Organizing Thursday: Baby Briefcase Paperwork Organizer
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There’s a lot of paperwork that comes with having a baby: hospital discharge forms, insurance documentation, baby registry details, etc. In my post-birth haze, I was very happy that I received this Baby Briefcase as a gift. There was no way I would have been able to keep track of all of the loose paperwork related to my son if I didn’t have an easy place to stash it. Inside, there are several folders with pre-made tabs in every type of category you can think of. Now that my husband and I are out of the weeds, we don’t have to use it that frequently, but when we need to locate any important document, we know just where to look. The organizer is $28 at Amazon. Baby Briefcase Paperwork Organizer
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We are considering switching our 2-year-old from a traditional daycare center (Goddard) to a Montessori-based toddler program closer to home. We have a “meet and greet” scheduled at the Montessori school next week. What questions should I be prepared to ask? How can I know if Montessori might be a good fit for her? One of my hesitations is going from a class with 18 kids to a summer program with only 4 kids – I feel that she might be bored. Is this an unfounded concern?
Did you have a doula at your birth? I’m hoping to have a natural birth and have a midwife, so a doula seems like something I’d go for too. My husband is great and will be a good coach, but sometimes gets a little overwhelmed. Even at our prenatal appointments, I notice him kind of spacing out through all the info. So I think a doula would be a great advocate. On the other hand, it’s a really personal and intimate moment for us. Will it be weird for someone else to be there too?
Just found out I’m delivering my twins tomorrow (I’m 35 weeks and a few days). One thing left on my to do list was figuring out some kind of baby book system or app to keep track of milestones. I visited my parents earlier in my pregnancy and really enjoyed looking back at my baby book, but I figure these days maybe there is a more advanced version. (I realize this is a slightly crazy thing to be thinking about the day before i deliver but I’ve been in the hospital since yesterday bc at first i was going to deliver yesterday and I’m already overwhelmed/over emotional and trying to distract myself a bit with something more fun)
My 5 month old hates being read to. At first we thought it was just coincidence that she’d cry when we were reading to her and the tears were because she was hungry or wet or whatever, but it’s been going on long enough now (several months) that it seems it’s really the reading she’s objecting to. She’s otherwise a happy baby who seems to be developing normally and she loves her activity mat, her mobile over her crib and having “conversations” with us (she babbles, we talk). We have tried all different times of day and positions (her on her activity mat, in the crib, on our laps, etc.) but within a minute of starting a book she is tears 90% of the time. Can anyone reassure me this is normal or give me advice about what to do? I absolutely loved reading as a kid and although my husband is borderline dyslexic and had issues reading himself, he loved being read to. I don’t want to just give up on reading to her, but I also hate doing something that makes her cry.
4 months back at work, still pumping and BFing my 9 month old, and I helped lead a team of lawyers to get a nearly billion dollar deal to signing this week. So proud of myself. And grateful there wasn’t any “mommy-tracking” at work. And so ready for some sleep, which my non-sleep-trainable child just laughed at. But there you go.
Thank you! I have a Love to Dream (should have mentioned that) but it’s a medium & summer weight and she’s still under 10 lbs so I think it’s too big/light to stop her startle reflex. I should get a small in the normal weight.
Last night I put her in a normal swaddle with one arm out and she slept 7.5 hrs! (Of course I didn’t get all 7 hrs of sleep bc I kept waking up wondering what was happening.) So that seems to be working for now. My Ped also recommended a Merlins sleeper so I am planning to get one once she’s big enough for them. Thanks for all the suggestions!
How did you and your partner split night duty when your baby wasn’t sleeping through the night? I did 100% of it while I was on maternity leave, but now that I’m back at work, dealing with all of our 5 month old’s night wakings/feedings is killing me. She’s EBF, as of now, and her night wakings are super inconsistent (sometimes she’s up once, sometimes it’s 3 times/night).
The nighr steak comment just made me laugh out loud at my desk. I looooove steak when I was preggo (formee vegetarian)
Michelle Wolf – https://youtu.be/kYBmHEFJLAs
I really enjoyed the white house correspondents dinner this year – I thought Michelle Wolf was hilarious. Well she has a short clip called ‘making a human’ (link in reply) and it’s hysterical. I’ll post the link in reply – I think you ladies would get a kick out of it. Happy Thursday!
Thank you for all the help and advice re: menstrual cups earlier in the week. Using and loving it! And quickly becoming an evangelist.
How do you store yours?
So I did wind up with GD with my twin pregnancy (way more common with those). If you do end up with it, it is likely VERY manageable with diet. Taking my blood sugar 3x a day was lightly annoying. Dealing with it was mostly just spreading carbs out thinly throughout the day and really upping protein. So for breakfast I was eating three eggs scrambled with basil cheese and tomatoes and one mini donut for my 10 carbs or whatever I was allowed then. I also really embraced what I called the “night steak”– if I was out of carbs for the day and still hungry at night, I just ate a big steak with horseradish sauce. It was annoying because I wanted a Krispy Kreme but that’s about as bad as it got. And frankly, it kept me from gaining a lot of weight; despite the twins I only gained around 30 pounds (though they were early). So hopefully some diet and exercise changes now mean you won’t be dealing with it, but if you wind up with it, it’s not the worst. I had the world’s toughest pregnancy and it was basically my “favorite” of the complications.
DH and I are writing a will and choosing a guardian for our soon to arrive twins. DH would like to choose MIL (his mom), who is single and 63. I would like to choose my brother and SIL, who are late 40s and 50. MIL is currently in good health, with minor back problems (nothing major, just normal for someone in her 60s). I think she is too old to take on single parenting of 2 kids, whether its toddlers in her 60s or teens in her late 70s, given that we have another option of a younger couple who shares our values (as does MIL). DH thinks that my brother and SIL already have enough on their plate with their own kids.
I think some of where DH is coming from is wanting his family vs mine (though we get along well with both), so I’m not sure he’s thinking clearly about it (and maybe subconsciously I’m doing the same), but he just seems to disagree that MIL is too old to be the best choice. Am I being unreasonable?
Saw this post yesterday but didn’t have time to respond. DH’s dad was 41 when DH was born. DH’s mom was 32.
There are pros: DH’s dad took an early retirement package when DH was 8 and did a lot of SAH/parental coverage stuff (drive DH to Private school for a decade, ran boyscout troops, etc) while MIL worked. Also, they were financially much better off than my parents, who had me at 25/26. My dad had a teenager when he turned 40; FIL had a newborn! FIL was also the oldest dads, so their “couple friends” were much younger and have kept FIL mentally and physically young. He’s 78 now but looks and acts closer to 65.
Cons:
– FIL is 78. Even if he lives to 85, his oldest grandkid will be 9. He doesn’t like to fly or travel much anymore, so we don’t see him unless we fly to him (MIL comes to visit much more often). He’s also a generation older than my parents- he could be my dad’s dad. It makes for odd dynamics in managing grandparent expectations. He is much more the
-DH is an only child because of FIL’s age- he didn’t want to deal with another kid, and MIL was pushing 35 in the early 80s.
Update: I ended up buying a new Bob double on sale.
You guys had such great feedback- especially about the resale value. One of the things I realized is that where I live, the Bob would have better resale than the Thule just because of the demand for the brand where I live. I had called around and good condition used Bob Doubles were between 350 and 400 and selling immediately so nobody had them used.
The straw that broke the camel’s back was when I was chatting with a friend and said, ‘Ugh – talk me out of buying a really expensive double stroller) to which she replied – ‘I absolutely won’t. I think that if it makes your life even slightly easier, you should do it.’
So I did.