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By: The Pregnancy Files: Week Thirty Six | Parsing Nonsense

The Pregnancy Files: Week Thirty Six | Parsing Nonsense — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:19:05 +0000

[...] having a baby in a month” situation can change. Earlier this week I was having a major meltdown, convinced that nothing was going to get done in time. My feelings regarding the imminent birth [...]

By: Bust Out the Nap Mats | Parsing Nonsense

Bust Out the Nap Mats | Parsing Nonsense — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:52:02 +0000

[...] blogs Bust Out the Nap Mats Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 | Author: Erika So, my post yesterday was not very uplifting, nor was it particularly artistic or well-written. It was kind of a mess, [...]

By: Erika

Erika — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:48:32 +0000

-Blanche, Yes, Babies R Us would have us believe it requires a second mortgage and an entire additional 1000 square feet to properly welcome a child into the world. LIES! No worries, by the time you have just a few weeks left I’m sure I’ll be very dignified and have my act together and…well, I’m sure I’ll be back to showering every day so maybe we should just strive for that?

By: Blanche

Blanche — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:44:53 +0000

My head exploded just flipping through the Babies-R-Us “essentials” book. I can’t imagine where you are now. But I suppose I’ll be doing the same thing soon enough, and you’ll be the wise old bird giving me advice!

By: Erika

Erika — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:20:59 +0000

-Diane, My due date is February 24, so we officially have less than a month (or less! or more! depending on whether he’s an early bird, on time, or tardy). It’s true, I can acknowledge that’s it’s rational good sense that we can wash the clothes after he’s born too…Now, if I can just get my preggo brain on board! Thank you for sharing with and consoling me, it helps so much to know that other people had to get ready for babies too, and didn’t everything done perfectly beforehand, and their babies lived! And thrived! And a wormhole didn’t open up and devour the lot of them whole!

-dc, Your comment made me weepy but in a totally good way. You had me at “great bonding time.” Thanks for telling me this, it helps to be reminded of the fact that Squishy’s due date isn’t an exploding one, and that life will go on if we don’t have everything figured out before he’s here. And if our son turns out like you as a byproduct of a similar start in life…I suppose I won’t be too upset ;)

By: dc

dc — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:49:32 +0000

He’ll have a job very soon now, but even if it takes a little bit of time, my dad was unemployed for six months before and after I was born. Not just underemployed with contract work and whatnot, but fully unemployed after being furloughed. As a silver-lining result, we had a lot of great bonding time my first few months of life and I’ve only got like two permanent scars on my head because of it. Somehow the family muddled through as they always tend to do with devoted conscientious parents, and in the end I think I as a product turned out okay. I mean, I haven’t spent any time in jail for any major felonies. Yet.

By: Diane

Diane — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:21:08 +0000

It stays terrifying! But when he is here? You’ll realize none of that other stuff matters. You can throw the clothes in the washer before you leave for the hospital and dry them when you get back! I’ve cloth diapered two children, but didn’t bother buying the teeny tiny newborn sizes, because they outgrow them so fast. (Like, within two weeks! All I’m saying is, cut yourself some slack and don’t fret if you want to ease yourself into cloth diapering.)

So, you won’t really ever feel ready. But then you’ll go into labor and … your body will know the rest. When Violet was born, we didn’t even have a crib yet! Or a dresser! For a month, her clothes were folded and stored in a laundry basket, and she’s turned out perfectly fine so far.

I don’t begrudge you your worry, because goodness knows we all feel it/felt it. Just know that you will get through this, and even if he were born tonight, you’d be as prepared as you could possibly be! (I truly hope none of this sounds dismissive of your feelings, because I can remember it so well. I really admire how prepared you are, because as I mentioned above, I wasn’t even close to that!)