Baby Showers: Delegating the Responsibility for Baby Items
Finding out your pregnant is the best news of all. Well, second to hearing the grand proposal of a lifetime. After a successful wedding ceremony, hearing that your love has borne fruit is the icing on the cake. For first time expecting mothers, it is a difficult and herculean task to search and look for all the right stuff and equipment the baby will need. Moms-to-be need to list down all the things the baby would need at the soonest possible time so that little by little, each item can already be purchased and readied for the baby’s arrival. But there is another easy way to almost have it all, without getting too much headache over it. The solution is to hold a baby shower party! The only headache mom-to-be would have is the menu she would have to prepare on that day and that is easier for her.
Now the burden of searching and looking for baby stuff is passed on to the invitees. But another concern is raised. How will the baby shower go about? The best answer there is, is to have a theme that would guide the flow of the baby shower. There are several ways of choosing and deciding on a theme. Do you want it to be based on color? In case you already know the gender of the baby, pink or blue is used to universally represent a baby girl or a baby boy. Or baby items such as a pacifier or a baby bottle? How about character-themed baby shower such as the Sesame Street, Power Puff Girls, Dexter’s Laboratory or the Looney Tunes? It could also be a time-of-the-day baby shower whereby each invitee is tasked to bring something the baby would need or use during that time of the day.
From www.best-baby-gift-guide dot com, it suggests wonderful baby shower gift ideas such as a baby gift basket, a layette gift set, vital baby equipment, beautiful baby linen, a baby massage set, or a baby gift certificate. Each gift idea is unique. For the baby gift basket, some ideas they suggest is to create your own baby gift basket or go for the classical clothing baby gift basket where you can never go wrong. You can also go for monogrammed baby gift baskets, fun baby basket, mother and baby basket, gift basket for twins, or a pampering baby gift basket. They also have different suggestions for baby girl and baby boys. For the complete descriptions for each item, just visit their website and read on to find fantastic baby gift ideas.
Once the baby shower is finished, take stock of what is already there and not. For those items still missing from your list, make the necessary arrangments to have it readily available once the baby arrives.
Just some last few tips for a successful baby shower: hold it four to six weeks before the due date, establish a theme, write down the guest list, set the tone and size of the baby shower, plan the games, plan the menu, create baby shower party favors, and last but not the least, set the time and location, if it will not be held in your residence. Remember, baby showers are a fun way to welcome the baby that would be coming soon enough.
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What baby items did you find most useful?I am in the middle of trying to register for baby items because EVERYBODY i know is asking about registry items and baby showers for me, SO my question is what were the most useful items you received that you definitely use and are glad you got?
I know people always get some crazy stuff that is totally useless and just gets thrown away or re-gifted. And then there are also the items that you get and don't expect to use but it turns out to be the most useful and amazing thing.
WHAT were your amazing things?
What were your useless items?
thanks!
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If anyone needs baby items for both girls and boys. I have it. I am asking for a very sturdy wooden closet in exchange. Please reply.
Items include: clothes (most never used), shoes, crib with matress never used and still in plastic, baby products, ect.
I agree.
Though you don’t NEED FormulaXpress, you will be glad to have it. Search for it on YouTube.
Important things:
Travel system stroller– do not buy used.
Bassinet– you will want the baby in your room for the first few months. I recommend a Pack n' Play with the bassinet option. That way you can use it as a playpen later.
Changing pad– just put in on the dresser; it's so much cheaper than a changing table.
Crib– to include snug-fitting mattress and sheets. The rest is purely decorative and serves little or no purpose.
Baby monitor– you get what you pay for with these things. I recommend something with over 1000MHz.
Bottles– get at least 10 so you want have to wash them constantly. Get a bottle brush too.
Flannel receiving blankets– you'll use them for everything, so get at least a dozen.
Onesies– Again, at least 10.
Socks– 10-12 pairs
Footed sleepers– 6 or so will do
Little hats– I have no idea why, but people will constantly tell you to cover your baby's head.
Diapers– obviously. Keep at least 20 on hand in the nursery at all times.
Baby wipes– unscented, alcohol free. Otherwise they're pretty much all the same.
Petroleum jelly– for the butt thermometer, to coat the inside of the diaper if you have a circumscised boy, and for little lips when they get chapped from nursing.
Rubbing alcohol– to clean the belly button.
Q-tips– for the belly button
Cotton balls– for every purpose under the sun
Digital thermometer– this goes in the butt. You can buy one that's specifically rectal, but there's really no need. Just don't use it for anything else and clean it with alcohol after each use.
Crib blankets– 4-6 of these. You'll learn to do a nice burrito roll with a crib blanket.
Bibs– 10 or so to use at feedings for inevitable spit up.
Baby tub– they outgrow these so fast that any kind of infant tub will do. I prefer the kind that fit in the kitchen sink.
Baby wash– Johnson's is the standard.
Baby lotion– Again, Johnson's.
Teeny nail clippers– Geber's are good.
Bulb syringe– for booger removal.
Infants' saline nose drops– also for booger removal.
Diaper rash cream– Desitin works best for me.
Diaper pail– just a small trash bin with a lid and foot pedal is fine.
Teeny washcloths– the only thing that can clean between baby's toes. Get at least 6.
Optional but useful things:
Diaper wipe warmer
Swing
Bouncer seat
Crib mobile
Bottle warmer
Microwave sterilizer
Bunting bag– if you live in a cold climate
Sling/front carrier
Scratch mitts– if you're too scared to trim baby's nails at first.
Crib mirror
Swaddling blankets
Adorable hooded towels.
Useless things:
Booties
Diaper Genie and other overpriced, over-hyped diaper disposal systems.
Crib bumper– actually kind of a suffocation hazard.
Gripe water
Changing table– use the pad on the dresser instead
Video baby monitor– don't waste the cash on this.
Tons of silly outfits
Tons of toys– babies can't even hold onto a toy until around 8 weeks and are not really interested in them.
Good luck!
The only item you should really replace for each child is the crib mattress. They have found a higher SIDS rate with second hand mattresses even when passed down between siblings, they aren't sure why but they think its either the flame retardant chemicals breaking down and leeching out or the build up of mold and dust mites.
Car seats can be used again but check the expiry on the label if you aren't going to use it in that time then you may as well pass it on.
Other than that it depends on your ability to store things and your ability to replace them. If buying new isn't a problem then you might want to consider passing on things like swings, exersaucers, etc as they have a tendency to mold in storage
most useful:
swing
swaddlers (the kind that have the velcro and you just wrap around and velcro it, much easier than a blanket and it doesn't come apart like a blanket)
sleepsacks
bouncer
diapers
clothes (but so many people bought us clothes for later, like 6 – 9 month clothes that we barely had any for newborn – we will be happy at 6 – 9 months but it is nice to have some clothes for the beginning!)
baby bathtub
don't bother with:
wipe warmer
scale
changing table (if you have a dresser just get changing pad and put it on top of that)
sterilizer (you only have to sterilize bottles/nipples before you use them for the first time, they don't need to be sterilized before every use)
I don't allow anything or anyone who smokes around me or my family. So I understand. I also have two children and a husband who have extreme allergies, so people who say," get over it", need to understand, that for some of us, we can't! I will tell them the truth. But as nicely as you can. I told people who smoked &/or had pets the truth many times. I can't help health concerns and conditions of my family. And if you're a wee bit shy about just telling them "no". Use the medical ploy.
Evenflo and Graco make some really good quality products. I would highly recommend a travel system (a car seat and stroller combo set) from either one of these brands.
Good luck with TTC!
The only time that works is if the baby's scent is on the clothes. Since the baby's not here yet, waste of time. Might as well put them where the dog can't pee on them. Is your dog neutered? Might help.
Definitely food. Breastfeed and buy organic baby food and baby cereal. Also, try to buy, not necessarily organic, but hypoallergenic laundry detergent, like Dreft. Oh, and another things would be allergy free soaps and shampoos.
i like this video because its all about the essentials. tim reading some of these must have baby lists and im just amazed at some things listed like baby wipe warmer? definitely not a must have. if youre broke and need to know what you really need you appreciate videos like this. thank you.
Waste of money:
* Baby bath – used it about 3 times then used the laundry tub or shared normal bathtub (which is a good bonding time for baby and father)
* Bassinette – used it for about 2 weeks then put my daughter into a cot or in bed with us.
* Pack and play/portacot – Never used it. My daughter just dead set refused to be in it.
* Baby sling – Depending on what type u get, they can be tricky to work or uncomfortable and my daughter just got too heavy for me to carry her in it for long! LoL
* Breast pump – I found it painful to use, thats when the damn thing worked properly and its just overall easier to be near ur child at feed times!
Things u can't live without or cant get enough of (well I couldnt anyways!):
*Nappies – nuff said really!
* Singlets/growsuits – they are one of those tihngs u never seem to have enough of so next time I am going to stock up big time!
*Baby swing/rocker or bouncer – my daughter loved her bouncer. Im talking about those old style ones, really basic and it helped me many times to get of off to sleep!
* Jolly Jumper or similar – as soon as my daughter could hold her own head up she lived in that thing. There are 2 schools of thought, one says its bad for babies hips and legs and the other says it actually strenghtens them for walking. If your interested, ask around and read up to make up ur own mind but personally I found it awesome!
I started looking at items as soon as I found out that I was pregnant — 4 weeks! It is such an exciting time and you feel like you're finally a part of the "club." I picked up a few things, but then about month 7 or 8 is when I started getting the bigger items and making sure things were in order. I like to be prepared…lol. Congrats!