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Books are quite possibly my favorite resource for teaching kids about the world around them and welcoming a new baby to the family is no different! We have found a bunch of big sister books that cover everything from pregnancy to what it’s going to be like to have a tiny baby in the house to what becoming a big sister will actually look like.
Newborn must-haves are really more like mom and dad must-haves. The baby really just needs snuggles and food, and if mama is breastfeeding you come well equipped to handle both those needs. That said there are some things that make life easier and more enjoyable for everybody!
Bean’s birth and labor story is something that we were so excited to share it was so hard for this mama to wait for her! Her due date was 2/2/20 tell me that wouldn’t have been the coolest due date ever!? Alas, that was not the case.
My 3rd trimester flew past! With the holiday season perfectly aligned I feel like it came and went so fast and here we are with only a couple weeks to go! Thankfully I was able to get almost everything done that I wanted to. From here its just some extra fun stuff to prepare and celebrate.
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Anyone that knows me knows I like to have a plan and be prepared. So it will come as no shock that I had a few things I wanted to get done before we brought baby Bean home. You can call it baby prepping or nesting all I know is I trolled the internet seeing what others did so here is what I packed and stocked up on!
Continue reading “Baby Prepping and Nesting for Baby Bean”For me, and lots of other women the 2nd trimester is the easy one. Your not too big and uncomfortable, hopefully, the morning sickness and exhaustion have lessened and you sorta feeling like yourself again. Not to mention the tiny baby kicks and the arrival of that bump!
Our baby registry is fairly simple and straight forward. I tend to lean more minimal for baby supplies. But there are a few things that we need to pick up this time around and our baby registry is either upgrades from some equipment we currently have, different styles of things we want to try out, repeat buys on a few well-loved items and just a few new things.
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Vintage Elephant Gender Reveal Backyard BaByQ. That’s such a mouthful when you say it all together. But that’s what it was. We had some vintage decor touches. Plenty of elephants scattered around. We hung around in the backyard while we were grilling burgers for dinner on the BBQ. Then the whole point of why we got together to spill the beans about what sex baby Bean is!
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Let’s be realistic your 2nd pregnancy checklist is way less detailed than the first time around. Likely you still own most of the baby essentials and you honestly just don’t have the free time to obsess over this pregnancy because you are running around after a small child already.
Continue reading “Pregnancy Checklist for Baby Number Two”I wanted to share my 1st trimester update as a way to chronicle this pregnancy because I’ll be honest if I don’t make note of it now it’s not going to happen at all and then I am going to forget things!
