Let's see. I keep wanting to have everything ready, bag packed, and then I remember this baby isn't coming until March. And I don't want it out before then, I would like my baby fully baked, thank you very much.
But I need to make a list somewhere so I can refer to it. So here.
We have
a car seat (combination),
edited to add: a newborn car seat support
a crib,
crib mattress,
crib sheets,
bouncy seat,
high chair,
stroller,
baby toys,
cloth diapers,
edited to add: 10 small diaper covers
baby bath towels,
baby shampoo,
a sling.
We have
one 4 oz. Playtex bottle,
edited to add: one 8oz. Playtex bottle (thanks to a "gift bag" from Motherhood Maternity) and one Playtex bottle on the way from the Playtex company--check their website
and a package (unopened!) of stage one silicone nipples.
I have my boobs.
We have a breast pump (manual) only missing the valve thingie and the pumper--maybe $5 to replace new.
We have the converter that allows me to pump directly into the Playtex bottles.
So far the baby will have a place to sleep and something to eat, and a way to get home from the hospital.
We need clothes, though, and diapers. And I'd like a swing, one of the travel ones (less than $15 at local baby resale shop!) and some more bottles, so I can hand off a few feedings. I am like a cow, I make so much milk I really don't have to worry about my production. I can hand pump eight ounces in 20 minutes.
(And yet I still worry I'm not doing something right.)
I can't donate the extra milk, though, because no one else wants my Prozac-laced milk.
As for diapers, I want to do cloth. It would be so much easier if I knew how to sew. I have a machine. I've sewed things before (a skirt and many scrunchies) but somehow, I get lost and confused.
Take a class, everyone tells me. Um, hello, they cost about $150. I'm just trying to find someone who can teach me. I need to hang around the fabric store and make some friends who sew.
But cloth diapers, it's not all folding and pins and plastic pants anymore. It's liners and pockets and all-in-ones. It's velcro and snaps and PUL. And the folding and pins and plastic pants aren't all that difficult, trust me. I did it part-time for Muffin, from about 9 months to 17 months--at which time I went back to work and he went to daycare.
So I don't see it as extra work, I think it takes just as much time either way. But I'd like to do the "greener" thing. I need to work off some karma for using disposable bottle liners...
And don't let me forget to take baby nail clippers with me when I go to have this baby!!
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Alright, I feel like we know each other well enough for me to ask and not sound disgusting (crosses fingers).
Regarding cloth diapers: When they're filled with a chocolate package I'm thinking you let the soak in the toilet, like the old days? And then once the stuff is loose you can flush those remains away while removing the diaper.
But how do you get the, um, brown stain out of the cloth diaper? Do you figure skid marks are part of the territory? Do you soak them in Biz? Do you store them in the washing machine for future washing, but immediate relief?
How does that work? Thanks in advance :)
Ok, you don't soak them in the toilet. There is a sprayer you buy (like $10) that attaches to the toilet in the back, and you hold the diaper above the toilet then spray the poo off. Then you have a bucket (with a liner) that it goes in till you do laundry. If you want, you can fill bucket with water and borax but it's not necessary. Also breastmilk poops aren't very solid as it is and don't stain so easily.
For stains, though, you hang in the sun and it bleachs them.
Once they have solid poops, it just dumps into the toilet. Also Baking soda in the wash, then vinegar in the rinse, no smell!
Cardiogirl is hilarious, always inquisitive.
And I had to laugh as "I have my boobs" :D
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