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[Aletheia]

Originally Posted by Itsasecret 

Obviously, my primary love language is NOT words of affirmation!

[AiryFairy]

Continue prenatal yoga at least 1 x a week
Drink lots of water
Prewash diapers & prefolds
Recipe and prepare wipes solution
Sewing projects; babywipes, wipes wet bag, blanket, burp cloths, play mat, birthing top & skirt
Sew or buy more cloth nursing pads, postpartum pads (& order those comfy knit panties)
Clean out closets to make room for Aries' clothes, toys & blankets
Figure out a place to store cloth diapers
Find a home for Aries hammock and rearrange our bed if needed
Buy a waterproof mattress cover
Order birth supplies and birth pool (hose, faucet attachment & air pump)
Make labor & birth CD's
Do not disturb door sign for labor
Candles & box for cord burning
Install car seat

Buy or sew receiving blankets & towels
Buy freezer bags to store expressed BM cubes
Clear space on altar to make birth altar ~finish by 37 weeks
Plan activities for girls to do during labor
Prepare food/drink for labor (RRL brew, recharge, lemon zest bars)
Get Aries' dresser and organize clothes
Aromatherapy recipes
Prepare 3 freezer meals
Book birth photographer
Charge camera batteries & clear memory cards
Buy baby book
Henna?
Read Hypnobirthing & attend a natural childbirth class taught by MW
Make birthing necklace or bracelet from bead swap
Create birth affirmations

Buy brandy & distilled water for placenta tincture & essence (2 mason jars & 2 dropper bottles)

Edited by AiryFairy - 3/7/12 at 8:51am

[daylicious]

daylicious

Buy crib, set up
Buy dresser for guest room/baby room
Buy clothes dryer (ours broke a year ago, never replaced)
Buy king size bed (we sleep in a double...it needs to go)
Get roof fixed (this might have to wait until spring)  This is going to have to wait...thankfully it's not a major repair

Take drivers training (starting in Jan)
Get drivers license
Get insured on dh's car

Fill out maternity leave paperwork

Paint master bedroom
Clean out workshop/storage room in basement (so I'm less crazy)
Freezer meals
Bring birth pool over from BFF's (she's lending us hers)
Take prenatal class offered by mw
Finish approx 10 knitting projects   Not gonna happen, only finished one...I need to be realistic

Finish embroidered sampler
Finish piecing top of baby quilt/assemble

Buy nursing bras

Car seat

[NicMom]

Itsasecret - my husbands secondary love language is Words of Affirmation.  His primary is Touch.  Of course, these are at the bottom of my list.  Mine is Acts of Service so it is easy for him to get on my good side by just doing a bit of cleaning or making dinner.  I still can't remember to give him his Words throughout the day.  Seriously!  How many times do I have to say "You are the best, most talented, wonderful, sweet and kind husband" before he gets it.  Obviously 10xday is not enough .  Maybe I need to get back to setting a timer on my phone to remind me to text him or say something.  It seems like cheating but it totally works!

My list shrank recently but I just added a bunch more to it so it has expanded to even more than its starting length.

[CarlyVHT]

My primary love languages ARE Touch & Words of Affirmation. DH's are Quality Time and Word of Affirmation.

Somehow both DH and I TRY to show love through Acts of Service - even though that isn't a primary for either of us. I can't figure out why the delicious dinners I make don't make him feel loved and he can't figure out why I don't feel loved every time he cleans the garage. We obviously suck at love languages :)

I think the book is interesting and makes sense, though.

[chiromama01]

chiromama01

set up crib and nursery (we've decided to convert home office to nursery)

purchase new crib mattress

find baby monitor from dd

figure out who I can hit up for baby boy hand me downs :)

organize dd's clothes/closet/playroom

buy box of nb diapers (gasp...I know, but can't handle any more laundry right now!!)

new moby

freezer meals

exercise 2-3x per week

so let me add to my list... figure out which state we will be living in

                                     get new license if necessary, to work in new state, if there is a new state

                                     potentially start a new business, again

                                      find some way to make DH feel guilty for "changing the game" yet again (ok, this one is just for me, i won't actually do it!)

                                     do everything involved with organizing a relocation, yet again, and on my own, as DH will be away at training

                                     PRAY THAT NONE OF THE ABOVE HAPPENS AND NEW JOB IS LOCAL!!!!!!!!

...yay for progress!!

[Thursday Girl]

wow, everyone's lists are coming along nicely. I have cut some stuff from my list I think, I'll have to go back and check. I think the only things I feel MUST be done before babe are:

buy new van (probably not going to happen and I am pretty annoyed, especially since the van door still isn't fixed, the drivers side window is now stuck down and the air conditioning doesn't blow at all anymore. so to buckle baby and Juniper in I will have to lean over one of them and it's just a PIA, plus I consistently have to be worried someone will rob my van and the kids get overheated in the car...and luckily it hasn't rained yet, but that should be fun)

get a few more things on birth list

but laundry detergent for baby stuff and diapers

wash baby stuff and diapers

[justKate]

I honestly can't remember what was on my first list, so i'm starting a new one!

Continue making freezer foods
Get dh to put dd's new carseat in so i can get the old one cleaned up for baby
Type/post list of things for DH to do/pack/check on before we go to the hospital
Pack a hospital bag
Turn up water heater for labor
Get some NB or 0-3 mo sleepers--i only have t-shirts and gowns from DD for some reason. She needs legs for the car ride home, at least.
Meet w/doula last time pre-birth: 3/14

[lalazap]

Just tidying up my list here ...

For baby

• buy carseat arranged to borrow one
• wash and organize baby clothes
• get/make change pad
• finish knitting baby blanket
• sewing: flannelette blankets, t-shirt gowns made 2 and have shirts for 3 more, muslin swaddler

For the birth/pp

• towels
• food for birth helpers
• labour food for me (remember frozen pineapple/mango skewers)
• HB supplies in living room dresse pretty much complete, have to add more blue pads and baby hats
• get birth pool at 38w, test it out!
• hospital bag

In the house

• empty bedside table drawers
• recover alley score chair
• put photos up

Family

• birth gift for DSS: camera
• birth videos with DSS

Administrative stuff

• life insurance
• look into RESP
• finish 2011 taxes, meet with accountant
• discontinue EHS benefits once doula reimbursed

Health and self-care

• book a scrub at Korean spa

Edited by lalazap - 3/16/12 at 3:26pm

[Aletheia]

Originally Posted by chiromama01 

so let me add to my list... figure out which state we will be living in

                                     get new license if necessary, to work in new state, if there is a new state

                                     potentially start a new business, again

                                      find some way to make DH feel guilty for "changing the game" yet again (ok, this one is just for me, i won't actually do it!)

                                     do everything involved with organizing a relocation, yet again, and on my own, as DH will be away at training

                                     PRAY THAT NONE OF THE ABOVE HAPPENS AND NEW JOB IS LOCAL!!!!!!!!

...yay for progress!!

OH MY GOSH!  Chiro, I have'nt been following the chat thread, so I don't know what's up here, but let me tell you that your list gave me a contraction.  I hope you are keeping your head!
 

Originally Posted by lalazap 
For the birth/pp

• labour food for me (remember frozen pineapple/mango skewers)

Health and self-care

• book a scrub at Korean spa

Thanks for these good ideas!  Yay!

[usagi629]

I've actually got three different google docs with separate lists for all the stuff on my "list"...

Here's a shortened list...

1. Finish renovation on the basement office (at this point, it's mostly installing the flooring.)

2. Move office from upstairs to downstairs

3. Buy furniture; paint; and setup old office as new "big boy" room for DS.

4. Move DS into new room.

5. Set nursery back up as nursery - put crib back from toddler bed to crib, launder linens, etc.

6. Get baby things (bassinet, swing, pack-n-play, boppy, etc.) out of storage, clean and setup.

7. Sterilize pump parts, bottles, pacifiers. (won't use bottles or pacis for several weeks, but might as well clean them.)

8. Get infant dipes out of storage and launder.

9. Make cloth mommy pads.

10. Make mommy freezer packs.

11. Make a new boppy case, if time permits.

Oh yeah... and make and freeze MORE dinners/meals.

[Aletheia]

Originally Posted by usagi629 

11. Make a new boppy case, if time permits.

Do you  use a pattern?  I'd love to make my own cover.

[justKate]

What i do for boppy covers is: take you cover, iron it, and fold it in half so that the ends of where the boppy would go are together. Trace that on a piece of paper or cheap fabric and add 1" all the way around for a seam allowance. I just do it by hand--if its not perfect it doesn't matter. Cut 2 layers of your good fabric on the fold, and then put your zipper in on the long fat side of the cover where the fabric meets instead of on the underside like boppy makes them. I can post pics if anyone wants...

[Aletheia]

I would love to see any pics you might be able to post.  I got so excited about this idea that I just ordered a "bare naked boppy" and am headed to the fabric store this weekend to pick up two types of minky for two different covers.  Yay!

[thomatuttle]

I definitely need to make a new boppy cover. My old one has a whole in it. Maybe I'll pick something up this weekend to do that!

[chiromama01]

chiromama01

set up crib and nursery (we've decided to convert home office to nursery)

purchase new crib mattress

find baby monitor from dd

figure out who I can hit up for baby boy hand me downs :)

organize dd's clothes/closet/playroom

buy box of nb diapers (gasp...I know, but can't handle any more laundry right now!!)

new moby  I got a maya ring sling instead and i hope i love it! 

freezer meals  24 freezer meals cooked, packaged and frozen, TODAY!!!

exercise 2-3x per week

so let me add to my list... figure out which state we will be living in

                                     get new license if necessary, to work in new state, if there is a new state

                                     potentially start a new business, again

                                      find some way to make DH feel guilty for "changing the game" yet again (ok, this one is just for me, i won't actually do it!)

                                     do everything involved with organizing a relocation, yet again, and on my own, as DH will be away at training

                                     PRAY THAT NONE OF THE ABOVE HAPPENS AND NEW JOB IS LOCAL!!!!!!!!

so we still don't have any news about the location of dh's potential new job yet, so we're still praying it's local

let me add to the list...

birth supplies for hospital water birth

reserve birth tub for hospital water birth

hypnobabies practice

keep on top of household chores so i don't come home to a disaster when he does finally arrive!!!

[thomatuttle]

here's my updated list:

get prefolds and covers back

get cosleeper back

organize and paint DD's room  this will hopefully be done next week.  it's taken me a lot longer than i expected!

get more all in one's/covers  once i got all my covers back, i realized that i actually have quite a bit and don't need anymore at this point!

start/finish knitting babies blanket

start/finish matching hat and booties for baby

organize house  this will be a never-ending task for the rest of my life, so i'm ok with not having it crossed off at the moment

freezer meals  one meal in, with the plan of one or two tomorrow, as well as making up some hamburger patties

borrow or craigslist an ergo probably not going to happen, only one i know with one still uses it and don't have the money to buy one new or used right now

buy or craigslist a double jogging stroller 

wean DD

start collection of boy clothes

find big sister/little brother clothes

knit sweater for baby

[usagi629]

Originally Posted by Aletheia 

Do you  use a pattern?  I'd love to make my own cover.

I got my boppy second hand from a friend, so I just made a pattern out of muslin and then cut my fabric using that. Unfortunately I only bought a 1/2 yard and that was slightly not enough for it. Since then, I did purchase a pattern for one of those shopping cart covers that also has a boppy cover pattern inside. If I actually manage to find time to do it, I'll probably use the bought paper pattern. I still have the one I made before, and it will work still, but I'd love to have a fresh new (and prettier) one. ;-)

Oh. and I used velcro on my last one, but I may use a zipper this time, just because I have a shoebox full of zippers, and not much velcro. The velcro works nicely though.

[justKate]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aletheia 

I would love to see any pics you might be able to post.  I got so excited about this idea that I just ordered a "bare naked boppy" and am headed to the fabric store this weekend to pick up two types of minky for two different covers.  Yay!

I have NO IDEA why I can't change the size of these pics.  Sorry they're so big.  Maybe the browser I'm using?! 

[justKate]

Originally Posted by justKate 

I honestly can't remember what was on my first list, so i'm starting a new one!

Continue making freezer foods--No real progress on this yet.  
Get dh to put dd's new carseat in so i can get the old one cleaned up for baby--one truck done, one car to go
Type/post list of things for DH to do/pack/check on before we go to the hospital--handwritten, need to update and post on refrigerator
Pack a hospital bag--halfway done
Turn up water heater for labor--done!
Get some NB or 0-3 mo sleepers--i only have t-shirts and gowns from DD for some reason. She needs legs for the car ride home, at least.--done today!
Meet w/doula last time pre-birth: 3/14--done