Dare I say this?

My baby is getting on my nerves.  There, I said it.  Before you become alarmed and wonder if I’m in good enough psychological condition to become a mother, let me also say that I mean it quite literally.  You see, sometimes when I’m standing, baby’s position presses on my nerves and pain and numbness shoot down my legs.  And I feel like I’m going to crumple over unless I hold onto something and try to shift my weight somehow.
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It’s coming together

With 6 weeks to go until the official due date, things are certainly coming together.  We’re pretty much finished clearing out everything we don’t need or want and down to reorganizing baby’s room.  This afternoon, we went stroller and crib mattress shopping.  These were the last two “big” items we needed to get.
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Mad and ruthless

These days, we are mad and ruthless.  Don’t worry, it’s not toward each other, just toward our stuff.  Yup, we’re madly and ruthlessly purging our apartment.  We’re down to the final room in the house:  the office-soon-to-be-baby-room.  By the end of this process, we figure we’ll have scrutinized every item we own and given away or gotten rid of at least 20-30% of it.  We can’t wait till everything’s sorted through and the furniture is all rearranged.
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