WRITE-IN QUESTION

What is worse for Jamie - waiting for the baby or the Yanks losing?

Jamie: "Waiting for the baby because the Yankees can't win EVERY series or game, but baby HAS to come out. The Yankees don't give me pain in June and the baby does. If I were expecting in October and their season was over and I would no longer have anything to watch on TV, I would have more of a debate."

WHAT DON'T YOU KNOW?

I really can't think of much more to talk about today. If you have any questions about Jamie's pregnancy email them to cmerna@gmail.com and I will then answer them here on the blog.

NOT YET

Jamie found at her appoitment today that the baby had moved back up away from the birth canal a bit. He has made it very clear that he is not ready to come out just yet and Jamie seemed very clear that this was not acceptable.

Now I'm thinking that he's waiting for the day that the Lakers win the title and after last night he decided to retreat a bit. The new prediction is that he'll be born on Sunday night sometime between 8pm and 11pm.

Other notes from the visit were that he is shaping up to be around 7-8 lbs and that Jamie is still dilated to 1.5 cm

DELIVERY ROUTE

Grandpa Gov (gg) was in town last night making a delivery. (Not that kind of delivery.) It gave us a good chance to review his map and plot the fastest route from Potsdam to Highland Hospital.

I do have my route planned out which is down to a 5.4 mile trip. Jamie might be able to make it even quicker if she can convince Officer Weech we should get a police escort on the way.

BABY NAME VOYAGER

This is a great site for research on the usage of names.

http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager

Type in your name and see how it's usage has risen or fallen over the years all the way back to the 1880's. Try typing in the name "Sunshine" and see if you can guess when it peaked.

If you switch over to link at the top for NameMapper you can see how the popularity of names changes across the different states of the U.S.

IN SEASON

Jamie's belly seems to be getting firmer and I test it every day like I'm checking fruit in the produce isle. Today she felt ripe to me.

NOT RECENT BABY PHOTOS

A trip to gramda's house (soon to be great-grandma) in Utica gave us a chance to get out the old photo books. I was able to locate a baby photo from sometime earlier last century of pending grandfather William Merna, much the same way Jamie aquired a baby photo of me from my mother. We also have a photo of Jamie from way back so that maybe you can get a preview of what the new one is going to look like.

Bill Merna

Colin Merna

Jamie Regan

DOCTOR SAYS

Jamie just got back from seeing the doctor today. An uneventful visit is always good and so the highlights are a bit average.

• Jamie is dilated a little over 1cm
• Baby's heartbeat is good and the baby is active
• Jamie is fully effaced
• The doctor gave a *wink*wink that she didn't think Jamie would make it until June 20th
• According to the doctor Jamie's fat feet are apparently not as bad as they could be

I expect that I will still be massaging the feet tonight no matter what size they are. I also have to say that the feet have been amazing. They are not simply fat, they seem to change with the weather as if atmospheric pressure is the cause of the size change. One day they look like normal human feet and then the next morning they look as if they're about to burst at the seams and then the next day back to normal.

CNN Weather says we should have a high pressure zone moving in for Thursday/Friday so I would assume that to be good news.

(Good luck to the OFA Blue Devil baseball team tonight against the evil Potsdam Sandstoners.)

HITTING STREAK

Some soon-to-be mothers play Mozart through headphones on their belly to give their baby a taste of the fine music before birth. Some read their favorite poetry out loud in the hopes that the sounds will give their babies little brain a headstart coming into the world.

If any of these things actually work then our baby is going to be an expert on the sound of Derek Jeter slapping a single into right field because he hears that seven to eight times per night. (Jamie likes to use the DVR to watch her favorite plays from the game seven to eight times.)

READY FOR STROLLING

Thank you to Aunt Kathy, Aunt Sharon, Aunt Barbara and Becky who got us the new stroller. It also came with the baby carrier that can be mounted into the stroller or into the car seat frame. I've already installed the car seat so that Jamie isn't pulling a Britney Spears and driving home from the hospital with the baby on her lap.