Today was actually a productive day in terms of preparing for Baby Gottwood. We went to the benefits fair at work (do we know how to have fun or what?). We got lots of great information about how to sign baby up for health insurance, and how to estimate how much to put in our health and childcare savings accounts. We also called a childcare center that was recommended by one of my colleagues. Her little boy is almost 6 now and he started at this center as an infant. He is super-smart and adorable, so hopefully some of that will rub off on the Gottwood baby if we send her to the same place. It also has the benefit of being very flexible in terms of having both full time and hourly care and is very close to campus so if something happens, I'll be able to get there in just a couple of minutes. We're going to visit on Monday to check the place out and then if we like it we can apply to put baby Bagel on the waitlist. The same center has a really good preschool program, so if we end up liking it, Bagel could stay there until kindergarten (well, during the day at least, we'll let her come home after work and weekends) :)
Since we were already on a roll, we also signed up for childbirth classes. Our hospital offers online childbirth classes so we are going to go with that option - it seemed like the best way to fit yet another thing into our busy schedules. After we complete the course we can go to the hospital to tour the birth center and to meet with a nurse.
It seems like there can be an endless list of baby to-dos, but at least we got a couple of biggies checked off today. Bagel with have health care and someone other than the cats to take care of her while we are at work - what more could a baby want?
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