Nest Friends: Preparing For Baby Speiz

Last week, my lovely wife Kate and I finished our childbirth preparation class, the highlight of which was most certainly when I realized that a C-section is not as bad as I thought. I mean, I am not saying I would want to have to get one, but I had previously thought they cut in a much more sensitive area. It's good to feel like a bit of a dumbass every now and then!

Anyway, we have been setting up furniture, packing up books, and giving away things we don't use in preparation for the newest member of our family, who is expected in less than a month! Last Saturday, we were sorting through clothes which we have received for the baby, and I just broke out in tears. It was the actual holding of these clothes and knowing that my kid is going to wear these things! MY KID! Soon after, I realized that if we have enough of these things, I could have a back-up band! That's when the tears really started to flow.

Kate and I have been working on outfits for the band:

Most days, I think that I am ready for this baby to arrive, but I don't know the half of it! I am not the one who has to pee a thimble-full every nine minutes, or who hasn't seen her feet while standing on them since summer. And I'm still doing a pretty good job of sleeping through the night. I also haven't started lactating, but I am have been cruising the web for advice on that front. This fellow seems to think that if you dress the part, milk will come:

Anything's worth a shot, I guess. In the birthing class, they said that when the placenta falls out, that triggers lactation. That might be a problem for me...