Tomorrow I am 75% through with this pregnancy. Ten weeks left, give or take some indeterminate number of days.
We have exactly one baby outfit, but that’s OK, since we have no chest of drawers in which to put baby clothes. And no place to put a chest of drawers. The dining room?
The midwife gave me some hospital precert forms about three visits ago. I think they are on the floor of the van.
We have no plan for how the baby will sleep in our room. We borrowed bassinets the last two times, but those sources are no longer available. Maybe he can sleep in a laundry basket?
The poor little dude. I remember an Erma Bombeck column in which she said by the time her last kid came around, the child’s baby book consisted of a newspaper clipping of a pie crust recipe tucked into an otherwise completely blank book.
This is the blog equivalent: I have exactly four “bonus baby” entries. This post will make it five, but all it has to say is that We Are Not Ready.
Excited, but not ready.
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OK, I carried home from Dallas a second baby boy outfit that I promise I’ll get to you soon…forgot it last weekend.
Your brother and A had a really neat thing on their wish list … a kind of bed extension for the wee one. Seems it would work for you possibly. We’ll talk!
I’m excited too!
We thought long and hard about the laundry basket option for the one and only — to the point that my MIL shrieked.
Well wishes all around!
That Erma Bombeck quote isn’t so far off. I’m #5 of 7. I have a shoebox. That’s better than my brother who is the youngest. He only has an envelope. But you know what? We did just fine. And your newest will too…
I am personally a co-sleeping fan, but I know some people shudder at the thought. I just liked not having to get up to feed the baby and once the feeding was done, zone back to sleep after dh changed the baby’s diaper…
deb
I think Mamala might be referring to a co-sleeper. They didn’t have such things when I was having babies, or else I didn’t know about them, but I think I would’ve loved it.
When the Kid was born (#4 but 11 years after #3) I was woefully underprepared, but it all worked out okay. And yes, he has practically nothing in his baby book. But he had three great older sibs to love him!
lol
The Dufflepud at no3 would totally endorse the baby book scenario…though I’m not completely sure, really, who the baby book is ever for anyway. Friends gave me pretty ones for Hattie Gandhi and Hugger Steward, so I tried to keep them up..but on the whole I was too busy enjoying the babes to want to archive them.
No discernible harm done…and the Dufflepud carved out his own space very nicely, even with nothing but greying hand me downs and a Moses basket that had indeed been salvaged from its temporary translation into a home for the mending pile. All shall be well.
We got two baby books for my twins. Each contains one entry, which I wrote in the hospital.
Their baby legacy will consist of private blog entries and the newspapers I somehow remembered to buy the day they were born.
For the first six years of my life, I thought I was adopted. No baby book, no photos, none of the other stuff that my brother and sister had.
But, as a mom, I can’t bring myself to do all the gathering, gluing, and cutting. I have files of digital photos, and I’m hoping that’ll be enough proof for her.
You’re a great mom.
With a start like this, I bet this kid will be laid back and totally unflappable. Which is cool.
Ahh, to live life or to archive it. We ask ourselves that every time we officiate at a wedding, don’t we? And here, at the milestone of a baby, the question comes up — except it’s not a question at all — because you are a total live-r, rather than archive-r, methinks. One solution is to simply destroy the baby pictures of the first two! Actually, you will have tons of pictures — digital is so easy — they just won’t be in somebody else’s format or binding. Plus, your babies get poems. You’re a great mom, and this BB should be called LBB for Lucky.
Yes, the co-sleeper…that’s it.
I would like a co-sleeper. We were never willing to shell out for one, though if I’d known we would use it for three children, it would have been worth it. At this point it’s not worth the expense. If only a used one would magically appear; I don’t have time to scan ebay or freecycle.
We do have a double stroller that did magically appear. Church Saint saw it on Freecycle and snagged it for us.
Regarding scrapbooking and putting things in albums, I like the person who said, “I don’t scrapbook. I pile chronologically.”
It seems like we’re in an in-between time in terms of archiving. We still have a lot of actual photos, and looking at photos online is still clunky, suggesting the need for albums. But the vast majority of our photos are digital, and I think the technology will catch up soon to create a way for people to view and display photos more easily than viewing them on a laptop/desktop or creating one of those book things.
Thankfully R has our photos nicely organized in Picasa. But then what do you do with the paper stuff? We have brochures from our Scotland trip, train tickets and so on. Or will we even care to look at that stuff in 20 years?
But Ruth is right. There are the poems.
I’m in big trouble. Because I’m just as unprepared, only this is baby #1. Baby book has been purchased, but not cracked open. I have no idea what’s even in it. Hubby is (if possible) even less interested in preparations. I’m interested, I guess, just lazy. Some magically appearing stuff would sure be nice.
I am the oldest, over-photographed child.
My sister and I look enough alike that my sister assumed that half of the pictures of the family photo album were of her (when they were of me.) Works for me.
a lot can happen in ten weeks
you’ll be ready when you need to be. what’s that ordination phrase, “God qualifies the called”? Surely God also equips the parents-to-be!
I have 2 car seats that I can give away with 4 bases. I have bumbo seats and a sanp and go double stroller that fits said car seats - all about a year old. The twins outgrew their stuff really fast - thankfully.
I will ship wherever its needed (p.o. box if you want), just let me know where. As Keith can attest to, homes in big city East coast area do not have a lot of space and would love to see this all go to good use.
B
Thank you Beth!
Car seats, stroller and bumbo are actually things we do currently have. But I appreciate the thought!
The main things lacking are something for him to sleep in while in our room–in a pinch we will use the pack and play with bassinet but that takes up so much room–and I also realized that we got rid of the Baby Bjorn. I still have my sling though.
Ah well… it will work out!