Getting ready for baby
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- October
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When Pumpkin was born three months early, we had in our possession exactly one sundress and one ironic hipster onesie. The future nursery was still a guest room with a futon couch. We hadn’t bought even a rattle. Thanks to the generous help of family and dear friends, we were just about ready when it was time to bring Pumpkin home nine weeks later. But even on the morning we were picking her up from the hospital, I was squeezing a sheet on her cradle mattress while my husband was stocking the changing table with diapers and wipes.
Most women’s pregnancies don’t end early, but many still could use some help getting the nursery ready. Vera Kessler, a Scarsdale mom of 11-month-old Jeremy, was laid low by morning — and afternoon and evening — sickness during her pregnancy. She told me she sometimes went to bed at 4 o’clock. After her baby was born and she quit her job as a gradeschool teacher, Vera got an idea for a new career as a consultant to help expectant parents get their nurseries in shape. Since starting up in July, she’s helped more than two dozen moms with tasks as varied as cleaning and organizing the nursery to setting up custom gift registries to figuring out which baby swing’s rocking motion is most soothing. I wrote about her business, which is called Nursery 101, for today’s paper. You can read my story here. (Above is a picture taken by my colleague Tom Nycz of Vera organizing the closet of mom Sandrine Grab of Mount Kisco, who has a 6-week-old baby at home.)
What did the rest of you moms and dads do when it was time to get ready for baby? Did you find yourself wishing for an extra pair of hands? Would you ever hire a nursery consultant?
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on Saturday, October 6th, 2007 at 8:17 pm by Julie Moran Alterio.
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