Poor Ashtray Chair
Friday, March 02, 2007
Major epiphany here: It is March and our baby is due in April.
Yeah, I know that's a big "Duh!"....but it just hit me all at once that we will have a child very soon. We are currently on the chapter in our Bradley class that involves writing out a birth plan and a checklist of things to take to the birth place. I can hardly believe that I will be 34 weeks pregnant on Monday.
The co-s1eeper bassinet is already set up because I wanted to see how much taller it needs to be. (had to order leg extender-dealies online 'cause our bed is too tall) The bassinet is not attached to our bed just yet. Don't worry, I'm not quite that neurotic. I just figured it would be stupid to fold it up and pack it away just to put it back up next month...so now, it's just chillin' in the corner of the bedroom.
I'm on a quest for a rocking chair to put in our room that can later become living room furniture. I LOVE old wooden rockers, but I think it would be more practical for us (and comfy!) to find a rocker/recliner. DH brought one home today that he got for free from our friend's employer, but it turns out that it totally reeks of cigarette smoke. It's not in wonderful condition cosmetically either, but I could've dealt with that. Toss a blanket on it, and no big deal......but I'm not naive enough to think that we would ever be able to get the smoke odor out of its funky vinyl upholstery and foam padding. That thing is staying in the garage until we can find a place to dump it. Too bad. I'm all about free stuff! Good try, DH. Wish we could've made it work.
***ETA***
DH and I went and bought a brand new rocker/recliner. Woohoo! We moved our old rocker/recliner (NOT the nasty smoky chair mentioned above, but another one we already had in our office/t.v. room) into our bedroom, and put the new one in the office/t.v. room. Now, I have a place to nurse and rock the baby on each end of the house. Yay! We spend most of our time in the office/t.v. room, but it will be nice to have a place to rock and feed the baby in the privacy of our bedroom as well. My friend said that he found a nice old wooden rocker that he is going to repair (the legs just need some glue) and give to us. I might put that one in the baby's room. Rockers galore!
Yeah, I know that's a big "Duh!"....but it just hit me all at once that we will have a child very soon. We are currently on the chapter in our Bradley class that involves writing out a birth plan and a checklist of things to take to the birth place. I can hardly believe that I will be 34 weeks pregnant on Monday.
The co-s1eeper bassinet is already set up because I wanted to see how much taller it needs to be. (had to order leg extender-dealies online 'cause our bed is too tall) The bassinet is not attached to our bed just yet. Don't worry, I'm not quite that neurotic. I just figured it would be stupid to fold it up and pack it away just to put it back up next month...so now, it's just chillin' in the corner of the bedroom.I'm on a quest for a rocking chair to put in our room that can later become living room furniture. I LOVE old wooden rockers, but I think it would be more practical for us (and comfy!) to find a rocker/recliner. DH brought one home today that he got for free from our friend's employer, but it turns out that it totally reeks of cigarette smoke. It's not in wonderful condition cosmetically either, but I could've dealt with that. Toss a blanket on it, and no big deal......but I'm not naive enough to think that we would ever be able to get the smoke odor out of its funky vinyl upholstery and foam padding. That thing is staying in the garage until we can find a place to dump it. Too bad. I'm all about free stuff! Good try, DH. Wish we could've made it work.
***ETA***
DH and I went and bought a brand new rocker/recliner. Woohoo! We moved our old rocker/recliner (NOT the nasty smoky chair mentioned above, but another one we already had in our office/t.v. room) into our bedroom, and put the new one in the office/t.v. room. Now, I have a place to nurse and rock the baby on each end of the house. Yay! We spend most of our time in the office/t.v. room, but it will be nice to have a place to rock and feed the baby in the privacy of our bedroom as well. My friend said that he found a nice old wooden rocker that he is going to repair (the legs just need some glue) and give to us. I might put that one in the baby's room. Rockers galore!
Labels: baby gear, being sappy, childbirth classes
posted by Unkempt Mommy at 11:54 PM
2 Comments:
Speaking of rockers- check out the one I got for the baby at my shower- now mommy will have a glider/rocker and baby will have a little toddler-sized rocking chair :)
Not to be all punny, but rocker-recliners totally ROCK!
You can lean back, put your feet up, feed the baby and then take a nice nap together!
After you get the hang of having a baby sleeping on your chest--it takes about 5 minutes to master this skill--you can use this time to do fun things like read or knit.
Our recliner saved my sanity after the twins were born. We couldn't really co-sleep with them because of the sheer logistics of keeping 2 35 weekers safe between two giant adults. I would rock them to sleep and put them in their cribs. When they woke up I would feed them in the recliner and we would sleep together the rest of the night-since a baby (or two)will always sleep better in mama's arms than in a crib.
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