h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

My bag:

The shortie PJs Donna gave me
flip flops
toiletries (comb, toothbrush, toothpaste, shampoo, body wash)
big loose shorts and h2g2 t-shirt

couple of books
socks (don't think I'll need them, but everything I've read said chills are normal during labor, and I'd rather have them and not need them than vice-versa)
CDs (though I can't find my favorite one)
Discman (though I can't find the headphones, so missing a CD doesn't really matter, does it?)
breast pads
hot/cold pack
address book
phone card
Kaiser card
digital camera (not the mystery one, as I've not got it and the computer talking yet)
film camera (Tom finally found it! I knew it was in the house somewhere...)
paperwork for NDI (so that work will cover my medical expenses for 6 weeks, before we have to take over)

PaperBaby's bag--

a couple different choices for coming-home outfits
diapers
receiving blanket
wipes
burp rags

do not forget yourself and Tom

We won't fit in either my backpack or the diaperbag

a light massage cream so you can have your feet massaged if its a long one, will help relax you as well?

That's an idea, if I can find one I like the scent of... (or I could throw in the lotion I've been using on my belly, but it's a bit strongly scented for my liking, although it soaks in great. It doesn't close very well, either...)

baby lotion?, you will soon be using the stuff constantly, you may as well get used to the smell!!

Oh, I know! I've got to go to the bank during lunch anyway, and the farmer's market is across the street from the bank today, and I can see if that guy with the lavendar is there, and see if he has any cream...

calming lavender - good idea!

loads and loads of and for the upcoming arrival and for you too!!

Well, at the childbirth class, it was suggested that if we take a lotion or creme in for massage, that we choose something unscented or lightly scented, because nausea is fairly common during labor...

Stupid phones, ringing in the middle of posting

You've been using a lotion on your belly?

I heard about a lady whose husband and father were two of the meanest people she had ever met. She didn't want her child to be like that so she went to an herbalist and asked what she could do to prevent it.

The herbalist gave her a cream and told her to rub it on her belly while she said, "Nice baby" over and over.

She did that, several times a day, every day for several months. Then she got more cream and continued in the same way for even longer.

After 9 months, she was enormous but she did not give birth. Still she used the cream.

After 2 more years, it was clear that the baby was still alive and growing but she would not allow surgical intervention and she kept using the cream and saying, "Nice baby".

Finally, after 18 years and weighing some 500 pounds the lady died, but all that time she had been saying, "Nice baby" and rubbing the cream on her now utterly enormous belly.

Since there was still ample evidence that the baby was alive, surgery was performed on her dead body and her womb was oppen up. There, to the surprise of all the medical staff were two 18 year old, perfectly formed and properly grown boys.

They were standing at the entrance to the womb repeating each to the other, over and over again, "After you. Oh, no. After you."

I'm sure Paperbaby will be a nice baby, too.

Barton

Luckily, all I've been using the lotion for is to try to stave off itchiness, because I'm not used to dry skin (I'm a little greaseball, I am!)

Camomille cream will come in handy if paperbaby chews you up a bit

I can get lanolin there

Didn't see any lavendar, and this nectarine isn't as soft as I like 'em...

oh! some advice: do not order cab you will get paperbaby in the cab
atleast that happens always in the movies

I've already been told not to give birth here at w*rk

better camp outside hospital.....


a new business opertunity: a camping near a hospital

There ya go... a start-up business for you.

Amy, are you still waiting around? Or did you go last night?

I answered in PaperBaby's journal, but methinks I'd better do a new journal today here, as soon as I clear the backlog

Been there, saw that now...