33 Weeks and In-Law Drama

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According to Babycenter‘s weekly email:

“This week your baby weighs a little over 4 pounds and measures 17.2 inches from the top of his head to his heels. Thanks to his recent weight gain, he’s losing that wrinkled alien look. Most of your baby’s bones are hardening now, but his skull is still quite pliable. It’s actually in separate pieces with spaces in between. This flexible structure allows your baby’s head to compress so it can fit through your relatively narrow birth canal. The pressure on the head during birth is so intense that many babies are born with a conehead-like appearance. This is totally harmless, normal, and temporary. Your baby’s head will quickly take on a more rounded appearance, but his skull plates won’t completely fuse until he’s about 9 to 18 months old.”

Wow… getting closer- and more frequent panic attacks too! I realized that this week in my pregnancy is the week that Mae had her baby- and next week is the week that my friend Rachel had her baby!

Yesterday we succeeded in hanging the curtains and also hanging the comforter on the wall in the nursery. Hopefully today we will get the letters hung above her bed and I can take some pictures to show off Also I realized that I haven’t taken any belly pictures lately so I need to remember to do that soon.

Have I mentioned that my in-laws make me completely nuts? This could be a whole separate post if I went into it- but I will just make it brief and state that they called yesterday to see whether we wanted them to come in town BEFORE the delivery or if we were going to call them on their way to the hospital. Um, neither!!! We already discussed this and told them we didn’t want them to come for at least a week after we came home. My parents are in town but they aren’t coming to stay with us either. It’s nothing personal (well except for the fact that they drive me crazy) but we just want that time alone with our baby. If we need help we can always call my mom or grandma. They are both less than ten minutes away. Also, my FIL sent me another of his annoying emails with “suggestions” wanting to know why we chose to spell Bailey that way, because “it’s really more of a surname” and he gave us a list of about fifteen more “feminine” spellings to look at.

My question for him: Why the hell did you spell Jonathon the way you did? As opposed to the more common JonathAn way. Haven’t you realized that everyone spells it wrong because it’s not the normal way? And why is Geoffrey with a G? I don’t ask them questions about the spellings of their kids names!

He has “suggested” Bailee, Baillee, Baylee, Baileigh, Bayley, Bailie, Baylie, and all sorts of variations of those. yeah, we just want her to be able to say, “My name is Bailey” and for people to assume it’s spelled the NORMAL way.

Okay I need to quit complaining about them before I get myself all worked up again.

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