Turns out two hours at Babies R Us is only enough to scratch the surface when you're clueless.
The staff gave us a bar-code scanner and said a typical registry usually has about 200 items on it. Armed with a copy of Baby Consumer Reports and Baby Bargains, Hunter and I set out.
We picked low-hanging fruit: Crib mattress, crib pads, crib sheets, swaddlers. After that began the aimless wandering.
We sat in all the rockers then agreed: Let's check out other sources. We checked out all the bassinets and weren't crazy about any of them. In the vast land of strollers, I pointed to one "travel system" and said, "That's what Julie had!" So we pulled it off the shelf and took it apart. I realized I have no upper body strength and will need a stroller with some awesome NASA-made light material to get it in and out of my car. Unfortunately all of those strollers will require us to sell another kidney, and we're down one already.
So we're still researching strollers.
We bypassed the bib section after all the cutesy phrases annoyed me and the only solid color bib they had was white. WHITE, PEOPLE. Then, cue the horror music: We walked down the dreaded bottle-nipple-pacifier aisle.
A friend of mine said she and her husband got to this aisle and started to wish they lived in a communist country: "This is your bottle, and you will like it." I honestly cannot understand this aisle. Even after reading what seemed like a lot of material about this, we decided to take a Bottle-Nipple-Pacifier survey of the women we know who have just had babies. Ladies, I need help. Your phone will be ringing.
We had about 20 minutes before we had to pick up Maddie from her playdate, so we wandered over to check out onesies. It was cuteness squared: Ducks. Frogs. Circles. Little sweaters. AND... my eyeballs melted out of my head.
I turned to Hunter and said, "I'm done." And the man, he's made for me. He said, "How much cute stuff can there be in one place? It's too much! Let's go." We turned in our scanner. Our fledgling registry has a grand total of: TWENTY-EIGHT ITEMS. So don't go look yet.
We're working on it.
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OMG, the bottle aisle was aweful for me too! I was still clueless even after Sophia was born. Call me, I've got advice. And as far as the stroller is concerned...LOVE mine! Yes, they all are heavy but you will develop arm strength pretty darn quick once LG is born. Plus, it's Consumer Reports #1, it turns on a dime and it is ridiculously easy to get in/out of the car. Seriously!
BTW - we need more baby bump photos!
I would recommend removing all unnecessary items like clothes (except what you need), toys, books, etc. People will buy you the fun stuff no matter what. But you want them to focus on the necessary items like bottles and car seats and diaper bags. :) Have fun!
Ashley
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