a family dollar and I also cut up an old lace table cloth to fill in around them. I used Modge Podge with a little extra Elmers glue to get it all to stick.
I am very happy with the result! It dulls the bright light and casts a wonderful glow to the room at night.
At night both my husband and I find ourselves wandering in there and looking around. Everything is perfect, or near perfect we are just missing one key piece, the baby!!!
