29 weeks

Erm, this is late, as usual. And it’s going to be an incomplete post — but more are coming, I promise. We’ve had two baby showers and done lots of decorating of the babies’ room and spent money on incredibly crucial products without which it would certainly be impossible ever to keep a baby alive. But more on all that later.

Mark took these great pictures right around 29 weeks. I think the one of the two of us against the purple wall may be a framer.

He also took some photos of the shower, but we’ll put those in the shower-themed post, coming soon.

To add some substance to this post (defined, admittedly, more in terms of the quantity of words than the quality), I will complain about a pet peeve of mine. Folks, four weeks do not equal a month. Every month of the year except February is two or three days longer than four weeks. This is not usually an issue that needs to be discussed, but it becomes very relevant during pregnancy. If you are 32 weeks pregnant, as I will be tomorrow (despite this being the 29 week post), you are not eight months pregnant, especially given that you have eight weeks to go (in a normal pregnancy). You are, in fact, just over seven months pregnant, thanks to all those nice bonus days in every month. And please don’t be one of those otherwise intelligent people who tells me that “actually, pregnancy is ten months long!” because you gestate for 40 weeks; that would only be true if there were four weeks in a month, which — let’s review — there aren’t. (And never mind that for the first four weeks you don’t know you’re pregnant, and for the first two of those you aren’t even technically pregnant, so don’t try to get extra sympathy for ten months of pregnancy when for all intents and purposes, women experience pregnancy for eight months.)

Whew, I’m glad I got that off my chest! In more positive news, I got an iPod Touch! This was an essential baby purchase, because it will allow me to use more conveniently the Trixie Tracker that Matt posted about previously. That is the only reason I got it. For the sake of the babies. Not yet officially a mother and already I give and give.

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