She also gets moving after I eat. She is her mother's child - she loves food! I am sure it has something to do with my stomach filling and her loosing some moving around space as well as changes in my blood sugar but she loves it when I eat.
She is also pretty active in the mornings when I wake up and she is very active at night around 9:30 or so when I am in bed for the night. I am still sleeping on my stomach (Doc says it's fine) and I can feel her when I lay that way as well as when I lay on my back.
Scotty is still very interested in feeling her move but when I let him know that she's getting going he runs over, puts his hand where I tell him and she stops. He is convinced she knows it's him and goes to sleep right away. I told him it will be better when she gets bigger and we can feel her even stronger.
So - from saying all of that - I became panicky pregnant mama again this week. I prayed and waited for the day that I could feel the baby move to reassure me that everything was ok, but I knew when it got here I would freak out about less movements. And I did. As I said, I am starting to pick up on her active times, and when she is active, a lot of times it is hard enough for another person to feel on the outside. But for 2 days this week she was kinda quiet. So I freaked out and called the doctor and they said that was normal and that they are a human and they have active days and not so active days, just like we do. And I got all in a fuss over nothing because the next day she was back to herself again. Made me feel so much better. Scotty and I said that she was tired those days. Maybe the concert wore her out.
I forgot to talk more in the last post about our name choices. Scotty and I have had our baby names picked for 2-3 years now. I was very surprised that we could come up with something that we both agreed on so easily. We both knew that we wanted family names, or names that weren't just willy nilly, "oh we think that's cute" names. So Charlotte - Charlotte is a family name on my side (Fairfax side). Charlotte was my great aunt (my dad's, father's, sister). She was one of 18 children that my great-grand mother had. Charlotte is also some what of a family name on Scotty's side because Charlotte, North Carolina is where some of the Spurrier family is from. Plus, I will eat my words, we think it is a very pretty name. Mae - Mae was my great-grandmother (on my mom's side) middle name. She went by Mae instead of her first name Dorothy. For those that know me, I was lucky enough to grow up very close to my great-grandmother, in the literal sense that she was my neighbor and in the figurative sense that I spent a great deal of time with her and my great-grandfather. I loved the name Mae anyway and I knew that I wanted to honor her for all that she had done for me and my parents as well and Scotty knew how important she was to me and we agreed that Mae would be the middle name for a little girl. So thus Charlotte Mae Spurrier was our girl name for whenever the Lord decided to give her to us.
And when and if the Lord decides to give us a little boy he will be Robert Eugene Spurrier. Robert - Robert is Scotty's middle name. It was Scotty's grandfather (mom's side) name. Robert also was my great-grandfather (husband to Mae) first name, another very special person in my life so that was a pretty easy pick for us. It honored a lot of important people. Eugene - Eugene is my father's middle name. When Scotty and I had first started to discuss boy names he mentioned Eugene. He had a friend growing up who's name was Eugene and Scotty always liked the name. Then when I told him it was my dad's middle name Scotty really wanted to use it as a middle name and I agreed. My dad has never been a fan of Eugene. When I was growing up my mom would call my dad Eug (you-ge) and he did not care for it but I think that he likes the fact that we have chosen to use his name for our future son.
I like that we have chosen names that mean a lot to both of us and I wanted to share the meanings behind them. We have some what talked about other names in case we have another little girl but those are still in the works. It may not be as easy the second time around.
So I have begun to register. I feel overwhelmed. There are so many types, of so many things, that your child may or may not need and ugh - Overwhelmed. Plus I am picking everything in pink so if we do have a boy next we will either be in debt re-buying everything or he maybe a confused little thing with his pink stroller. I just figured with the first one I should pick what I want right? And the girl stuff is so cute and there is so much more to pick from. I am still working on crib choice and bedding. I was all set on pink and grey chevron but I'm not loving the chevron any more and I'm liking pink and grey polkadots or pink and grey damask.
I also was having a hard time deciding on a crib color. I was dead against white and wanted very dark wood. I know I want pink and grey as the colors and most of the designs that have those have white and a white crib looks so clean with those colors. So I think that I have settled on a white crib, but still don't know what design. I am looking for sets that come with a dresser and changing table as well but I need to make sure we have the room first. Her room in our new house is rather large so I think we should be fine but I am trying to fit a glider in there too. So who knows what the final outcome will look like but I'm working on it.
Well that's all for now. Here are the pictures for this week. Thanks!!
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| Baby sleeps 12-14 hours a day. The amniotic fluid tastes different to her based on what I eat now. |
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