6 Weeks

Peter is due April 30th, 6 weeks from today. I suppose it's nice that the due date is on a Monday, it makes keeping track of the new weeks easier. Keeping track of the week's number is the difficult thing. I don't know how many times I asked Peter's Mom what week it was. I'm better at it now, though. My math on the fly isn't always the best, but a third grader could track the numerical countdown to 40, so why not me? So this is week 34. Yay!

We'll see how much time I have to write in this thing coming up to the birth of the baby. I hope to post "often" but I am not willing to define that word at the moment, so I guess I'm hedging my bets.

Tomorrow is the third of five childbirth classes at the hospital. Yesterday we had the final Hypnobirthing class (although we're having a follow-up session in a month). I appreciate the education I'm getting, but I'm really tired of seeing videos of other women giving birth. The miracle of life is great and all that, but it was starting to make me nauseous. We saw a video about waterbirthing in Russia yesterday, and I swear it looked like some psycho-hippy love cult, with naked people running and swiming around a rocky inlet in the Black Sea, with babies popping out and going for a swim with mommy. And that's doesn't even cover the gross bits.

Ok, I'm done for now. I think I just grossed myself out.