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10 tips for making a baby in Brooklyn!

 1. Get on a parents classified and score free stuff and half price items. Park Slope Parents has an annual membership of $50. Lots of stuff being posted for discounts or even free! Know what items you are looking for and then subscribe to their email notifications. You will get a ton of them daily to help be fast and claim items. Delete them when you are done!! Keep that in box clean ;-) 2. Don't make your hospital trip further than necessary. Sure if you have a provider you love, you can head into the city, however do not reccommend if you are do in the middle of winter to pick a city hospital as you might need to weather a snow storm! You'll get as good of care at Brooklyn (methodist is top) or elsewhere.  3. Carriers and strollers. You walk a lot! Unless you live in a walk up, then get a stroller. You WILL use it. Or else your nanny will use it. If you want to be like everyone else, you will end up getting an Uppababy.  4. Get a car seat that can be buckled with a sea...

What are your dreams, hobbies, goals? I'll go first...

 I have to start somewhere. I have so many ideas, sometimes it makes me dizzy. Here is a list to get started with all the things I dream of doing. I have an ongoing list in my phone. I obviously can't accomplish them all at once, and I also mostly will take up the sentiment that I will never really accomplish any of them, however, I can try and make it bite size, and remind myself I have A LOT of life to live. It's easy to live in the "I wish I had" life. I think that often, and I am only 32. So instead of getting to 42, and thinking, "I wish I had at 32"...here I go. To be super frank, this list is below the list of material things I want to buy myself for loosing the 40lbs I gained pregnant. That is always my "default" goal, to get fit. To have a better body. All my life. All my damn life, at least since I was 12 years old??? Shame, what time wasted...but here we go again with that voice. Things I want to accomplish, I wish I had. I decided that ...