We're pregnant! I need a checklist.

Post date: 2019-12-16 07:58:56

My wife is pregnant. I want to make the most of these nine months to get things ready for Little Whatstheirname. Where can I find a checklist of what needs to be done so I can organize a "programme of work"?

Yesterday, we discovered my wife is pregnant. Huzzah!

This is not something we'd thought a lot about in concrete terms. We'd more or less decided to have a kid, but were waiting for it to happen whenever it did, so it has.

We are a couple who like everything organized, pre-arranged, stocked supplies of extra stuff in the pantry, clean the air conditioner filters regularly scheduled on Google Calendar. I realize having a kid is going to throw us into a chaotic maelstrom the likes of which we can scarcely imagine.

In the meantime, however, I would like to put our obsessively organized nature to good use. Is there anything in terms of a checklist of things we need to get done in the next nine months? Something so we can start scheduling, buying, organizing? I'm thinking less in terms of doctor's appointments, which I imagine will more or less take care of themselves, and more in terms of child-proofing the house, buying baby furniture...

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