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Babies: 0 - 3 Months
knowing what you know now
What would you do with your last couple of days? I have 12 days until my c-section. I feel like I should be doing something before they are here. Their room is ready. The co-sleeper is ready. I have all the basic baby stuff. I know my life is going to change forever. What things did you do before your baby arrived?
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Re: knowing what you know now
RELAX! I was so busy running around doing last minute chores that I was exhausted before ds even came. I'd do nothing but snuggle up to my husband and enjoy the quiet.
GL and future congrats!
Well, I wish that I would have bought some books about babies and read them! I didn't read anything until we were frustrated!
I like Secrets of the Baby Whisper. Also, the No Cry Sleep Solution is a good book. It should help you to prevent any sleep problems or fix ones you do have (I wish I would have read it in order to prevent the ones we have now!)
Journal or write a letter to your babies so you wont forget how you're feeling right now. All this anticipation and impatience to meet them is really a beautiful memory. Now that dd is here I still go back and replay my labor and the week or so before my delivery and all the "jonesing" I was doing for her to come. I wrote a hella long letter to my baby that week and someday I hope she'll enjoy reading just how wanted and loved she was before she was ever born.
Also, get a pedicure. A good one. That wont happen again for awhile. Refresh your haircut if you need too. That'll be trickier to do once your babies are here as well. Other than that, just do things you enjoy. Dh and I went to a movie and dinner that last week.
Big brother and sister are excited to meet the new baby! It's a GIRL!
~ G ~ 10/2008
~ E ~ 7/2010
pp's suggestions are excellent! DO read some baby sleep and baby care books now - you won't have time later - trust! And DO relax and get AS MUCH rest as you can - once you leave the hospital, even though you will supposed to be recovering from your C-section - it's tough - you'll have a newborn to take care of. So rest now and go out to dinner a couple times with DH, enjoy your last days as a couple with a baby who is REALLY easy to take care of (while in belly, ha ha!)
Best of luck and see you here soon!
"When it comes to sleeping, whatever your baby does is normal. If one thing has damaged parents enjoyment of their babies, it's rigid expectations about how and when the baby should sleep." ~ James McKenna, Ph.D., Mother Baby Behavioral Sleep Center, University of Notre Dame
Get as much sleep as you can! Relax, im sure you are as prepared as your gonna be.
I had a few days notice before I was induced and I went and got a mani pedi and wished I would have gotten a massage and I just hung out..got things ready at home...it was nice. With Twins you aren't going to have any time to sleep so that's what I would suggest getting the most of. Also get lots of it at the hospital if you can too.
Good luck!
Definitely relax & sleep as much as you can get in (I noticed you are having TWO babies--congrats!). If you can, go do things you won't be able to do when you are recovering & taking care of your babies (pedicure, hair cut/styled, movies, eat out, ect).
Children Photography Photo Credit: Heather Barta Photography
"When it comes to sleeping, whatever your baby does is normal. If one thing has damaged parents enjoyment of their babies, it's rigid expectations about how and when the baby should sleep." ~ James McKenna, Ph.D., Mother Baby Behavioral Sleep Center, University of Notre Dame
We had very little warning and she came early so our last day was spent running around like crazy! Given the chance I would have:
Gone on a date to our favorite restuarant, had a manicure, slept, read a book (not baby related), taken a long bath, cooked intricate meals that I no longer have time to do, baked, spent really good quality time with DH and just enjoyed being pregnant for the last few days.
Good luck with everything. I had a c-section too and it went great. I hope yours does as well.
m/c at 13 weeks - March 23, 2011
Children Photography Photo Credit: Heather Barta Photography
I wish I'd gotten a hair cut, mani/pedi, and waxed anything that needed waxing. I am in desperate need of all of these things, and just can't find a way to get out of the house and get them done with a newborn!!
On those same lines, I wish I'd made sure I'd had plenty of things like papertowels, toilet paper, toiletries, medicines, etc. that I really don't feel like dragging DS to walmart/target for.
I also agree I wish I'd read a book or two.
But mainly, just relax!!
DD came early. I went in for a routine Dr's appt and she sent me directly to the hospital for monitoring, then they decided to induce me. I was 38 weeks and 2 days at the time so I knew that DD would be coming soon. That week I had appointments scheduled for a hair cut and a pedicure. DH and I had planned to go on a date and I had a girl's weekend scheduled with my friends.
I agree with pp that you should read a couple of books on sleep techniques. We're having the hardiest time getting DD to nap anywhere other than on our chests.
We went out to eat almost every night for the last 3 weeks before I delivered because I thought it might be our last night out. But then she was so easy we started taking her to restaurants at 4 days old and went like every other night of rhte first month...
The week I had Jack was when the power was out for a week where we live b/c of the hurricane winds. ?So my house was super messy, and I had our bag sort of packed but not really.
GL!?
Relax
do a special date night with dh
mani/pedi/massage
make some freezer meals to eat after
Get your hair cut (it's super hard to arrange someone to take care of the baby afterwards so you can do this; also you don't want all your pics with baby for the first few weeks to be you with roots....that was me).
Go on a date with DH and for the love of God, have SEX. I don't know why we didn't have sex more when I was pregnant but shoot I missed it afterwards. That was a long long 6wks to wait.
On those same lines, take a long hot bath, because you won't be allowed to take one for 6wks as well.
Really stock up on groceries and diapers and even if you think you're going to breast feed, buy some formula too just in case (my milk didn't come in for 7days so we ended up needing so supplement; something we didn't think about ahead of time).
Lastly, start taking Colace NOW. You will be so glad you did.
Go out with DH to dinner and a movie or whatever you like to do on date night. I agree with relaxing, but you won't get out much so take advantage of a couple date nights OUT. Also meet some girlfriends for lunch or something with just the girls too.
Get a pedi, see a movie with DH, go to your FAVORITE place to eat. Sleep is overrated IMO.
I got a pedi like 2 weeks before I delivered and all the nurses were like "Oh wow your toes look great" LOL.
Sleep sleep sleep sleep sleep, read a book in bed, sleep some more, relax, sleep, watch movies, sleep, revel in the fact that you don't have anyone who you are CONSTANTLY worrying about - right now it's still just about yourself, sleep, pamper yourself like crazy - what everyone else said: hair/nails done, massage, facial, waxing, going out to eat, enjoying a movie uninterrupted, enjoying time with friends, sleep some more....
Oh yeah and SLEEP!!! ?I don't think I will ever sleep so well again in my life now that I always have the baby on my mind...
Seriously - don't do anything, don't do chores or anything too strenuous, you will have time when the baby comes to worry about all that, just sleep and relax and don't feel guilty about it for one second...?
ditto!