If you’ve already started your maternity leave but are just waiting for your baby bundle’s arrival, you have a golden window of opportunity to get some stuff done. But what?
When it was my turn, I lounged around the house getting very bored before my good friend Scott decided he wanted to learn to swim. Anyway, he and I hit all the area pools and I conducted impromptu swim lessons while on-lookers assumed he was the father of my belly. That was a nice few days… but apart from that, I didn’t know what to do with myself.
My best ideas:
- Review our kick-ass registry/shopping list and make sure you have essentials on-hand. Then if you want to shop at Target on Day 8 of your baby’s life, it’s by choice.
- Do a little pre-reconnaissance (pre-con?) mission to some of your favorite locations. You’re looking for a changing table and general baby-friendliness.
- Tackle your own crazy nesting projects — for me it was cooking, freezing, cleaning, shopping (it all seemed to have happened on the Tuesday before my water broke), for you maybe pulling weeds or knitting sweaters
- Eat a pomegranate with your partner — make a wish for the baby with each of the many seeds
- Call all your friends — they’re wondering if you’re giving birth every second they can’t reach you on the phone anyway
- Relax and savor your (uncomfortable) body and life at this very moment
Gotta run… my baby’s crying and he’s the boss of me!
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If you are in a cooking/freezing frenzy, might I suggest the mega menu mailer at http://www.savingdinner.com? It is only $9 for instructions on how to prepare and freeze TWENTY TWO meals - and each meal feeds 5 - 6 so you can divide them in half and get 44 meals out of it, if there are just two of you. The recipes are created by a dietician, and are healthy and low-fat. They can be customized to match your preferences. For $9 you get detailed instructions and a shopping list. You’re supposed to be able to complete the entire project (a month’s worth of weekday dinners) in two hours!
http://www.savingdinner.com/mega_menu_mailer/mega_menu_mailer.html
I haven’t tried it yet, but am planning to, as soon as I get my freezer cleaned out. I HAVE tried the weekly menu mailer (same website) and it is wonderful! I subscribed for a year, and archived the e-mails, and now I go back and re-use them based on season. I highly recommend all of the resources on Saving Dinner and http://www.flylady.com!!
Hey, thanks for the tips. Today, I am spending some time washing baby clothes and blankets. Also trying to make a quilt, ha ha, for laughs.
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