This last week has been a busy and successful week.
We've been doing A LOT of research on the Cord Blood Banking this last month. After finding out our baby is a boy and announcing the name, this all seems for real. I mean it was real before but now it's like REALLY REAL. So real that I cannot fathom the idea of anything impeading on Colton Keith's opportunity for a long and healthy life. You always think that it won't happen to you. But the fact is, it can. I have several friends who have family member's with cancer or other medical conditions that affect their daily lives. I realize that everything happens for a reason and we fully plan to embrace any situation that is handed to us with strong faith in the lord. But after extensive research and praying, we have decided to store the cord stem cells and cord tissue. This could be a life saving decision and I just don't see how we can pass this up. And it could be a complete waste of money but it's a risk we are okay taking. In fact I'd rather it be a waste of money because that means we are all healthy and living life!! Brian, me, or any of our family members can also benefit from this if needed. I am so thankful for the medical studies and advancements that we are so fortunate to have! With that said, it is expensive. So we are asking family and friends to consider donating to the costs rather than purchasing a baby gift. We know a cute gift is so much more fun but our baby's health is more important. So we have (tonight) sent an email to family and closest friends, and will also be including a note in the baby shower invitation giving everyone the choice between the cord blood registry or the actual gift registry.
Anyways, if anyone would like to check it out, you can see our registry at www.cordblood.com/giftregistry and search by Jessica Plemons.
And since we know that we need to build an actual gift registry, I took advantage of the crappy weather yesterday and spent the day researching things like car seats, strollers, carriers, etc and built the gift registry. The most common and easily accessible baby gift registry is Babies R Us so that is who we chose to use. You can search by my name (Jessica Plemons) or by Brian Plemons if you wanna check it out.
A baby shower date has not been set yet, but it will be soon and invitations will be going out. We hope that everyone will attend. Whether you gift by donating to our cord blood registry, an actual baby gift, or just by praying for us (power of prayer is the greatest gift of all), we would love for everyone to be there in celebration of Colton Keith. Please stay tuned for more details.
Thank you to Kevin and Traci Boyte for letting us borrow your little lamb vibrate/bouncy and little lamb swing! You have no idea how grateful we are that you are allowing us to borrow yours and save money in that area!! We are truly blessed with great people in our lives!
And we got our maternity ward tour scheduled at the hospital. Holy cow, does that thing fill up quick. They only do 2 tours a month and they were booked full till March. So March 5 is our scheduled tour.
I love getting things checked off the To Do List!! But there are many more To Do's ahead still to complete such as the baby room, deciding on classes to take, finding a baby care taker for when I go back to work, etc. I feel like the list goes on and on!! But I guess it's all part of it. For now, I will just end this post and start reading The Happiest Baby On The Block. :)
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