2009 Pregnancy/baby thread

[prechrswife]

Love both of the nurseries--great job! They have finally started on the addition to our parsonage (house), so it looks like Malcom will actually get to move into his nursery while he is still a baby. Almost everything that we have for his actual nursery is in storage right now. He is still camping out in our room.

PCB, with our daughter, we kept her in our room with us for several months and then moved her to her own room. She slept in a pack-n-play bassinet. We waited a little longer to move her because she was sharing a room with her sister, and they are only 21 months apart. Our son has been in our room from the beginning and will be until this house addition is finished.

[finn's mom]

Wow! You both did a beautiful job on your nurseries!!! Looks great.

Are you planning on having the baby sleep in her room right from the beginning, or will you co-sleep at the beginning? I'm still undecided on that.

We will have Clara in our room in a co-sleeper for awhile. I'll just go with the flow, and whatever feels right and works for us. So, I'm not sure how long she'll sleep in the co-sleeper. I figure I'll put her down for naps in her crib once in awhile.

[Pembroke_Corgi]

Your nurseries look great! We never painted or anything in Lyra's room (but it was already lilac since we happened to paint it that way when we moved in), but we are beginning to have a sort of snow leopard theme- we bought her a rocking snow-leopard before she was born, and I had one from when I was small, so it's sort of snowballed.

Lyra still sleeps in our room in her cosleeper, but now it's set up like a bassinet because she can roll over. I don't think she will be able to stay in there much longer because pretty soon she will be able to sit up, but I'm not quite ready to move her to her own room. I like having her close!

Lyra is now 5 months old (already!) so I will have to add some more pictures here soon.

If my count is right, we are expecting 5 more PT babies soon?

[beeniesmom]

Wow! You both did a beautiful job on your nurseries!!! Looks great.

Are you planning on having the baby sleep in her room right from the beginning, or will you co-sleep at the beginning? I'm still undecided on that.

Thanks! Yes, we will let her sleep in a bassinet in our room for the first few weeks at least.

[Pembroke_Corgi]

Just wanted to share a few pictures now that Lyra is 5 months old...ok more than a few! I couldn't decide which ones to share so I included quite a few. I wish I could get more pictures of her smiling but she is strangely suspicious of the camera.

[prechrswife]

Here are a few recent Malcom pictures. He will be 3 months on the 21st.

[beeniesmom]

So beautiful. I can't believe Lyra is already 5 months old!

Malcom is a doll! Thanks for posting pictures.

[finn's mom]

Malcom and Lyra are both so stinkin' cute! Thank you so much for sharing photos! I know I'll have plenty to share, too, so I like that I'm not going to be the only one!

Pembroke Corgi...how do you guys like the Baby Bjorn? We just went to Target tonight and picked up some things from our registry that we didn't get at the showers (we used some of the gift cards we've received). One of the things we got was the Baby Bjorn Air carrier. I've heard a couple people say it's hard on your back. Have you found that to be the case with yours? I'm probably going to use a sling if I can find one that I like a lot. But, David will use the Baby Bjorn.

[prechrswife]

We don't have the Baby Bjorn, but we have a Snugli that is similar. We love ours and are using it for the third child. We carted Mary Joyce all over China and south Georgia in it and have continued to use it with Katherine, and now Malcom. It is very handy when you are grocery shopping and the baby is too small to sit in the shopping cart. Ours has held up remarkably well.

[Pembroke_Corgi]

Malcom is so cute! He's got such big blue eyes!

Pembroke Corgi...how do you guys like the Baby Bjorn? We just went to Target tonight and picked up some things from our registry that we didn't get at the showers (we used some of the gift cards we've received). One of the things we got was the Baby Bjorn Air carrier. I've heard a couple people say it's hard on your back. Have you found that to be the case with yours? I'm probably going to use a sling if I can find one that I like a lot. But, David will use the Baby Bjorn.

I love the baby bjorn. When Lyra was smaller she could face me and fall asleep in an instant, but now she likes to be facing out to see all the action! It's nice because she is able to see things better than she would in a stroller, too, when we go places like the zoo and botanic gardens. I had a basic sling that I used a few times when she was very small, but it hurt my back and I didn't like how it made her neck all scrunched up (though she didn't seem to care). I find the baby bjorn much easier on my back than a sling personally, and it's easy to adjust so Eric and I can both use it (but he could never figure out how to put Lyra in it on his own...). It was hard to put her in by myself at first, but it's easy now, as long as she's not too squirmy.

[prechrswife]

We have a sling, too. I tried it once with Katherine, and she hated it. I tried it with Malcom the other day, but I didn't like the way he fit in there. I know some people love them, but I'm not one of them.

[finn's mom]

Malcom is so cute! He's got such big blue eyes!



I love the baby bjorn. When Lyra was smaller she could face me and fall asleep in an instant, but now she likes to be facing out to see all the action! It's nice because she is able to see things better than she would in a stroller, too, when we go places like the zoo and botanic gardens. I had a basic sling that I used a few times when she was very small, but it hurt my back and I didn't like how it made her neck all scrunched up (though she didn't seem to care). I find the baby bjorn much easier on my back than a sling personally, and it's easy to adjust so Eric and I can both use it (but he could never figure out how to put Lyra in it on his own...). It was hard to put her in by myself at first, but it's easy now, as long as she's not too squirmy.

Thanks for that information! We will try it out and see how it fits and feels! I know I don't like the way most slings fit, even without baby, but I have found one that I want to try out. The girl I was talking to still uses it for her one year old. I like that it's hands free and it was easy to put on and distributed the weight really well (at least with a six pound doll!). We'll see how it goes when I don't have a 41 inch waist!

[AdoreMyDogs]

Goodness that Lyra and Malcom are just TOO CUTE!!!! I also love the nurseries, Carmen and Kari. Great, great photos everyone I can't wait to see those new babies!

[Cataholic]

I had a big baby (8.6) and found the baby bjorn WAY too small for him after the first month, so, I didn't use it. My girlfriend just had a baby and she and her husband use the sling and seem to really like it. J would like me to use a sling today, I am sure. At 48 pounds...not likely to happen.

[popcornbird]

Lyra and Malcom are just sooo cute!!!! All of these baby pictures are making me more and more excited about becoming a mommy.