Getting Ready for Baby

Only about 2.5 weeks left until my due date! The last month is always a thrill... I am so impatient, so excited, and so curious to finally meet our new little one! My track record is to come early, so Michael is already asking me "are you in labor?" "are you having contractions?" "will it be tonight?"... just to pester me more than really wondering, I think ;-)

As far as getting ready, I think I'm pretty well set. I have the car seat ready to go, and clothes and diapers washed and put away. I still have to wash things like bouncy seat covers, the pack and play (which we'll use as a bedside bassinet for a few months), and my sling and pouch.

Speaking of my sling and my pouch... I just have to say that when anyone ever asks me what are some "must-haves" for a new mama... those are at the top of my list. I LOVE wearing my babies, and they seem pretty happy with it as well. Another must-have is a bouncy seat - I keep one in the bathroom and one in the main living area of the house for those necessary hands and body-free moments. All the rest of the "contraptions" out there can be very nice and convenient, but a good, comfy carrier and a bouncy seat (and diapers, of course) are the only things I consider absolute necessities! A couple of good websites for carriers are Lucky Baby, Slinglings, and Ergo. I love all of mine!!

Nesting may very well have set in.... last night I tossed and turned, and when I finally got tired of being awake and doing nothing... I got up at 5:30 and deep cleaned my bathroom! That's not exactly "normal" for me, lol! We're doing an "alternative" week for school so that I can get all of the little things done... that just means no traditional-type school work, but lots of "life work"... there's lots of little organizing things I want to get done that the boys will be helping with!

I am now taking Evening Primrose Oil to help prepare my cervix, as well as drinking Raspberry Leaf Tea to help tone my uterus. Those, along with my regular prenatals and fish oil, are about as far as I go with supplements. I've taken them with each pregnancy, and each delivery has been relatively "easy" (if you can say "easy" and "labor" in the same sentence, anyway) so I do believe they help.

I had posted some bare-belly pictures here, but Michael suggested maybe they hinted at immodesty a bit, so I have taken them down. So here's one that won't embarrass anyone! My apologies if the others did :-)