Two Body Problem (orig)

Aaron's been doing a great job of keeping all the posts going on this blog while I suffered through a pretty miserable week last week. My colleague sadly took his own life last weekend and it of course hit me pretty hard once I got over the initial shock of it all. I want to say thanks to Aaron and friends and family who gave me a lot of love and support and understanding this last week. I'm doing a lot better now. Especially since I decided not to go back to work one week earlier than planned.

We also got the news last week that The Kid, as my sister said, is right side up if he was outside. In other words, sometime in the last two weeks The Kid decided upside down wasn't so pleasant and he much rather not have all the blood draining to his head. I read on a website that some think that breech babies become breech because they can tell their mothers are anxious and need comforting. So they position their head near Mom's heart. While this sounds a little, well, not scientific, it does give me a positive feeling about this. Still, finding this out was a little upsetting. This pregnancy has gone 38 weeks without a single hitch and Aaron and I were just awaiting labor to begin. Now, suddenly, we have a lot of unknowns ahead of us for the birth. We're going to see our doctor on Wednesday to find out if he thinks he can turn the baby or if we are going to have a scheduled c-section. C-sections didn't even cross my mind preparing for labor. And the thought that I might not even experience it is a little sad. But on the positive side of things, The Kid appears do be doing fine and the ultimate goal is do whatever is going to keep Kid and me healthy.

Meanwhile, we're still moving on preparations though at a much slower pace since we got most of it done and I've been kind of out of it. I felt like we were plenty prepared because we at least had diapers. However, we've managed to lose all of our diapers. You might be curious how we could possibly do that. Well, we had to exchange The Kid's dresser since we found a huge scratch on it after they delivered it. It took about 3 weeks to finally get a new one which was delivered on Friday, when they hauled the scratched one out. Yesterday, I was taking a much needed nap, when I was awoken by Aaron who was upset enough to wake up his pregnant wife to inform me that we lost all the diapers because he forgot he had put them away in the scratched up dresser. The lessons learned of course is 1) sometimes it is ok not to put things away and 2) lost diapers probably aren't one of the very few reasons why one should wake up a napping pregnant woman.* However, it did end the week with a bit of comic relief which was much needed. So sometime today, we'll be retracing our steps in trying to find diapers on sale again so I can feel prepared once more.

* For the very reason that it makes it all the more melodramatic. When he woke me up to say we gave away our diapers, I assumed he meant all of them. When he read this post, he pointed out that we only lost the newborn sized ones. So if our kid is 8 lbs or more at birth, we're still a'ok on the diaper front.