Bucket List, the pregnancy edition

No, I'm not writing a real bucket list, even though they seem to be the internet's obsession these days, but I have compiled a few things I'm trying to cram in before baby gets here AND, even funner, after baby gets here. So, on that note, today I got a manicure in an impossibly bright, tacky orange. I was convinced by someone else on the internet to try this kind of color. Bitch. No, kidding, I actually like it a lot but it mainly looks good with only white so I can either run out and buy some last minute maternity clothes or I can wear trashy white tank tops for the next several days. 

I am also trying to see movies! movies! movies! mostly to a. get my mind off gigantor belly and b. DO THINGS I CAN NO LONGER DO ONCE BABY GETS HERE.

If you've ever been pregnant, I assume that sounds familiar. Get some sleep because it's all over once baby gets here! Go to movies/dinner because it's...And I get it, but dude, even I can only sleep twelve hours before finally admitting, yes, I should in fact get up. 

I saw The Hangover a couple of weeks ago and am now angling for either Bruno or Away We Go. Every time I see the trailer for that second movie, I get all teary and start looking around the room for Bud, all, "Look! They're starting out just like we are! They have no clue either. It's so...heartwarming. Admittedly you don't have a beard and our car is in slightly better condition and our life isn't quite as Juno-quirky but STILL." 

On the list for AFTER baby are equally delicious things like: Margarita, Mojito, Pinot Grigio and...wait, was I supposed to put things OTHER than alcohol? Someone reminded me the other day that, really, with nursing, you're not supposed to drink either. BUBBLE OFFICIALLY BURST AND GROUND INTO THE GROUND. Whatever though, I think I can be a little more lenient than when the poor little chap or...girl? is actually attached to my body by a tube of direct nutrient intake. 

I also have take a bath on that list because you are not supposed to get in a tub when pregnant unless the water is lukewarm and ew, gross, but that one will probably wait until the fall when it starts to get chilly because a hot bath in this weather sounds about as appealing as licking a monkey at the zoo. Those things don't shower. At least not with water.

I also added clothes shopping though you mothers out there are undoubtedly shaking your heads like, ha! I'd like to be there for her first startling attempt at WEARING THE SAME SIZE SHE DID BEFORE.

But the one I think I'm most excited about, the one that has my toes tingling in excitement is...LYING ON MY BACK. It's the little things you honestly had no clue you'd miss. Right now if I attempt to roll onto my back, not only do I hear all the dire warnings about cords being cut off from blood supply and blah blah danger! DANGER! but I can actually feel the baby fall towards my back and it's just creepy. 

Any good ideas pre or post baby? I'm trying to make the most of this folks. You know, attitude being everything and all. 

Comments

[Sarah S.]

Someone at lunch today asked what my first "drink' after giving birth would be. I was stumped. There are so many options. Red wine? Well, I have a glass of that once a week as it is. I may just go for a really good scotch on the rocks. And then start calling people "sugah" and ask who has seen my Benson and Hedges.

Another note, I have taken a few baths with the water at a comfortable temperature, but yeah, it hasn't been recently with this heat! Though maybe a cold bath would feel good?

I'm so excited to see what you're going to have. Do you think about that all the time now that you're at the end? I do and I'm only half way there!

[sarah a]

A Guinness every other day will stimulate good milk production!

[The Mom]

Lick a monkey at the zoo??? Whence in the WORLD did that image come?
A beer in the evening is supposed to be a good thing, help more milk download and relax Mom, too. Really, the purists are just too...purist. Risk aversion is a good thing for survival of the species, but this is tempered by the imperfect knowledge that masquerades as Science. Every four months or so we get a new Health Alert about, oh,tomatoes being dangerous or something. Moderation is mostly the key in my opinion.

[MIL]

Good Ideas to do now. Cook some meals that you and Bud like and that freeze well. Divide up into servings and freeze. Man what a relief to have something to fall back on during the first month or so, when you and Cider can't seam to figure out what each other is talking about. Later, one of the things you will miss the most when Cider is 27 years old is hugs and snuggles so do that as much as possible, even if the house is dirty and there is no dinner.

[Summer]

I have to agree with MIL - everyone will tell you, and you'll say you know, but just smell and snuggle and hug and kiss and love and hold that little itty bitty thing when she comes. I would try to have food made and the house running as smoothly/organized as you can to make life easier on you. Probably exactly what you would imagine I would say.
Honestly, you can't cram 'everything' in beforehand, b/c you don't know how this baby is going to fit into yours and Bud's life - everyone is different. Plus you'll get to do what you want to, if it's a priority to you. Life isn't over, I promise!

[Hope Sypert]

The cooking and freezing is a good idea and I'm working on that but I pretty much meant fun, indulgent things since I am a whiner baby.

Sarah - SO excited to see what sex this baby is though really just excited for baby, period. I think though I will truly lose my shit when I first start feeling contractions. Up until then it still doesn't feel totally real.

Mom - one of these days you are going to have to start talking like the rest of us so we can understand what you say and as for beer = good breastfeeding, AW YEAH.