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Delivering Elijah
November/December 2012
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Table of Contents
Delivering Elijah
Small Universe
79 More Days
Officially Popped Out
Your Baby Shower
Mount Pleasant Baby Shower
December 2012
Heartbeat is good
Remembering Your Baby Shower
Air Baby
Progress - Side by Side Comparison
32 Weeks
Really active little guy
40 Days Left
Doing the Baby Math
35 Weeks
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November 2012
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Small Universe
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79 More Days
Broke the 80 days barrier. So, much left to do (and get) in such a short time.
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Officially Popped Out
Theresa Morgan
Doctors visit today with no doctor. He was called out on a delivery so I saw the PA.
Measuring right on and heartbeat was at 134. I also gained 2 lbs in 2 weeks, where
previously I was gaining 1 lb a month. Nurse took one look at me and commented on
how Ive now officially popped out lol.
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Your Baby ShowerThis weekend your Aunt Susan, Grandma Boyne, and Mom will be hosting a baby shower for
friends and family around the Marlette area. If things work out, your Grandma Morgan will be
there too although she has to drive almost as far as we do.
Since youre a boy, its safe to say that you probably wont be attending too many baby showers
because they are really a type of party that only women go to. The last baby showers I attended
were for Kayla, and that was twelve years ago. There wasnt a baby shower for Josh because
he was born two years after your sister, and we still had most of our baby gear. With you, things
are a lot different. We kept the crib, the changing table, and a couple of the baby car seats, but
sold all of our baby clothes and equipment. Baby showers are a way for friends and family to
help out a couple who is having a baby, and in this case were having our third but need to get
prepared again for your arrival.
I dont know what your Grandma and Aunt have planned for the shower, but from what Iveheard about them in general there is usually some food, a couple of games, and then the
mother-to-be opens up the gifts that people bring. During Kaylas baby shower, we set up a
board where everybody could guess her sex, because at the time we didntknow if she was
going to be a boy or girl.
Your mom has been converting the closet in our room into a Baby nook. This is a fancy way of
saying that youre going to be sleeping on our closet for the first year or so until we can figure
out a better solution. The rest of our bedroom is taken up by my desks, the bed, and a
bookshelf. Eventually, you might share a room with your brother or, if we can find a bigger
place, you would get a bedroom of your own.
We have also been trying to pick out a name for you. Im not sure why, but this seems almost
harder than it was when we were naming your sister and brother. I hadnt heard the name
Kayla before until I read about a girl in the news with that name. I suggested it, and it just
stuck. Joshs name was on theshort list of names for Kayla, back before she was born and we
knew she was a girl. What this seems to boil down to is that we were so over prepared for Kayla
that it just helped us to prepare for Josh too, but now were even starting from scratch when it
comes to choosing a name.
There are some candidates, so it really is just a matter of choosing something.
As of tomorrow, Christmas will be 25 days away. During those twenty-five days, we will beputting up the Christmas tree, decorating the house, attending church services, and visiting
family. It occurs to me that this feels like our first Christmas with you, even though you havent
been born yet. I never thought that a due date in February would make me feel like youre
practically here in December.
Your mom says she has this feeling that you will be born early in January. Ive always found
January to be the most depressing month, because it follows Christmas and New Years eve
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and is smack dab in the middle of both the winter and flu season. But, if your birthday is in
January, I definitely will look forward to the month each year.
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Mount Pleasant Baby Shower
Click here for more photos
December 2012
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Heartbeat is good
Theresa Morgan
31 week appt complete. Measuring perfect and heartbeat is good. Talked to doc about
pain in my rib area. Thought maybe it was just pinched nerves because it felt like pins
and needles. Alas no, apparently I have separated muscles over the bottom of my ribs.
So, now I have 2 holes that arent supposed to be there. Lol. Good news is the muscles
should be back to normal after delivery. Not so much the hernia. 2 weeks til next appt.
(33 weeks) He said well talk holiday travel then.
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Remembering Your Baby Shower
As I was preparing to describe your baby shower, I began to wonder how many types of social
gatherings or parties there are where people get together in celebration of someone in
particular, without that someone being present.
The only examples I could think of were funerals and baby showers. I (thankfully) havent had to
plan a funeral, but my guess is that when one does put one together, they have the question in
the back of their mind, How would want to be remembered? Or, maybe
this question was answered by the persons will.
This question is harder to answer when you are holding a baby shower, because the guest of
honorin this case, youis not only absent, but we havent even met them yet. We knew you
were going to be a boy, so there was a lot of blue around, and your mom has fallen in love withthe idea of calling you monkey, so the cups, plates, napkins, cake, and even some of the
clothes all had pictures of monkeys on them. I know that this doesnt mean that were telling you
to like monkeys, but Im just saying that were at that awkward stage when we dont know what
you like. This is something that you and the rest of us will need to figure out together, I suppose.
Your baby shower was held at your Aunt Susans house at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, December 1
2012. That day the weather was unseasonably warm, right around fifty degrees, but a little on
the rainy side. We left late in the morning that same day and ended up getting there just before
your baby shower was scheduled to start. On our way there we stopped inside the Midland Mall
to give your mom the chance to walk around a little bit, use the bathroom, and then we had
lunch. (I guess in a way your presence is always felt by your mom, and we can tell just by
looking at her that you are already with us)
We were joined by both of your grandmothers, Sara, Rose, Connie, your cousins (Mea, and
Allyson), your sister Kayla, and myself. Josh and Alex were there, but spent most of their time
upstairs playing video games.
Here is another strange fact about baby showers: You will probably never attend another one in
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your life time, unless the doctors are all wrong and youre a girl. Thats because guys usually
dont go to baby showers, unless they are the father-to-be, and even then Im willing to bet that
its considered optional.
Your Aunt Susan had arranged three tables in her dining room where we could sit and talk.
Each table had a centerpiece made up of flowers. One of the centerpieces was a baby bottle
which contained flowers. Each table had a bowl of peanuts and mints. They lasted a while until
your brother found out about them, and then spent the rest of the afternoon devouring just the
mints.
Once we were sure that everybody who was coming had shown up, Susan announced that she
was hungry so she was going to just dig in, so the rest of us should too. Dinner was sloppy joes,
nacho chips and cheese, and salad. Kayla, Mea, and your Grandma Morgan sat together in the
kitchen. I sat with your mom and Allyson.
Our food was served on plates decorated with monkeys, and the cups had pictures of monkeys
on them. I guess you could call it a theme. (You dont have to, but that saved me from having
to also point out that the napkins were decorated with monkeys)
Your cousin Mea had created a sign which hung above the bay windows in the dining room. It
was a chain of letters which formed the phrase, Its a Boy. Below the sign was a rocking chair
and an assortments of gifts for you. Some of them were wrapped, and some of them werent.
Another strange thing about baby showers is that the gifts are often for the baby, but in a way
they are also intended to help the parents. For example, once you arrive there will be a bouncy
chair and a jumperoo waiting for you to play in. Im hoping thatyou enjoy them, but in truth the
hope is that we, as the parents, will enjoy watching you enjoy themto the point at which we will
be able to snap cute photos, run and use the bathroom, or maybe grab a snack.
Your mom sat down in the rocking chair and began to dig in to your gifts. Im happy to say that,
thanks to our friends and family, you will not be limited to just wearing your birthday suit during
the first couple of weeks of your life (sorry, but that sounded way funnier in my head). You will
be clothed from head to toe in cute looking onesies, and shirts that say things like Daddys
biggest fan.
It would be hard to tell you about everything that you were given, so Im going to upload photos
of your mom opening up the gifts.
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Air Baby
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Progress - Side by Side Comparison
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32 Weeks
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Really active little guyTheresa Morgan
33 week appointment this morning. Given the clear to travel for the holidays, provided
there are no surprises this week. Right on schedule for measurement and heartbeat was
143 today. I mentioned to OB about how Im feeling the monkeys movments more than I
did with Kayla and Josh, and wondered if it was just because he was more forward on
my body than they were. Doc looked at my chart and said to my surprise that my
placenta is actually in front of him, which usually muffles the movements a bit, so I must
just be blessed with a really active little guy. I dont know whether to feel blessed or
scared. LOL!
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40 Days LeftTheresa Morgan
Im 34 + 3 weeks, which means I have 40 days left (or less) According to my app the
Monkey is 17.75 inches (cantaloupe size) and weighs about 4.75 lbs. A few minutes ago
I think he was performing full body calisthenics, as my entire belly was shifting in multiple
directions at once. Definitely a weird sight (and painful too!)
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Doing the Baby MathLast week when we were setting out the stockings as a part of our Christmas decorations, it
dawned on me that were going to need a new way to hang them up on our bookshelf. For as
long as I remember, weve used a set of weights shaped like letters to hang up our four
stockings. The letters spell Noel, so there are just enough for our family of four. But, sometime
between January and the middle of February we are going to become a family of five, so Noel
wont work for us.
The simplest solution might be to hang my and Theresas stockings in a different way, or dont
hang them up at all, but this would break tradition. During the Christmas service on Monday, I
saw that the spelling of Noel in the hymn book was Nowell. I was relieved to think that there
might be a variation of the word that we could use. Wed just need a w, and an additional l,
and wed be all set.
The truth is that Ive spent all of my life in a family of four, so when our son is born this will all bebrand-new territory for me. Growing up, it was just my parents and my sister, and for the longest
time weve been the parents of one son, and one daughter. As I think about it, the world seems
to be optimized for four people.
Booths at restaurants, for example, are just roomy enough for four people. This is true for most
fast food restaurants. At the fancier sit-down places, anything bigger than four prompts the
waiter to take you to a larger table.
A lot of the discounts that are offered to families also favor families of four. If the kids redeem a
coupon for a free ice cream cone, for example, the small print will say that it is only valid with
the purchase of an adult meal.
It used to be a novelty to announce ourselves as a Party of Five, mostly because it reminded
me of the show that used to be on FOX a few years ago. Now, it is a phrase I will need to get
used to saying, just like referring to Josh and his little brother as the boys.
Additional calculations show that the boys will outnumber the girls in this family. This was
something that never happened when it was just the four of us.
Focussing on just the number of kids in our family, my thoughts are that three isnt such a bad
number. There are actually a lot of great things that have come in threes. The Star Wars
Trilogy consisted of three movies, for example, and there are the three Lord of the Rings
movies. The recent series of Batman movies was a trilogy, and it was pretty good too. Aside
from movies, there are Donald Ducks nephews, the Three Musketeers, and the Three Stooges.
Earth, by the way, is the third planet from the Sun and my favorite place to live.
One thing that I know for certain is that there wont be a way to measure how much I will love
our son once he is born.
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35 Weeks
Theresa Morgan
35 week appointment down, which means Ill now be seeing the doctor weekly. 36 days
or less til Monkeys arrival.