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Now that I've had some time to recover and my little one is now 3 months old, I have had some time to really think of the most used items I used in my first couple of weeks during postpartum. I always use the notes app on my phone and this is what I wrote down in my most tired state of being in those first 4 weeks!  photo by Maria Gloer Photography Of course, there's the obvious things or what I thought would be obvious, like:
However, some folks just go straight into a pack and play versus a bassinet or directly into a crib which can be totally normal too. It's all up to you and how you want to set up the sleep environment for you and the new baby in your life! We opt'd to start in the bassinet and then work up to the crib.
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 Photo by Maria Gloer Photography It happened! I had a baby. It's been a while since I last talked to you, obviously. But I went through a whole 9-10 months growing our sweet boy and he has finally arrived! I have never really understood, am I to say "we" had a baby, or "I". I don't know, I mean it did take two of us to make this happen and my husband helped out tremendously while I was pregnant so I have no problem with calling "us" pregnant but when it came to labor, yeah no, "I" had that baby, haha. You didn't ask but I am sharing with you my/our birth story! birth story:It all started when I was around 38 weeks pregnant. I went into my weekly appointment and I was 2 cm! I was super excited but tried to not get too excited for I heard and knew, especially for first time moms, that you can stay 1-3cm for weeks on weeks! And that's similar to what I did. THURSDAY // 04.21.22 I went back in for my next appointment and I was 39 weeks, 5 days, SO ready to have this baby at any moment. My doctor told me I was an easy 3. We didn't have any plans at the moment for induction, I wanted to go as long as I could, I even joked earlier on in my pregnancy that I would be fine if he came May 1 (his due date was April 24, so a whole week later making me 41 weeks). But when it came time for being almost 40 weeks, I was losing patience, haha. I talked to her (my doctor) about doing a membrane sweep. She said "okay, you know this could send you into labor within 12-24 hrs". I said, "great, perfect". Later on that evening, I started having major cramping pains, it was in my back and my pelvis. However, it wasn't consistent, I wasn't able to track it. It wasn't the type of cramping pain that came and went, it just came and never left and just became this dull hum in my body all night. FRIDAY // 04.22.22 The next day, I was feeling around the same but a little better. Just kept trying to drink my water and paying attention to how I was feeling and how my body felt. I was still in pain but I just didn't think it was time yet. It wasn't bad enough to where I wasn't able to speak or move so I figure, we were all doing alright! I just remember being on my back porch in so much pain, It's hard to explain BUT in an effort to keep moving, I joined my husband on the golf course to walk the course to really try to get this moving. I joked because apparently, that's what my parents did as well for one of her pregnancies.
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