mat room rant and doc appointment

I'm so upset right now. Chris just called me a few minutes ago to say that he was talking to someone in the office at work about the baby and he asked about our insurance coverage. We have no coverage unless it's outside of province then we have semi private insurance. So my only optionis to stay in the ward room which are 3-4 people. I don't want to be in a ward room! I wanted to be a private room so that Chris could stay with me. I'm pretty sure that the tour person said that if it was any room other then private he could only be there during visiting hours or at least he couldn't stay over with me if he wanted because there wasn't enough room. I wish I remembered. I also though the prices were cheaper then what they are stating on the form. Semi private is 200 a day and private is $235! So if I stayed for three days it's like 600 bucks!
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I called the cashier's office and the person who answered said that she wasn't sure if there were ward rooms in the maternity ward, but she did know the prices of for the rooms. She did say though that to request ward room and if they don't have any then they will put you into a semi private and they won't charge you. So hopefully they have no ward rooms in that department.

Anyways, she took down my number and said that the lady that normally is at the phone was just out at a ward and should be right back and would be able to tell me. She said she would get her to call me back. She normally doesn't answer the phone but because the other lady was away from the phone she watches it for her. Hopefully she phones back. I hope they don't. I'd stay in a semi private room if I had to. I'd prefer private but I don't want to pay their prices. Considering it's like $200 and what if I have a c-section and have to stay there for 3 days!! I guess I'm glad we found out that we don't have coverage now then afterwards and get a huge bill!! I guess I can also hope that no one else is giving birth the same as me. If the price for a private room was like 100 and something per day it would be better then 200. Ugh I guess I am going to have to suck it up and deal with the fact that I might not have as much privacy as I would like. At least after delivery before they move you you have a few hours of privacy in the labour room with baby. I just want the option of Chris being with me all night long as I'm sure he doesn't want to have to leave or be forced to leave.

12:10 pm:

So she just called back and there are ward rooms there, I think only one. I'm so upset right now. I don't know what to do.

1:11pm:

I've calmed down a bit. I called the maternity ward after talking to Chris on the phone awhile ago. She said that no matter what room I was in Chris wouldn't be able to spend the night anyways. She said it all depends on many factors but basically Chris would have more time and access then just visitors. So it's good to know that he isn't restricted to like normal visiting hours. I guess we can go ahead and get like the tv and internet card then so I have something to watch or whatever if he isn't with me or I dunno I do have a few books and my journal I am bringing with me. At least that way we might be able to talk on msn or through email or something. oooh msn through hotmail! That talk made me feel a bit better. Also there is only one ward room so if it's full I get a semi private with no charge anyways. So either I hope there is no one else when I go in or it's already full so I can go into a semi! The cost of semi or private is just way to much! :(

Doc appointement is soon. I will have to get a new freaking form to fill out since the one I wrote on I will have to scribble stuff out and yeah not good. I am also glad to find this out now before we get the office person at the doctors office to fax it to the hospital which she is going to do today. That would have sucked.

8pm:

The doc appointment was normal. Same old same old. The same routine, weigh me,check my urine, take my blood pressure, measure my belly and listen to baby's heart. My weight thankfully has stayed the same:) phew!! I noticed today that walking around my pelvis was really hurting me. So when we went into the doctors and he measured my belly he said that is is down from what it was the week before so baby must have dropped. He said you will probably feel more discomfort in your pelvis. ummm yep! Ha I was like yep today in fact. Babys heart rate was 150 the first time he listened but then it went down into the 140's the second time he timed it, which was immediately after getting the first reading. It was nice to hear babys heart beat again :) Other then that there was nothing that was concerning us. He said that next week he was away so we would be scheduled to see his collegue. I jokingly said oh that will be the week that I go into labour because your away that is my luck. lol. He just sort of laughed and said well if you do it won't be a bad thing, sometimes it's nice to have a bit smaller baby, he said there are other doctors around that are good as well. Of course though he would like to have me not go into labour while he is away. He said if I make it to the appointment with him the following week (I will be in week 39) we will discuss how to proceed. I'm assuming scheduling me to go in to get induced if I don't go into labour myself by a certain date. I can't believe baby is so soon! Just over two weeks to my due date!

So with that we left and I booked my next appointment with the other doctor for thrus at 12:45 the next week. My doctor said that the other one might do a check on my cervix since I will be past 38 weeks or he might just wait and let my doc do that if I make it to that appointment. My doctor did say though like if my water broke to go to the hospital and let them check me out etc. I have been having a few light menstral type of craps here or there and sometimes my belly does feel weird and get tight and hard. So my body must be preparing itself for labour! Still not looking forward to that. Mostly I guess becuase I don't know what to expect and how bad the pain will be!

Happy Valentine's Day and other baby rambles

aww Chris brought home the cutest diary queen ice cream cake today after work :) It's cute! hehe I had already hinted at getting one and we were going to stop on the way home on saturday but since we had the chair in our trunk and we couldn't really see anything, we didn't. So he mentioned he might get one on monday and he remembered. Awww. I haven't had one of these in forever! They are soo good!!

Last night my lower side was really bothering me all night long. It was stabbing pain alot and fairly constant. I don't know if was how I was laying or if baby was laying into something or what but it was freaking me out. I also have been worried about baby's movements. I don't know I think because it's getting to the end I am so scared something bad is going to happen and feel like if it does maybe I should have noticed or something. I need to remember that I really didn't feel baby move around a whole lot before so yeah. I still won't feel 100% okay until baby is delievered and hear baby cry her lungs out. This last little bit seems so long! The pain though in my side is not any worse then it was yesterday so I decided to hold off on calling the doc office. I also figured even if I did call them my appointment is friday and I doubt they could get me in before then anyways. I was reading online and it seems like other mothers have experienced the same thing. It could be something worse but for the most part it is normal. So it will just be something I mention to the doc on friday. I guess if it really does get bad then I could either call the doc office, teleheath or the labour and delivery and see what they think. But as of right now I don't think it's bad enough to. Ugh I just hate this constant worrying. I just want baby to be okay! I'm getting anxious to meet baby though but at the same time I feel like I am not ready! Yikes. (I did do a kick count and I think I counted 10 movements etc in the first 30 mins of doing it so that is good, but I still worry)

I definately have been feeling the shift in emotions that some of the books describe. Like one minute your so ready to take on this responsibility and the next your so overwhelmed and you feel like you won't be able to do it or not ready. I guess baby is coming no matter what. My friend Aud assures me that once you see baby for the first time any doubts like that or feelings just fly away and your motherly instincts kick in. She said and before you know it baby is old enough to be going to kindergarten. lol. I'm definately nervous about labor since it will probably be a long one. I'm not sure how I will cope with the pain etc. It sucks even more that you just don't know when it will begin until it does! Basically anytime now! Yikes in less then 4 weeks baby will be here!!! Crazyness!

Baby Mattress pad and other ramblings

Today definately was boring since Chris has to be gone most of the day for the trivia games. I did finally get my butt going on sewing together the baby mattress pad, but not until almost the end of the day. I had already made the pattern and cut the pieces out a while ago. I bought wayyyy to much material for it though. I was going by directions I found on the net which said to get 1.5 yards of material. I should have took my calculations on the size of the mattress and figured out how much I needed from that. Whoops. Oh well at least I had some extra if I screwed up or something. I can also I guess make some change pads or something with the left over. I think the material is so cute! All the tiny baby foot prints!

I was originally going to put a zipper on one of the ends and then once it was all put together we could slip the foam into it. Yeah well I tried to put the zipper in and it was a pain in the ass! I have to say, I don't know how many times I jabbed myself with pins trying to get the material to cooperate!, it looked alright. Except when we checked to make sure it would work before sewing the rest together we discovered it was still not wide enough for the foam to go through easily. I could just see us trying to shove the foam in (which does not bend easy considering its two inches thick and really hard) so I was like no that will not work. So after thinking about it for a moment I was like I will just make one end piece wider and only sew it to one side at that end then have it fold around to the bottom and use velcro or something to hold it down. That way it will be easy to get off etc. So that is what I did. Pinning the pieces together was sort of a pain but it went okay. I rememered not to sew to each end completely so that when I put the other side on it worked out alright. It was nice to be able to flip it right side out at the end and see that I did a pretty good job. It's a bit loose on the mattress pad but it works. 

When Chris put it into the cradle it was really snug so I have no worries now. I think we will just use some receiving blankets for a mattress cover on it. We checked bassinett covers that we saw in zellars but they were an inch to short on either side and really it was a top sheet anyways. It just wouldn't work. But like mom said baby isn't going to move around to much at first and when baby does we will probably already have him or her in the crib. I was glad to finally get that done and out of the way. It's nice that it's water proofish because of the type of material it is.

I also have been having sharp stabbing pains in my lower right side of my belly. Really close to the top of my leg. Not really cool. It randomly happens, it's not just when I move or shift position I can just be sitting and it happens. I'm not sure if its just round ligament pain or what. My doc appointment on friday seems to be way to freaking long from now. I guess if it's worse tommarrow or continues to do it all the time I can always call the doc office and see what they think.

I also woke up with my left wrist hurting and discovered I have a really small sharp bump on my wrist bone on the inside of my wrist. WHAT THE HELL!! Seriously :(, so it's sore when I do anything. I couldn't even crochet for more then 10 mins at a time and even typing a lot makes it more stiff. I used to get those big bumps on the top of my wrist on that hand randomly and it would hurt for about a week or so and then go away. So I am hoping this is the same thing (I forget what it's called) and go away because really since I'm so close to my due date I really can't or don't want to just pick up and go see my family doctor to see what it is. Even if I did call it would be a  few weeks probably before I could go see him and that would be like right on my due date and yeah being in a car travelling an hour both ways just isn't going to happen. So it better get better soon since I need my hand and wrist especially when baby is here!! geeeez

Painting the Baby's room pIc's

Before we started painting (ignore the mess of stuff on my drafting table please :)

Chris opening the paint can for the first time and us seeing the colour. Thankfully it is the colour that we expected. lol.

Chris's first few roller strokes. It looks pretty good! The pictures do not do the colour justice at all. It really is a nice baby green colour. I can't remember the exact colour title. I think it had lime in it or something.

First coat pretty well complete!

It looks pretty good!! So baby your room is the first and probably only room for awhile that will have colour on it's walls! LOL. I'm jealous. haha :) Chris painted it all by himself. He wouldn't let me help and we only had one roller anyways. Although I can't wait to get in there and do my painting/decorating. I just have to figure out where everything will be and exactly what I want to do on the walls. I think I still like the tree with floating leaves idea. The good thing is the person we were talking to at the paint store said that acrylics you get at micheal's or even just regular art paint would go on easily. :)

Wally world

We got up today and went to wally world. I think this is probably the last weekend I will go out for to long. I wanted to check the prices of the glider and ottoman set since walmart's website on our location said that they were $150. I really kick myself for not getting it a few weekends ago when it was on sale! So we get there and grab a few things we needed to get and head to the baby section to look at their stuff there. We see that the display glider/ottoman set is there and it has a tag on it that says it's $150. I was like cool they are $150. But when I looked at the ones in the boxes it says they are $199.00. I look at the display again and see that it was orginally $199 but they reduced it down to $150 and then on the paper that was on it said to sell it at $100 because it is the floor model. Now it's in really good shape. It's just dirty, which with our green machine would be super easy to clean (and really it's not THAT dirty). So we wander around the baby section trying to find someone to help us but of course there is no one there. So we went over a section and I found someone there. She came over and scanned the ones in boxes and said that they were $199 and said that the display is $100 because it is the display and dirty. We decide of course to take it. So she gets someone to help bring it to the front and calls whoever she has to talk to to make sure it's $100 and not $150. Once she talks to whomever she verifies it is $100 and then maked a new tag for us so that they do scan it at $100 at the cash.

So after the two gift cards we got from the baby shower we got a glider/ottoman set for the babys room for $25 bucks. Pretty nice I have to say! Some of those sets go for like $300 etc at other places. Right now we will put it in our room so I have somewhere to feed the baby in the middle of the night. It will be way better then trying to do that on the bed, especially if Chris is trying to sleep. It is pretty comfy as well which is good.

Unfortunately it was a bitch to get it in the car! Because the bottom legs were to long it wouldn't go into the back seat nor really fit into the trunk. So we basically had to put it in the trunk as best as we could and Chris then had to go back in and get some bunjy cords and some rope. It was so freaking cold out that day!! It was sunny out but so windy. We were parked in front of the store so I felt like a tool while waiting for him to come out. I was standing out of the car at first but then got in since it was way to cold. He finally came out after what seemed like years. It was so busy that it took him awhile to get through the check out line. Then it took another 10-15 mins to get the trunk tied down. Finally we got to go home. I felt like such a nub as I'm sure Chris did to. It was good that we just had to go straight home since we couldn't see out the back window. We got home no problemos. I think that was really the last big purchase we needed to make. I like that I have somewhere comfy to sit now.

So we relaxed at home for awhile and then Chris started the first coat of paint in the babys room. It's a nice shade of green! I like it and the best part is that the paint didn't give off any paint smell so the house didn't stink afterwards. It took him forever to paint though, the one wall with the windows he had to just use the paint brush since there wasn't enough room for the roller. But he got it covered pretty well. The second coat will go much fast. It looks really good in there. We just have to figure out how to put curtains up since the middle window is tricky. I love it. It just sucks that tommarrow Chris will be gone all day long and I will be at home bored :(

SDM's VIB (Very Important Baby) mail surprise

So awhile ago I had signed up for Shopper's VIB program. They send you emails with helpful info in it and sometimes samples from companies. I thought it could be useful so I signed up. Well we stopped to check the mail on the way home and this was inside. A package from SDM's VIB program. So it was a really nice surprise!

It had a few different samples of baby wash/shampoo, some baby wipes, a bib and a few baby newborn diapers. The small sized stuff will be handy in the diaper bag for sure. Saves lugging a full sized one around especially when we go home for a visit. I have to say I didn't expect anything like this so it was a nice surprise. Must be because I am due fairly soon!

Belly Shots! Week 36 and a comparing week 8 to 36

I can't believe the last time I took belly shots was week 33. Geez!! Anyways here is week 36.3 or so.

Also just for fun I put a pic of week 36 with week 8. Holy crap I don't ever remember my belly being so flat!! It feels like it's been forever since it was. This just shows me how BIG my baby belly is!! geeez baby I hope your not a 12 pounder like JP predicted. LOL

(also ignore the stupid faces I make in photos LOL)