Okay, I'm bored at work (what's new? 
Working on a program that congress has officially cancelled is pretty darn boring!) I've been thinking ahead to the rest of summer and then the fall, and some things are starting to...concern me. (not worry, but still something I need to keep in mind) Typing this out is more for me to see it all in writing, but of course if anyone has any "AHA!" thoughts, please do share!!!
I'm due Sept 25th, but my other two were born at 38 and 38+5. I'm working off the assumption this baby will also come in my 38th week. I did have pre-term labor that the drs had to stop with my first son, so just in case, I'm including my August schedule here, too.
August
7th Hubby's vasectomy
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14th Drive to Michigan, drop off boys for camping trip with Grandma
21st or 22nd Drive to Michigan, pick up boys
24th Ian's first day of school
Connor starts school sometime around this time, but we don't know yet what day is his first day, or if he'll be mornings or afternoon. Hopefully we'll find out soon! It's a special needs school, and he's on the waiting list, but the waiting list is based on severity of need, not the date you got on the list or your birthday, so his position on the list changes frequently based on the other kids.
27th The last day on my task order at work (this makes sense to me, but I won't go into the long boring details of explaining it to you guys!)
September
8th Hubby's first day of school...student teaching semester! Nanny's first day back with us
Okay...so here's the concern. Hubby has never been working when I had a baby due! My mom is coming down when the baby is born, but she's 6 hours away, it will take her between 8 and 24 hours to get here (she needs to arrange work stuff and kid coverage, and although she has a plan in place, it will take some time to implement it!). We do have the nanny, so if anything happens during the day, she will already be there. We're hoping she's willing and able to be "on call" for a middle of the night call as well, and I'm 99.9% positive she will be fine with that.
The only problem will be if it's between like 4pm and 10pm...hubby should be home, but nanny takes night classes and will be unreachable during those hours. In that case, we have several neighbors and friends who can probably step in. Let's just hope it isn't another 44 hour labor like my first!! I'd much prefer the only 2 hours of active labor that I had with my second!
I'm nervous about delivering during the day and hubby being at school! It's not like he has vacation time and he can just leave, you know? I mean, I guess he will just leave, and whomever he's teaching with will know why he's leaving.
I don't know when he'll go back to work, he can't take time off, so pretty much he'll go back the next day I assume. That's where having my mom here will come in handy, she can help me or help the nanny keep things together at home even if hubby has to be back at work.
Yeah...this plan is a work in progress!
Working on a program that congress has officially cancelled is pretty darn boring!) I've been thinking ahead to the rest of summer and then the fall, and some things are starting to...concern me. (not worry, but still something I need to keep in mind) Typing this out is more for me to see it all in writing, but of course if anyone has any "AHA!" thoughts, please do share!!!I'm due Sept 25th, but my other two were born at 38 and 38+5. I'm working off the assumption this baby will also come in my 38th week. I did have pre-term labor that the drs had to stop with my first son, so just in case, I'm including my August schedule here, too.
August
7th Hubby's vasectomy
:14th Drive to Michigan, drop off boys for camping trip with Grandma
21st or 22nd Drive to Michigan, pick up boys
24th Ian's first day of school
Connor starts school sometime around this time, but we don't know yet what day is his first day, or if he'll be mornings or afternoon. Hopefully we'll find out soon! It's a special needs school, and he's on the waiting list, but the waiting list is based on severity of need, not the date you got on the list or your birthday, so his position on the list changes frequently based on the other kids.
27th The last day on my task order at work (this makes sense to me, but I won't go into the long boring details of explaining it to you guys!)
September
8th Hubby's first day of school...student teaching semester! Nanny's first day back with us
Okay...so here's the concern. Hubby has never been working when I had a baby due! My mom is coming down when the baby is born, but she's 6 hours away, it will take her between 8 and 24 hours to get here (she needs to arrange work stuff and kid coverage, and although she has a plan in place, it will take some time to implement it!). We do have the nanny, so if anything happens during the day, she will already be there. We're hoping she's willing and able to be "on call" for a middle of the night call as well, and I'm 99.9% positive she will be fine with that.
The only problem will be if it's between like 4pm and 10pm...hubby should be home, but nanny takes night classes and will be unreachable during those hours. In that case, we have several neighbors and friends who can probably step in. Let's just hope it isn't another 44 hour labor like my first!! I'd much prefer the only 2 hours of active labor that I had with my second!
I'm nervous about delivering during the day and hubby being at school! It's not like he has vacation time and he can just leave, you know? I mean, I guess he will just leave, and whomever he's teaching with will know why he's leaving.
I don't know when he'll go back to work, he can't take time off, so pretty much he'll go back the next day I assume. That's where having my mom here will come in handy, she can help me or help the nanny keep things together at home even if hubby has to be back at work.
Yeah...this plan is a work in progress!
I went from 6-10cms in less than 45min with my 3rd baby, so I'm thinking that I need to have a halfway decent plan in place so that we're not scrambling around, and wind up having a baby in the driveway (this happened to a friend last year with her 5th). Honestly, with DS's induction, it was sooo smooth. We had a plan for what time my mom needed to be at our house, we arranged for someone to pick up oldest DD for preschool, the dogs got fed on time 
and the kids were prepared for what was happening and when. When there are other kids to consider and logistics to figure out re: school, it makes things way more complicated. Defniately need to do some thinking about this time around. 1st DD was born at 39w4d, second DD was 38w6d and DS was born at 40wks, so who knows about this one? 
