a little OCD.

Monday night, Audrey and Ben finished the baby room. It looks like this. While they did that I sewed a ring sling using leftover curtain fabric and rings from slingring.com because OF COURSE there's bound to be a website devoted entirely to selling rings for slings. Duh.

Anyway, you'll note the chaotic stack of fabric on the table there. That would be my cloth diaper stash, or just a small part of it, because the rest is shamefully hidden behind the cabinet doors below. I've somehow taken my bike component OCD brain and temporarily converted it to be about cloth diapers. Right now it's about 48 newborn-sized prefolds, 12 covers, 6 Snappis, and about 50 cloth wipes. Also, a sprayer of diaper potion for the wipes, a hanging wet bag to serve as a diaper pail, plus a large (for daycare) and small (for out and about) wet bag. This should last us till about 6 weeks, when baby outgrows the newborn size and we'll be switching to simpler all-in-one diapers that we'll buy used from my sister. Actually, just about all of these are used.

It's funny, getting OCD about cloth diapers is just like collecting components for a bike build. There are a bagillion options and three times that many ways to make it work-- new or used, high tech or old standby. It's a simple thing to obsess over but it's really quite satisfying to have it all come together like this. It makes me feel... prepared.

And on that note, at our midwife visit last night, we were handed instructions on what to do when I go into labor. It makes this all so real. Any day now. 80% of women birth between 38 and 42 weeks, and 66% birth within 10 days of their due date. Only 5% birth on their due date. Since we have several due dates, this doesn't mean all that much to me, except that I shouldn't be getting too excited, it could be a long wait.