So people who know me well will recognize this tendency; Scott and I checked into a hotel, and had a weekend Baby Feasibility Summit. Yep. We actually packed our bags, headed out of town, and spent two whole days doing nothing but discussing whether or not this baby thing is going to happen.
The agenda first included lots of discussion about our own thoughts and feelings. Things like deciding on the best time for the baby to be born, what kind of birth I would like to have, which room would work best for a nursery, division of labor for infancy, toddler years and beyond, potential weekend activities, fears, hopes, and working out time for us together and ourselves individually.
The other part of the summit included lots of research. We read a couple of books on infants and bringing a baby home beforehand, requested maternity leave info from both of our employers and how much time we could take off at first, checked out the cost of baby gear and what exactly we would need, researched health information for ourselves, and carved out a budget.
While this may seem like a production for having a simple discussion, I say we did the same thing other couples who are planning for a baby do, except we had all of our discussions over a weekend instead of over several weeks. Plus we'd made a deal when we were 20 that we would have a discussion just like this one at 30. We were almost a year late!
In the end we made some decisions and left answering the question: Can we do it? Yes we can!
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