I'm officially in third-trimester panic.
I'm going nuts because we dont have everything we need for the baby all set up and ready. I had DS at 38 weeks, so I feel like I only have 3 weeks left, even though I have a little over amonth until my EDD. Its like serious anxiety attack mode over here! the problem is that I cant afford to get everything at once...
What about you all? Anyone panicking? What do you still need to do/get? Maybe we can help each other get going/ get organized!
1.We are putting a crib in the room the kids will share (though the baby will be in with us until she's too big for the cosleeper - dont flame me! Its a long story), and it will be mostly a diaper-changing station until she sleeps in it. Before, i wasn't worried about getting it set up, but now I WANT it in there! Like, NOW! Just as a place to put the diapers and such. But the crib is in my parent's basement and we need to rent a truck to get the pieces from there to here. No money to do that!
2. One good thing: We finally got a dresser for the kids. We used to have one, but the people we borrowed it from needed it back in May, so we'd had all of DS's clothes in milk crates and a laundry basket since then. When some lovely friends and MDC mamas gave us clothes for our new baby girl, they stayed in cardboard boxes in the living room cus we had nowhere to put them. But my dad found us a HUGE 8-drawer dresser on someone;s driveway in their neoghborhood marked FREE, so he sanded and painted and installed new hardware and now its finally in the kids room, thanks to Dad and DH borrowing a truck and moving it themselves - Dad even missed the baseball game to help
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3. I need new breast shields / plastic parts for my breast pump.
4. Need nursing bras BAD! I do NOT want to be sending Dh out to Target the day after the baby comes to get a nursing bra for me. Its likely he'd either come home with a 42E or a 32A (and I'm a 38D in nursing bras). Ditto for nursing pads and nipple salve!
5. Nursing-friendly pajamas for babymoon at my moms house ( we're delivering there).
6. Clean clean clean clean the whole apartment
7. Organize DS's toys, because I KNOW it wont get done for YEARS unless I do it before the baby comes
I'm going nuts because we dont have everything we need for the baby all set up and ready. I had DS at 38 weeks, so I feel like I only have 3 weeks left, even though I have a little over amonth until my EDD. Its like serious anxiety attack mode over here! the problem is that I cant afford to get everything at once...
What about you all? Anyone panicking? What do you still need to do/get? Maybe we can help each other get going/ get organized!
1.We are putting a crib in the room the kids will share (though the baby will be in with us until she's too big for the cosleeper - dont flame me! Its a long story), and it will be mostly a diaper-changing station until she sleeps in it. Before, i wasn't worried about getting it set up, but now I WANT it in there! Like, NOW! Just as a place to put the diapers and such. But the crib is in my parent's basement and we need to rent a truck to get the pieces from there to here. No money to do that!
2. One good thing: We finally got a dresser for the kids. We used to have one, but the people we borrowed it from needed it back in May, so we'd had all of DS's clothes in milk crates and a laundry basket since then. When some lovely friends and MDC mamas gave us clothes for our new baby girl, they stayed in cardboard boxes in the living room cus we had nowhere to put them. But my dad found us a HUGE 8-drawer dresser on someone;s driveway in their neoghborhood marked FREE, so he sanded and painted and installed new hardware and now its finally in the kids room, thanks to Dad and DH borrowing a truck and moving it themselves - Dad even missed the baseball game to help
:.3. I need new breast shields / plastic parts for my breast pump.
4. Need nursing bras BAD! I do NOT want to be sending Dh out to Target the day after the baby comes to get a nursing bra for me. Its likely he'd either come home with a 42E or a 32A (and I'm a 38D in nursing bras). Ditto for nursing pads and nipple salve!
5. Nursing-friendly pajamas for babymoon at my moms house ( we're delivering there).
6. Clean clean clean clean the whole apartment
7. Organize DS's toys, because I KNOW it wont get done for YEARS unless I do it before the baby comes
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I haven't packed my hospital bag. I don't need a dresser for the baby but it would make like so much easier - I could put the changing pad on top and clothes inside. I've found some on craigslist but I don't have a truck either. Right now I'm not freaked out about it b/c I have almost 4 weeks before my due date. Ask again in 5 minutes though and you'll get a different story!
: so I need to get 1 or 2 packages of Newborn diapers to have on hand.
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A big thanks to all of you who have reminded me of how much I have left to do! Yikes. I walked into the house today and smelled something funny. Now, our house was built in 1795 and it smells like we have a dead mouse somewhere in the walls. I am not keen on ripping the walls out but I can't figure out where the smell could be coming from other than there. Hopefully he dries out soon.
