Hi
Baby Talk radio Listeners this is Renee Canham with
http://www.monkeybums.com. As I was preparing for my first baby I was
out shopping with my mom and I had this crazy question – do I really need
all this stuff?
Well
we bought all the regular stuff that seemed like you need with a baby and
luckily I got some hand me downs, a hand me down crib and things like that
and our house was full equipped. After my son was born I realized that we
weren’t going to use pretty much most of it. The first thing to go as I’ve
heard a lot of people say was the little disposable diaper carrier – I don’t
even know what it was called – because we switched from disposable diapers
to cloth diapers really quickly and we loved our cloth diapers.
The
second thing that we realized that we weren’t going to use at all was our
crib because our son slept with us and practiced a family bed and we still
practice the family bed. We’ve never used a crib ever. I know some people
that practice family bed use a crib for like naptimes and things like that
but we have never used a crib ever and we have three kids.
The
next thing to go was any bottles or any bottle related items, they went
within in the first month because as we realized breast feeding was the way
to go. We weren’t even interested in bottle feeding at all. And I know
some working moms who might need that but we slowly breast fed our kids and
it made it much cheaper.
We got
rid of our changing table right away, the bed worked much better or changing
on the floor was much easier too, no chance of rolling off a bed so the
changing table went. We got rid of our stroller relatively quickly because
our baby was so small and we had this big huge stroller system and it just
didn’t seem like it was going to work for us. We got rid of our little baby
bath, the sink worked really well.
There
were some things that we absolutely needed – I needed a baby swing. If I
wasn’t going to be using a stroller I needed a way to carry my baby and the
baby sling worked perfect. I loved my boppy pillow – I used my boppy pillow
for breastfeeding, I used a boppy pillow for lying in, as my baby got older
they learned to sit in it, I loved my boppy pillow.
I
needed baby clothes, I needed diapers – we used cloth diapers which I loved,
I needed a diaper bag to carry it all in. And those were the things that I
absolutely needed. Everyone has things they are going to need but before
you go out and buy everything you might want to wait a little bit or wait
until your baby is born, get what you absolutely think is necessary and then
kind of wait on it. You may be surprised that you need a lot less than you
think!
