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Celebrate Your Pregnancy

6 Great Ways to Prepare Before Baby Arrives

By Katherine Bontrager

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Going grocery shopping and preparing and freezing meals ahead of time may be the last thing you think about, but Patty Baronowski says she wishes she'd accomplished both these tasks before giving birth.

"When I got home, I was suddenly on a whole new schedule – not sleeping, up every few hours," she says. "My time was totally preoccupied, and I was not able to take the baby out just yet because he was still too new. I suddenly realized I did not have butter, did not have eggs – having a fully stocked refrigerator and pantry would surely have made things a bit easier for me."

Without basic kitchen essentials, Baronowski found herself unable to prepare even the simplest of meals for her family. Once the provisions were present, the New Yorker found herself lacking the time to play chef. "Let's face it, it takes time to cook food," Baronowski says. "It would have been so much easier to have food already prepared and to just nuke them in the microwave for two minutes."

6. Capture the Moment
For Michelle Soudry, of Boca Raton, Fla., instead of eschewing her image during pregnancy, she found it very important to document the process on vdeo. "My husband and I made a point of videotaping ourselves throughout the pregnancy," Soudry says. "We'd show off my belly for the camera and discuss what we thought life was going to be like after the baby. It's one of our most valued home videos ever because it documents our turning into parents for the very first time."

"I watch the video now and I'm touched by how innocent we were, how beautiful I looked, full belly and all," she says. "I am so grateful we have saved that memory for ourselves and our daughter to see when she's old enough."

Soudry says all the process required was five minutes of video at a time throughout her pregnancy, chronicling her burgeoning belly, her thoughts on being a mom and her feelings about being pregnant. "You'll appreciate being able to see what you really looked like pregnant and will chuckle at how you thought you'd be able to handle things," she says.


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