Oddbean new post about login | logout I sorted through all of the clothes that we got from the baby shower. I can't tell if I have just enough or too many clothes in the 0-3m range 🤔 what worked for you guys?
Guess that would be a function of how often you like seeing photos of your baby in different outfits, and how much energy you'll have to do laundry 🙂
I don't need to play dress up with my baby too much and I plan to do lots of laundry. so maybe I do have enough? 🤔
The materials, style, sizing could also vary (baby may also develop their own preference) and it's always nice to have backups. Also depends on weather or climate in the area you live in. 🤙
0-3 month all you really end up using are snap-button onesies and zip-up or velcro swaddle things. You don't need many newborn diapers. They outgrow them VERY fast. Usually size 3 and 4 are most used diapers. Also make sure to snag as many as you can of those waterproof cloth pad things from the hospital. Always stick one under the crib and wherever you change them. They're useful all the way thru potty training. Just slip one under the fitted sheet.
Bedding tip for kids beds. Use a waterproof mattress cover and top sheet then put another waterproof mattress cover and sheet on top of that. Really helpful for nighttime accidents or in case of illness. You can just take off top sheet and mattress cover and not have to worry about making the bed in the middle of the night.
If I remember correctly, this was the size mine was in for a while. That being said, I had a peanut and we went through all the newborn diapers I wisely kept. If you have a 10 lb baby, you probably won't need too many. Sorry if I didn't help at all, lol.
haha that didn't but also I have no idea if I'm gonna have a huge baby or a tiny one. who knows what I'll need really, just gotta roll with it lol.
That's the fun of new parenting, lol. My thoughts were it will be easier to get more if needed, but a pain to have a bunch and have to deal with it.
Just don't remove any tags unless it's being worn. If any of the items are Cat & Jack from Target, they'll exchange those with zero question. They also take back things if that brand your kids have outgrown and give you store credit. Anything I couldn't return that we didn't use, I regifted. Lol.
It’s good to keep two changes of clothes in a diaper bag in case multiple blowouts happen while you’re out. In the same vein, see if you can get a duplicate of your car seat’s cloth materials. There have been weeks where she really went through the clothes 😅 so even though it isn’t necessary to put a baby in a new outfit every day, I’d say it’s good to have at least seven outfits just in case there are that many accidents in a laundry period. I don’t think I’ve personally seen it, but my max of five is close enough to think it’s wise. You’d think 0 in 0-3 really means newborn, but it honestly seems to be sized for bigger than that on average 😂 Sophia left the hospital weighing 8 lb 1 oz. She’s now 11 lb 1 oz, and has been wearing 0-3 months size the whole time. Towards the beginning, that was quite loose on her and newborn size would have been more appropriate (we had nothing in newborn size she could wear in a car seat), but it still worked. If your baby is smaller (statistically likely) it would be good to have some newborn sized outfits, but they’ll grow out soon. If you wish to narrow down what you use by convenience, rompers with a double zipper (one pull at the top, one pull at the foot) are the most convenient, followed by rompers with a normal zipper. We seldom use onesies that have three snaps at the crotch and have never used anything that has a longer snap closure or buttons.
I just realized that for the onesies, I'll have to figure out what to do for pants/bottoms. we have a few zipper romper styles but not in 0-3m so I might get more of those. thanks for the tips ❤️
These pants have been serving us well! It’s a good variety of color. For her right now we’ve rolled the top down once, and in future they should fit without any rolling. https://a.co/d/ae6kAmY