So, I am 21 weeks pregnant. Everything is going well with the pregnancy and it appears that in November we will be adding a new baby to the family. I am not very good at telling people that I am expecting. My general approach is just to show up in my maternity wear, mention nothing and make everyone slightly uncomfortable until some brave soul finally asks, "So, um, you're pregnant, right?" I know this is weird, but I can't seem to find another way to do it. Because of my past history with miscarriages we put off telling people about the baby and now it just seems we waited too long. We delayed announcing partly because untelling people that you're pregnant sucks, but mostly because I never feel as excited as everyone else expects me to be. Four months into the pregnancy, I'm still worried about finding a heartbeat while everyone else is wants to talk nursery decor. But now that we've made it past the 20 week mark, I am feeling more confident. I'm still getting there on the excited thing, but I'm making progress.
We did tell Baby M that we'll be bringing home a baby brother for him soon. His reaction was, "I hope it has duck feet." He also offered a name suggestion- "Flombu". We took him to our 20 week ultrasound where we hoped to set his expectations on the feet thing ("Look! You can see the baby's totally normal human feet!") but he got bored and asked if he could go back out to the waiting room and play with some toys. Since he doesn't really seem to be getting this whole baby thing, I've been on the look out for some age appropriate books and toys to help him prepare for the upcoming change.
The first book we got was Baby on the Way