Birth Plan

I am being induced a week from tomorrow (August 8). Now seems like a good time to come up with my birth plan since I tend to leave everything to the last minute. At least I am not doing it the night before. Now I understand labor and delivery is completely unpredictable so if something comes up and I can not go by my birth plan I will not freak out. I did not know how to start but I found a really helpful worksheet. Worksheet

 

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Catch up

I must say I think I have had a pretty good, uneventful pregnancy. I found out I was pregnant at about 6 weeks along. First ultrasound went really well. It was pretty amazing to see him on the screen. It definitely made it much more of a reality. Even though he was only a tiny little peanut it was still breath-taking. 

The second Ultra-sound was called the First-Look. It was to check for signs of certain chromosomal abnormalities like Down Syndrome. I was very nervous going into this appointment but was relieved to hear everything looked great and he looked healthy.

 

The third ultrasound was the one most people are excited for. It was the ultrasound when you can find out the sex of your baby. We chose to find out the sex but not at the appointment. Easter was 3 weeks after this appointment. My aunt wrote up a nice card to send to the Easter bunny and have him tell us the sex of our baby. It was a great way to find out, surrounded by family. 

And the last ultrasound at 36 weeks. We found out our little man is about 7 pounds already, he is head down, and his head is slightly larger than average but not abnormal. Thanks to Tyler for the big head, his mom told me he had the biggest head out of her kids. Yay for me.

 

Car Seat Installation

Let me start off by saying Tyler is 100% a mountain man. He may not have actually grown up or lived in the wild, but he might as well have. This may seem to have nothing to do with getting the car seat installed, but growing up he would make things out of other things. Tyler often came up with all these random contraptions of his own instead of spending money he didn’t have to spend. So when I told him about having to go to the Police Station to have them install the car seat he went off. He insisted he could do it himself. When I asked how he would go about that with no prior knowledge on the subject, his mountain man instinct came into full view. He started telling me about how he would take rock climbing rope and tie the base of the car seat into the structure of my car and somehow use all the seat belts. Thanks babe but I think I’d rather have an officer do it the correct way.

Once we got to the station, I was expecting some complex way of installing the seat. Well I was wrong; it was pretty much 2 clicks and some tightening then boom it was done. Looking back, I am pretty sure I could have done it myself. I think the ride to the station and back home was longer than the time it took to install. Now I know the officer who installed it very well and am very glad she installed it so I am 100% sure it is in there right and Ryder will be safe, but I think I wasted her time. She even said (in a joking matter) that it really is not that hard to do. She told me about an  MIT rocket scientist who came to her to fix what he did with the car seat. I was surprised to learn that he did pretty much exactly what Tyler said he wanted to do. Tyler is still not 100% convinced it is really necessary to go to a police station to have a car seat installed, but at least I know its done correctly. The car seat is ready to go for when our Little Man decides to make his big arrival into the world.

You can make a call to your local police or fire station and find out if they have a car seat service. Only those who have been certified in car seat installation know how to install your car seat the correct way.

http://www.babycenter.com/car-seat

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