It's a girl!

We're spreading the word fast about this little girl of ours. It's really exciting to share the news with so many people. I sent out an email to everyone at my school and by noon I had about twenty or so congratulatory emails in response. I also wrote it on the board for students to see when they came in the room. Many of them didn't take the time to read it, thought - they just walked in the room and asked. They were excited to find out too! By sixth period, news had spread fast enough that I didn't even have to say anything. And, of course, all my students want me to name the baby after them, so I've set up a basket in my room for name suggestions. I've even collected a few already. I told the kids that I'd bring them all home and go over them with Kelly and we may or may not choose one out of the basket - but that we would only entertain serious suggestions...as in, we're not naming her "Optimus Prime" like my first period class suggested and we're not naming her "Kevin" or "Jeff" just because they (some of my students) are disappointed that she's not a boy.

In other news, I've been having more back pain lately, which is awesome. And the more back pain I have, the more my sciatic nerve hurts - but only on the left side. I'll be walking normal and all of a sudden have a horrendous pain behind my left hip toward my back that lasts for about 1.3 seconds. It's not enough to stop me, but it is definitely enough to catch my attention. I've noticed that it's worse when I go a few days without working out and my midwife suggested that I try doing more yoga. I have to admit that I've fallen off the yoga bandwagon since becoming pregnant, but not because of the pregnancy - because of night classes. However, my class is over and I start tomorrow with a new class so hopefully that will help too. Kelly and I have been joking a lot lately about how many new little body problems I have these days.

In other other news, I thought I would mention something else about our registries that I forgot to mention yesterday. We didn't register for many clothes or toys because we know a) that we'll get plenty of each because they're too hard to pass up when you're in the buying mode and b) that a lot of things that we list on the registry - especially clothes - won't be there when people go shopping. Also, we still plan to get as much as we can from freecycle or from friends who are finished using things and are looking for a good home for their things. If we're gifted anything via those sources, we'll be removing things from our registries.

And just a note for anyone who didn't know - everything gets heavier when you have to lift it higher than your shoulders. And when you lift something higher than your shoulders, it requires the use of stomach muscles. Which move to new places when you're knocked up. It's weird to pick up something that you know isn't heavy and have a hard time with it because everything is in a different place than it was a few weeks ago. I don't have a hard time carrying most things of a decent size and weight (and actually I really enjoy carrying things because it allows me to prove to myself that I'm still physically able to do normal human activities) but there are some things that are surprisingly difficult any more.