Week 12ish Update

Pregnancy week 12 is going well.  We have gotten the "going to bed early" thing more than down pat at this point, so from that respect the kid won't be that much of a shock.  What is a shock is the cost of day care.  As my one friend said, "I didn't realize I could afford a vacation home in Florida, then I had to start paying day care."  For as much as it is going to cost us, I'm not going to feel bad when baby pukes on the day care people.  In fact, I may encourage it. 

I'm also still a little creeped out by the whole doctor's visits things.  For example, the first time we were there, the doc needed to examine Rachel.  He whips out this big chunk of metal that looked like a 98% scale model of the jaws of life and started blindly probing at Rachel's um.... delicate parts.  That was weird enough, but what was really perplexing me was that there was a female nurse in the office specifically to watch the examination to make sure the doctor didn't assault Rachel.  This was a) a good thing as it protected Rachel b) a sad commentary on the state of the world that such a precaution was necessary and c) really made me wonder what counts as assault, as blinding stuffing large angular pieces of metal into my wife was A-OK.

I like the doctor as much as I can like anyone who does what he does to Rachel, although as I said before, he is a bit cocky.  No surprises I guess, if almost every woman I met took off her underpants within 15 minutes of meeting me, I might have a bit of a swagger myself.

So we go back at the end of January.  In the meantime, we are keeping on keeping on.  Although I will say that the exercises they suggest for pregnant women in all the books are not hard at all.  Really, lay on your side and lift your leg 10 times.... really?  That's it? It's like the WNBA of exercise regiments.  I mean, maybe at month 8 or 9 that could be hard, but at week 12 it's just embarrassing!