@mullygrubs This is 100% true. The first nurse showed us a tip for bottle feeding that worked for her when she did it with our baby but it didn’t work at all for us. The next nurse showed us a different tip and it worked right away.
@arielleshapiro My number one tip: spend a week being the primary carer of the baby. Yes, put your job on hold. It's just a job. Seriously. This is a viral time to bond and understand what is going on.
@arielleshapiro Thank you for this and congrats! My wife is currently 35 weeks, and we are currently putting out hospital bag together. Is there anything you didn’t bring that you wish you did? Or something you brought but didn’t use at all?
@ecc412 Thanks to some of the posts here we were pretty successful in packing our hospital bags - so I can’t quite answer the question the way you asked it. That being said, the most useful things we’ve packed have been: long phone chargers, our own pillows and blankets, a massage gun, and plenty of snacks, caffeine, and Gatorade. I’d say those are the essentials.
@kachadapriest25 Physically speaking, she spent a lot of time on the yoga ball and she took a warm epsom salt bath every day for probably the last 6 weeks of her pregnancy. Mentally, we talked through it a lot and made sure we were on the same page. Good luck!
