labor/baby prep!

this is my second baby, and i’m just as anxious about her getting here as i was my first. i’m 32 weeks today with FGR so i’m most likely getting induced around 37 weeks. what’re we doing to prep??? i’ve already sanitized her bottles and started packing our hospital bag 😅 i do my stretches.. when i remember…
has anyone started red raspberry leaf tea or anything?

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Im 33 weeks with baby #2 and I've gotten everything i need for the first 3 weeks since with my religion mom and baby stay in the house for the first 2-4 weeks only coming out to go to necessary appointments. I also have my bag and baby boys bag ready and have a list of snacks to bring my nurses and ones for me which will be bought around a week or so before induction.

I will be 32 tomorrow. I had my full term, but I think I will have this one a week earlier. I also started separating things for the hospital bag. What stretches are you doing? Feeling anxious too!

I hit 32 weeks yesterday and I've done very minimal so far.. I have a feeling this baby is going to come early though so I should probably get started on prepping soon 😅 so far all I've done is buy postpartum care items, snacks for the hospital, and started putting things in my hospital bag as I think of them. The nursery is still a mess because we just moved our toddler to her big girl room and I haven't done anything to prep any of the baby stuff other than pulling it out of storage. I'm hoping to start putting the nursery together in the next week but I'll probably wait until I'm closer to 36 weeks before I start washing baby clothes and sanitizing things. I'm also going to start prepping freezer meals here in the next few weeks so we don't have to worry about cooking for the first few months postpartum.

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