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<\/a><\/p>\nWhat I plan to do the same:<\/strong><\/p>\n Baby girl will sleep in our room.<\/span> At least in the beginning. We have a Moses basket and stand that will stay beside our bed to help make nighttime feedings more convenient and so I can intently watch every breath she takes because I\u2019m a nervous nelly like that. We moved Hailey to the nursery at 3 months and I bawled my eyes out, only to fine we all slept better than ever. So depending on how things go, baby girl might make that transition sooner.<\/p>\n We will swaddle.<\/span> I\u2019m not sure if you are aware, but David is the swaddle master. Even the nurses at the hospital commented on his mad skills last time. I contribute a lot of Hailey\u2019s good sleep habits starting early on to the swaddle and will keep my fingers crossed that it works for us again.<\/p>\n I will exclusively breastfeed.<\/span> Hopefully the beginning isn\u2019t as painful as it was with Hailey now that I have more experience, but overall nursing worked out so well for us until we weaned at 14 months. I really hope and look forward to having a similar experience with baby girl.<\/p>\n We will use disposable diapers.<\/span> We are stocked up on 7th Generation diapers and will most likely stay that route. It\u2019s what works best for our family.<\/p>\n Baby led weaning<\/span>. Introducing Hailey to solids using the BLW method<\/a> was one of the highlights of her first year for me. It\u2019s really worked out so well for us and I credit the method at least partially to Hailey\u2019s good eating habits. I\u2019m keeping my fingers crossed that baby girl will take to it and be a great eater, too, but if not, I\u2019ll have a whole new perspective from which to write Munchkin Meals<\/a> from!<\/p>\n What I plan to do differently:<\/strong><\/p>\n Introduce a bottle more consistently<\/span>. Once we got the hang of nursing, it was so easy that I never wanted to pump and use a bottle. (To those that pump consistently and often- you are my heroes!) I did a few times to let David feed her, but because I lacked consistency, Hailey never took to bottles all that well. It limited the time I was able to be away from her until she was eating more solids, which was OK, but I think I\u2019d like to have the bottle be an option this time and snag an occasional night out with my handsome husband.<\/p>\n More baby wearing<\/span>. I had the k\u2019tan when Hailey was born and it worked really well when she was tiny, but I felt she outgrew it by 2 months or so. Then we had the Bjorn, which never worked well for me. We used it occasionally, but it hurt my back and just felt awkward, so I relied more on the stroller. We ended up buying an Ergo <\/a>when Hailey was close to a year old and fell in LOVE. Seriously, I love that thing and I wore Hailey through her turning 2 years old. I now have the infant insert and can not wait to wear baby girl, especially since I\u2019ll be doing my best to keep up with her big sister.<\/p>\n Not stressing about milestones<\/span>. I actually never worried too<\/em> much about this the first time around, but when you are surrounded by other babies, conversations arise about when junior did XYZ. We have friends that walked at 7 months and others not until 17 months. Some were chatty starting at 9 months and others barely said a word until age 2. At the old age of 2.5, I realize that they are all close to being on the same page. As clich\u00e9 as it sounds, I believe all kiddos do develop at their own rate and worrying won\u2019t get you anything but a few more face wrinkles.<\/p>\n Take more real videos.<\/span> I took a lot of little video clips on my iphone when Hailey was a baby, but when David transferred those to DVD, I found that 10 seconds of this and 20 seconds of that was not very easy to watch. I plan to keep our real video camera out more to capture more of life\u2019s moments. I want to remember baby girl\u2019s sounds, grunts and silly faces forever.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n