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November 2011 Moms
to-do list
last week or two weeks ago someone posted about what is left on your to-do list. It really helped me out to start mine. You'd think that having already done this before I would know what I need to do before baby gets here but I'm having serious pregnancy brain and forgetting all sorts of things.
So... anyone care to share what is left on their to-do list?
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Re: to-do list
I think those are the big things that we have left. Oh, and packing my hospital bag!
Baby Turtle - November 2014
-daily registry stalking to see if/when I should buy some essentials off our registry (need baby tub, receiving blankets, changing pad)
-we just got our dream stroller off ebay, so I am waiting for that to arrive
-install car seat base and car seat and have it checked (plan for this week)
-contact patient liason here to give a tour of L&D, show me where to park, register, etc (hopefully this week)
-prep cloth diapers, they are on the way but won't be here for a few weeks
-make some freezer meals (waiting until 37 weeks, I don't have much freezer space)
-other small odds and ends such as organizing baby's room, etc.
DS born via unplanned C-section at 40w6d
--Vacuum van and rearrange car seats/install infant seat (this weekend)
--Put together bouncy seat
--Preregister at hospital (waiting for new c/s date first)
--Put up pack n play
--Organize changing table
--Clean out girls toys
--Clean the house
--Start Christmas shopping/make wishlist for family to use for the kids
If I could do my to-do list it would have on it...
buy a couple of things (ergo sport, swing, coolest exersaucer evah)
hang a couple of pictures in the nursery
clean up my house just a little bit
That's it. And it's a good thing since I'm on "take it easy" orders (my doc's way of saying bedrest).
Ummmm, you could say we still have EVERYTHING to do!!! I'm so "whatever" this time!!!!
Baby Turtle - November 2014
1- Buy a few last minute items (long sleeve onesies-we literally have about 3)
2- Go for L&D tour (tomorrow-yaya!)
3- sterilize pacifiers, etc (waiting to do the bottles to see how long I can BF)
4- Freezer meals (very unmotivated on this one)
5- wait for glider to arrive
6- Install car seat base
7- find DH a new vehicle, since his broke down last week!
- Install car seat and have it inspected
- Pack hospital bag
- Finalize birth plan
- Last minute cleaning of the house/grocery shopping (waiting another two weeks or so because I'm 35.5 weeks along and don't want to have to do it twice)
- Get my hair done (gotta look semi-cute for all those after delivery pictures my family likes to take)
-Finish writing thank you cards from my showers
-Hang last few pictures in the nursery
Install car seat base (1 is installed, the other isn't)
Drop DS's bag at my parents house
Session at Dream Dinners to make freezer meals (this Thursday)
Make lactation cookies to put in the freezer and continue with random freezer cooking
Update MP3 player playlists
Sort 1 box of clothes and blankets
Call work leave desk to figure out procedures for time cards and such
Mini childbirth class with doula (next Tuesday)
Put up wall decals
Pray that tubing for pump arrives soon
The list is actually starting to seem manageable
~Working Mom~Breastfeeding Mom~Cloth Diapering Mom~BLW Mom~
Blog - No Longer on the DL ~ The Man Cave
Shawn and Larissa
LO #1 - Took 2 years and 2 IVFs ~ DX - severe MFI mild PCOS homozygous MTHFR (a1298c)
LO #2 - TTC 7 months, surprise spontaneous BFP!
- paint wall letters
- hang up wall letters
- put crib together (won't actually happen till January)
- get rid of full bed in nursery (won't happen till Jan)
- hang up curtain rod/curtains
- order wall decals (probably a Christmas present for baby)
- put up decals
- wash cloth diapers and sun them
- wash pump parts
- get swing out of storage and clean it and set up
- get bouncy out of storage and clean it and set up
- re-read BFing book
- pack birth center bag
- start and finish Christmas shopping
- make baby's Christmas stocking
- make tracking sheets to track pee, poop, and feedings for first week or so
- set up PNP in our room
- install carseats in cars and play musical carseats (ie move DD's carseats around and move seat in van to middle position)
- install older kids carseats in mom's car so she can take them easily when the time comes
- put towels, blankets, and other emergency childbirth supplies in cars just in case
- have DH read up on emergency childbirth
- make and freeze more meals (chicken pot pies, mac and cheese, meatloaves, sloppy joe meat, more pumpkin muffins, blueberry muffins, maybe a quiche or something)
Crossed off in the last week:
- wash baby clothes
- put away baby clothes
- buy disposable diapers for first couple weeks
- buy wipes
- buy swaddle blankets
- buy PP supplies (Depends, pads, nursing pade, lanolin, etc)
- order DD#1 a new carseat
- get a list of numbers of people DH works with in case I go into labor while he's at work and I can't get ahold of him
You have a recipe for lactation cookies? Excuse the ignorance, but is that cookies that help your milk produce?? If so, could you share the recipe??
1. Install carseat (appt. today)
2. Put all LO's clothes, etc. in her dresser (which has not arrived yet)
3. Hang wall art (again waiting on the dresser)
4. Pick LO's going home outfit
5. Buy some yoga pants for coming home in
Gosh I think that might be it! :-)
Hahaha, thank you!! You too!!! I'm sure we'll get it done- we've been sooo busy the last several weekends, and not even home the last 2. This weekend "all" we have is my mom's suprise 60th, so we will have all day Sunday to get some stuff done! Best of luck to you
buy a pack n' play
install car seats
buy a baby book (I just realized I don't have one the other day.... whoops!)
They are cookies for helping milk production. Last time I used a recipe on epicurious, but I think I'll try this one this time:
https://www.drmomma.org/2010/08/lactation-cookies-recipe-increasing.html
Looks somewhat healthier. The important ingredients are brewer's yeast, flax and oats and there are lots of ways to sneak those into your diet, like throwing flax into smoothies
~Working Mom~Breastfeeding Mom~Cloth Diapering Mom~BLW Mom~
Blog - No Longer on the DL ~ The Man Cave
Shawn and Larissa
LO #1 - Took 2 years and 2 IVFs ~ DX - severe MFI mild PCOS homozygous MTHFR (a1298c)
LO #2 - TTC 7 months, surprise spontaneous BFP!
Pre-wash diapers.
Paint nursery closet doors.
Clean carpet.
Order playard.
Finish minor renos left in upstairs washroom.
Paint one of the spare bedrooms.
Ahh who am I kidding, I'll just do what I feel when I feel.
On Monday our hardwood floors are getting the final coat of polyurethane and then our home construction projects are DONE. I am upset that things went this late but oh well.... now we have to:
- clean our entire house
- assemble all of our baby things (so far just the dresser, swing and pnp are put together)
- the crib arrives tuesday so we have to put that together
- install car seat & have it checked
- find a pediatrician
- buy & hang curtains and/or blinds for the baby room
- pack hospital bag
- I have 1 more week of work left and that has its own to-do list
- this is the big one: decide on a name!
At this point I've given up on being completely "ready" before LO gets here but I feel good that we have everything we need and DH can scramble to get things assembled last minute if need be.