On Saturday, I’ll be at the halfway point of my pregnancy. At 20 weeks, “your baby can hear sounds now, and it will cover its ears with its hands if a loud sound is made near you or move if it is startled.” Is that not the most adorable thing? Especially when you’re looking at a picture like this, it’s so cute to imagine little bitty hands clapping themselves over tiny ears. 6 inches long!!
We’ll find out Friday afternoon whether our baby is a girl or a boy, so the baby craziness is kind of taking over this week. I can’t help gushing a bit. I know some of you want to hear, and I haven’t got a new forum for it yet. I bought foltzenhaley.com to be our family blog. Ben’s not convinced we need yet another URL, but my reasoning is:
- Not everyone wants to hear a lot of baby stuff
- We could both blog there
- We could make it password-protected
- Grandparents and others who just want to hear about the baby would have one place to go, without being exposed to all our individual musings, politics, and rants
His response is that having child is “invasive” — which I believe is a creepy way of saying that we won’t really be able to separate baby stuff from everything else in our lives, so why have a separate URL? Still, I feel like I’m going to be reluctant to write in much detail about the birth and parenting and first steps and all that here, except maybe when it comes to some of the more philosophical and socio-cultural aspects. I wouldn’t hesitate to gush about all the potentially boring stuff if I had a dedicated space. Not that I’ll have a lot of spare time for blogging, but I could at least manage the occasional update.
