You’ve seen the meme: 

“Sleep when baby sleeps. Fold laundry when baby folds laundry.” 

Ha. So how do we prepare our family, our homes,, and ourselves for a new baby? As a mom of seven, and 3 months postpartum from my latest addition... this is a topic that is fresh in my mind. In the past, I would get very focused on the labor and birth, then neglect the post-pregnancy planning. These were the times it always seemed there was a bill that ended up being paid late, meltdowns from both the kids and ME at meal-prep times, and an aching back that would nag and nag. I was not a very happy person, or fun to be around. The postpartum brain fuzz and chaos was overwhelming. So this time, I came up with a plan.