Our future baby girl may arrive 7/18!

Yesterday (Tuesday, 4/14) the birth mother had a doctor's appointment, and everything checked out very well! The baby weighs 2lbs right now (see the personalized pregnancy ticker at the top of the blog for more interesting facts!) and is very healthy! The doctor said the birth mom is a little more than 26 weeks along and is due about July 28th, and they will be scheduling a c-section 10 days before that (around July 18th), so 7/18 might be when we get to see our baby girl for the first time :) That date is actually pretty ironic, because my mom had c-sections with all three of us, and all 3 were on the 18th of a month- the tradition may continue!!!

Because of the Easter holiday weekend I had this past Monday off, so I took the opportunity to register at Babies 'R Us, Target, and for bedding at JCPenney. All those baby necessities and gadgets are pretty overwhelming!- and that was even with having done a lot of research on consumer reports, in books, and collecting advice from friends who are already moms. Who knows which swing will best lull my baby to sleep (forward-to-back? side-to-side? both?), or which jogging stroller will allow me to keep running when baby arrives? Not me! But I made the most 'educated' guesses I could :)