The next part of an occa\u00adsion\u00adal series on what we found to be use\u00adful with a baby. I\u2019ve noticed a few people com\u00ading to this site with searches on baby stuff, so here\u2019s some more!<\/p>\n
Stand\u00adard lists for what you need for a baby always seem a little too pre\u00adscript\u00adive to me; \u201cthou shalt have 6 sleep\u00aders and 4 bottles and .\u2026\u201d I\u2019m not going to give num\u00adbers for the simple reas\u00adon that it all depends on your baby and how you do things. If you do laun\u00addry every day, you don\u2019t need as many clothes, unless your baby spits up a lot, in which case you need as many as you can get. Etc.<\/p>\n
So what do you need? <\/p>\n
Some\u00adwhere for the baby to sleep. To start with, this can be a nice bassin\u00adet, or a card\u00adboard box, the baby won\u2019t really care. I\u2019ve heard that car seats aren\u2019t good for their heads if they sleep in them all the time, but if that\u2019s where your baby is happy, I would\u00adn\u2019t worry about it too much. Even\u00adtu\u00adally they need a crib or cot that\u2019s big\u00adger and stronger and that they can\u00ad\u2019t roll out of, but that can wait until they\u2019re two or three months old. We always had the baby sleep in our room to start with as well, for the simple reas\u00adon that it\u2019s easi\u00ader to get up and change them, feed them, and put them back down, if they\u2019re close by. Also, I found that I woke up quite quickly and could feed the baby without it really wak\u00ading up prop\u00aderly, so it ten\u00added to go back to sleep read\u00adily after eat\u00ading. This may just be because both our babies were good sleep\u00aders, of course, but Penelope Leach\u2019s book<\/a> also seems to think there\u2019s some\u00adthing to this the\u00adory of get\u00adting them up when they just start cry\u00ading so they don\u2019t get too upset. Once they\u2019re older, things are dif\u00adfer\u00adent as they can last longer without food, but it seems to work for the little babies.<\/p>\n Some clothes for the baby: com\u00adfort\u00adable ones to sleep in, and maybe some\u00adthing that looks a little nicer to go out and be shown off in. People often give you clothes, in huge quant\u00adit\u00adies, which come in really handy when your baby spits up a lot (see above) or you don\u2019t have time to do laun\u00addry every day.<\/p>\n Receiv\u00ading blankets, which are basic\u00adally pieces of soft cloth such as flannelette that vary in size, any\u00adwhere from about 24\u2033 x 24\u2033 (65cm x 65cm) to 36\u2033 x 36\u2033 (1m x 1m) or so; they can be square or rect\u00adan\u00adgu\u00adlar. These are really use\u00adful, for swad\u00addling tiny babies (our first child loved this, our second did\u00adn\u2019t), as light blankets, as spit-up or burp clothes (the things labelled \u201cburp clothes\u201d in most stores are too small to be use\u00adful for any\u00adthing oth\u00ader than night-time nurs\u00ading pads), as change pads, as make\u00adshift bibs, as sun screens, as mats in the bath, as wash\u00adcloths, and as clothes if you\u2019re really des\u00adper\u00adate and everything else is dirty or wet. They have the added bonus of being use\u00adful after\u00adwards, unlike a lot of baby appar\u00adat\u00adus \u2014 they\u2019re great for wash\u00ading win\u00addows, dust\u00ading and pol\u00adish\u00ading fur\u00adniture, apply\u00ading stain, or any\u00adwhere else you need a soft, lint-free cloth. And believe me, they will be lint-free by the time the baby has out\u00adgrown need\u00ading them with being washed so often.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re bottle-feed\u00ading, you\u2019ll need that appar\u00adat\u00adus. Ours did\u00adn\u2019t take bottles, so I have no idea what is use\u00adful for bottle-feeding.<\/p>\n We nev\u00ader used baby powder (could\u00adn\u2019t see the point) or pacifiers\/dummies (first child spat it out across the room, nev\u00ader needed to try with the second). <\/p>\n Com\u00ading in a future post: thoughts on slings\/baby car\u00adri\u00aders, baby mon\u00adit\u00adors, pumps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The next part of an occa\u00adsion\u00adal series on what we found to be use\u00adful with a baby. I\u2019ve noticed a few people com\u00ading to this site with searches on baby stuff, so here\u2019s some more! Stand\u00adard lists for what you need for a baby always seem a little too pre\u00adscript\u00adive to me; \u201cthou shalt have 6 \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cUse\u00adful Things for Babies\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}