Sadie Update
So, in the interest of letting people know where Bob and I are at with visiting, I'm doing an LJ post with a little bit of info and we'll continue to update people through the lines as we go (likely facebook or LJ).
I'm going into the hospital the morning of January 13th (hopefully 8am unless they don't have enough beds) and the plan is to have a baby within 24 hours of going into labor (which may not happen immediately upon my arrival). After I finally have the baby, the hospital encourages a 2-3 day stay (so we'll probably be there for at least part of that weekend). I'm hoping to let people know (via Bob): A. when I go into labor; B. when the baby is born; C. when we're taking hospital visitors (likely shortly after she's born, unless there are problems); D. when we're heading home.
Once we've headed home, we're planning on at least spending one week visit-free while we adjust to intermittent sleep cycles, calming our animals, and bonding with Sadie. If we have a rough time of it, we might extend that time period in order to feel sane and somewhat under control when people start visiting. I promise to update people as soon as we're ready for home visitors. I realize that it might not be much fun for PA folks to take the drive to come visit us without us being able to offer a place to sleep and I promise I won't hold it against anyone who chooses not to come down for that reason. If, however, you don't want to come down because you think my baby's ugly, I'll probably cut you. I'm just asking that everyone be understanding that until I can feel like we've got it somewhat together, I'm probably going to hold out on having overnight guests (especially since we no longer have an extra room - we now have one couch and a leaky air mattress). I need my serenity and don't have much maternity leave time to get things in some semblance of order.
My last weekend on maternity leave (the last weekend of February) will be spent at my parents' house introducing my PA family to Sadie and going to my mom's baby shower. If anyone on here wants to go to that, let me know - I've been telling my mom to mostly stick to family and a few friends who I know would like to make the trip to Lancaster since I kind of hate sending out unvitations and making people feel bad/awkward for RSVPing no.
That's pretty much it for now. Of course, since I'm going to be having a baby and making my hormones go nutso while figuring out being a new parent, I reserve the right to entirely change my mind on every account. Truthfully, I'd probably reserve that right anyway, but at least I have a generally acceptable excuse. Love you all and appreciate you understanding while I screen phone calls and dodge making plans until I'm ready to start doing that again. Also, everyone should be super-nice to Bob since I'm pretty much going to ask him to take over those responsibilities while I'm getting my head back in the game.
That's it for now! Any day could be that day so stay tuned, True Believers!
I'm going into the hospital the morning of January 13th (hopefully 8am unless they don't have enough beds) and the plan is to have a baby within 24 hours of going into labor (which may not happen immediately upon my arrival). After I finally have the baby, the hospital encourages a 2-3 day stay (so we'll probably be there for at least part of that weekend). I'm hoping to let people know (via Bob): A. when I go into labor; B. when the baby is born; C. when we're taking hospital visitors (likely shortly after she's born, unless there are problems); D. when we're heading home.
Once we've headed home, we're planning on at least spending one week visit-free while we adjust to intermittent sleep cycles, calming our animals, and bonding with Sadie. If we have a rough time of it, we might extend that time period in order to feel sane and somewhat under control when people start visiting. I promise to update people as soon as we're ready for home visitors. I realize that it might not be much fun for PA folks to take the drive to come visit us without us being able to offer a place to sleep and I promise I won't hold it against anyone who chooses not to come down for that reason. If, however, you don't want to come down because you think my baby's ugly, I'll probably cut you. I'm just asking that everyone be understanding that until I can feel like we've got it somewhat together, I'm probably going to hold out on having overnight guests (especially since we no longer have an extra room - we now have one couch and a leaky air mattress). I need my serenity and don't have much maternity leave time to get things in some semblance of order.
My last weekend on maternity leave (the last weekend of February) will be spent at my parents' house introducing my PA family to Sadie and going to my mom's baby shower. If anyone on here wants to go to that, let me know - I've been telling my mom to mostly stick to family and a few friends who I know would like to make the trip to Lancaster since I kind of hate sending out unvitations and making people feel bad/awkward for RSVPing no.
That's pretty much it for now. Of course, since I'm going to be having a baby and making my hormones go nutso while figuring out being a new parent, I reserve the right to entirely change my mind on every account. Truthfully, I'd probably reserve that right anyway, but at least I have a generally acceptable excuse. Love you all and appreciate you understanding while I screen phone calls and dodge making plans until I'm ready to start doing that again. Also, everyone should be super-nice to Bob since I'm pretty much going to ask him to take over those responsibilities while I'm getting my head back in the game.
That's it for now! Any day could be that day so stay tuned, True Believers!