Due Any Day Now…

So our baby is due any day now… baby number two! I have no idea if we’re prepared or not, its such a different beast to expect baby number two than your first. In some regards, I’m sure we’re more prepared… we know what to expect from the delivery… we know better than to expect to ever sleep through the night again. We know more than we did before we had Cole with regards to a lot of things.

What we don’t know is how our 21.5 month-old is going to react to the new baby. His comprehension of the situation right now, at his very young age, seems to be that Mommy has a silly looking belly and Mommy’s lap is much less spacious than it once was.

We are giving him a dolly to play with for while I’m nursing the new baby, and we bought a Maui (Muana character) doll for him as a “gift from his baby brother”, but we have no way of knowing what to expect. He saw me hold someone else’s baby last month and lost his shit! It was not a good sign of things to come, but he may adjust quickly… who knows.

It’s times like these that I wish I were a spot younger… I’m of “advanced maternal age” according to the hospital staff, this I find hilarious until I’m feeling super old and exhausted. I don’t know if twenty-year-old mothers feel this way though, because I never had any kids that young.

We have the side-board crib ready-to-go again. We have a backstock of diapers in a variety of sizes. We have cloth diapers “just in case”. We need a body alarm still, we may just buy another Snuza instead of springing for the Owlet, since I’m not working for the next six or seven weeks.

We’re living in a better apartment now than the bachelor pad Alex had when Cole was born. We were trying to purchase a home, but the housing market where we live is a den of sadness, where there are few homes for sale and homes sell for up to 40% above the asking price because of the shortage. We just resigned our lease, so we’re in it for another year. Not ideal for a family of four to be in a two-bedroom apartment that costs as much as a mortgage, but it takes some stress away for the time-being.