[Mom2Lily]

Please tell me if any of you other pregnant moms or first time mom-to-be's feel the same way.

Lately things are hard. My 2 year old is testing me, my husband lost his job and we are making due on his modest unemployeement checks, he is loafing around, kinda working, kinda sitting, and I am just spent by 6:00PM.

So after Lily is nursed to sleep (did I mention pregnant breasts and nursing...a bit more than tender) I retreat to the room that was suppose to be my daughter's room (she happily co-sleeps with us) and go to the box in the corner with my little stash in it. I take out a prefold or soemthing little and just hold it and kinda "diaper meditate" for a few minutes.

I think of the new baby and how such a small peice of cloth is so valuable and how the world can be spinning at a million miles per minute, but Lily is asleep, dh is "working on something" and I am just alone with a diaper

Pregnancy hormones must be making me nuts!!!!! That is my little sanity saver in the evening.

Thanks for listening!

 

[kimberlylibby]

Aww. I know what you mean.

I sometimes just sit and inhale a tiny fluffy diaper for the baby in utero.... it's like "simplicity" or something? It just feels good to take it all in and relax.

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[~*~MamaJava~*~]

I go and "pet" my nb dipes once in a while too...just look at the box...smile at my rainbow soaker shorts, rub my nanipoos on my cheek, and unsnap my KHws and admire them...makes me feel better too. I have been really freaked out lately about having babies 14.5months apart (as in HOW am i going to DO this) and it gives me sanity and makes me more eager for this baby. Makes me feel like a good mama, even though I'm an overly fertile one

Don't worry , you're not crazy.

 

[lena_girl]

I have a few favorites that I have been petting, like my soaker by Nada and my little sherpa fitted from Crystal's Cloth. I can't wait to get my preemie prefolds and marvel at how little they are.

My two year old has been acting up too. I think he's responding to my decreased ability to play with him like before and my diminshed patience. Sorry about your DH

I think sometimes it's wonderful to get away from everything and marvel at something we've gotten just for that little babe. I say enjoy while you can, before all those cute little dipes are filled with BM poops!

 

[2much2luv]

I used to play with the tiny dipes every night when I was pregnant.

It was a sanity saver in those last few weeks when I was huge and impatient.

 

[girlfactory]

Yep, almost in exactly the same boat, except I have 3 other kiddos, including that 2 yr old.
I have taken my basket of newborn diapers and pet them, and loved them, and came really close to naming each and every one of them

 

[michray]

I am SOOOO there with you! We just relocated the entire family from KY to TX for dh's job.. which is now 100% commission. He IS working his butt off, but not to any fruition yet. We have about 3 mos of living expenses....and then we are up a creek...sans paddle..if he hasn't made some great sales by then.

I keep my meager nb stash in the top of my closet. When dd is asleep, I go sit IN the closet and sort, fold, stack and relax before I go back out to do dishes, fold laundry and get things ready for the next day. DH calls it my fluffy zen time

 

[Adamsmama]

I know what you mean too....yesterday I took everything out of my basket just to look at all the tiny diapers (I love how small Kissaluvs 0 look...so tiny) and the new WAHM made wipes I bought especially for this new baby and I just want to cry. I am much more emotional with this pg than I was with my DS...my hormones are all crazy.