Recently I was e-mailing with a very good friend of mine lamenting about how I cannot prepare or practice for what it is going to be like with a new baby in the house...here is the advice she gave me:
"Of course you can prepare! Here's all you need to do to practice:
Eat pudding only with the opposite hand you usually rely on while holding a water balloon and swaying back and forth, cooing in between bites.
You already get up a zillion times/night to pee, so you're already prepping to replace those with feedings or to just check on her to verify she's doing all right.
Carry 7 different bags, containers, coats, water bottles, etc so every arm/hand/neck is filled, then, when you can't carry anything else, add in that water balloon and then set everything down to run back to the kitchen to get whatever 10 things you forgot.
Begin going to the store with a burp rag on your shoulder b/c there's a good chance you'll forget to remove it more than once.
Breastfeeding? Squeeze your nipples with a wrench every few hours for a few seconds then spray your chest with water to prep for those moments when you realize you've forgotten to place a liner in your bra.
There are lots more but this should give you a mini-boot camp. :-)
Oh, and find something you love more than anything in the world then imagine loving it a trillion times more every time you think, hear or look at it!"
This is brilliant!
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