Baby #2: This time I'm not ready!

Tomorrow is the big day. Boy did July 15th sneak up on us. I feel so unprepared and simply not ready to have a newborn in our house! I am laughing because it is completely opposite of what I was feeling last time.

The house is not in order and could be much cleaner. Waiting until last Sunday to take down infant and newborn stuff from the attic was a mistake. We were able to go through all of Izzy's old clothes and give away everything that was 12mo and larger to a friend. I have another box of girl clothes from newborn-9mo just waiting to figure out where to drop it off. The gender-neutral clothing that baby #2 can wear still needs to be washed. All of the infant contraptions need to be put together and are in pieces, mostly on our living room floor.

The nursery is a disaster with hand-me-down clothes strewn all over the place and boxs of toys and other items placed haphazardly throughout the room. I know that baby #2 is not going to sleep in there for a while but at least point I we couldn't even use the changing table or really the room.

This morning I freaked out because although we have the pack n'play ready to go, I couldn't find the bassinet part and that is where we plan on baby #2 sleeping for the first two months or so. CP and I traded text messages on whether we could order a new one from Amazon or what we were going to do. We couldn't even remember what it looked like! Thankfully my boss allowed me to work from home today so I got out the manual to figure out what I was looking for and went searching in the basement, closets, the attic, etc. finally finding both the bassinet, the infant bath sling, the Boppy, and My Brest Friend in a plastic container that I thought was empty. For a while there I was seriously freaking out though.

After I get off of work today I still have a bunch of things to do:

-pack hospital bag. Yep, I totally waited until the last minute to do this. I just found my nursing bras and tops on Sunday and had to wash them!

-continue washing infant soft items and clothes

-clean up nursery- at least enough so that we can use it for diaper changes, put away clothes, burp clothes, etc.

-buy diapers and probably a going-home outfit because I don't think that I have one?!?

-wrap Izzy's gifts from baby brother & pack in hospital bag.

If I was having a vaginal birth I wouldn't worry about some of these things because although I would assume that I would be sore, I would be able to move around and do more. I re-read my post on recovering from the c-section and think that things are going to be tougher this time around because of Izzy. I have told her a couple of times that I won't be able to pick her up for a while and she will be in daycare during the day, but I don't think that she is going to understand. :-(  Thankfully my mom and CP are going to be around the first week, then my MIL will be coming in for two weeks.

I wish that I felt more ready, but he's coming tomorrow whether I like it or not. Here goes nothing!