Access Vue Property on ready/computed

I have a Pagination component. For this component, I need to access the 'paginateditems' property on page load to obtain the total pages for the paginator. I try to do this on both ready and created, but each time I get an error that the property is 'undefined'

    props: ['paginateditems'],

    ready: function() {
        console.log(this.paginateditems.total_pages) //returns 'undefined' even though the value is 100... logging (this.paginateditems) returns an object but without data
    },

    computed: {
        currentVisiblePages: function(){
            let totalPages = this.paginateditems.total_pages // this value IS available in the computed property
            let pageRange = this.pageRange

            var pages = []
            for(var i = 0; i < 5; i++){
                if(pageRange[i] <= totalPages){
                    pages.push(pageRange[i])
                }
            }
            return pages
        }
    },

    // Pagination component being called from parent
    <pagination :paginateditems="pagination" :resultsperpage="resultsPerPage" @numpageschanged="numPagesChange" @pagechanged="fetchAllRecords">
        </pagination>