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@Smurfette: As a first time mom I don't know how much help I can be with the list of needed items! I'm going to start putting together my postpartum supplies soon, I think - nipple cream, nursing pads, etc. My shower is this weekend so I will have to reevaluate what we need for baby after that. I know (from registry stalking) we will be getting wipes, diaper cream, soap/shampoo, lotion, etc. I will def need to stock up on infant medicines and stuff though.

@Chillybear: @babypugs: I don't remember using a lot I bought last time. I know I need huge pads and some underwear I don't care about. I have stool softners already. Then I used the peri bottle from the hospital. I do need nursing pads and cream. Just added those to my amazon cart. We have the baby nail scissors, best thing ever, already, still use on LO1.

Hospital bag, this is what I have down so far to pack
Baby:
Boppy
Couple sleepers
going home outfit
booties/socks
headband for going home outfit
blanket for going home
Me:
toiletries
phone charger
real camera
hair dryer
glasses
clothes
pjs
nursing tanks
nursing bra
socks/shoes
fan (I sleep with it on)
dollars (for vending machine, just in case)

We packed a lot more last time and didn't use most of it. DH has to make his own list and pack.

I just sent off my registry to my sister who insisted on throwing a shower... This is the list I have.... And a lot of things DD1 still uses too!

A bunch of lotions/body wash stuff
Hand sanitizers (foam pump & wipes)
Diapers in NB and size 1
Wipes galore
Diaper genie liners
Diaper creams
Baby powder
Woombie/Love to dream Swaddle (didn't have these last time)
Pacifiers
Hands free pumping bra (I made do with 1 last time but it would be so nice to have 2 to rotate washing!)
Nipple cream

@IRunForFun: Should be easy! Just find out what medical suppliers work with your insurance. I think both times I just submitted an order online and it shipped.

DD never liked the avent soothies that are popular... She is a MAM fan! And I like the MAM ones b/c they have glow in the dark ones... Very useful!!

@babypugs: Hopeless on names and any decision making. My DH and I are better at throwing names on the table and addng and taking off our list, but definitely no faves.

@snowjewelz: That's so cool those names that you have had and how you have stuck loving them....I'm envious!!

Our two kids are C names and we are adamant about breaking the C's with no C or K names, but C names keep being ones we mention and like. Clara is one that is up there right now.....but ugh! Sounds excessively matchy, lol.

@Smurfette: I've started to think about what we need at home instead of taking for granted we have everything already! Newborn dipes? lol.

@Chillybear: As if we are talking about hospital bags already, weren't we all just peeing on sticks yesterday? Eeek!

I have ordered my pump, had to order from US Amazon and Canadian one was unavail. Even with exchange, shipping and import "fees" it's $100 less than here, and still much less than the Medela. I am not sure how thrilled insurance will be with the claim, but we will see how it goes. I ordered the kids new cool mist humidifiers too.

I feel like my hobby this pregnancy has been bloodwork. Just had to go again for blood to again rule out fifths disease. My DDs school had postings up at school for confirmed fifths, then my DD came down with fever on the weekend and now has strep A and Scarlett Fever apparently! Hospital trip Sunday night with DH, I stayed home w her yesterday, DH today and took her to our fam doc, ugh! That's stressing me a bit...but just taking things moment by moment.

We just got confirmation that our basement bedroom finishing won't start until January (which we knew, but were hopeful he would bump ahead for us) so kids are staying put where they are, new babes will have her nursery done once she is already here, aw well! We'll have her in our room those early days anyways.

@IRunForFun: @Smurfette: Mine never took a paci either! I'm definitely not buying any this time--last time a had a million sitting around (they're all lost, of course). It was so annoying at the time but I was super grateful never to paci wean!

@sunnyday: Three c's would be (c)ute! I also ordered my pump through Amazon and just after the return period found out that my insurance is finally getting its act together and providing them for the first time in 2017. Dang it! Also...I can't believe they recommend bringing a RAZOR to the hospital!! I don't remember having the desire to shave my legs, ha!

Hooray! According to the lab results I officially passed the 1 hour test somehow! So relieved!

@Smurfette: Hahaha, so, I went to the grocery store (actually was in the parking lot when I got the call that I passed) and Ben and Jerry's was on sale!!! You know I got some to eat while watching election results. The past few days though I have been more conscious of eating less carbs/sugar and more protein/veggies/healthy fats just in case I did fail, and I have found myself feeling better in general. More energy, etc. So I think I'm going to keep that up regardless...but now without agonizing over the occasional treat.

@snowjewelz: ah I'm jealous on the names! we struggled so much with our first daughter, and now we need to come up with another girl name!
@Smurfette: lotion! my daughter had SUCH dry skin when she was tiny, which is pretty common!
@IRunForFun: I also just submitted an order online last pregnancy! I remember it being shockingly easy. I have ordering a new one on my to do list in the next few weeks
@sunnyday: haha, your list reminds me to pack my track suit!

It will still be awhile before I pack a hospital bag! I'm 28 weeks this week, so I probably won't pack anything until 38 weeks this time. I think I had everything ready around 36 weeks last time and then my daughter was a week overdue! I still have done SO LITTLE for this new baby. Sorry baby #2! We have a few little things we need for the nursery and I need to sort through all of the clothes, but otherwise, I think we are pretty well set for right now.

@babypugs: Could you sell yours, get some $$ and then do the insurance thing?! Maybe that's the scammer in me

@Smurfette: I haven't walked around at all my two times, so so call bs on that stuff, haha....I can't even imagine, lol. I did have Group B strep both times so had to be on a drip for that, too. My hospital (who runs the course and makes the list.....) provides all that stuff too, so yah....not sure why this list is what it is! And funny on the "left out" comment. A friend down the street has three boys, all B names, and I texted her last week asking if it was intentional, as we seem to like C/K sounding names. She said it wasn't for the first two (same for us!) but when #3 came along her DH didn't want him to feel left out....but I don't *really* know if I can factor that one, lol.

@IRunForFun: Hooray!! Enjoy the ice cream!! I avoiding anything election related, even up here it's impossible! I have stayed off social media as much as possible too, just blah...don't want to hear it! I'll be fine once it's results and not all talk and speculation.

@madger: The fact this one won't even have a room by the time she arrives feels so terrible and so not me....but whatever....not wrecking the other two's normal, so I will deal. But it just seems so funny how much of my attention the nursery had for #1 and it really has been very downhill as each kid has come along

Eek hospital bags already! I probably won't pack one till 35 or 36 weeks. I'm mostly planning on packing comfy, nursing-friendly clothes to wear afterward, slippers or fuzzy socks, toiletries (just basic ones - makeup and razors not needed!), electronics and their chargers (iPad, phone, camera), snacks, and for baby a going home outfit and hat/mittens since it'll be winter in upstate NY! I don't plan to bring my pump since I won't expect to pump unless baby goes to NICU, in which case I'd just rent a hospital grade one. I probably won't bring my own boppy or pillow because I'm weird about germs and bringing stuff into the hospital, even if it can be washed.

I am measuring right on track and baby sounded great this morning. I start going every two weeks now. I scheduled my next two appointments and she told me the 2nd one will be my first cervical exam. I will only be 35 weeks but whatever, I want to know if she is breech or not. They won't check before then. She did tell me that my 5 hour car trip on Thanksgiving isn't idea. Will be 33.5 weeks. That I can go but she would rather I didn't. So DH and I have to talk tonight.

@Smurfette: Glad you had a good appointment!! Does/will your OB ever feel your belly to try to tell what position baby is in? My midwife did that at my last appointment but it kind of hurt and I don't even know if she was right because what she described (transverse kind of folded in half) would make no sense based on where I feel movement. I'm guessing a cervical check would be so they could feel for a head?

In my Canadian Jan 2017 group, first baby born....32+3. 3.5 lbs, on a respirator but doing okay. Eeeeek.

@sunnyday: aww! That scares me. I hope that baby fights!

My parents came and helped moved the guest room and office stuff down to the basement on Sat. We got the crib set up and the glider moved in there. So the furniture is all set up. Really weird seeing a crib in the house again, especially at the highest setting. The room is a huge mess though. I went through clothes yesterday. I got sad thinking about how little LO was and how big she is now. She was trying out all the pacifiers (which she never took) it was pretty funny. My plan for this week is laundry and more laundry. Then we are going to hang up the wall decor this weekend. I really want it down by Thanksgiving. We scored a used swing for $15 off a resale group, so I was pumped about that. If she hates the swing like LO1 did (we had a low hand me down one) then we aren't really out anything cause I know that I can resell it.

I forgot how adorable and little newborn socks are!

@babypugs: I forgot how much crap you need for a baby. The laundry pile is huge (newborn and 3 month clothes, I have a ton of summer 3 month) and that isn't the gear (bouncer, swing, RnP) that I have to wash. But I feel 100x better that we have a start on stuff now.

@IRunForFun: I am being paranoid that she could come early and be born on Christmas. So I want everything done so I can take it easy as much as possible in December.

Did you get a lot at your shower? Stuff you registered for? Fingers crossed baby is heads down. But if not I wouldn't worry too much. My doctor isn't concerned at all about it and won't even check yet.

@Smurfette: Well, we got a bunch of stuff as hand-me-downs from my sister so we already had a bouncer, a rock n play, a changing pad, a bunch of clothes and swaddles, bottles, etc. My parents did buy the crib off our registry, and from the shower we also got a swing, our stroller, diaper pail and liner, and some of the smaller stuff like a boppy, a Moby wrap, a baby bath seat, shampoo and lotion and diaper cream, wipes, onesies, socks, bibs, etc. It looks like the bigger things we will still need to buy are our car seat and a video monitor but we got a couple gift cards to put toward that.