I find it difficult to figure out the necessities of life before having a baby. I mean, no one is ever really "ready" to have a baby, whatever that means.
That said, there are a few things that I'd really like to accomplish, or rather buy, before we start trying for baby.
1.) We need a king sized bed. I don't want to try and bring a newborn home with the full sized bed that we have. Nope, nope, nope.
2.) I want to be able to get a new car. We don't need to HAVE the new car, but I want to be able to get one.
3.) I want to get a great big rug to cover up the crappy floors in the living room. We live in this awesome old house but the floors desperately need to be redone. Until we can move, I just want to be comfortable letting a baby learn to crawl in the living room.
...and that's it. Three things for baby.
We're almost there!
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Mama called the Dr, and the Dr said....
...start taking your prenatal vitamins in three months!
Yes, Ma'm!
A recent trip to the Dr has me more excited than ever, because my doctor told me to keep tracking cycles and to start taking a prenatal vitamin when I'm twelve months away from trying. I'm now about fifteen months away, so that's just three months until I can start pill popping!
I also had a nice chat with one of the other practicing doctors about IUI, and how they'd be happy to help us build our family. I'm beyond myself.
I really thought that we'd have to wander over to Kansas City to the University of Kansas Reproductive Center to help us get pregnant, but as it turns out we're going to be able to stay in our home town after all! Better yet, their IUI costs are incredibly competitive.
When I thought we were going to have to go to Kansas City, I was pretty sold on using the Sperm Bank of California and having the sperm shipped to our home.
Now that we're looking at IUI, I'm pretty open again. There are three donors through NY Cryo bank that I feel really attached to. Ahhh, we'll see.
Off to research more sperm banks....
H
Yes, Ma'm!
A recent trip to the Dr has me more excited than ever, because my doctor told me to keep tracking cycles and to start taking a prenatal vitamin when I'm twelve months away from trying. I'm now about fifteen months away, so that's just three months until I can start pill popping!
I also had a nice chat with one of the other practicing doctors about IUI, and how they'd be happy to help us build our family. I'm beyond myself.
I really thought that we'd have to wander over to Kansas City to the University of Kansas Reproductive Center to help us get pregnant, but as it turns out we're going to be able to stay in our home town after all! Better yet, their IUI costs are incredibly competitive.
When I thought we were going to have to go to Kansas City, I was pretty sold on using the Sperm Bank of California and having the sperm shipped to our home.
Now that we're looking at IUI, I'm pretty open again. There are three donors through NY Cryo bank that I feel really attached to. Ahhh, we'll see.
Off to research more sperm banks....
H
Friday, January 24, 2014
Baby Brain
I've had baby brain for years, and I mean YEARS.
I've known that I've wanted to be a mom since I was a young child. It's the only thing that I've ever consistently wanted to do. I started reading baby books at 13 and fantasized about what it would be like to be a teenage mom.
Ending up falling in love with a gal at age 14 was probably the best thing that ever happened to me, or I can nearly guarantee that I would have ended up pregnant before I was 18. (Not knocking on teen moms here, I just would NOT have been a good one!)
Once my love and I moved into our first place together when I was 18, the baby bug REALLY started biting hard! Alas, I was a freshman in college and leaning on Mommy and Daddy for a great deal of financial support.
As each year progressed it got worse. And worse. AND WORSE.
Well, now, financially independent and with a steady job, this bug isn't just biting me, it has infested our entire house! A and I have the bug something fierce, and it is the topic of nearly every conversation.
We have names picked out.
We know where and how we want to give birth.
We've picked the sperm bank.
We have talked about parenting styles.
We've designed the nursery.
We have planned to home school, and even started looking at curriculum.
AND SO MUCH MORE.
Our most recent decision involves our decisions on which cloth diapers we want to use. We have gone so far as to budget newborn cloth diapers into our budget, and started buying one or two a month in preparation for baby.
One rainy day we drove to babies r us just to geek out on baby stuff that we agree we don't need (and some that we do!)
The kicker here is that we are still over a year away from even trying to conceive. (Sixteen months if you'd really like to know!) Granted, this time line is COMPLETELY dependent upon A getting into grad school this summer. We hope to start trying a few months before A graduates from grad school, which would be in May of 2015.
If A DOESN'T get into grad school, she'll work for a year and reapply after that. It would just be a year to save up money and get our stuff together, just a bit more.
So this is where my brain is at these days.
More baby babble to follow.
~H
I've known that I've wanted to be a mom since I was a young child. It's the only thing that I've ever consistently wanted to do. I started reading baby books at 13 and fantasized about what it would be like to be a teenage mom.
Ending up falling in love with a gal at age 14 was probably the best thing that ever happened to me, or I can nearly guarantee that I would have ended up pregnant before I was 18. (Not knocking on teen moms here, I just would NOT have been a good one!)
Once my love and I moved into our first place together when I was 18, the baby bug REALLY started biting hard! Alas, I was a freshman in college and leaning on Mommy and Daddy for a great deal of financial support.
As each year progressed it got worse. And worse. AND WORSE.
Well, now, financially independent and with a steady job, this bug isn't just biting me, it has infested our entire house! A and I have the bug something fierce, and it is the topic of nearly every conversation.
We have names picked out.
We know where and how we want to give birth.
We've picked the sperm bank.
We have talked about parenting styles.
We've designed the nursery.
We have planned to home school, and even started looking at curriculum.
AND SO MUCH MORE.
Our most recent decision involves our decisions on which cloth diapers we want to use. We have gone so far as to budget newborn cloth diapers into our budget, and started buying one or two a month in preparation for baby.
One rainy day we drove to babies r us just to geek out on baby stuff that we agree we don't need (and some that we do!)
The kicker here is that we are still over a year away from even trying to conceive. (Sixteen months if you'd really like to know!) Granted, this time line is COMPLETELY dependent upon A getting into grad school this summer. We hope to start trying a few months before A graduates from grad school, which would be in May of 2015.
If A DOESN'T get into grad school, she'll work for a year and reapply after that. It would just be a year to save up money and get our stuff together, just a bit more.
So this is where my brain is at these days.
More baby babble to follow.
~H
Welcome!
My wife, we'll call her A, and I married July 7th, 2012.
She's currently studying social work at the University of Kansas, excitedly awaiting grad school application results. In an ideal world, she'll graduate with her bachelors in May and start her masters program in June! If that pans out as planned, she'll graduate (AGAIN!) with her masters degree in May of 2015.
While A makes her way though school, I work a random and hectic schedule as an Emergency Communications Officer. In other words, I'm a 911 dispatcher.
Together we live in an old little house with our three dogs and one cat.
Welcome to my blog on our crunchy, vegan, hippy family life!
~H
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