growing baby

The baby loves to bounce around in my belly–he’s really a wiggler!  I think he’s practicing his dance party moves so he can jive like his daddy, teehee.  Ilya has only felt a few wiggles though–no matter how crazy baby is being, he seems to calm right down as soon as Ilya puts his hand on my belly.  Hopefully Ilya retains those magical calming powers once the baby is born! 

The rest of the babyland news is strictly business–joyful, wonderful, new and exciting (to us) baby business, but business nonetheless.  We’ve figured out what our medical insurance covers for delivery, how we can use our medical flex account (we’re 95% sure they’ll cover the doula), chose a great doula (a professional labor coach), signed up for Bradley Method childbirth classes (a 4-week session beginning in October), and started putting together the baby registry.  We’re going to have some experienced parents look through our registries to see if there’s anything ridiculous we should take off or something vital that we forgot to add. 

Closing baby stats: according to babycenter.com, our little boy is approximately a foot long and weighs about a pound.  He’s come a long way from those sesame seed days!