I am feeling better :)

I am feeling much better about my registry. I am still overwhelmed, but I figure no first time mom knows exactly what they need. A lot of friends with kids, and the book Baby Bargains have helped me- so my registry should be 'done' by the end of this weekend. "It is what it is" (my least favorite phrase, but so true!). The only thing I am unsure of is whether or not to register for things like clothes, blankets, towels. Everyone says you get those things, but with a 'surprise' baby, do you? Amazingly my dad is one of the people who made me feel a lot better- he said 'as long as the kid isn't bleeding or broken, you're doing alright'. And he is totally right- the baby einstein or the FP rainforest jumparoo is not going to change anything in the long run.

Very exciting news- my sister made the find of the year when she found a Morigeau half dresser with changing table attachment on top, in antique white, pickup only about 10 miles from our house. What a find!!! I mean the chances of someone having our color, and our line, and being local is amazing. The woman initially wanted to sell crib/changing table, and my sis emailed her and arranged to buy just the table. She is amazing! I mentally wrote it off as a lost cause of getting a changing table, but my sis takes things like that as a challenge and she found it, arranged everything, and paid for it for me! (I paid her back LOL).
So tomorrow we get to go pick it up- we will officially have our first piece of nursery furniture- I think that will really inspire me to get stuff out a little sooner.

In baby news- I am still feeling good. But I do feel completely robbed by this anterior placenta thing. I am feeling the baby more and more now, and I hope it stays this way (this happend a week and a half ago and then s/he must have moved because I felt nothing for a few days). I am dying for Eric to be able to feel something. There have been a few times I think something was strong enough to feel from the outside, but of course you can't feel it after the fact so who knows- I just know he will be so excited.

He was so sweet after the registry debacle. The guy even asked some women at his work about different bottle brands and everything. He came home traumatized after a coworker told him to compare my nipples to the bottle nipples and pick the one most like mine. I wonder if he will ever ask a question again. He also came home telling me we need 2 diaper pails, one for up and one for downstairs, and that I need to buy lingerie bags and fill them with coffee grinds to put in the diaper pails. I am totally falling in love with him in a different way seeing him do this- it is really adorable, and I can tell he is excited and this is more real to him now then it was 2 months ago. That is why I can't wait for him to feel the little one.

And as many of you know- my struggle of the week is my MIL and what the baby will call her. She left a message saying she was thinking Nana or Bubby. Well Eric has called me bub, bubby for years- and my mom is going to be Nana. And yes- 2 Nanas is not the worst in the world, but I won't have it. Call me immature or whatever, but she is a trial, a thorn in my ass, can be cruel, etc. The name nana is special to me, it will mean a lot to my mom, and I won't share it. The problem is her mother was a Nana to eric. I said- then we should follow traditions, mother of the baby's mom gets to be nana, and father of the baby's mom gets to be grandma. (Since she calls her ex-MIL a bitch- which she totally isn't- that reasoning might not fly).
So I don't know how to break it to her without a flip out about how its not fair, and maybe its not- but neither is what I have been through with her so I am putting my foot down.
The lovely Kat had a great idea about buying her a onesie with I love Grandma on it. We told her we were expecting by giving her a cake that said "congrats grandma". So maybe if for mothers day we write a card to grandma, and give her i loe grandma stuff- we can make 'grandma' a special name without ever having to have a throw down. The only concern is that is letting this fester for 2.5 more months- and if she is discussing this with her friends now, as she said in her message, it could mean trouble.

No matter - it is a minute issue, and will resolve itself one way or another- if she throws a tantrum, her loss because I won't deal with it now, otherwise she'll just go with it. But I def. think wooing her with grandma instead of saying no to nana is the way to go!