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@Periwinkle: Absolutely. No wonder I've felt like our jobs seem similar!

Hi all. I feel like this pregnancy has flown by and somewhere along the way I lost track of time. Currently 36.5 weeks and feeling miserable and swollen, about to go into week 2 of kindergarten for LO1, DH has a broken foot, soccer starts this week for LO1, and I'm starting to push work to others in prep for LO2. The positives are that the nursery is pretty much done, name is picked out for LO2, and we are as ready as we are going to get. Just a waiting game now.

@pelikila: the end of the pregnancy was just so miserable. I kept telling myself you cant be pregnant forever. Kudos for how prepared you are!

How was the first week? I'm dreading the first week of Pre-k.

@skipra: doing ok over here. I can't stop staring at him! My DH goes back to work tomorrow so I hope someone from my village can spend the day with me.

Recovery this time was way easier! My major worry is how DD is adjusting and making sure she's ok with everything. Bedtime is rough!

Question for you ladies: is anyone planning on having the new baby "give" a gift to your older child? I am just trying to think about this and curious what others are doing. My husband would like to give LO his own (small) guitar since he is very interested in playing my husband's. Just not sure this is going to be super exciting to LO.

@Periwinkle: Popping in to say that yes, the "baby" gave our older one a gift: digital camera. He loves it and has taking lots of photos of the baby and our family.

@Periwinkle: not so much a gift from the baby because I don't think lo1 understands that yet. But he's getting a play kitchen in the next week or so when dh finished it. I am hoping it will get me some nice alone pay time....

@Periwinkle: I will have both of them tomorrow. I did a gift in the hospital. I did a MLP playdoh mold. It worked out because it kept her occupied in the hospital and it was something she liked playing with at home. Not sure if she cared who it was "from".

@pregnantbee: i also did camera! More for me than her. One of those Polaroid ones. I used one to take weekly pics of her last and wanted to do that again.

@avivoca: thanks!

I totally forgot/was in denial when they started.
@maddyz:

@MrsKoala: So funny you mentioned Paw Patrol... LO learned about that show this summer at his camp and we've been checking out the DVDs from the library. As soon as I started looking for a small guitar, one of the first things that popped up was a Paw Patrol one!

@katsupgirl: I feared the day DH returned to work my entire pregnancy with LO2. It is hard the first few months to have them all by yourself but you will manage and soon you'll wonder what you did with your time before LO2. Hang in there. You can do it!
@Periwinkle: we are going to let the boys each picky out a stuffed animal from the hospital gift shop. We did this when LO2 was born and it's LO1's favorite. I also have a couple little things for when we get home - a new puzzle and tool set plus it's LO1'S bday so I'm sure there will be lots of new toys to keep them busy the first few weeks.

I made it through to the other side of my crazy week! Now baby can come whenever it wants to. I finally started prepping my house. I got out the little NB and 0-3 month clothes and washed everything, found the MamaRoo and the Rock N Play. Now I just need to install the infant car seat bases and pack a hospital bag and we are ready to go. It is crazy that in two weeks we will probably have another baby. I can't wrap my head around it.

36+4 over here!! Happy to report that it might have taken me alllll weekend, but the car seats are installed, the bags are packed, all of the NB/0-3 clothes and blankets etc. are washed. I think we are as ready as we are going to be! I just have to sterilize bottles/parts and will probably wait another week or two to do that.

I have been having the worst anxiety the past week or two! Not about L&D, but about the newborn phase. DS is 4, so I am starting to wonder about all of the things I forgot about. We are also planning on this baby being our last and I am already feeling panicky about how fast its going to go and how I am never going to get to do this again. Well meaning family/friends are talking about coming to see the baby and wanting to hold/snuggle a new baby and I am having such a strong reaction (in my head so far) of 'NO, she is MY baby'. Seems a little silly, and hopefully just jitters but I had a wicked time with PPA last time and am hoping this isn't a preview of what's in store for me,

Other than that just trying to make it through these last few weeks of work (insert eye roll emoji) and stay positive!

Guys, I can't believe that September 1 is THIS FRIDAY and that means we are having babies soon!

@MrsKoala: I need to get everything for the swing out and wash it. No idea where we are going to put it, but it will be ready. I got the clothes and diapers ready awhile back. I also need to set up the PNP in our bedroom soon.

@MrsKoala: yay for surviving that crazy time! It's going to be so nice to just focus on prepping for baby. How do you like the Mama Roo?

@FLnative12: congrats on being so prepared!! I swear I don't remember anything but I guess it starts coming back. This time around I'm so nervous about him getting sick I don't want anybody to see him. Totally different anxiety this time.

@katsupgirl: I love the MamaRoo. I know just like a swing int that not every kid likes it but it was literally the only place I could put where I could put DS down and he would be happy outside of my arms. Swings did not work for us. He also had reflux and it had just enough of a incline to it that it helped with that.

@MrsKoala: Meanwhile, all of you will have your babies and I'll be over here, hanging out, twiddling my thumbs.

My husband doesn't think I'm serious when I tell him that once I hit 37 weeks, he's going to have to suck it up and do his husbandly duty because I want this baby OUT. But I am.

@MrsKoala: and you are due about a week before me! At least you are way more prepared than we are. We have no infant carrier seat for the baby because when I finally checked our old one out a couple days ago...it is not good.

@avivoca: I am planning to keep this kid in at least until my due date. With lo1's bday and school starting I just can't have the baby until then. So if you go early and I go late....it could just be days apart!

@avivoca: I also cannot believe that September is this week! Where did the summer (and our pregnancies!) go?! I've been playing that awful game of "OK, it could be only x more weeks..."

@periwinkle: Thanks! I got a bit of a finger-wag lecture from my Dr last week about not having all that stuff done and given strict orders to have it done before my next appointment Ultimately I feel better now that it is done. Now I can focus on wrapping up work - which has seriously gone nutso-busy all of the sudden, of course. With how fast the last 8 months has gone I am sure the next 3 weeks will FLY! My due date is my birthday so I am hoping to actually deliver that day so DD and I can share a birthday

@maddyz: I was one of the first last time. But I've got some good company pulling up the rear with me! Sometimes I wish we could know when these babies were coming, but I also like the surprise.