Things are starting to get crazy, preparing for Little Nubbin’s arrival.
I have a todo list a mile long. There are a million things I postponed to accomplish once my mom (known to Calix as “Grandma who likes raspberries”) arrived, and she came on Sunday, so we’re down to business! It’s a huge help having her here. Calix is thrilled to pieces and getting lots of attention. It’s going to be a big adjustment for us all when she leaves in just under a month! Anyway, we’ve been trying to plan Calix’s birthday party, make a little space for baby things around the house, think about preschool for Calix next year (open houses and applications are all now), do some last minute classes like a hospital tour and sibling preparation classes, and also do some fun stuff that might be really hard to do once Nubbin arrives (like a date night, watch a movie, etc). We also have a couple of things we want to do to welcome Nubbin to our house, like adding a painting to the wall in Calix’s room. Here’s the vine we painted before Calix was born. We also want to make her a blanket, like we did for Calix!
Oh my. So much to do. I’ve been waking up early with my brain spinning. Just now, I woke up from a dream about birthday party venues. Calix’s birthday party will be only a 10 days after Nubbin’s birth!
I am so very excited that we’ve made it so far along in the pregnancy. With the placenta previa, we’ve been super worried for months that I would start bleeding early, and Nubbin would end up being premature. But instead, I am full term – 37 weeks was yesterday! Nubbin is also a lot bigger than Calix was. She’s already estimated at over 7 pounds, and Calix was only 5 pounds 9 ounces at birth! I’m so excited that she’s likely to be healthy and mature. Our c-section is scheduled for February 1, which is only 6 days before my due date. In my pregnancy with Calix, I was already on bed rest at this point in the pregnancy, due to low amniotic fluid. And then Calix was born at 37.5 weeks, only a couple of days from this point! Calix had some feeding troubles and some breathing troubles right at the beginning, but of course he turned out fine. So we’re doing great.
Calix is so sweet about Little Nubbin. It’s going to be a hard adjustment for him and for us all, but at the moment he mostly seems pretty excited about the prospect of having a baby sister. We talk about it and read books about being a big brother. He has several friends with baby sisters, too.
I’m starting to feel a little wistful, because I know that especially in the beginning, I’m going to be pretty tied up with newborn baby. I’m going to miss having Calix be my baby! I hope that we are able to make sure that I still get some good bonding times with Calix. We will figure out how to make it happen.
