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[bublik64]

"The Mona is Coming, the Mona is Coming!" Items in no particular order

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[aite]

You have to determine your general philosophy about baby stuff. Some people say that it all falls into three general categories: things you buy in advance and use, things you buy in advance and find useless, and things you end up needing to buy later.

[bublik64]

I figured this is stuff we'll be buying in advance. I'm sure we'll need more stuff later and I'm pretty sure this won't be useless. If you have specific stories on why soem item turned out to be useful OR useless please share. Also, as bloguser said... khm.. you know.. if there's stuff you won't need by then, let us know.

[aite]

You can use your favorite backpack as a diaper bag. If you buy a diaper bag, it will probably come with a portable pad. I didn't like mine, but found nice disposable ones by Huggies. I get multiple uses out of each one

[bloguser]

а противогаз?

Next step: run this list by people with available hand-me-downs so they can cross things off.
Step after next: put this in a registry

[aite]

Зачем противогаз? Тебе могут быть актуальны затычки в уши, а могут быть и нет.

[igorlord]

home changing pad -- often comes with chnaging table

[igorlord]

Hm. Add basicracin (sic?) first aid antibiotic to the baby list. It's good for baby scratches and such.

[angerona]

heh, see my response below (probably typed it at the same time you did :) ).

Oh, forgot to tell them that they'll get a diaper bag for free at the hospital, too. And an initial supply of bottles/nipples.

[aite]

We didn't get any bottles/nipples at the hospital, so that must vary.

[angerona]

diaper bag I would say you don't need it -- a regular backpack works just as well. If you do want it, we have a new one (with tags), that you are welcome to. It's not the backpack style though.

home changing pad Do you have a changing table? If you are going to buy one, it'll come with a pad. Don't buy pad covers, we've been using pillow cases, and they work great -- nice material, and much cheaper than $19 per changing pad cover.

portable changing pad Your OB/Hospital will have a free one to give to you (sign up for various "free baby stuff" mailings, and you'll get coupons for free ones)

diaper pail odor free That's useful.

changing table/ dresser w/drawers See above about it coming with the changing pad.

carseat You are welcome to ours. Graco saferide. 2 bases.

baby front/back backpack style carrier You are welcome to our Baby Bjorn (to be retrieved from Zhenya and Anya, where we left it by mistake the last time we were there :) ).

bath/grooming set What do you need it for? The things you need, you'll get for free at

[aite]

Very much agree about nursing bras and Target. I actually got my favorite ones at Walmart.

We didn't find our baby monitor useful, but that says more about the layout of our house than about baby monitors.

We used receiving blankets for swaddling with pretty good success. We bought our favorite type for Mona already :)

[bublik64]

thx for all the advice so far (and the hand-me-downs!) - I'm reworking my spreadsheet currently. Baby registry, here I come!!

[aite]

It's really useful to consider who is going to be using your baby registry. Relatives, co-workers, similar-aged friends?

[bublik64]

pretty much all of them. mostly to make sure we don't get useless stuff.

[aite]

Hmm... First of all, you'll still get useless stuff, but that's ok. If you put too many things on your registry that you only mildly want, you may not get the ones you are hoping to get. By the way, angerona mentioned Target--it also has a registry.