Thursday, August 26, 2010

Pre-parental planning particulars

Our gradual march towards being *proper* parents and not just theoretical ones continues. Not a whole lot to report, fortunately. At this point it’s all ‘no news is good news’. The really exciting doctors appointments don’t happen for a while, and the ultrasound will be noisy and blob-looking as the baby continues to grow, but Jess is moving on into the second trimester, which is ‘turbo-baby-grow’ time, so we should have some cool looking belly pictures before too long.

Feeding my pregnant wife continues to be a challenge. Never one to back down from food she enjoys, Jess’s size of eyes/size of stomach problem has only gotten worse. When there’s food she wants, she wants it! And it’s often become my job to reel her in or, just as often, not get any food for myself so that when Jess discovers that she can’t eat like a 17-year-old anymore, I can clean up her food. Also, when Jess is hungry but doesn’t feel like eating anything, it’s my job to go through all the different kinds of food I can think of until I stumble upon something that makes her go ‘ooooh’.

We’ve started thinking about the stuff we’ll need for when baby actually shows up, but the critical stuff is on a pretty short list, and it’s more the stuff that we don’t know about yet that concerns me. I know things like breast pumps and diaper creams exist, and clearly there’s a right and wrong way to use them, but I don’t even know what they’re *for* yet. There’s time to learn, though. We’ve signed up for a ‘baby birth 101’ class for next month, and then we can start looking at ‘baby raising 102’. I am generally comforted by the fact that babies only really need four things: Food, sleep, diapers, and love. Five if you count the car seat, which they won’t let you take the baby home without. Everything else is a bonus, though clearly bonuses like ‘having something to carry your baby in’ are pretty high up on the list.

I’m sure other stuff has happened: I made some bread, and we’ve been telling people at work and our friends that we’re going to be parents; their reactions ranging from the traditional congratulations to ‘say goodbye to sleep.’ But next to baby-related stuff, nothing else I’m working on seems as involving.

Oh, except for music, I made another song. You can listen to it by clicking HERE. Tell me what you think, eh?

-N

2 comments:

Sandlin said...

Noel, I like the new song- esp the melody in the middle. The song title, however is lame. You should try naming your songs after the videogame level that they are the soundtrack for...? It seemed v 8-bit, and the song itself has a lot of development over 3 minutes. It put me in the mindset of a journey.

All my pregnant friends seemed to acquire a MOUNTAIN of stuff for their babies. There must be something to that.

Noel said...

It's actually named after a note that Jess had laying around the house. She had to remember to get our cooler from Zen Lightning, one of the derby girls. Hence: "Zen Cooler."