3rd Trimester
allclad13
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Finishing baby's room?
allclad13
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When did you (do you plan to) have baby's room done? Things down to having the curtains hung, sheets on the bed, diaper pail put together, decorations on the wall...?
I'm a planner and like having stuff done early. My furniture has come in but I'm still dragging my feet taking care of the details just because it feels too early. It took me forever to get pregnant and i've had a couple of bumps along the way with this pregnancy (even though my pregnancy seems to be fine now). So I often feel nervous about finishing things up too early.
What was good timing for you?
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Re: Finishing baby's room?
do it now...you'll be so sore and tired near the end you will just want to wash and fold baby clothes by then anyway.
i wish we had finished earlier! i still don't have a few things that i obviously don't feel like shopping for now!
Install a cordless Roman shade, in addition to the curtains we already have hanging.
Hang floating shelves for decorations and books.
Cover all outlets and install cabinet locks.
Buy a chair cover for the nursery chair.
Hang new folding closet doors.
Finish setting up the bathroom w/ LO's supplies.
I set up the "baby station" in our room about 3 weeks ago.
We plan to have the baby in our room for the first few months, so doing the nursery was low priority for us. In fact, we only decided this week (we're being induced this weekend) to move the desk out of the room and dedicate it to being a full nursery instead of an office with a crib.
We've had the crib up for a while, but my DH built the changing table and moved the dresser in today and yesterday.
I always thought I'd be create the most beautiful, perfect nursery for my baby (I spent way too many hours dreaming about before I was pregnant!), but when we found out we were unexpectedly expecting, we had to give up a lot of luxuries like that because of time, budget, living situation, etc. I'm totally OK with our decision, but you better believe when the time comes and we are able to buy our own house, my daughter's room is going to be fit for a princess!
Seriously! DD will be 2 1/2 when DS is born, and they have to share a room. We sent her to her grandparents for the weekend so that we could rearrange the bedroom to fit her twin bed in. DH is also hanging shelves and putting up some decorations...they have been sitting in our room taking up space, some since her birth! The best time to get that stuff done is when she is sleeping, and of course then we can't because she is in her room. Do whatever you can now!!!