A New Baby List – My Top Ten Baby Gear Essentials
If you’re a first time mom or mom to be, you are probably feeling a little overwhelmed by all those “great baby products” out there.
What you need is the advice of a mom who’s been there, done that, and is now sitting with boxes of unused baby stuff!
Baby goodies are expensive, so before you go on your shopping spree, take a look at my new baby list to find out which products will give you the most value for money.
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1. An Infant Car Seat
My absolute number one essential baby item – don’t put baby in a car without it!
2. A Nursery Rocking Chair or Glider
Essential for maximizing mom and baby bonding time. Your nursery rocking chair is the place where you will spend countless hours of snuggle time. Not to be missed!
3. An Infant Health Book
There’s nothing worse than having a sick baby and not knowing what to do. You don’t want to call the doctor in the middle of the night, but you’re not sure if you should wait until morning.
A good baby health book will help you to relax and determine the best course of action – put baby back to bed, or rush her off to the emergency room.
4. A Sound And Movement Monitor
Having a sound monitor in your nursery room enables you to move around the home while still being able to monitor baby wherever he is. No need to worry that you won’t hear him when he wakes.
Movement, or apnea monitors check baby’s breathing. An alarm goes off if baby does not inhale for an extended period — usually twenty seconds. Often cited as a preventative measure against SIDS, these monitors do not necessarily prevent SIDS, but they do provide peace of mind. If all is quiet, you know baby’s OK.
5. Infant Sleeping Bags
Lots of blankets can be dangerous for baby. They can lead to overheating and suffocation. Besides that, from around five months, babies have an annoying habit of kicking them off in the middle of the night, and waking up freezing cold. Guess who else gets woken up?
Sleeping bags are the perfect solution in winter when your baby’s jammies may not be enough to keep her warm.
6. A Baby Swing
A baby swing is a must-have for soothing a fussy baby. They just love the to and fro rocking motion. Swings also make great baby sitters while you indulge in the luxury of a shower or a meal without a baby on your hip.
7. A Nursing Pillow
This is a wonderful invention, whether you are breast or bottle-feeding. Even dad can use it! The nursing pillow elevates baby to the correct feeding position, thereby eliminating back and neck ache and preventing sore nipples.
8. Burping Cloths
Take a couple of these with you everywhere you go with baby. Indispensable for keeping your shoulders clean and wiping up spills and spills and spills…
9. A Baby Sling Or Pouch
This is useful for keeping your young baby close to you while you are getting a few things done around the house. Does folding the laundry sound familiar?
Young babies don’t sleep for very long at a time in the beginning and when they’re not sleeping they like to be held. To have any hope of keeping your home in a livable state – you have to have a pouch!
Baby pouches are also a wonderful help if you have a colicky baby. The warmth of your body against her little tummy is very soothing and calming.
10. A Wheat Bag
I found an unexpected use for this little goody with my new baby. The warmth of a wheat bag on a sore little tummy beats every colic remedy on the market hands down. It soothes, relaxes and comforts.
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Help answer the question about baby gear
Does anyone know where to find Pink and Black Baby Gear?I don't like to be original, so I decided against brown and pink. It took me a while, but I finally found a nursery collection that was pink and black. The store that I am planning on getting it from only sells bedding though, and every where I look the gear is just pink or pink and brown so if you happen to find both Id really appreciate it.
About Author
Author Helen Burroughs is stay at home mom to three precious little girls. Visit her website below for a complete baby layette list and advice on how to create a beautiful baby nursery.
damn dude calm down y dont u worship the sun for all i care
back @ emeranik
and yet the baby is STILL alive
can’t fit under the track my eye.
My breasts are essential.
Also, I have a Graco MetroLite stroller that I love.
I'd hang on to the items. Baby items dont go out of style that quick. Just make sure all the toys and crib, high chair still meet the safety standards.
All that can be very expensive to buy. And with prices going up on everything, you can save alot of money if you keep it till you know for sure.
Im going to hang on to all of my sons stuff. I will part with some outfits.. and maybe some toys… but im going to keep the majority of it… till i know i dont want anymore kids.
Best of luck
so a kid almost dies and all you can do is argue about God
I can just imagine that kid when he’s older.
“Hey babe, i’m indestuctable. I was ran over my a train and yeah, I’m still here..”
Okay. Either that or he’ll be terrified of trains. Depends on the personality.
..Why’s everyone arguing? There’s no point, Can’t we just be happy for the Mom whether you believe in God or not? ^^’
like the other person said, i bought a monitor thinking id need one, but monitor or no monitor, i can hear that kid crying from a mile away! this ones kind of small, but the nose bulb, my son cries bloody murder when i use it on him, so that had to go. my sling, never got baby to fit in a comfortable position, that also had to go…and my pack and play was a huge waste of money. so far. but hes only 3 months so maybe hell use it eventually
damn. good thing God didn’t take his life
you’re so fucked… tens of thousands of kids die each day. keep worshiping your pathetic and cruel god.
So glad the baby survived
One Step Ahead is definitely a great one for baby gear. They have some really neat stuff that you can't find other places. I think you will find that if you get on the mailing list for one of the catalogs, you will get several others that are similar.
The ABC catalog has some toys in it pretty cheap and sometimes they are older, wooden style toys.
As for clothes, a great website is BabyThreads Resale. They have new and used clothes at great prices!
I have a second hand one so it was free *lol*. My son loved it until he outgrew it. Even now it is in front of his crib and sometimes the lights and music put him to sleep.
Considering the hard use mine went through and still works perfectly and looks new, I would say that half the retail value would be fair, though I would try to pay less
(BTW The fabric is VERY easy to clean! It slips right off!)
Also you might want to buy some rechargeable D batteries as all the kids toys seem to take that size.
A Baby Bjorn. Don't accept any imitations, they're the best. I didn't have one with my first child and I wished so badly that I did that for my second child (due in a couple weeks) I told my husband it was the one thing I wanted for this baby. I bought it months ago and it's sitting in the closet waiting for this baby to come.
And if your wife is planning to breastfeed, freezer storage bags for breastmilk are a MUST if she ever wants to get away (and it's healthy to), or if she gets sick. Have her stock the freezer and you'll always have it as a security. If you want to take your wife on a date and leave baby with the sitter, or if your wife gets sick and her milk supply drops, you have the comfort of knowing your baby is still getting the best nutrition possible. Of course, having freezer bags first requires a good breast pump.
Probably would…but..please don’t. ^_^”’
@FCSRaymond lol the troller cant be fit under the track. and the whole thing got pushed for some 30metres.
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I'd say get a travel system stroller/car seat set that way you have everything you need through toddler age.
As for a highchair, they make some that fold down to a very slim size, but I think folding and unfolding it every time would be a pain. They make the kind that strap into a normal dining room chair and they're smaller. Also, if you don't want to get a highchair right away you can just feed the baby in the car seat until he's too big for it.
If he's not going to sleep in your bed, I would opt for a pack n play sleep system. They're much smaller (and cheaper) than cribs and can double as a play pen and travel bed. Some even have a built in fold away changing table. Very handy.
As far as a changing table goes, you could just use the top of a dresser you already have in your home.
That's really all you NEED. If you want a swing, choose a table top travel swing so its small enough to put into the closet when you're not using it. If you're interested in a place to store the baby's clothes separate from your own dresser, get one of those hanging sweater shelves that hang in your closet. The slots are definitely big enough for baby's clothes and blankets and they run fairly cheap at target. Good luck!