Google "newborn checklist" and you will be given suggestions for a multitude of baby products that you need. Search for "baby needs" and you'll find hundreds of mom blogs with ideas for everything under the planet. "Nursery ideas" will have you swimming through paint colors and wading through complicated design ideas. Beware--put your toe in the waters of baby nesting and you'll end up treading water for hours.
At some point in your pregnancy, those lists and ideas will begin to impact your psyche. Maybe for you it was immediate. Perhaps you've been buying booties from week four and you have outfits for every occasion. Or, you may be the opposite, and have yet to become enamored with diaper genies, and bounce chairs, and eight different styles of onesies.
For me, it happened this week, rather unexpectedly. I was considering how to paint the nursery, and found myself making a phone call to a restaurant in Lexington, Kentucky... ...where I then convinced a waiter to go into the bathroom and take a photo of the wall mural and text it to me. Mind you, I hadn't been at Table Three Ten in several months, and it is 1,520 miles away, and I had originally been there to eat, not to ogle their bathroom. But I remembered the birds painted above the toilet, and it seemed perfectly reasonable to go to such lengths to get the image... ...immediately.
The little bambino is the size of an ear of corn! She is still busy growing and making surfactant for her lungs to help keep the little alveoli open to prepare for breathing. There is some evidence that fetal brains at this stage have a degree of memory, as your child will respond to familiar noises (such as that same song you are stuck on) in the womb. Although your baby's skin is still translucent, and her hair and eyebrows albino white, she can blink!
Until next week,
Cat
I know I have been desperately behind on this cartoon series, but I will finish! I hope that my hiatus hasn't left you struggling with what to expect... ...but I can promise that my journey ahead was indeed unexpected.
At some point in your pregnancy, those lists and ideas will begin to impact your psyche. Maybe for you it was immediate. Perhaps you've been buying booties from week four and you have outfits for every occasion. Or, you may be the opposite, and have yet to become enamored with diaper genies, and bounce chairs, and eight different styles of onesies.
For me, it happened this week, rather unexpectedly. I was considering how to paint the nursery, and found myself making a phone call to a restaurant in Lexington, Kentucky... ...where I then convinced a waiter to go into the bathroom and take a photo of the wall mural and text it to me. Mind you, I hadn't been at Table Three Ten in several months, and it is 1,520 miles away, and I had originally been there to eat, not to ogle their bathroom. But I remembered the birds painted above the toilet, and it seemed perfectly reasonable to go to such lengths to get the image... ...immediately.
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| CNP, 2015 |
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| I mean, it is a nice bird mural. But I'm not sure that it merited a call at 8pm. |
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| CNP, 2015 |
Until next week,
Cat
I know I have been desperately behind on this cartoon series, but I will finish! I hope that my hiatus hasn't left you struggling with what to expect... ...but I can promise that my journey ahead was indeed unexpected.
