Posts Tagged ‘baby’

40 Weeks and 3 Days Pregnancy Update

Today’s visit to my gyno was a little disappointing. My cervix is still completely closed, not even a hint of dilation or ripening. Before my visit I was pretty sure that something was happening, since I had quite a bit of cramping for two days in the row, just couple of days ago.
It’s pretty different [...]

Preparing for a New Baby Minimalista Way, Necessary Baby Equipment

My other posts from this series:
Furnishing a Nursery
Choosing a Stroller and a Car Seat
Choosing a Jogging Stroller
In this post I am going to focus on other baby gear that I personally found important to have and why. If you’re about to have a baby shower for your first child, walking through the baby store’s isles [...]

Pregnancy Update Week 40

Preparing for a New Baby Minimalista Way, Choosing a Jogging Stroller

Before I even start talking about choosing a jogging stroller, here are some questions I think you should ask yourself:

How often are you planning to use the stroller? Once or more per week, once a month, when the opportunity comes up? This could decide the quality of the stroller you want, besides just the features. [...]

Preparing For a New Baby Minimalista Way, Stroller and Car Seat Selection

In my earlier post I talked about saving money on furnishing and decorating the nursery. In this post I’ll be talking about picking the right stroller.
In my opinion, an every day stroller is not a thing to buy at the garage sale. Since it has a few nuts and bolts, moving parts, folding mechanism, you [...]

Preparing For a New Baby Minimalista Way, Furnishing Nursery

Baby news can put anyone over the edge considering the upcoming medical bills, acquiring all the baby gear, nursery furnishings, clothing. All this is besides the upcoming every day expenses, like diapers, formula, health insurance, etc.
I am a minimalista and in less than three weeks we are expecting our second child, this time it’s a [...]

Pregnancy Update, 37 Weeks

Litter Fight

Today my 2-year old daughter gave me about 1 hour of extra work that I didn’t ask for! It all started with me changing an old litter box to a new automatic litter box.
As I was pouring the litter into the new litter box, I realized I didn’t have enough. So I dug into the [...]

4D Ultrasound of Our Baby Boy

Today we went to do a 4D ultrasound at my OBGYN’s office. I’m 32 weeks and 3 days pregnant and apparently the best time to do a 4D ultrasound is between 28 and 32 weeks. For some reason I was under the impression that I needed to wait until 35 or 37 weeks to do [...]

Pregnancy Update Week 31