The Nest

DH hungry for baby after holding a newborn!

Posted Friday, May 11, 2007 11:52 AM

We met the new baby!

This is Chris's cousin's new baby Leah.  She is so cute.  She had the funniest look on her face, just this annoyed "why are you holding me and not my mommy" look.  She has the tiniest head, but she's a half pound bigger than her almost-one-year-older sister, who was born at 5 pounds 11 ounces.  Apparently her older sister Isabella, upon meeting Leah for the first time, was so excited that the first thing she did was slap her on the face.  Lovely.  Anyway, holding a newborn for the first time after actually deciding to try for a baby is surreal.  You look around the hospital room with a sharper eye, you ask the baby's parents questions you normally wouldn't care to know the answer to, and you stare at the baby wondering how yours might look when he or she is born.  Chris asked so many questions that his cousin wondered if we had news to share.  But no one knows we're even off birth control, other than my friend Keri, so we both came back with a quick, "oh god no," and left it at that.  But it didn't stop Chris from going on and on all throughout the car ride home. 

How many kids do you think we'll have?  How many years in between?  I wonder what order they will be in.  I think boy, girl, boy.  What do you think?  I have been thinking about middle names for the boy names we like.  Do you like Joseph for a middle name? I wonder if our kid will be cursed with our big noses?

And on and on and on.  He even asked me if I knew what sexual position was best for conceiving, and said maybe we should take off a day of having sex so he could build up some super sperm for ovulation!  This is the same guy that wanted to just "let it happen, see how it goes, not actually try for anything."  I was like, "wow, you really want a baby now."  He said seeing his cousin all loving with his second child did not help the matter.  He wants to get going.  I realized we were having so much fun together, and that would be the moment I freaked out, coming to the conclusion that I love our alone time together, and after babies, our alone time will never be the same.  I secretly hope it doesn't happen as soon as Chris wants it to because I'm not sure I'm ready to "lose" my husband to parenthood.