Drywall, Daycares and Dr. Visits (20 weeks)

The house and my stomach continue to get bigger...

We started to visit daycares last week.  Our plan is to visit one per week so we aren't totally overwhelmed with all the choices. During the visits, I seem to find myself more interested in smiling and waving at the babies than asking intelligent questions (but that is what Zach is for!)  We are also looking into nannies so trying to keep our minds open to all options. 

And, finally, to the most important part of this post - the ultrasound pictures!  We got to see Baby Bisek yesterday on the big screen and it was really amazing.  The baby was sucking its thumb the whole time and gave the sonographer a hard time moving all over the place.  We left with a ton of pictures and huge smiles on our faces....and the sonographer didn't even slip up with a single "he" or "she"!

Sleep (19 weeks)

I love to sleep.  I dare say I don’t know a whole lot of people that like to sleep more than I do.  Gone are my college days where I only needed 5 hours of sleep and was feeling refreshed the next day to go to the bar again….I mean library (Mom and Dad – lots of long nights studying at the library!) 

What happened?  Why can I no longer function when I don’t get enough sleep?  Now I need at least a full 8 hours and still it is a major process to get out of the bed in the morning.  Zach has to open the bedroom door to shine light from the hallway on my face and I have encouraged him to be noisy while I am still in bed.  So the real question is….what the heck am I going to do when our baby comes and I will be getting up several times a night?

I know most say you will get used to it and after a while you don’t even notice the lack of sleep.  Hmmmmm….I am not buying it, people!  In the meantime, my solution is to get as much sleep as humanly possible before the baby arrives.  Lately, I have even taken naps on the weekends – something I never even ‘dreamed’ of doing before.  I even invested in a very nice body pillow which does seem to help me sleep more soundly.  My friend described her relationship with her body pillow as love/hate and I would agree.  She talked about how she seems to wrestle with it during the night and now I find myself doing the same thing (Zach often wakes up asking me if I am okay as it does feel like I am in a wrestling match complete with lots of huffing and puffing).

So, the plan is to be well-rested BEFORE the baby arrives…and after that?  Well, I guess I will just get used to it, right?  Or maybe we will get lucky and the baby will take after me!

Next week, we have our big ultrasound – we cannot wait to see our baby for a full 45 minutes!  We will be sure to post lots of pictures.