It's all fake money anyway.

[judecorp]

I just dropped mad bank online. It's like pretend money, because I just PayPal'd it all. It's starting to hit me that we don't have a ton of time before this kid makes her appearance and we should get ready.

I ordered a bunch of stuff that is so "un-fun" that no one is likely to get it, ever. You know, like a diaper pail. Who wants to buy a diaper pail? (Well, I would. But I'm weird.)

So I just ch-ching'd my way through a diaper pail, a big old waterproof bag to line the diaper pail, two smaller waterproof bags to stick in the diaper bag, some anti-smell disks for the diaper pail, a whole mess of cloth baby wipes, a bunch of cloth baby wipe solution (I know we can make our own, and maybe we will later, but for now, I'm pressing the Easy Button), and a wipe warmer that promises not to turn cloth wipes brown or nasty. Either way, we should have all of this diaper stuff in a week or so, so that's another thing I can check off my list.

We also started talking about what to put in the hospital bag. YIKES, that is making this all seem far too real. SEND HELP!

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[etherial.livejournal.com]

I'd totally buy you a diaper pail. Where are you registered, again?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Hee, we didn't have a giant cloth diaper pail on our registry. We have stuff at Target and Babies R Us, and they tend to just have the same old stuff.

[thatpatti.livejournal.com]

lol, i don't use any of that stuff! (well, except the diaper pail, but it's just one of those stainless steel trash cans with the lift out inside so i can just dump everything in the washer).

i do use cloth wipes, obviously, but they're just cut up fleece (read: cheep!)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Since our diaper pail is probably going to have to live in our (very small) bathroom, having a big garbage can in there wasn't going to work. So I found a cheap-o plastic one that appears to be a good size. We'll see. It's probably enormous.

Our cloth wipes were cheep too. Probably not as cheep as cut-up fleece but to be totally honest, at this point it's easier to just have someplace send it to me instead of going out and getting it and cutting it up. ;) Man, I've got enough crap to do, especially if I /do/ end up holding out at work until June 29.

I wanted the small waterproof bags because at some point we're going to have to send the kid to child care... and they will want something to put the dirties in. I'm not comfortable with them sending home a million plastic grocery bags.

[thatpatti.livejournal.com]

yeah, totally makes sense (all of it).

you know, now that i think about it, it might make a lot more sense for my diaper pail to be in my bathroom. then i wouldn't have to walk back and forth when i have to dump poo. then again, i'd have to make an extra stop if it was just wet, which is more than half the time.

hm...

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Our house is full of small rooms. (Though thankfully they are not all bathroom-sized!) We could put a pail in the kid's room but it would take some finagling, I think. Originally I thought I would keep the diaper pail in the basement (near the utility sink and the washing machine) and then I realized it would be a M-A-J-O-R PITA to bring stuff down there all the time - bleh! I'm glad I thought that one through!

Bathroom, however, is the next room over. I guess it's one of the "perks" of living in a tiny shoebox house. :)

[artemis44.livejournal.com]

Do you have a daycare that takes cloth diapers? I know most of them around here require disposable at daycare (and why did it take me three tries to type disposable????)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

We haven't (denial is a powerful thing) actively researched daycares yet, but we're leaning toward hiring a private person (if we can swing it), possibly one of our friends who is thinking of being a SAHM. However, I think it would be less of an issue here in the Happy Valley with its concentration of hippies. I could be wrong.

I know that you are looking for houses all over the metro Boston area, but we have friends that use the Bright Horizons child care center in the Crown Colony business park of Quincy, and they'll do cloth there.

I'm hoping that even people who might be squeamish about cloth will learn to love our kid's all-in-ones, since really, other than throwing them in the wet bag, they look a lot like disposables.

[adistar.livejournal.com]

I totally stumbled across this thread thru the July2007 com (Im journal surfing, yay boredom)

Buuut I work at the bright horizons in braintree hill office park which is 2 mins away from crown colony and we do cloth diapers in our infant room =) We currently have one lil girl who uses them...and I have to add she has the cutest lil diaper covers ever hahaha

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is awesome. I will let all of my crunchy friends know! :)

[twomomsarebetterthanone.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

woe! you are in the home stretch! i'm glad you are before us so you can tell us what works and what doesn't! :)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

And just think of all of the hand-me-down clothes we can send your way! :)

[skreeky]

Jesus Christ, woman, you have GOT to hold off on these shopping sprees until after your shower. Is another three days gonna kill you? NOW what the hell am I gonna bring? *eyeroll*

(Actually, what with the parental visit prep I have so far totally failed to go baby stuff shopping, so I will hopefully still manage to come up with something you don't already have.)

[gala.livejournal.com]

No kidding! What's left?

[kieron.livejournal.com]

LOTS OF STUFF....heh - the pail and other things we bought are not from the regular registries....so there is stuff on both the babies r us and target I swear!:)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Oh puh-leeze. This wasn't registry stuff. :)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

We haven't bought anything that was on our registries.

Okay, that's not true. We bought one crib sheet, because I got tired of looking at the mattress in the plastic bag.

[skreeky]

It's just as well, you know. If I bought you a diaper pail it would be shaped like R2D2 or a fire hydrant or something.

[skreeky]

HA! Fire hydrant! For the blue dog! HA HA HA! I kill me. At least at this hour of the night I do.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's damned funny! If it was a red fire hydrant, I'd so have to consider it. ;)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

See? That's why I can't trust the likes of you with the important things. ;)

[aminahfiddler.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you're packing a bag. My sister almost didn't make it to the hospital. She didn't pack a bag and then didn't have any clean undies.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a grandmother's nightmare - no clean underwear!

We are big planners, so the fact that we got to week 35 without doing this stuff is pretty amazing. We'll probably pack the actual bag over the weekend. You just never know!

[etherial.livejournal.com]

One of my friends didn't make it to the hospital. Her son was born on the side of Route 2. Whenever there are pregnant women around, they always make sure they know where Becky is, just in case.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

This is Jen's worst nightmare, I think. We have a 40 minute drive to the birth center and she is positively convinced we're not going to make it. So if you read about a baby born on I-91 N, that's us.

[lizardjee.livejournal.com]

we just use a nylon camping laundry bag and a laundry basket to put it in.
email me your address and i will send you some cloth wipes :)
we are having good luck with the prince lionheart wipe warmer. but to tell you the truth i am not really using it now in the warm weather.
i didnt use most of the stuff i packed in the hospital bag. the things i couldnt live without were the nursing tank tops. the nursing shields. and my own pillow from home :)
i am so excited for you..

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this is essentially a nylon camping bag, too. Which is awesome. I used to have a bunch of them but they got kind of nasty. Too much camping, which we don't do now. (So sad. Jen is not really a camper.)

In the warm weather I don't anticipate a ton of wipe warming. But you and I both know that sadly winter is always right around the corner! I am in winter denial but it will sneak up on me, I just know it.

I need to get some nursing tanks pronto. I haven't bought any nursing bras because I don't know if my size will change, but tanks should be safe. Thanks for the tip!

E-mail sent. Thanks!

[lizardjee.livejournal.com]

:) watch the mail. we are going to the post office today.

i got my nursing tanks from target (which run small so if you get them from there size up). it is ALL that i wear. i have found them to be a lot more comfortable than the bras plus my belly doesnt get exposed when i am feeding him. my family keep giving them to me for holidays. i have about 25 of them now. LOL. i guess them plan on me having another baby sometime soon. :) but with the warm weather they are wonderful because it is all i wear. as girly as they are. :/

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

My plan is to try to snag a couple of nursing tanks ASAP so I can put them in the hospital bag. I love those "built in bra" tanks anyway and where a lot of them, so the nursing ones should be great - esp for July and August. They are a little freer with sizes than nursing bras, too, which is good because I don't know what size bra I will be in when the milk comes.

Must get on that nursing tank mission!!

[lizardjee.livejournal.com]

i want to throw this in here, because no one ever told me and it upset me. i dont know if you read it in my blog or heard it before. but when your milk first comes in and you start to let down.. it burns. a lot. dont get me wrong, it is totally worth it. but be prepared. i was not prepared for how it felt. you get use to it soon enough, but at first.it shocked me.
i am wearing the nursing tanks now with a t shirt over it and between the two i can BF him in public with nothing showing.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads-up on the burning. I hadn't heard of that at all.