Advice 4 becoming an At-Home-Mom?
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Advice 4 becoming an At-Home-Mom?
| Sun, 04-11-2004 - 4:02pm |
hi to all! i'm new here...only a mere 6 1/2 wks pregnant expecting our 1st child. i resigned from work almost 1 mth ago, since environment was very stressful w/neg. energy.
now that i will be an at-home-mom, well now while prego and in dec. when baby arrives, just wondered if, from experience, any of you have advice on what i can expect? since i have months to prepare for baby and being pregnant, is there anything you'd do in these next few months THAT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL FOR THE PREPARATION OF BECOMING AN AT HOME MOM? i do have time on my hands, and i just want to make the best use of it.
thanks for your thoughts!

in the month before my daughter was born, i made huge batches of french toast, waffles, pancakes, cassaroles, anything that i could freeze. (we have a small deep freezer in our basement, so i put it to good use!) it made a huge difference to be able to still eat decently after she was born. a quick bowl of cereal is ok, but being able to take a couple of waffles out of the freezer and pop them in the toaster was really nice! there's a cookbook i got from our library called the freezer cooking manual. it was very helpful!
also start looking now into "free" activities in your area. our area libraries have free story time once a week, and a local mall brings in children's entertainment tuesday mornings. it's nice to have things to do for free.
good luck and keep in touch!
:-)
Read!! Get whatever books you'd love to read and start reading. I have a 10 month old and I can't tell you the last time I read a good book!!! :)
Figure out what you're going to do when you child-proof....be ready. I bought all of the things ahead of time and had them ready to go.
Home improvements...anything you can do while pregnant. You won't have time (or want to spend you time doing that) after the baby comes!
Start a home-based business to bring in extra money. I wish I had started while I was pregnant, but I waited until my son was about 5 months old. I'm seeing success now, but it would have been nice to start earning that money while I was still pregnant!
Prepare some meals and freeze them...you won't want to cook those first couple of weeks. Cassaroles, Baked Ziti, Lasagna, things like that freeze really well.
Those are the only ideas I have for you. Good Luck! I would say to definitely exercise too...even if it's just walking.
Good Luck!! Being a Mom is wonderful!!!
Jennifer
SAHM to Tyler (10 months)
Turn a Monthly Expense into an Income!
http://www.stayinhomeandlovinit.com/cgi-bin/team.cgi?id=je57771&action=show
i thank you all for such incredible wisdom...you've all inspired me to really make the best use of my time in so many different ways! THANKS AGAIN...i'll be in touch.
danni
1st baby edd 12/1/04!