I was meaning to get on here more, but I've just found myself busy with other things. I've been looking at pediatricians, heading to child birth and child care classes, driving people to and from the store, their doctors appointments and family/friends house. Basically I've put a crazy about of miles on my car this month considering my tight budget and spent much more then I wanted to putting gas in my car because of this. The past two weeks (or three maybe) I've spent a lot of time reading. Mostly because I've been too uncomfortable to sit at my computer for more then ten maybe twenty minutes at a time, and I can just lay in bed while reading. I was actually in tears the other day because I was so uncomfortable sitting up straight while trying to eat dinner.
The books that I read the past few weeks are: Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers; A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness; and Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness. A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night are part of a Trilogy but the third book is not out yet, and I don't know when it will be coming out. Grave Mercy is also part of a series but I'm not sure how many books there will be all together, the second book in this series JUST came out (4/2/13) it is called Dark Triumph, so it's still in hardback and is eighteen bucks so not exactly in my budget for ONE book regardless of how badly I want to read it. I actually saw it in Barns in Noble before it was supposed to be released, I thought about saying something to someone about in the end I was too busy trying to figure out how I was going to get up off the floor after looking at books on the bottom shelf and forgot about it.
All three of those books are almost six hundred pages long. So they were roughly the same size. Grave Mercy took me about a day to read, which is the amount of time that it normally takes me to read a book that size if all I do is sit and read; though it did take a little longer because I had to keep changing positions even while happily laying in bed. A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night was another story. Those books took me five or six days. Each. The only real way to describe these two books is dense. These books were 579 and 577 pages long, Grave Mercy was 566, the real difference was the was the fact that Grave Mercy had nice big (ish) print, wide spacing and wide margins. The other two books, Not so much. The words were at least half the size as those of Grave Mercy and to say that the spacing in the other two was single spacing feels like I'm telling you there was more space in between the lines of text then there was. The margins were tiny (and I've read a lot of books people I know what I mean when I say that the margins were tiny) and I didn't even get a break at the beginning of the chapters, there was a grand total of three lines less on those pages then on a normal page; I counted the difference. All of that equated to reading about 100 pages a day, when all I was doing was reading. That said the books were defiantly worth it, so long as you like reading about witches, vampires, ect. Also the second book takes place in the past, so if you don't like historical fiction then don't read the first book because you'll never make it though the second. I actually preferred the second book, but then the second book combined my two favorite things, fantasy and historical fiction.
Anyway back to stuff this blog is actually about.
Our birthing class on the 9th went really well, so long as you ignore the fact that I had to keep poking my husband so that he wouldn't fall asleep. But that is what happens when you take a person who doesn't wake up tell one to at nine AM class. He did learn some things though and he's good at following directions so if he forgets stuff then I or a nurse can remind him. Our child care classes were a little less hands on then I wanted them to be, I was expecting to be handed a plastic baby doll and actually get to practice stuff. What actually happened was a demonstration, We did get to practice how to care for a chocking infant, though not CPR which was fine with me really since I've learned infant CPR before; and just wanted the refresher. My Hubby was really good at the chocking thing which or course makes me feel better and now that he has at least been over CPR for an infant I can not worry about things happening while I'm away. Not so much if his mother watches her though, since she refused to take the grandparent classes, RR will probably be pretty old before my Mother-in-law gets to watch her, because "I raised three kids" isn't a good enough reason to not go to the safety class for me.
My doctors appointment at the end of March went well, nothing really to report there, just a normal checkup and such. I got the paperwork to schedule my ultrasound at thirty-six weeks to see if RR had turned head down or not. So far it doesn't feel like she has though she moves a lot and turns in different directions so it seems like she still has enough room to turn. If at the ultrasound she is still breach I'm going to see about having her manually flipped, I want to have every chance at vaginal delivery, and I don't want to be wondering if I could have avoided a c-section at some later point in life.
I think that's about it, I have breastfeeding classes this month, and doctors appointments, and I need to call peds and schedule appointments with them so I can pick one. Other then that, there isn't a whole lot going on.
~Cathrin
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