The Longest Shortest Time

Winner of Unglamorous Things

Last week we tried our first giveaway, and we were blown away to see your enthusiastic response. Over 100 of you entered the contest, sharing stories of your most necessary-but-not-glamorous items in early motherhood. Your comments about painkillers, stool softener, tangerines, ponytail holders, and size H bras kept me laughing and nodding in agreement throughout the week. One of my favorite entries came from a very pregnant Jen, who wrote about her homemade pee jar:

Since I had to get up about 7 times a night, and the bathroom was down our twisty sharp edged stairs, I started using a large jar like a chamber pot. I thought this was the greatest thing ever until disaster struck one morning when the lid was not screwed on right and it tipped spilling pee far and wide. Luckily I had a towel handy and it seemed to do the trick so I went downstairs to start breakfast. Moments later I heard drip drip from the living room. Upon investigation I discovered that pee had escaped under the wall and was now making its way down through the floor and out the smoke detector! Terrified my pee would start an electrical fire I called my husband to ask which breaker to switch. Thankfully he gave me the heads up that I was on speaker phone so I didn’t end up humiliating myself any further. I considerer this experience an introduction to dealing with excessive amounts of body fluids.

Ah, yes. Body fluids. Which brings us to the winner of our giveaway.

Processed with VSCOcam with g3 presetThat’s right, tissues. Tessa, our bundle recipient, wrote about her never-ending need for them:

I’m due in April this year so thus far have not realised my most needed item as a Mum (note the spelling of Mum, I’m from NZ where I’ve been spreading the word about this podcast). But I have found having tissues with me as a hormonal pregnant woman to be an absolute must. Not only have I discovered that I cry at everything, but the occasional unexpected nose bleed (no one talks about these things!) has meant I can’t really leave the house without them. I have a box in the car, a small package in my purse, and various stashes around the house. A particularly important one is by the tv for any (and frequent) TV shows which make me cry.

Tessa, we hope your love affair with tissues continues because you will still need a steady supply of them once your baby is here. Not only for hormonal issues and the inevitable mess of bodily fluids. But for when that kiddo gets sick. Which mine is right now. And let me tell you, there are tissues All. Over. The. Place.

If you are not Tessa, but you are dying to have the care package we created with A Little Bundle, or give one as a gift, you can buy it here. Hurry, Annie only made 11 of them!

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