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First "official" appointment tomorrow!
I've waited a long time and it's finally here. I have my first official appointment tomorrow. The nurse told me to plan on it lasting 2-2.5 hours, so I'm taking a half-day tomorrow. I hope everything goes well! 
Re: First "official" appointment tomorrow!
He is going, he took off a half-day too so we have a lunch date and then going to the appointment, I think it will be a good day.
I like your "Team Finding out in the Delivery Room!" How do your family/friends feel about this? Mine are really annoyed, which make me want to do it even more! I've never wanted to know via ultrasound, so it wasn't really a big decision for me, but my friends are uber annoyed.
Aw, that does sound like a great day!
My family/friends are reacting the same way. Totally pissed off. They keep saying things like, "Then how will I know what to buy?!" And it's taking everything I have not to say, "How about sh!t we will actually use?"
I'm the same way as you though. I am amused by how annoyed they are which only makes me want to hold out more. My FSIL told me she was going to get me a monogrammed diaper bag but now she can't and so instead she's going monogram FU on it. I wanted to kick her.
My mom is the most pissed off of all. She's buying stuff for the babe but won't give it to us since we won't find out. Then she asked MH (when I wasn't around) if this was his idea or mine b/c she was going to try and make a deal with me. I am at my wits end with her. I finally told her that she needs to just stop.
I have a friend who said she is going to buy all black clothes. My plan for a diaper bag was just to monogram the initial of our last name. That way it can be used again and again. I agree, they can buy stuff we will actually use! That's my feelings.
My other battle is doing an un-medicated birth. My mom and one of my SIL is all for it, but I am hearing allllll about it from other family members. I finally said, you have your babies your way, and I will have my babies my way. Everyone has an opinion about everything.
Must tell my story, because it never ceases to amuse me. When we told my mom that we weren't finding out the gender she said "you're going to get lots of yellow and green clothes". I told her that I hoped not since we are only dressing the baby in white, black, grey, oatmeal and taupe. She yelled, "Taupe? Who wants to look at a baby dressed in taupe? You're going to have a boring baby".
A toast to those who wait "May your families be pi$$y, your mothers be aggrevated, yuor babies be healthy and bland."
Funny! BTW - love the toast!
I haven't had too many issues with this yet b/c I've been keeping it to myself that I'm considering going med-free. I really don't feel up to explaining how I plan on getting my 8 pound child through my vagina. I just keep saying either "I haven't thought that far ahead" or "I'm keeping my options open."
Ironically, my mom is very supportive of this as well as laboring in a tub and using a birthing ball. I think it's b/c she's in the healthcare field and sees a lot of different ways women choose to give birth and the different side effects.
Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one.
I just finished a good book my SIL gave me (she did a natural water birth). It's called, "The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth." The author is biased towards natural birth, but she supports everything with nationally and internationally published medical journals, and puts them in a section of the book. It is a fairly easy read with lots of good info.
I, too, want to use a birthing ball, a tub, and I want to be able to walk around and move around. When I am in pain, that's what I do, I move around, I can't imagine being confined to a bed.
So exciting tomorrows your first appt! Good luck to you!! Let us know how it goes!
MT - I literally lol'd at your mom saying "who wants to see a baby wearing taupe, your going to have a boring baby", that is so something my sister would say
Shoe - I adore your siggy about finding out in the delivery room
And Shoe and Ali - you will both be my forever heroes if you have a natural labor. I hate pain and I know I could never do it. Of course if you don't go natural you will still be my heroes because childbirth is probably my biggest fear ever and I hope to never have to do it
Oh! One more thing! If I was to ever get pregnant I wouldn't find out the sex either, so I think people just need to STFU and leave you both alone about your decisions! I will tell them that for you if you like
See Jenn, I'm not that delicate!