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Ha for me "being ready for baby" meant the moment when my desire to not be pregnant anymore ("over it") outweighed my terror of L&D and taking care of a newborn

I have next to nothing for this kid because we have a huge move coming up (so no nursery, no nesting, no nada). But I did panic a little and realized that we have nowhere comfortable to change the baby (at table/dresser height). So we went out and bought a changing pad. And now, somehow, I feel ready, heh!

There were so many things that I thought I needed. We moved 3 weeks before he was born and I was in full panic mode. I had a honey dew list a mile long! Then he got stuff and the majority of things I spent stressed about getting done for the baby, we still haven't really used and he's 1 years old lol.

We have a lot we need to do before I'll feel ready for baby. We're moving our bedroom to another room, so a bunch of stuff in that room needs to be removed, then we need to move our furniture to the new room. We also plan to buy a new mattress because we hate ours, and we want to do that when we move to the other room so the bed can be delivered directly there. Then we have to move all of the baby stuff out of the room it's in, and move it to ours (where his official room will be). I'd like for the closets to be all organized and for some clothes to be washed, but I have no idea how much to wash, haha. And all the cloth diapers will need to be prepped.

Then in the living room I'd like swing to be set up and ready to go, as well as the PnP we're using as a changing station. And a gate between the living room and kitchen needs to be installed so I can keep the dogs out of my way if needed.

Just thinking about all these things has me overwhelmed, lol. Good thing I have almost 6 months to get them accomplished. And by "I", I mostly mean DH ;).

Once I wasn't working, I felt ready. I knew I would never feel completely 100% ready until he was here, but once I was forced to stop working 2 weeks before my due date, I was ready to get the show on the road.

@Cherrybee: For me it meant having all the basic gear ready such as crib, bottles, pump, sheets, clothing, diapers etc

ETA: I also used Mrs bees Newborn essential check list

being ready for me meant having the car seat base installed, having somewhere for the baby to sleep, and diapers/wipes. of course there was a lot more, but the ones i mentioned where the items i felt like had to be done.

if i had to do it again, i would have been prepared to rent a professional pump from the hospital and taken it home after birth. i didn't think i would need one and i was wrong.

@Cherrybee: i became obsessed with getting the car cleaned first before installing the car seat base. we have two dogs and they created a huge pile of fur back there. of course, the car's gone back to looking like crap but whatever, it made me feel good at the time.

@Mrs. Jacks: yep.

"ready" to me meant: I am not willing to be pregnant ANY longer

At 37 weeks, I'm READY to be done being pregnant, so we are ready for her to arrive!

I was starting to feel really uncomfortable and for the first time felt super excited about meeting our baby instead of nervous about how she was going to get here. Once I stopped doing baby stuff around the house cause I was so exhausted, she decided to come!