At Home with Your New Baby

Arrange for someone to help you with these things to make your first arrival home pleasant, stress-free and comfortable.

Prepare your pets

Grocery list of yours and your partner's favorite snack foods, meal, drinks

Meals in freezer

Fresh flowers

Turn all ringers down or off (especially wherever you and baby are going to nest)

Load some mellow music in the CD player

Have a phone list near each phone (doctors, pediatrician, pharmacy, lactation consultant)

Disposable cameras in a few different rooms so you don't miss any great photo opps.

Clocks (near where you'll be feeding, nappying, etc.)

Notebook/journal (for your thoughts but also to record feeding times, etc.)

Book for Baby's first year (a journal for this and a book that will tell you what to expect)

Buy something fabulous for yourself, have it wrapped and don't open it until you get home with baby and have a moment to connect back to yourself... CELEBRATE all that you have just done!