January 2011 Moms
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Are you ladies ready?
As in COMPLETELY ready for the LO to come? I almost feel like I'm missing something... Nursery complete, plenty of clothes, carseat, stroller, bouncer, swing, toys, a small variety of diapers (considering cloth and will p/u more once we know what size & do a trial), bed made, post partum supplies, boppy, formula samples... The only thing I can think of is to finish packing my bag and go by the fire station to have the carseat installed. What do YOU have left to do? Do you feel ready?
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Re: Are you ladies ready?
I saw your post as I was talking about this with DH!
So we're superstitious (fine, I am and our families are - DH is not) so we weren't getting anything for the baby before she came. A big part of that was that we didn't a room full of things if something were to go wrong. A few weeks ago we decided that if we got a couple of things that we could return it would be ok. SO we got a glider that we haven't put together yet. I also got 2 nursing gowns that each came with a matching baby outfit and a crib skirt since I wanted to have it right away. I have to wash the clothes to put them in the hospital bag.
We have the car seat installed and furniture ordered and the room painted and carpeted.
The things we have left: Finish packing hospital bag; clean dust from bathroom renovation; paint bedroom, living room and hallway; get rid of stuff for charity; move furniture we don't need to IL's house; pick up bassinet
The big deal thing is the painting! Thank goodness for vacation!
Sorry that got so long. I guess I just needed to let it out!
I just have to pick up my pack and play and boppy (at my aunt's house, my cousin is giving it to us!!). I also have yet to pack my hospital bag, which I will probably do next week.
Everything else is done. I can't wait to meet LO.
We haven't washed anything. Will wash the bedding, toys, clothes, car seat inserts, bouncer, sterilize bottles, breast pump etc after Christmas I think. We don't have time to do it right now because I am lazy and we're trying to clean the apt inside out. We have a cat, so it's A LOT of dusting and vacuuming in creases. This is important because we basically had to move everything around to clean and wipe and well, we won't be doing this in a while after the baby gets here. DH installed the car seat in his car but it wasn't inspected plus he needs to get an inside out car wash. Luckily my car is super new with less than 1000 miles on it, so we don't need to decontaminate lol
So to answer your question, we are not ready but I am not concerned. I put everything in a laundry basket and if I go into labor, I will just have my sister come over and do it or something. We NEED to pack our hospital bag and baby bag though.
I was like this too, and in my family and culture, you don't have baby showers. You usually have a huge get together about 9 days after the baby is born and everyone brings presents (mostly money) and well wishes and gets a sneak peak of the baby (celebration that the baby is actually here). Sooo it was so tough telling people at around 25 weeks with my mom telling me not to tell anyone and then DH and his fam wanting to tell everyone they knew and didn't know. We bought stuff and kept them in their boxes from week 20 or so. Now we are opening them up and most have been opened without the tags attached. I will wash everything next week so all tags will be removed next week, I figured that I'd rather be prepared (have everything on hand) at this point than to be superstitious and have to rush around when she gets here. It's our first baby so we don't know what to expect.
I have not done most of this stuff. I have clean clothes for LO, bassinet ready with sheets washed, car seat installed and inspected and a bag packed for him. I have a few things in a bag for myself, but I found I needed very little last time and most of what I need will have to be packed last minute.
We haven't set up his nursery yet. We have been doing construction on the house since August and I spend the last two months getting DD's big girl room ready. She doesn't want to vacate her crib, so she is still sleeping in the nursery, even though it is empty except for the crib, changing table, and a dresser the kids will share until I order a new one for DD. DH just painted the nursery yesterday and it looks ADORABLE, but I am waiting to decorate until the new windows are installed. I have everything in boxes in the baby's closet.
When I was pregnant with DD, I wanted EVERYTHING ready ahead. This time I was more excited to redo DD's room - I will probably finish up the baby's room after the holidays and/or when I go on leave.
I do not have a single nursing bra or tank but I think I am going to wait till after baby is born since supposedly your bobs will get even bigger so not sure what size to get. My hospital has a "boutique" store all about nursing so I will be stopping by there so they can help me with what to get/need. Last minute things I need to add to my bag and also I think I need more clothes for LO (but also going to wait and see how much I really need so will wait till she is born)
OMG I want a donut (i know random but I am so close to taking off to buy one lol)