Making the decision to have a child is momentous.
It is to decide forever to have your heart go
walking around outside your body.
~Elizabeth Stone
BABY BEE's PAGE
We are expecting a bundle of joy in September!
Although we are not 100% certain, the concensus is that we are having a boy.
Update: September 2007
WOW! is it September already?? The day is coming! We have already experienced the "fore-shadowing" as they say in literature...Ev's body is preparing for the exciting day with irregular false labor contractions and Braxton-Hicks contractions. To help the "fruit ripen" we continue our long walks and dialogue with Baby. Those who are tuned in have already called us in lieu of Baby's arrival, "Is it here yet?" Not yet...but any day now...
Update: August 2007
The great news about being pregnant and having a baby is that even though the pregnancy may be coming to an end, it is only the beginning ... Hapai Photos, 08/11
Our last month - and we anxiously await our baby's arrival as he (or she) gets bigger and bigger. These days, we do our "hapai power walks" each evening at Ala Moana Beach Park. As we prepare for the big birth day, we are blessed to be surrounded by and supported by so many who favor a home birth. They say how a child comes into the world will affect him (her) for the rest of his(her) life. So, we have opted to do our part giving an advantage to our little one by initiating a soft gentle home birth - for a peaceful life to come.
As our delivery date is fastly approaching, we are well into the third trimester. Baby "Bee" Foreman is strong and active in Mom's belly! As we prepare for his arrival, we are blessed with even more beautiful souls that surround us.
Our midwife and we found each other: Ms. Clare Loprinzi from the Big Island of Hawaii. We feel so fortunate to have found someone so adamantly believes in returning to the natural rhythms of our bodies - enabling a natural birth experience instead of our mainstream "medical procedure" of birthing.
One of the most blessed things about this period of our lives is that we get to experience this journey together.
We accepted an invitation to attend a Baby Expo over the weekend and never saw so many babies in one spot! It was a sea of strollers and baby carriers amid a back ground of baby clothes, bottles, products and services.
As with everything else, we are doing our research...We have found our 1st and favorite baby carrier - the "Ergo Carrier." It's the most fun a newly wed couple and kitty could have!
Update: April 2007
So now, this concludes the three very scientific (!!!) methods of determining our baby's gender:
Chinese gender calendar, which says Baby Foreman is a boy (32, conceived in Dec).
The "ring over the wrist test", administered by Peter and Linda Oqvist, which confirms a boy by the back and forth motion of the hair (versus the circular motion indicating a girl), and by now, a "70% probability" of a boy based on a doctors opinion via sonogram observation.
The second ultrasound is not as clear as the first as it was done atop my belly. The revealing elements of our baby's gender competed with the umbilical cord...we couldn't tell.
...After all, it is Clifford's son (don't blush Dear, its just the truth).
I heard the doc say, "I'm 79.3% sure that it's a boy." Cliff heard, "I'm 70% sure it's a boy."
To make matters even more confusing, there was an internist there who jokingly said "I'm getting girl vibes!" (Last time we went in for a check up, he said he was getting boy vibes. In either case, he is absolutely sure that he's at least 50% right both times.
Either way, Baby Foreman is still very active, and knowing that God's in charge, we will be happy either boy or girl, so long as the baby is healthy and strong.
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Update: March 2007
The exerience itself is never like hearing about it
I remember seeing sonograms of my pregnant friends' bellies over the years at work, and used to think "Wow! How wonderful!" ...which is a watered down rendition of "oh...that's nice" but has little or no emotional affect on me at the time.
The Experience
Cliff and I went to the doctor yesterday and got our first glimpse of our baby. At 13 weeks, he (we don't quite know the gender yet) was VERY active...of course, big smiles on our faces.
I couldn't help it...it's amazing to just know this little being is living inside me, wiggling around and doing all sorts of back flips (yes! already!).
Anyway, either he is simply VERY active or already developing a personality of his own. The attached photo captured him with his little arm resting on his chin, like the famed sculpture, "The Thinker" by Auguste Rodin. Isn't that a chip off the ol' Clifford block already? My goodness!
We even caught him waving his little hand up and down as if to say hello to us...the experience was everything we imagined, but nothing we were prepared for (emotionally, that is).
How do we even curb this amazing impossible love that grows by the hour?
Thank you God for our healthy, happy baby and for our loving supportive families.
Cliff & Evelyn Foreman
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New York, NY 10009
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WHAT'S IN A NAME? "BABY BEE" We gave each other nicknames "Bee" - short for Baby...so when we discovered that we were pregnant, the natural name for our baby is...Baby Bee!
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For more info about Clare Loprinzi, midwifery services and information about circumcision, visit Clare's website: www.ClareLoprinzi.com
For pre-natal and post-partum care on Oahu Hawaii, please contact www.HealthyHapai.com. You may also email Kyong or Tara
For Bradley Childbrith classes, please contact: Dora Baldwin at 808. 256. 0954. www.DoraBaldwin.com
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