Plus, having a smaller than most sized house meant no room for extra fancy stuff, so I passed it all on.
Here's my (needed) list (for our 5th)
# 0000/000 clothing in an unknown gender
Wow, that was huge wasn't it!!
Here's what we've got:
Baby Sling - it is like an essential baby item for us
# Pram
#Infant Carrier (Capsule) (the thing on the top - goes straight into the car)
# Bassinet
# Changing mat to sit on a set of drawers that will hold nappies
# Nappies (Disposables and NB Cloth)
# Wipes
# Clothing in various sizes, but not a lot
# Cot sheets
# Baby Blankets
# Too many toys
# Too many books
# An over-abundance of love, from FIVE other people!
# Avent Breast pump + bottles that I don't plan to need OR use
# Cloth Breast Pads
Product Journey over near 8 years
Over the years I have managed to streamline our actual needs for the newborn baby, we don't REALLY need much at all. Testing many things out there I usually end up giving them away when I have finished with them.
With my last baby I was blessed enough to score a swing chair and a baby bouncer for next to nothing. Both did what was required for their short periods of time before I gave them both away.
I can now look through a 'baby shopping guide' magazine in under 5 minutes and be done, needing nothing, knowing nothing new.
We don't buy
# Baby soaps and shampoo. Soap strips the natural oil from the babies skin, then they need to be moisturized or their skin goes dry. It's a catch isn't it.
# Baby oil. Baby oil is a derivative of petroleum oil. Yeah, Im not so keen to put that onto my baby skin
# Sorbelene Cream, also a derivative of petroleum oil.
# Johnson & Johnson products - they all have nasty chemicals in them
# Cheap bum cream. Doesn't work! We go cornflour or bepathen
# Bonjella. I hear that bonjella is the worst! We use SM33 recomended by several chemists
# Brand new clothing with ticket prices of over $30. Why? Well, we can't afford to spend that much on a single outfit that won't get worn out
# Cot sheets, we've never needed to, ever! And I am always culling out stash
# Fancy baby toys, also never needed to
5 Things I am Thankful for:
1. Having a car with one long seat free for the baby
2. Having everything that we need already - with exception of clothing
3. Not knowing if we are having a girl baby or a boy baby
4. That we've been blessed once again :)
5. That baby capsule! Its so amazing carrying the bub in the carrier rather than waking a baby to go inside and always having a safe place for bub to be AND the part it fits directly into the pram meaning it doesn't need carrying, just pushing
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