Hey ladies!
Anyone else going to be a second time mum and done absolutely nothing to be prepared compared to the last time?!
By this time last pregnancy I had the nursery done, furniture built, clothes washed, bags packed …
This time I literally have ZERO! well apart from 2 packs of nappies (thank you Tesco vouchers!)
Luckily everything is in the loft from my first baby, so hoping not to have to buy much, but I feel so guilty I’m not ready yet and only have 9 (maybe 10) weeks left!! 😳
I think it’s the exhaustion from working full time still, having my toddler and being pregnant, it doesn’t leave much for baby planning!
Please tell me I’m not alone!? 🤞🏼
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I feel so behind. Our house isn't huge so I can't really do much for her until I've cleared out a lot of our old stuff. I've ordered a few clothes of Vinted for her but I'm trying to sell a load of our boy's old things on Vinted too to make space. I have ordered a car seat because I found it on sale at 1/3 full price (our old one doesn't fit in my car behind my seat). But I still feel so behind. I'm a student and trying to do lectures and clear the house at the same time as also handling a newly-minted 3 year old's tantrums, especially with the weather this week, is absolutely destroying me!! Pregnancy has absolutely flown by too, I'm 27w tomorrow and feels like I was way more prepared last time, simply because I had the time to be
Literally exactly the same!
To add to my list, my house is DISGUSTING right now too 🙈
I think my main issue was last time I had a spare room, so I could do the nursery, get everything in here, get furniture sorted … this time I don’t. It’s my office as I WFH, so I don’t have anywhere to store things or work instead. Honestly it feels so stressful!

Hardly anything done and sorted. I’m a teacher on half term and wanted to do a fair bit this week, but the heat has killed me off.
We’re exactly the same in terms of room, too. We are planning on building a garden room so we can move my husband’s office there, move toddler into bigger room and nursery for baby. That’s realistically not going to happen before baby is born, and they’ll be in our room for 6 months anyway, but really need storage solution for clothes etc!
I think that’s the biggest problem - the storage! It’s holding me back from washing / buying anything which I keep telling myself if sensible, but I’m running out of time 🙈