You’re likely looking forward to the day you can finally welcome your newborn home. However, you also know that there’s a lot to get done and tackle during your pregnancy and before your due date.
If you’re a first-time parent then you probably have a lot of questions going through your mind about what to prepare and be doing. Learn more about four important tasks to complete before your baby arrives so you’re ready when the time comes to have your child.
You want to get your baby to bed so you can have an evening to yourself, but your baby is insistent on spending time crying and being uncomfortable, which means that you need to think about how you can get your baby to be more relaxed. It’s not always easy to think about how to ensure that your baby is comfortable, but there are so many ways that you can make sure that your baby is as relaxed as possible.
Since I discovered the existence of beautifully curated kids shops, both online and on site, my kids’ selection of toys has gone up a notch. They’re -slowly- replacing big ugly plastic trucks with wooden airplanes and exciting puzzles. And the kids genuinely love them. The latest online toy store added to my list of spaces to shop from for birthday gifts, among other things is Pie in the Sky, a local business with a seriously impressive selection of toys and accessories mainly because they’re all eco-friendly and sustainably sourced.
Georgie was assigned to keep a diary as part of a school project. Even though he already has one, he needed some motivation to journal every day. So I told him that I have always kept a diary, from a very young age and that I still have many of those diaries. So a little plastic container was pulled down from the highest shelf and opened. The first thing we saw was my baby book. Which is now considered a proper vintage item.
I’ve had two babies. I’m expecting my third any day now. During those first days and weeks, I received a number of gifts from friends and family. And I have truly appreciated every single person who visited and every single gift that was brought. But after all these years, and many conversations with new and veteran mothers, I’ve come to the conclusion that there is something very wrong about this ‘tradition’.