1- The Literature- One of the first things Tim did was buy me both the "What to Expect" book AND the "What to EAT when you are expecting book". He was worried that my sluggish appetite and vegetarian ways might be a challenge during pregnancy. He offered to start doing the cooking, but I told him that wasn't necessary. It was a very sweet offer, but when he cooks, he measures everything to the microliter, and I really didnt want to wait until midnight to eat everynight. I agreed to start eating some chicken bc it was abvious that I was not going to be disciplined enough to eat all the veggie protien sources it would take to grow a baby. Plus, he was doing all this eye research and one of his collegues scared me to death about some eye defect caused by lack of some chemical compund (lipid?) only found in animal protien.
2-The Lead Paint- About half way through the pregnancy the whole lead paint issue came up in the media again. Well, this company that Tim works with a lot, Thermo, just happens to sell these high tech lead scanners. He looked into them, but seeing that we didn't really have an extra 20k laying around, we have setteld for the over the counter lead testers. He will have fun testing the accuracy of the lead test kits.
3- The Thermometer- Tim is desperately in search of the ultimate in baby thermometers. While most people are really into those forehead ones or the the ones for the ear- not Tim. his research indicates that these thermometers are not nearly accurate enough. At last count, we have a total of three digital thermometers, none of which have met his standards for accuracy. He just found another one on amazon and has registered for it- its a pacifier model. I'm just wondering how he is going to test that one- I will take pictures.
4- Alignment-
Tim is completely obsessed with having the car/jeep porperly aligned. I look over when he is driving and he is constantly taking his hand off the wheel slightly monitoring even the tiniest sway left or right. Then he asks if I have recently jumped the curb or backed into something to cause the faulty alignment, which I usually have. Upon the arrival of the Bob stroller, he took it into the long gallery hallway and, I kid you not, tested the alignement of the stroller. When I asked why he was rolling the stroller up and down the hallway and not holding on to it, he said that he needed to test that the stroller was properly aligned and he was quite satisfied that it was. Well, we'll see how long that lasts. If my driving record is indication of my strollering capabilities, I'll have that Bob aligment outta whack in no time. Tim was quick to show me the safety stop mechanism in case the stroller ever got away from me.
5- The Gear- Since I didn't want to have to make sure that all my baby gear (diaper bag, carrier, etc) was manly enough for Tim to carry, we decided to get Tim his own baby gear. that way I can have all the frilly, loud, luscious fabrics I want, and he wont get stuck carrying them. So mom gave Tim this great, manly diaper bag for chritsmas. Its by Fleurville, the mobi Rerun bag- army green, has an Ipod jack and holder (to drowned out the sounds of baby screaming?) and it made of recycled plastic bottles. Tim loves it and has already found that it fits his laptop perfectly.
5- The Gear- Since I didn't want to have to make sure that all my baby gear (diaper bag, carrier, etc) was manly enough for Tim to carry, we decided to get Tim his own baby gear. that way I can have all the frilly, loud, luscious fabrics I want, and he wont get stuck carrying them. So mom gave Tim this great, manly diaper bag for chritsmas. Its by Fleurville, the mobi Rerun bag- army green, has an Ipod jack and holder (to drowned out the sounds of baby screaming?) and it made of recycled plastic bottles. Tim loves it and has already found that it fits his laptop perfectly.
He also has his own carrier, as he informed me he would not be wearing the polka dot Hotsling that I registered for. His carrier is made by Combi (Combi Urban Carrier) and looks alot like his North Face hiking pack, except that you can slip a baby in it. It has water bottle holder and fat zippers and all kinds of pockets for his nerdy gadgets. I can't wait to see him and the baby in it.
6- The Delivery- Since Tim's lab is at the research hospital and I already have docs at that hospital, we decided to have the baby there. Tim's first thought was that this would be perfect- he could be running experiments even while I was in labor- perfect. Well, he now relaizes that this plan won't really work that way, but I do take some comfort in knowing that all his nurses and stuff are right down the hall.
Only a two days to go. I will try to load the "Jenn Gets Fat" video that Tim made in the next post. Of course thats what I call the video, he refers to it as his documentation of fetal growth. He took pictures of me about once a week throughout the pregnancy and made them into a video. int he mean time, here are some pics that my grad school prof and good friend Susan Tate took when we met for lunch last week. She took one with mom, too.
jenn
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