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NEXT month!!

CharissadeatsCharissadeats member
edited April 2016 in May 2016 Moms
Since it's officially April now, that means that the majority of is are due NEXT month! Can that just sink in for a moment?!

On my to-do list for this last month:
1. Finish nursery (baby shower next week so should be 99% there after that)
2. Have lots of dates with DH
3. Read, read and then read some more
4. One last major shop for food and cleaning supplies 

What is on yours??
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  • JoMunsonJoMunson member
    I'm dabbling in some not appropriate shows (game of thrones, the sopranos) because I know I won't be able to watch them again until all the babies are grown and out.
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  • michellabananamichellabanana member
    Oh no...luckily I'm at the end of the month...so hopefully I'll have a little more time. :fingers crossed:

    1.  Finish nursery ( the ceiling is at least done)
    2.  Find pediatrician (interviewing one tomorrow and a couple next week). 
    3. Pack back for hospital
    4. Final clean out of house
    5. Finish putting bassinet together
    6. Pick up breast pump (figure out how it works lol)

    Thank you for starting this!  Kicks me in the butt to get finished!  But all baby classes are done and we passed lol.  We got a certificate and everything.

    For me:

    7.  I like the dates with hubby thing!  Definitely make sure to make that a priority!
    8.  Finish watching daredevil.  I'm hooked!


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  • mello13mello13 member
    I'm highly likely to have this one early like the first, so I probably only have a few weeks left!!! Eek!!

    On my to do list:

    1. Pack hospital bag
    2. Attend shower (Saturday)
    3. Get swing out of storage and clean it
    4. Install car seat
    5. About 10,000 other things that probably won't get done!

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  • CharissadeatsCharissadeats member
    It seems I forgot a few things... Damn. This is a good reminder!

    Question: Do we need TWO car seats or can we make do with one? How easy is it to swop it out? 
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  • CharissadeatsCharissadeats member
    edited April 2016
    I told my DH this morning that next month we will be parents, but according to him we already are. I was taken aback - for a second I was scared that he is more ready than me!

    Any other FTMs/FTDs that already feel like they are parents?
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  • lalala2004lalala2004 member
    Charissadeats said:
    It seems I forgot a few things... Damn. This is a good reminder!

    Question: Do we need TWO car seats or can we make do with one? How easy is it to swop it out? 
    The way we see it is we might as well swap cars instead of car seats. One car is newer and safer, so the LO will always be in that car, and whoever has him will drive that car!

    My mom may be getting a car seat base, though.
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  • mumbolinomumbolino member
    OMG... 
    I have soo much I need to get done before!  I have no idea how / when. Once I get home from work all I can manage is fall in my recliner and that's it. 
    I can't believe that there'll be a fellow family member with me soon. Out of my belly. Despite the massively round evidence and all the aches and pains, it's still really really SURREAL! :-)

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  • CharissadeatsCharissadeats member
    @lbachran Wow I think you have the earliest date (apart from the mommies who already had their babas). Good luck with everything - I'm sure you will be fine. Got to get some of Phoebe's gloves for that rash :wink: 
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  • NinnyJeanNinnyJean member
    Just made my to do list yesterday and it's way to long for it to already be April. Thank goodness LO isn't due until the end of May 
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  • JennyS86JennyS86 member
    lbachran Yea for 37 weeks!!  ours is scheduled for May 9th (37.2wks), and I really hope to make it that far!!  Having a date and knowing which OB really helps with the visualization.  Hopefully I can get a prenatal appt with her too - I've only seen her once this pregnancy. 

    My to-do list is about 30 items long, but the most important are: trade in for a bigger car and prepare bassinet/pack-n-play.  and stay pregnant until at least 35 weeks.  Keep checking things off, ladies!
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  • kbrands7kbrands7 member
    edited April 2016
    My essential items are finished,  but there are a few things that I wanted to do last week and didn't get to yet (like organizing the garage and re-claiming my treadmill which has become a storage area over the past few weeks). Right now I'm working on DS's birthday party (he turns 2 in a week). I'd also like to do something fun with DH and DS as a family of three before we become a family of four. Oh, and I get to keep fighting with my school to honor my doctor's requested date for my leave start. 
    Eta: I've been operating under the impression that I'll likely have at least a few weeks left to work on some of these things since LO probably won't be arriving until the last week of April/first week of May. 
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  • michellabananamichellabanana member
    hellogoodbye2 said:
    We had a check-list thread going a few weeks ago....all I've done on it so far is get a pedicure. lol priorities 
    Oh I definitely need one too!  When I went to labor and delivery a couple weeks ago, the dr. Actually commented on how sweaty my feet were :blush:   I decided I definitely need them to look nice if they are going to be sweaty and smelly
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  • MsIanMsIan member
    Soooo ready!! More so ready not to be pregnant any longer than to be used as a milk machine lol. But I'm super excited to meet my little man.

    1. Baby shower (tomorrow)
    2. Buy whatever I don't get from the baby shower
    3. Get car seat and stroller. And then install.
    4. Put hospital bag in car.
    5. Freezer meals (next weekend)
    6. BF class (Monday)
    7. Get someone to do a deep clean of our house 

    Im due May 13th but at the rate this pregnancy has been going with my incompetent cervix and the bed rest stint, I'm fine as long as he stays in til 35 weeks (April 8).
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  • jumpy57jumpy57 member
    I'M SO EXCITED!!!!! We have a bunch of little baby parties different groups of friends/coworkwers have planned. I need to install the car seat, order a breast pump, and wash baby clothes. There are more things I SHOULD do, but I'm too excited to care anymore  :p
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  • emma+karenemma+karen member

    Eeeek!  Though I'm not due till the 23rd, so more like 2 months, but still....!

    I have spring break in a couple weeks, so here's what I'm planning:

    • Finish set-up/organize nursery
    • Get both our cars detailed and install new car seats
    • Eyebrow wax and pedicure for me!
    • Monthly cleaning service visit, followed by a deep clean mid-May
    • Get the pool opened and cleaned so I don't have to worry about it once the baby's here
    • Paperwork stuff--need to renew my passport, stuff like that!

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  • missnc77missnc77 member
    Baby related:
    - Finish nursery (wallpaper accent wall, need book shelving, lighting we bought is backordered until end of April :neutral: )
    - See what's left on the needs list after my shower this weekend and budget to buy it all up
    - Find a pediatrician
    - Handle breast pump reimbursement 
    - Install car seat in my car and base in husband's car
    - Pack hospital bag
    - Order breast pads and other recs from STMs of post birth recovery needs

    House related:
    - Pray our two bathroom renovation that started this week is done on time
    - Still need to get a small breakfast table
    - Husband needs to install new blinds -- husband is not handy, so pray husband can actually install said blinds
    - Prep the guest room for my mom
    - Install new vanity in basement bathroom -- again, husband is not handy, so this will be fun
    - Buy patio and outside furniture

    Advice to all future moms to be - Never buy a house in your second trimester. My stamina and wallet are being bled dry.

    I also need to plan a birthday party for the first weekend in May for my husband and mom. They share a birth date, and that's also the baby's due date, so I wanted to do something special for them ahead of time.

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  • araecaseyaraecasey member
    camillaandcarson said:
    I have a 4 page word document left.   Type A planner here. 

    Yeah, me too. But with 20 minute increments to get anything done during the day. This thread makes me feel like a ball of panic. I had so much time for my to do list with DD. How am I gonna do all the things???? 
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  • dsmith211dsmith211 member
    I have to much to do to put in a list before baby gets here, but kinda freaking out about being able to say she'll be here next month.
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  • CharissadeatsCharissadeats member
    @kbrands7
    Is your boy's birthday on the 8th? If so I am sharing with him :smile: 
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  • kbrands7kbrands7 member
    @Charissadeats it is! You are birthday buddies! :)
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  • lbachranlbachran member
    @Charissadeats, I came for a manicure today to get my nails clipped and filed as short as they can go. I've got to stop attacking my skin in my sleep. Luckily my manicurist is a friend whose sister recently had PUPPS too. My date feels so early compared to everyone else. My due date is May 4th, but there's no way they'll let me get that close. 

    @JennyS86, I didn't realize you were delivering at 37 too. I feel less alone now! Good luck with the new car, DH is driving Miss Daisy right now because I can't sit in the front with the car seat at the full infant recline. Our car seat instalation technician said I was too close to the dash. I'd forgotten how weird it is to sit in the back of my car, but our car seat is a freaking tank so I guess the safety benefits are worth the temporary inconvenience. 
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  • AmmyBelleAmmyBelle member
    Oh wow - next month! Where did the months go?? My OB looked at my chart at my last appointment and was like "Weren't you just 8 weeks pregnant yesterday? How are you 8 months now??" 

    Anyways, to do:
    - Pack hospital bags (our birth place suggests packing two bags - a labour bag to bring in with you initially, and a recovery bag with all the things you need for your stay at the hospital)
    - Finish the corner of our room that will be baby's "nursery" (she gets a wall), which means ordering the changing pad to go on the dresser and painting the wall
    - Install car seat base.
    - Finish Childbirth Classes (last on April 13!) and Infant CPR Class (April 18)
    - SO and I are both turning 30 in mid-April, so party! Though our original plans made this time last year to go to Paris are off, I guess we can find something to do in the general vicinity of home ...
    - Freezer meals. Have done my experiments and figured out what works for us, now to make them and store them for real
    - Really want to get a pedicure done ... my toes are awful, and SO offered to help me with them since I can't reach, but we've been down this road before - it will be a disaster 
    - Print out and have ready all the legal documents I'll need (or just want) for delivery/birth 
    and
    - clean clean clean! 

    That's doable. I'm due May 19, it's totally doable ... 
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  • thismakes4thismakes4 member
    Due May 23 so a little more time than a lot of you. I have most of my baby stuff but they are all just sitting in the nursery in boxes. It's sad. The basic things are to:

    1. Put together the nursery
    2. Buy diapers, bath stuff, swing, and just little things
    3. Pack hospital bags
    4. Clean! I just don't have energy anymore.

    We're possibly taking on a renovation project on a house up the road that we are trying to purchase. DH will be extremely busy with that but I know he can do it. I just don't know if he will have it ready before we deliver meaning that we might be moving after having this LO. It's stressing me out a little to move with a brand new baby and 3 boys I would much rather move before when I can actually help.
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  • H0neyC0mbH0neyC0mb member
    edited April 2016
    I'm due May 27th so I seem to be the furthest out. Thoigh she's measuring ahead by almost 3 weeks and I've already had a preterm labor scare so we'll see. :smile: 

    Baby:
    - stay pregnant till at least 36 weeks.
    -put finishing touches on the nursery 
    -find dress for baby shower  (April 23rd)
    -buy anything not bought
    -install car seat 
    -build up cloth diaper stash


    House:
    -finish upstairs demolition  (That way all the dusty stuff is done. Should be finished this weekend!)
    -Clean.

    There's a ton of little things but thats the bulk of it. 

    Edit my gif might be broken.
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