Saturday, September 18, 2010

The Bellies go on a Field Trip!


Every third Saturday of the month, the children's hospital in Trieste, Burlo, lets bellies and their partners from my district (distretto 3) come and take a look at where we will be laboring and giving birth. We had a really nice doctor give us the tour. Two out of four rooms have big tubs in them if you want to labor in the water (birthing happens outside the tubs). The staff seems pretty cool and very flexible about how things get done. They give you suggestions, but you do what you need to do: stand up, squat, tub it, lie on your side, whatever. They let us ask whatever we wanted and they gave us good, honest answers to to what we wanted to know. 

LIKE WHAT THE DEAL IS WITH THE MOON! 

According to this doctor, you need to look at the day of conception and what kind of change in the moon it's closest to, and count the next ten changes that are exactly like that and that's when you'll probably give birth. If you conceive near a full moon, count ten of them and then you have it. Sugar's conception was right before the waxing moon (that's when it gets bigger, right?), so 10 of those and we're at October 30, which means Sugar could very well turn out to be a Halloween baby (which means we'll have to get him or her one of these). I was hoping for the previous full moon, which would be October 23. We'll see how it all works out. 

I got a couple of the bellies to pose for the field trip picture. A few of the bellies left right after the tour and missed their photo op. 

In the first two we may even be in order of due date. The first girl is due on October 22, then me on October 26, then, I think the next girl is October 28, then November 1st. 

We are the three foreign gals in the prenatal class. The girl on the left is from Moscow, then me, then Raquel from Australia. 


4 comments:

  1. OMG!!! You are absolutely adorable!!!! You do not look
    much different than in July!!!
    BTW...I still cannot locate that last 'fuzzi bun' diaper.
    Your friends look as sweet as you do.
    This is such fun to see. Lots of love, Strega Mag(?) or Nona Mag (?)

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  2. Ha! Thanks mom. I think there were only supposed to be 24 diapers, so we owe you an apology. I thought there were supposed to be 25 (sneaky marketing, though, no?)... you can call off the search party.
    We'll let Sugar decide if you're a strega or just a regular nonna (I'm sure she/he will decide nonna).

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  3. P.s. Do you like my new USA soccer shirt?! My friend Denise brought it back for me this summer.

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  4. nice kick! omg, 34 days??? really? hope all is well...(looks like it is, to be sure)

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