34.5 weeks

Sean and I met with the baby's soon-to-be pediatrician yesterday. His name is Dr Bean which I find amusing. ;) He was highly recommended by my OB, and since I like her so much I definitely trust her opinion, but I still wanted to meet him. I am picky about docs and I hate it when they treat me like I'm a five year old and/or have no listening abilities whatsoever. Dr Bean practices with one other doctor at Old Pueblo Pediatrics. He was very nice as was the staff and I like the office policies as far as emergency appts, on-call hours, etc. Sean said Dr Bean reminded him of a doc he had as a kid. We also ended up a free diaper bag since the formula companies like to advertise - so we got an enfamil pack that oddly enough has more info and supplies related to breast feeding than to formula feeding, which is cool. (I didn't have a diaper bag yet so this was an extra bonus.) So that is one more item checked off the baby-prep to-do list and I'm glad we only had to meet one doctor (as opposed to my OB search where the third one was the charm).

We still have a few things left to do and/or acquire:

- a dresser for the nursery; Sean's mom has one we can use so we just need to pick it up and maybe clean it up and/or refinish it depending on its condition.

- once we have the dresser, we can finish arranging the nursery, clothes etc.

- I'm debating about getting a cheap manual breast pump...

- a few hygiene supplies for baby.

- finish packing my hospital bag.

- install the car seat.

- get the dogs accustomed to sleeping in a different area than our bedroom (already acquired necessary pet gates and dog beds to accomplish this).

- continue to adjust budget and spending in order to be ready to be fairly broke pretty soon here (I will run out of paid leave in another week or two)!

I am about ready to be done with the whole pregnant thing. As happy as I am that we are having a baby and we were able to get pregnant pretty easily, I am getting tired of the toll it is taking on my body. In addition to the hypertension / bed rest issue, being pregnant has ruined my skin (which wasn't great to begin with), turned me into a blimp, ruined my sleep (which also wasn't great to begin with), plus all the other typical aches, pains and discomforts... I never seem to have experienced that whole "glow of pregnancy" thing. Instead I feel fat, tired, totally un-sexy, etc etc. and I will be so happy to be able to touch and smell and see my baby, and have my body back to something resembling normal!!! I've heard of women (and even met a couple) that absolutely love being pregnant, and I was hoping to have that experience, but as hard as I've tried there are just too many factors working against this possibility as far as I can tell... for me anyway. ;p