It seems silly to get excited about a periclens bottle and OB pads, but I was like a kid at Christmas when FedEx dropped off our birth supplies this afternoon.
Most of it is just standard necessities – mesh underpants (remember those? Oh so sexy.), sanitary napkins, the liner for the birth pool, gloves, cord clamp, etc, but there are also some little niceties, like herbal afterbirth bath, and homeopathic rescue remedy. Also, though it wasn’t part of the kit required by our midwife, I couldn’t resist this little shirt for my baby boy:
It’s getting so close now! Only 58 days to go, according to my little ticker. Yesterday, I bought shower curtain liners (to protect the bed and floor), and Lansinoh disposable nursing pads, which I credit for literally saving my breastfeeding relationship with Bee. I always have an overabundant milk supply, and after Bee was born, I had no idea how to cope with it. I remember waking up one morning in a huge puddle, because milk had leaked through my bra and nightgown. I also had many mishaps while out in public. I had to stand in line at the post office with a blanket over my shoulder, to hide the huge milk stain that was spreading all over my shirt. It was so embarrassing, and I wanted to give up, but then I tried a free sample of Lansinoh that came with the stuff they gave me at the hospital, and what a difference! I could go out in public without fear again! I just wish they weren’t so expensive – $8.18 for a 60-count box at Wal-Mart. An absolute necessity though, in my opinion.
I was talking to my husband about this issue last night, and he said that my overabundance is a good thing, because the men in his family “produce very thirsty babies.”
Obviously we spend just way too much time watching “The Office.”
