On Saturday we celebrated Paula's 28th Birthday at El Adobe in San Juan Capistrano!
Here's beautiful Sister with her Hawaiian Margarita!
Mother and Daughter shot
My very cute husband!
And we all sang happy birthday and gave her a wonderful Mexican hat!!!
And we gave it to Grandma Emery...she looked like a cowgirl!
Fam Bam Photo Op!
On Sunday we headed to the OC Swap Meet and had a good walking session. Their famers market was amazing as always...loved trying the fresh fruit samples!
We also saw a few vendors that sold specialty baby things: shopping cart covers, high chair covers, etc...we have to go back soon!
At 1:00 we had an appointment with Hoag to tour the Maternity Department.
As we waited, Neal read OUTLOUD a whole article in a cartoony yet serious voice!
Even in a serious environment he knows how to make any situation silly!
This is the Nurses Station
And this is the room for Labor, Delivery and Recovery.
We learned a lot in this 1 hour tour!
- You're not allowed to eat during labor...you can only have ice chips and Popsicle
- Neal can eat anything!
- You can bring in your own blankets and pillows (I loved how the nurse said..bring your own pillows in differenct colors like Purple!)
- There are no longer designated visiting hours...so if someone wants to visit us at 3 in the morning they could!
- You can use a cell phone anywhere!
- There is a 1-2 hours Golden Rule after the Baby is born where it is dedicated to Mom and Baby: Skin to Skin time and no visitors are allowed
- You can have cameras and video cameras but no tripods!
- Baby stays with Mom and Dad the entire time...Neal was very happy about that!
- After two hours of recovering you are transferred to another floor
- The next recovery room is about half the size of the Labor, Delivery and Recovery Room BUT you could get an ocean or mountain view
- They will make us watch tutorial videos before going home
- Neal is allowed to sleep on the pull out couch overnight
- The baby footprints they take of the Baby has no significance to the hospital...it's merely a souvenir gift
- They give you a Congratulations Dinner with Apple Cider though you can bring in champagne
- There can be unlimited visitors (which works out for our families!)
- We will be in the hospital for a total of 2 days
- And finally, we need to sign up for more classes!
It was a great experience and good tour...though the sight of 10 pregnant women turned a lot of heads around the hospital!
But after all that...all I could think about was..."Where would Socks be? How will she eat? Won't she be sad?"...I wish they would just let her in my room!!!
We then headed over to Whittier for a multiple birthday party.
And once again we got lost...we always get lost when we go to Jaime's house!
First Birthday song was to 4 year old birthday boy, AJ!
Then it was 9 year old Little Robert
And 15 year old Matthew!
It was also Big Robert's birthday but I don't think he wanted to blow out 37 candles on a cupcake!
There were about 6 pregnant women at the party! It's like we never left the hospital!
There was a lady that supposidly could tell you if it's a boy or girl by a necklace. I've heard of this myth before but she had a different method.
She used a cross and you had to open your palm and she dropped the necklace in your palm 3 times and then watched the pendant either go in a circle for a girl or side to side for a boy.
She did it on me and it said that I'm having a girl. And then I guess she kept doing it to see if we would have more kids and it stopped.
Then she did it to Neal and it also said a girl and no more kids!
The lady did this to all the pregnant ladies and even aunties that already had kids. Not too sure if it's all true...some were right on the money and some were off!
On our way home we were so intrigued that I told Neal that I heard of a different method. You take your wedding band and put it on a necklace chain and do it above the baby while I laid down. Since we're so adventurous we busted out some floss...but that didn't work so we hunted down a necklace chain! I laid down and first it went in circles then it went side to side. We got more adventurous and Neal laid down and his went side to side. Then I did it again and we figured out it all depends on how you hold the chain at the end. If you hold it at the lock it goes in circles, if you pinch the chain it goes side to side. We even got crazier and tried it on Socks! Socks thought we were crazy and looked at us with her big eyes while she was on her back! We were laughing so hard that we couldn't even tell what direction the necklace was going!
A little update on my lovely pricking! All my numbers have been well under suggested blood sugar reading!
Neal is now starting to believe that my testing was a fluke and this is just now an inconvenience...we have another class tomorrow...we'll have to ask whether or not there's a point if I can stop testing if my numbers are fine. Hopefully they say YES!
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