Getting This House Ready
Monday, May 10, 2010 at 11:28PM We are 37 weeks today. Full term. 3 weeks until due date. 1 week until the date many people including myself think I will deliver.
Other than the fact that I can't talk because my voice got lost and my nose is annoyingly stuffy, I'm feeling pretty good.
I'm not anxious or ready because I'm not completely prepared just yet.
All the things on my midwife's list of things I need for labor have been purchased & are washed & ready. I have the labor outfit but not the after labor one or Isaiah's first outfit. Although I've been blessed with lots of adorable baby clothes, I sortof want his first outfit to be new. Is that unreasonable?
I want some candles for the afterbirth herbal bath. I still need to work up a labor playlist. And my mom & I are still preparing the menu for the during labor refreshments. And then finally, I still need to decide what my first meal after the birth will be. Right now I'm thinking McDonald's sounds awesome. Quarter Pounder, no onions, extra cheese & french fries.
And I need to write thank you cards for baby gifts.
There are just a few things left to do around the house. I want some mirrors hung, and there is a little more cleaning & organizing.
The house is almost ready, but here's the deal, there will be no baby room. No nursery. And I say it so seriously because this is one of those questions I get all the time, "Do you have the nursery ready yet?" And they are shocked when I say no.
Here is why Isaiah will not have a room for awhile. Well for one, I don't think he really cares. Two, we only have one extra room, and there is a queen bed there, in which my mom is sleeping for a few months. No room for baby stuff. And finally, Isaiah will be hanging out with us in our bedroom for awhile, so he doesn't need his own space.
My mother-in-law & Marcus strongly demanded that he stay in our bedroom for a year. I strongly demanded back (to Marcus not his mother) that that was a type of decision that parents decide together.
Reader Comments (1)
i agree with marcus and his mom. sorry. it's just not natural to not share sleep with the little one for at least the first few months. i dont understand why the whole nursery thing is so common here in america but its not really anywhere else. its been proven that the chance of sids happening is significantly decreased when the baby sleeps in your room. but i do agree its something both parents should come to together. (btw we did the whole nursery thing and had her crib put together but it only held clean laundry that needed to be put away and occasionally a sleeping cat for most of sophie's first year.)