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Top 8 Things On Your To-Do List
Before baby arrives, that is
By Paul Chronnell
It’ll feel great to be up early just because you want to be, rather than because your little bundle of joy thinks 4.30am is an ideal time to test her lung capacity.
As soon as baby arrives, you’ll suddenly find your conversations don’t progress much beyond where you were when your waters broke, which breast pads have the best absorbency and – with strange fascination – how your newborn’s diapers smell.
Nothing you ever do again will be undertaken without considering that little person who is soon to enter your life. |
Forget all the sensible things you’ve got planned, like stocking up on diapers and finishing the nursery – M&B reveals what you really need to worry about before the big day.
You’re pregnant – and there’s so much to do! Things to buy, things to be done, things to attend, things to remember to add to another list… But you need one more list – things to do for you, not for the baby. And you’d better hurry, because this is your last chance for a very long time to…
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Put on a white top…
…and marvel at how it’s still white at the end of the day. In a couple of months, that top will be a magnet for dribbled milk, baby sick and every sticky, unidentifiable substance on earth.
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Get up really early one morning
It’ll feel great to be up early just because you want to be, rather than because your little bundle of joy thinks 4.30am is an ideal time to test her lung capacity.
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Enjoy the simplicity of your monthly budget
Income, expenditure, all neat and tidy. Soon this perfect budgeting becomes “Baby shoes cost how much?”, and “I’m so sorry my toddler did that, let me get it dry-cleaned for you.” And take note: Those figures are much harder to read when soaked in puréed carrot!
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Tidy up and enjoy the fact that everything stays that way for at least an hour
You see, maybe not at first, but as your child finds her feet, you’ll discover that objects have a miraculous ability to move silently into places no adult would ever dream of looking.
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Stand anywhere in your house and listen. Just stand and listen…
It may not seem too exciting, but just wait till baby arrives – you’ll paint your head blue for some friggin’ silence then.
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Cuddle up on the sofa with your man, munch potato chips and watch your favourite movie
It’s not that you can’t do this when you have a baby, just that for the next few years, the DVD player won’t work properly because your child has fiddled with the remote control too much, or due to constant use/abuse re-playing The Wheels Of The Bus.
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Talk intelligently and at length with your friends about the pressing world issues of the day
As soon as baby arrives, you’ll suddenly find your conversations don’t progress much beyond where you were when your waters broke, which breast pads have the best absorbency and – with strange fascination – how your newborn’s diapers smell.
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Be selfish
Think purely of you, you and only you! Pamper yourself, indulge in fine food, fun activities or even bone idle, downright sloppy laziness. Because when that baby arrives, you’ll find yourself knocked off the top of your “most important people” list. Nothing you ever do again will be undertaken without considering that little person who is soon to enter your life. And you know the really weird thing? You wouldn’t have it any other way…
If you have any comments or practical suggestions, write to us at editor@family.sg
- Mother & Baby
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