Comments on: 10 (OK, 9) Things You Really Don’t Need For Baby

By: Melanie

Melanie — Fri, 17 May 2013 00:51:54 +0000

Hah! I love this post. Love it. All of it. I was given a baby bathtub, though, and I did like using it. The cleanliness level of our new-parent sink wasn’t high enough for me to want to put my baby in it. But the whole baby-screaming-because-of-water-being-poured-on-her-head is so true, no matter where you’re bathing your baby!

By: dandyli0n

dandyli0n — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:15:49 +0000

i about cried a million times reading this! i’m not a mom, but i’m an avid, over-involved aunty, and i lived with my sister and nephew so i was basically playing daddy. hilarious. all of it. and so much is true!

let’s add baby hats/headbands.. not unless you want them snatching out a patch of hair, also. and they get to grow up to be called “baldilocks”

By: clp79

clp79 — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:38:41 +0000

So much of this is true but so many new mothers will ignore what previous mothers have learned and still buy all of the unnecessary crap. MY SIL is having her baby shower this weekend and the only thing I bought her off of her registry is the diaper bag she wanted. I then bought her shampoo, body wash, lotion, cornstarch powder and a nail clipper because I know that is stuff she will actually use. Oh and I also got her a breathable baby blanket. My youngest has one and it is his favorite blanket. I wanted to tell her that so much of what she had on her registry will hardly ever get used but hey we have all been there and there was no telling me not to buy something back when I was having my first.

By: cami

cami — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:33:40 +0000

if you’re concerned about your newborn being hot or cold, just put him/her skin to skin with mama. mama’s body has this really insanely cool mechanism that knows to cool a hot newborn and warm a cold one to the right temperature. look it up. we are amazing, us mamas. this stops working after the first month or two (when they can start to stabilize their own body temp) as any mom sweating with her older baby sleeping on her can attest.

By: cami

cami — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:31:26 +0000

omg, if there is anything i can tell a new or expectant parent to make their life easier – do not get sleepers with snaps!!! they are such a huge pain. i don’t even know why they sell them!! and it can sometimes be hard to find the zipper ones, but it is worth the search. we pretty much never put our lo in any of his snap up sleepers (gifts, we didn’t buy them), especially now that he is squirmy and really strong – hard enough getting him in his jammies as it is.

By: vimbai

vimbai — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:31:10 +0000

after reading this blog, i just love being an African

By: cami

cami — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:28:59 +0000

i keep trying to tell my husband to change the baby on the floor now (we still have a changing table and baby is 7 months). i’m convinced he’s not going to move to the floor until the baby rolls off the table!

By: cami

cami — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:27:29 +0000

wipes warmer is pretty dumb, imho. first of all, they dry them out (silly things), then as others have noted here, they make a perfect environment for the growth of bacteria. just what you want. my baby has never had one, and has never seemed to have a difficult time with room temperature wipes.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:17:50 +0000

This was GREAT! Everything on here I never did BUT buy an infant tub. It aloud me to sit and wash her when I had trouble standing. Never bought infant shoes, what’s the point they DO NOT walk! Expensive clothes? HA NO, I went to a yard sale or thrift store and bought name brand for a quarter of the price. Wipes warmer? Are you kidding? That’s a joke. I didn’t even know about the Bumbo seat until I was pregnant with my second child and my first is only 2. It’s useless. Just another thing some people ASSUME is a MUST have!

That was seriously a GREAT post! Enjoyed reading it!

By: Yadimar

Yadimar — Mon, 13 May 2013 20:59:04 +0000

Sheesh did you have to be so vulgar on a blog talking about baby things?