Nesting

Nesting is pregnant code for "getting your shit together before the baby comes." Some higher power out there (and all moms) knows the importance of having your ducks in a row before Gurl gets here. You are totally able-bodied after having a baby; however, leaving the house becomes more of a challenge. It is just easier to stay home. Having that said, buy all of your soup before Gurl is born. You should also...set up her room, do laundry daily (your and hers), stock up on food, stock up on toilet paper, pick up your dry cleaning, refill prescriptions...anything that requires leaving the house. Leaving the house is possible; you just want the first few outing to be experimental, for fun, not due to necessity (adds too much pressure).

A personal story about not having done my nesting. After Christmas of 2001, I bought new stockings and a tree skirt (day after x-mas sale...I think you were with me). I dutifully took them to get embroidered. Here come the mistake...I did not pick them up a week later (when they were ready). Louis was born January 16th. The stockings and tree skirt stayed at the shop until October. Life is just easier tout seul...not as cute or happy though.

Get your life together now...you will be busy later.