babies born in 2011 will never know

will my little girl know things from this list?? The link takes you to the same list I have below and describes why babies born in 2011 will never use or know these items. I am going to give my feedback on where my baby may stand on these things.

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/111745/things-babies-born-in-2011-will-never-know?mod=family-kids_parents

Video tape: MAYBE> probably will never watch one. we have some old footage of J's on VHS, so perhaps.

Travel agents: NO> i am going to guess this will not be of use to her. we book everything online ourselves.

The separation of work and home: NO> i wish she never had to see these fuse. i hate that i fuse them and don't need to. i do want to start to limit my screen/tech time when she is born, therefore reducing her exposure.

Books, magazines, and newspapers: YES> I love books, magazines and newspapers in their print versions. I know the e-version is on the rise, but I already have a lot of books for her and could not imagine bedtime stories over a tech tool.

Movie rental stores: YES> we live in a small town and will eventually rent a movie. we don't rent much now, but we also don't watch a lot of movies.

Watches: YES> I know I fell slave to the cell tonight and used it as a watch, but I still like my watches as a piece of jewelry and her Dad loves his watch collection, so that love will be passed down.

Paper maps: NO> and an unfortunate no. We have GPS in both vehicles now so it will probably never come up to buy a map.

Wired phones: YES> I love technology advancements for unwired phones, but we have an oldie in the basement in case of a power outage....ya we have cells, but family and friends call our land line.

Long distance: NO> and thank goodness for this no. We switched to LD over the internet and will never look back. as much as I want to reduce my technology use, I am 100% more in love with saving money through skype than paying a big bill.

Newspaper classifieds: NO> we shop our classifieds online....damn technology.

Dial-up Internet: MAYBE> my mom still has dial up....or did, she may be less tech than the norm. regardless, her only option is still dial up and she lives in a well populated area of Ontario, just in the country side.

Encyclopedias: NO> researching in this way seems long ago for even me.

Forgotten friends: YES> even though facebook seems all important today, it may not be in 10 years when she explores the social medias. everyone has these people.

Forgotten anything else: YES> but retrieved quickly via google searches. we do not have internet on our cells, and I don't want to, so I am happy that when we are out of the house we are off the grid.

The evening news: NO> I get all my news when I have time to read it from the website. I can't commit myself to tv at a specific time each day. I do think she will be very knowledgeable on current events as her dad and I both share an interest in world issues.

CDs: YES> and vinyl. her dad is a music buff to the core. she will know music and its history better than anyone her age. I am sure she will have a vast knowledge of albums.

Film cameras: NO> this is a little sad, but film is just not going to be available to share. I do hope she knows printed pictures though. Since I have gone digital, I never print pictures. I like albums and think they are something worth keeping up.

Yellow and White Pages: NO> not in printed form anyways.

Catalogs: YES> I am sure she will flip the pages of the wishbook a few times before it becomes a web based catalog

Fax machines: MAYBE> we have one in our house....well a printer/scanner/copier/fax machine.... and it works well, so it may not be replaced anytime soon.

One picture to a frame: YES> and in many formats. We do love frames and putting up pictures, so she will be added into the art show at the house. We also have her grandparents old home movies on reels with a reel projector. I have yet to watch them, but it will happen and she will be there.

Wires: YES> as great as technology is, it all needs to be charged.

Hand-written letters: YES> I am a sucker for great note cards and greeting cards. I send them at random to friends and family. I will pass this on to her.

Talking to one person at a time: YES> this referred to texting and we don't do that a lot in this house....so she will grow up without the skill until she learns it on her own.

Retirement plans: YES> her dad is very financially aware and a planner for the future. We are putting together an account for her education fund when she is born, and I think this will be a building block to her own financial planning.

Mail: YES> as long as i keep the same friends and family, she will know mail. Perhaps not bills, as they go electronic, but birthday cards, random notes and small tokens will be something she will discover with the circle she is born into.

Commercials on TV: YES> although I do intend to limit tv as much as possible. I hate how much I watched as a kid, and I hate how fused kids become to a tv. there is a time and place and I will try to moderate....but when it happens, we don't pre record anything, so she will have commercials.

Commercial music radio: YES> and I hope I am correct in this. we currently listen to the small town local station on the kitchen radio and I don't want to see that change. I like the local info. I also have my alarm set to the same station in the morning.

Hiding: YES> I am a master at avoiding people when I need down time and space and this is a great skill to pass on. It is good to go off the radar now and then.

I am happy o say there are a lot more in the YES category than the NO. Some of these things, are things near and dear to our family and we are not ready to let go of them yet, therefore expose will happen.

one of the coolest gifts

I thought I would share one of the coolest gifts I got as an expecting mom in case people ever want to replicate this idea.

Part way through the pregnancy I received a gift from my husband's aunt, which turned out to be right up my alley. She bought me a stack of pregnancy magazines. This can be a fairly simple gift to give, yet perhaps costly, but an easy find. The magazines were a very wide variety from popular culture based pregnancy magazines to very holistic/organic styles. Each one was filled with information on being pregnant, having a new born or raising children. It was nice to have a variety of view points, quick reads and plenty of links to new websites and products. The stories from moms on what i am going through were also comforting.

I love to read, I love magazines, and I love a variety of viewpoints on a new subject, so this was a great gift for me. I have re-read several of them over the months. As this pregnancy changes, so does the information I take away from these articles.

There was one particular one that looked at cloth diapers, breastfeeding, natural birthing and featured a lot of great sites on organic products that I may grab a 1 yr subscription to. I know people say you will have no time once the baby is here, but I plan to read to her at night, and she may like me reading magazines of my own interest.

8 months on the dot

8 months if we go based on simple math of 32 weeks along, which I am, so 8 months it is.

I start 32 weeks today! another milestone!! I made it through another month!!!
I am still celebrating the small victories as the rough start to this pregnancy has never left my mind for a moment. Every small new movement, change in my body, new piece to the pregnancy puzzle has me frantic until I know it is normal and ok. A strangle loop hole I am finding with pregnancy is anything seems to be normal.

I met with my midwife last week. We discussed leg cramps, shin splints and the small issue that I was worried I ruined the baby. A strong heart beat and kicks means she is just fine, although I still have a solid fear that I deformed her. When I was out of town for work, I sat up in the middle of the night. I normally roll out of bed now, so sitting straight up was new for my body right now and my pelvic bone hit her head. My immediate fear is she would look like Sloth from the Goonies. Apparently this sort of thing can happen, as everything is all normal in pregnancy.

To celebrate week 32 I have a massaged booked for Wednesday. :) My hips and pelvis have been very sore the past week due to muscles and ligaments relaxing and letting go. Things seem to be moving around and bone rotation is hard to get used to. Hopefully a massage puts it all back in place.

31!

I had higher hopes that I would get in another post this week, but I was out of town and it just didn't happen. I fear this week may be similar as I have a very heavy schedule and it is supposed to snow, so shoveling will eat up my evenings.

I will go over the quick updates of week 30.

> leg cramps and shin splints have come for a visit. I partly think they are from all the driving I did this week for work and the long hours in a car. I am hoping they were a short lived item.

> my iron level is still LOW. It was recorded low mid pregnancy and I started on some supplements, but it has not gone up after almost 3 months. Now I am doubling the iron intake. I feel like a junky with all the pills I am taking, yet they are all vitamins or minerals, so it could be worse. I just have to get the timing of them all down. I have now switched the prenatal to breakfast as it has to be with food, the first iron to morning break as it has to be 3-4 hours after calcium intake (breakfast) and with vitamin C (fruit for a snack), then again at bedtime with my regular vitamin C and D pills. I am not a pill person, so this is all difficult to swallow!

> I picked away at the baby list this weekend. I am down to a few items left that I need/want in the house before she arrives. I also found some great deals through kijiji on clothes, so I am set until she is 40 by the looks of her closet.

> I started to pack the hospital bag. I have a checklist going for that as well. I know it is early, but I need some control and this makes me feel like I have some. With all this prep, I will probably be somewhere else when I go into labor and not have access to the thoughtfully packed bag.

> I borrowed the book "birthing from within" from my midwife as I am determined to have knowledge on all options before I pick mine. This is a very hippie book, even for me. There are a lot of methods which focus on drawing the pain on paper and focusing on images for strength. I draw stickmen at best and don't feel this method is for me.....but until I get through more of the book, I will hold off on full dismissal.

My goal next weekend is to get a double post out. A weekly update and something from my blog list of interesting baby stuff with my own opinion sliced in.

welcome to your 30's!

Today starts off week 30...and a slap in the face of reality....I am actually having a baby - what the hell.
I am now rationalizing the when.....technically 10 weeks left, but there have been discrepancies with my first ultrasounds and last menstrual period and even forget those 2 technologies, but another discrepancy with when I actually had sex, which I still believe is more accurate than the other 2.

So, according to my midwife, I am due March 20th, which I changed to the 19th for astrology reasons. According to the hospital I am due March 10th, and according to me, it is somewhere closer to the 14th, but have my heart (which plays no real role and is just for fun) set on the 17th.

Back to technicalities....I technically have 10 weeks left to hit the 40 week mark (March 19th), but know that this chick is fully cooked at 37 weeks (Feb 27th)....and then have been told that 7 out of 10 births are late, so maybe it is past the 20th??
I could use a psychic for this. I am a planner. I like to know the how and the when for things.

If I wasn't set on my birth wish list at this point, I could totally see the benefit in a planned c-section. Set the date - the end.


In other baby news, sleep has been a battle and a half. Besides being waken up by my sweet dog throughout the night, I am itchy, uncomfortable, hot, cold, not tired, over tired, napped too much, didn't do enough and the list goes on. I am also always exhausted which makes sleep such a high commodity right now. Come on sandman!!!