For Mary Jane, new Girl Sheets for the Girl Bed.
The hope is that she will be so thrilled with sleeping on pink polka-dot sheets that she picked out herself, that she will not notice that she has been promoted from the position of Sleeping Between Mommy And Daddy In The Big Bed to the position of Sleeping On Daddy's Other Side In The Twin Bed Next To The Big Bed.
And for Baby XY, a dozen one-yard squares of cotton flannel (fifty percent off at JoAnn Fabrics! Yay!). Mary Jane picked out the plaid, and I added some swirly blue (shown) and also a swirly red (not shown because it's up in the washing machine with a couple of cloth diapers, testing for colorfastness.)
There, that should be masculine enough, I think.
I had at least a dozen homemade flannel blankets somewhere, left over from the other babies, but I couldn't find them. Simple receiving blankets made of squares of flannel are the best thing to have around if you do the skin-to-skin, diaper-free thing for the first few weeks. Warm, lightweight, and absorbent. If you have a serger, you can serge the edges, or if you have plenty of time on your hands and a stack of movies to watch you can hem them, or you can be like me and just cut the edges with pinking shears and call it good. These are only receiving blankets after all.
That means they are meant to receive a lot of pee.
They don't need to be fancy. But you can at least pick pretty fabric when you're lucky enough to walk in and all the flannel is on clearance. As it was for me today. Bonus!
Finally, for me, Melissa came through: she found the rice bags she had made for when her little Tad was born two years ago. So I don't have to make any! .If I'm getting ready for a posterior labor, I'm guessing I'll want them, and even if labor doesn't turn out to be too difficult, I know I'll need them for the
(everybody cringe now ladies)
afterpains.
SO. We're about ready now, baby. Are you listening?
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