My due date is in just 6 short weeks, and I’m feeling the pressure! Just last Friday, Mr. TTT and I were lounging on the couch watching a movie, and I said that I felt like I had a ticking time bomb inside me. Don’t get me wrong, I am so excited to meet baby TTT and can’t wait to be a mom, but as my due date approaches, I find myself wondering if we’ll ever have a moment of peace like that Friday night again. I know life will be very different, but I also know it will be so much better.
With only 6 weeks to prepare for baby TTT’s arrival (give or take a week or two – I assume I’ll be late, but who really knows), my favorite habit of list making has become more important than ever. Here is our to do list:
1. Finish the nursery – scotch guard rocker, hang artwork and other decor, buy table lamp for dresser, obtain toy storage (hoping my mom gives me these great bins she has in my younger brother’s room), paint or stain shelf and hang with hooks underneath, make growth chart (aka giant ruler) and hang
2. Wash all baby stuff – clothes, diapers, blankets, burp cloths, sheets for crib and bassinet
3. Pack hospital bags – labor bag, delivery bag, daddy bag, baby bag, dogs’ bag (they’re going to our friends’ for a week while we get adjusted to life with a baby)
4. Read more parenting books – Dr. Sears, Ina May, and a bunch more that are sitting on the shelf collecting dust
5. Take Baby Care Basics class – classes begin the first week of March
6. Take breastfeeding class – it was full, but it’s the same teacher as our childbirth class, so she said she’ll let me sneak in – also in March
7. Buy stuff – Amazon for wet bags, more cloth diapers (we have 12) and wipes, diaper changing organizer to hang on pack n play/bassinet for the early weeks
8. Refinance – this might not happen before baby, but I’m really hoping it does…
9. Sell car, buy new one – same for this one…
We’ve already finished painting the nursery, hanging curtains, assembling the crib, moving the rug from dining room into the nursery, installing bookshelves, reupholstering rocker, fixing/refinishing dresser, organizing shower gifts, installing light fixture, making heart shaped pillow for rocker, and making a Babies r Us completion discount shopping trip (it wasn’t fun due to extremely slow customer service and my husband said he’s never going back there again).
We got so much done over the holiday weekend last week, that I’m feeling more excited and less anxious than I was when I made that ticking time bomb comment. There’s still lots to do (not to mention the pressure at work to finish assignments and grade them before my leave), but it seems manageable to me and I hope to get a little bit done each day instead of waiting until the last minute, like I usually do.
What do you have left to do on your baby to-do list?
kiwi / 718 posts
my due date is sunday & the nursery still has a lot of decorating related things that need to be done. I’m not too worries about it, though, since babe will be in a bassinet & then pack-n-play in our room with us for the first few months.
sounds like you’ve got it pretty organized though!
blogger / pomegranate / 3201 posts
@katdevargas: Since I want to have pictures taken of the nursery in a couple of weeks, I feel more pressure to finish it before my due date. I know that it doesn’t *need* to be done, but I’ll feel more prepared if it is. Congrats to you for being so close!!
blogger / pomelo / 5400 posts
Selling our car and getting a new one was such a pain, but I’m so glad we got it done before baby. We just barely managed — drove the car home Saturday night and had the baby Monday! I kept threatening the car salesman that my water might break on the test drive and then no one else could have it. There was limited stock on the car we wanted, so it was a good negotiation technique
blogger / pomegranate / 3201 posts
@Mrs. Yoyo: Haha that’s hilarious. We can’t refinance until we get our tax money back and we can’t buy a new car until after we refinance (to get the best rate), so everything is sort of on hold until Uncle Sam send us our checks.
pomegranate / 3388 posts
I’m right with you! 5.5 weeks to go, and I’m super anxious about all of our lists and all of the things we still need to do before baby.
guest
My due date is in about 9 weeks and my to do list looks almost exactly the same as yours!
cherry / 116 posts
Wow you are making great progress! Our lo is 8 months next week and we still have things from our to do list from before he was born…
One thing my midwife was really pushy about was having your own time and doing things for yourself and between you and your husband. I really wish I would have made more of an effort as its been a looooooong time since we went out on a real date!
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wow, without trying to offend your list makes me feel great! I was right there about the end of January when I was 28wks… but with twins on teh way I think I have been in hyper mode. My list is was less serious and contains mostly crafts that I want to finish but that our boys will not need or be able to fully enjoy for months to come…
-roman shades for their nursery—they’ll be co-sleeping with me in a side car crib in our room for awhile hopefully so this is not a tight deadline
-crib sheets for both cribs
-sew fabric birds and construct the twig for their bird mobile
-sew another PUL diaper pail liner (we’re cloth diapering too)
-sew 2 PUL water-proof pads for use under their crib sheets
-sew 2 zippered wet bags for use on the go
-finish sewing snoogle cover if I have time
-collect more new and used cloth diapers for our stash
I’ll get there
guest
oh, and I am 34 wks tomorrow… boys will most likely arrive in less than 4 weeks! ah!
blogger / pomegranate / 3201 posts
@casey: #2 is now done, as are a few things for #1. I plan on taking care of #3 this week and #7 will happen after my last shower next week (a small work shower, but I’ll probably get a gift card or something). The classes I have to sort of wait for… I can’t really do anything to speed those along. I don’t think I’ll get much reading done until I’m done with work, either, so that won’t happen until I’m either forced to stop working early or if I go past my due date because as of now, I’m planning on working until 3 days before my due date!