Ideas please!!

[twins123]

I start my maternity leave after next Friday, My babies are due to arrive in February so I am just after some ideas of things to do to keep me occupied in the month of January! My partner will be working, we live about 50 or so minutes away from the city in a little country town, so there isn't alot to do!
I don't think I will feel like travelling down to town veyr often unless I have to for things like my doctors appointments and scans.

So if anyone has any ideas of things I could do, I would appreciate hearing them! I had yesterday off and found it quite boring. There is never anything on tv during the day, there is only so much cleaning and tidying I can tolerate and well there isn't much else to be done around the house before the bubs arrival, apart from pack my hospital bags, which won't take long at all to do!

I have some scrapbooking that I would like to start, but I get sick of that after awhile! I'm not a real crafty person!!

Any ideas would be muchly appreciate :)
I look forward to hearing them!!

[lala77]

When I started maternity leave I got a bunch of TV series on DVD... Was a great way to kill time!! You can buy whole seasons pretty cheap on Ebay if you look around!!

Go & treat yourself to a movie when you are in town for appointments etc - it'll be the last time you can go to the movies guilt free!! Plus it's cheap air con over summer!!

Good luck with the last few months!! Put your feet up & relax!! :yes:

[TripleTime]

Rest & be lazy, watch movies & TV series.

You'll be surprised how much you actually do without realising. Enjoy your last few quiet months before the crazyness begins.

[Bubs4Me]

I thought I'd get bored but I always found something to do. Most of the time it was sleeping!! I got soooooo soooooo tired towards the end.
If you are anything like me you'll be at the hospital 2-3 times a week!!

[bgbgbb]

When I was laid up with my twins we gor Foxtel/Austar IQ, the type you can tape the programs you like if you fall asleep! I got addicted to the health channel (which actually has some great tips for new mums) and watched lots of movies. It really kept me sane. I also knitted my boys a jumper (just 1 jumper, didn't get time to do the second).

[waterlily]

Not a multiples mum sorry! but I made:
Softies (very cute and easy soft toys)
Burp clothes
Blankies
Bibs ect
None are hard at all and very rewarding :D
I did also sit on my but and watch alot of tv ;) hehe

[shirleysmum]

Hi Twins123

I'm also finishing up (other than for a few days in January) next Friday, and due early March, so I really appreciate your thread. I'm planning on making heaps of dinners that I can freeze, and doing alot of the other things previous ladies have mentioned.

Good Luck!

[twins123]

Thanks everyone for all your ideas!
I like the idea about making meals that you are able to freeze, and might just do that myself!
Although my partner is quite fussy and probably won't eat them, but if he doesn't like them he will just have to cook his own meals! I've already told him to come home from work and expect meals ready on the table every night, cause most nights there won't be. lol
I have been worrying about the weather and it being too hot to do anything, but we haven't had much of a summer here so far so it might not be as hot as I was expecting it to be, which will be good!

[macca27975]

I agree with the cooking, cook and freeze as much as you can. My twins came 8 weeks early and I was just in the middle of cleaning their room and washing all the towels and clothes and everything all I can say the day my waters broke my house was a mess and nothing was frozen as I only finished work 3 days before and with the twins being in hospital for 6 weeks we were eating alot of crap so cook up a storm.

Also rest keep those feet up as much as you can watch all the movies you love and get your fix on what ever programs you love cause once bubs are born the first few months those things will never happen.

Have friends pop over and catch up and ask as many family and friends for there help maybe even think about a to do list and put in on the fridge for all to see so when people come over and they ask how can they help you can show them the list and they can go crazy with it.

Start a scrap book for the babies or a birth journey so it can be a keep sack for them so they know what you did before they were born and when or if you get time after they arrive you can up date it and keep a diary of your journey for you and the kids later.

Enjoy time with your partner, have chats watch movies relax together cause once bubs are born you guys as a couple will change yes for the better but they things you enjoy now will be less and you will now be a family so make time now and later you you both

Dont worry about the birth and after when you get home, you will find you will be AOK it will be crazy but it is funny how well you really do handle things and how you adjust to lack of sleep but remember dont try and do it all on your own ask for help and say yes please when someone offers it really is a blessing and even if someone asks to baby sit so you can go out and get shop or get your hair done say yes please.

Dont stress to much about breastfeeding feeding one is hard enough two is even harder if you can wonderful but if you can't that is OK too formula is just as good and so much easier try and express and alternate feeds between boobs and formula if need be. There is always another way and dont be to hard on yourself being a parent is hard enough but being a multiple parent adds a little more

Listen to you dont worry about what other people say take on what you will find useful and that is about it let the rest just float away and if in need there are plenty of knowledge right here and the ladies here are wonderful and so supportive

All the best and enjoy it really is a wonderful experience

[Yummy_Mummy]

start a scrapbook of your pregnancy journey with your babies? then you can continue it later on?

[happychild]

ENJOY YOUR LAST FEW MONTHS and RELAX!!! hehe

I'm due in early March too! but i have a toddler so unfortunately i cant enjoy these last few months like you!!!

But if you're actually itching to do something...here are the things i did last time (though i only had one bub)

Catch up with friends!!! (it's rare once the baby comes)
make something for them! You may be like me and not very good with needlework..so i actually bought a few small square convases and painted "A" "B" and "C" to decorate my bub's nursery...hopei get time to do it this time round...
sleep in!
read books on baby care....
go on a babymoon! doenst have to be far..but agree that you should spend asmuch time with hubby as a couple as you can!
hope you enjoy your time!