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The Waiting Game (It’s different when it’s someone else’s turn)

November 24th, 2003 · No Comments

I have a friend from college who’s expecting a baby soon. Maybe I should say I have two friends who are expecting a baby soon because I was friends with both her and her husband. Their names are Jeannine (Nean) and Jeff. They’ve wanted a baby for a bit, so this is incredibly exciting for everyone… especially them, of course. 🙂 (side note: Jeff has his own blog, and I’ll link to it because I love them dearly, but please note that I completely disagree with him on politics. 🙂 Love ya, Jeff!)

Anyway, this is actually the first friend I’ve had who hasn’t given birth before her due date. I forget when her due date is at this point (they’ve changed it at least once), but I believe it’s this week. I guess that means she still has a chance to go early, but chances are she’ll be like me and go late instead. Amazing how going overdue is different when it’s not me! 🙂 Now I’m just waiting with excitement instead of having rising anxiety and irritation mixed in. Now, they’re praying pretty hard that this baby comes soon because of various things happening in their lives in December, but we were praying pretty hard for our first one to come early or on time, too and it didn’t work. She came 3 weeks late and Joel left for Africa on a 2 week mission trip when she was just 5 days old. 😛 Timing and whatnot. 😛 Anyway, it’s a lot easier to walk around saying, “They come when they’re ready!” when it’s someone else who has to carry them the extra time. 🙂

Jeff & Nean had a sonogram saying they’re having a boy, which is really cool. (I know these can be wrong at times, too, but it’s not terribly common anymore.) Note on the whole “determining the gender” thing. First of all, you can’t tell the gender by any of the “natural” means I’ve been told. I carried both my girls out front, one low and one high, both had “boy” heartrates, etc. Second, someone told us that you could “choose” your baby’s gender by when you had intercourse in relation to when you ovulated. (The idea, for various reasons, is that if you have intercourse a day or so before you ovulate you’ll have a girl, and if you wait till you actually start ovulating you’ll have a boy.) Well, our second one was another girl, so that doesn’t work, either. 🙂 I don’t really mind. As much as I’d like to have a mix of genders in the family at some point, I wouldn’t trade Branwen for the world. We’re planning on having more children (both biological and adopted if possible), so there’s still time. 🙂

Time to go for now. It’s about time for the baby to nurse again. It’s been a very full day and I’m ready to relax.

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