This Cow's Getting Excited!

It’s official: I’m starting to get really excited about carrying Husbeast’s baby. Not that I wasn’t before – it was more of an abstract concept, is all. Now that the time to start “trying” approaches, it’s becoming more real. I’m starting to think about things we’ll need to reacquire, since Pooka has been our one and only and she hasn’t been a baby for so long, we have absolutely nothing for an infant. Well, except for a pack of Batman pajamas and onesies given to me when I was pregnant with Wiggle Worm, by the magnificent Xaotl.

My mother suggested that Auntie Badass might have our old family crib, but we’re still in an apartment and it’ll be a couple more years before we can even think about buying a house. So I’m thinking I may take the door off my little closet office and make that into a miniature nursery. The walls are close enough together that I could easily build a “floating” crib with storage underneath it, and still fit a rocking chair in there for feeding and soothing.

Of course, Nugget’s mum has already said she can’t wait to start buying me things, and I really don’t doubt it. She loves to spoil me. I don’t know if I want an awful lot of new things though, since babies tend to outgrow things pretty quickly, and many of my friends are procreating these days and can provide hand-me-downs which I can in turn pass on to people who need them. I’m also big into simplicity and saving space, so rather than a free-standing high chair, for example, I’d prefer to have one of the kind that straps into a regular dining chair. (Pooka’s high chair was ALWAYS in the way. Drove me NUTS.)

I’m toying with the idea of buying a pack of diapers or wipes here and there, so that when the time comes, I have a ton of them. I have a cousin who did the cloth diaper thing and while I admire that and suspect it was probably better for her babies’ bums, we just don’t have that kind of time.

Back on the topic of surrogacy: I did the math, and I’m averaging around 2.5 gallons of milk being shipped to Mum, Dad and Nugget every week.

(25 bags @ 13 oz per bag = 325 oz  / 128 oz per gallon = 2.54 gallons per week)

Sometimes it’s more than 25 bags, but it’s never less these days. Last week was 2.84 gallons (28 bags). So yeah. Still a cow.

MOOOOOOOOOOO.