Zach and I now have nearly enough credits to graduate from Baby U. We got 2 units for the newborn care class, 2 more for breastfeeding, and I'm pretty sure it was 3 for the birth class. Next month we have a Kaiser birth class, which gives us 2 extra credit units and should be enough to actually graduate! Um, yeah. About that graduation thing - I've got to admit that it's looming awfully large these days. But if nothing else, we'll be prepared. For the birth.
It's the rest of those details that I'm not so sure about. Name? what name? you mean we can't follow in my parents footsteps and wait a few months to give the kid a name? Oh, and those pesky things like "clothing" and "diapers". I guess we have to figure that out, too. Right now we have one foot in the "less-is-more" camp and one foot in the "yeah, I guess we need some baby stuff" camp. I'm excited to see what comes up at the "used baby shower" this weekend, and we've had wonderful offers from other recent parents.
Even more importantly, we need to get Zach over his fever. This is three days running now! Fortunately, I've skipped the hot part of the cold and I'm just enjoying the congestion/cough.
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All those questions...and this is probably just the beginning. Don't tire yet--after the birth there will be more!
I got a healthy dose of being around babies while in Bangalore. Put a 2 month old and a 4 month old and their mothers in the same room,and what do you get?--jokes about the color of baby poo! (if you are wondering...it's normally mustard).
Looking forward to more such chatter in Berkeley too!
Hope you both feel better.
-barnali
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