To ask what you wish you had done?

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My DP and I are planning on starting to try for our first baby in about a month's time.

AIBU to ask what you wish you had done before trying to conceive? Fun and serious suggestions are welcomed!

Just enjoy every second of freedom. Go out a LOT, sleep in at the weekend, go on holidays.

Or, do none of the above in preparation for not being able to do them once a baby arrives!

Did a couple more big holidays, had more nights out, gone to the gym more so I was fitter less chubby for my pregnancy.

Weirdly, spend time with people with babies - we didn’t really know many and it was a complete and utter shock - we got one that didn’t sleep at all as I only knew my perfect nieces I spent the first three years of my sons life wracked with hideous guilt that his inability to sleep was because of my parenting choices. Then I had another baby who sleeps and I know it’s not my fault! Whoop! If I had spent time actually observing other babies I’d have been in a better place I think!

Travelled more
Pub lunches
Sleep
I love mine thank god I have them worry I had them too young.

Wore a bikini. Like every day!

Appreciated my flat tummy....

Gone out more

Travelled more

Got fitter

Kept a journal of my pregnancy

Wish I’d met my DH when we were younger ,

We were late 30s when we met , we married 6 months later and I conceived a honeymoon baby ( thought it would take ages ! )

So I wish we’d had more time to be a couple , and do the going for dinner , the cinema , weekends away
We can now , the DC are both grown up and we have time to ourselves at last 👍

Established a career. Childcare and the cost of re-training don’t match.

Built up a good quality staples wardrobe of clothes to really feel good about. Then arranged and stuck to a gym schedule like glue to help slip back into going to the gym postpartum.

Weekends away and definitely having that "one more drink." Meeting up with friends, leisurely breakfasts, binge watching entire series over the weekend.

Decluttered the house - I have a 5 month old fast approaching being on the move and a house full of dangers!

Sunday papers in bed.

Cinema.

The one thing I wasn’t prepared for was havin to make major plans to go to the cinema when they were babies. Or to 15/18 films for many years.

More European City Breaks

More all day drinking sessions

Saved more money

Lost more weight before getting pregnant

Big yes to decluttering the house!

Worked abroad - always intended to but never got round to it and much more difficult with small children just because of all the stuff you need