Cribs, gliders and guilt

Yesterday, John and I went to buy the crib. I had my eye on some more expensive models at Babies r Us and Buy Buy Baby, but the Consumer's Digest of all things baby "Baby Bargains" gave high marks for Ikea...of all places. Upon further research, Ikea had great reviews on their cribs, so that's where we decided to go. I admit, the crib we got does not match ANY of the furniture we have in the room, and, in comparison to the other cribs, it looks extremely simple, but it was also 1/4 the price. This is the first time in my life where I feel guilty about saving money. Right now, I have no reason to because all of the reviews are good, but I feel like I should have gotten the Cadillac anyway. The opposite usually happens with me. We'll see how it goes. John has to actually assemble the crib and I can spend some time with it and see if we get along...
Where I DID splurge is on our next trip to Babies R Us to look at gliders (the rocking chair of today). The chairs and ottomans ranged from $300 in combination to $500 for just the chair and a little under two hundo for the ottoman. The less expensive version, and what I would normally get because a chair is a chair was too narrow. Since I have heard that you basically live in these things in the beginning, I wanted to get something that John and I were comfortable in. So I bought the more expensive model. Funnily enough, the sales rep had the model numbers memorized because we happened to pick the most popular chair. Hopefully, that is a good thing.
So, now I feel guilty for splurging on my thing and saving on the crib. I rationalize it as she won't really care as long as it's safe. Just, if you come to visit me, pay no attention to the pink elephant in her room, aka her crib. Admire the glider ;-)
Also, I dusted off the "What to Expect When You're Expecting". I hadn't read that thing since my first trimester and, now that I am one day away from my third trimester, I thought I would catch up. First of all, I should not have put that book away. A lot of the Q&A portions of the book (what other moms are going through) is exactly what I went through. For example, the panicking about those days when Olivia was not moving as much as "normal". It explained that babies are humans (shocker) and sometimes they just don't feel like getting up and about, especially when you're moving a lot and basically rocking them to sleep. Sometimes, the baby is kicking all over the place it feels like you have an octopus in there...that's just cuz at this point there is so much room to groove...that will lessen as the babies grow. And then there are some things I wish I hadn't read, like getting the big H (hemorrhoids). Yum...
Recently I have been on the lazy side, so Olivia has gotten her groove on inside me. Last night she was doing more pushing than kicking...more tai chi than tai-bo. Whatever it is, I love it. It let's me know she's doing well.
One of the bonuses of having a dad who is a retired Gyno (and, I realized that I may make it sound like he's my gyno, but that is NOT the case...he's just my second opinion) is that he still has connections to his office and I am getting a free 3-d ultrasound on my birthday. That's about two weeks away still, but I am so excited! Great birthday present to me, no?!