Being a new mom and trying to figure out what kind of things we would need for the baby was a little daunting. Fortunately, I created a baby registry early during my pregnancy and simply added items to it as things occurred to me.

It also helped that I started reading about infant care early on in the process. I found that there really wasn’t that much to learn about pregnancy, and I saved the birthing books until closer to my due date. When I read about how to take a baby’s temperature in Heading Home with Your Newborn, for example, I added a thermometer to our registry. When

Now that I’m officially one day overdue, I figure I’m qualified to share my advice for the third trimester of pregnancy…

1. Don’s Assume Others’ Experiences Will Be Your Own: Honestly, I was dreading the third trimester because of everything I had ever read or heard about it. I thought my back would ache, I couldn’t sleep, I would be tired of being pregnant–yada, yada, yada. For me, none of that is true (probably because of everything I did in the first trimester and second trimester). I am still happy to carry my little boy around with me wherever I go. I cherish each passing day that I get to spend

When Matt and I were planning our wedding, I would go through phases of insecurity related to blogging about the experience and sharing it with others. I would write a post about how we were doing x, y, and z, and then I would stop and wonder, “But what if it totally fails? What if the event feels completely ‘budget’ and ‘tacky’ because we did x, y, and z? Maybe I shouldn’t be putting any of these ideas out into the universe until I know they actually work?”

I think I’ve been feeling something similar about our home birth experience. I haven’t talked much about it because if something