Two Body Problem (orig)

We learned at the last doctor visit that our hospital's policy is to induce 1 week after the due date. So we can be pretty sure now that sometime in the next two weeks The Kid will be making his debut. I feel like he is going to take his time. Maybe because I'm such a procrastinator, I feel like the only way I know this is really my son is that he'll be as late as possible and didn't study the book "Outside the Womb: Surviving the World in the 21st Century during the First 12 Months".

I've made it this far in the pregnancy without any obnoxious pregnancy comments or unwanted feeling of my tummy from strangers. This changed the other day at the car wash/oil change place when a stranger struck up a conversation about my pregnancy. He asked if we had chosen a name and I responded yes, we had. He then asked what it was and I told him that we hadn't announced it yet. His response was actually "Well I'm a stranger it's not like it matters if you tell me". Like that was going to get me to spill the beans. Luckily, my car was done right after he said that and I hightailed it out of there as fast as a waddling pregnant woman can.

And finally, we decided to buy a Moby Wrap. And by we, Aaron will point out, I mean "I". I did want to get some sort of baby carrier that was good for infants and wasn't a sling. A one shoulder sling just doesn't look comfortable to me at all. And I've seen several very stylish women walking around Santa Monica/Venice with Moby Wraps and they looked so very hipster mama...I couldn't resist. Also, as far as baby carriers go - this is one of the cheapest. We got the Moby last week during the heat wave and although I was anxious to try it out, there was no way I was going to wrap 18 feet of fabric around myself. So my loving husband in true Beaker fashion (complaining quite a bit) tried it on for me. So we unrolled what seriously looked like 10 yards of fabric to the tune of Aaron saying "I see us using this maybe once". (Maybe we should start a Moby wearing counter on the blog). And Aaron proceeded to do a very fancy wrap that was reminiscent of putting on a kilt.


We then of course had to try it out with Baby Pooh the Honey Bee. Aaron hopes our baby doesn't have antenna that will poke him in the chin.


Aaron still wasn't all that impressed with the Moby Wrap - he still thought it looked a little like women's undergarments. But then I told him that we could put a Star Trek insignia on the wrap and he suddenly became very excited. Better on the wrap than on the baby as far as I'm concerned.