June 7th, 2011
Favorite Baby Things
We have almost 12 weeks of baby experience here in the basement and have narrowed down a few of our favorite baby items. If you know somebody having a baby you may want to consider some of these as gifts. Of course, everybody will have a different experience, but this is what has worked for us.
There is a big push for swaddling babies because they sleep an average of 45 minutes longer when swaddled. That is HUGE for a new parent. Camille has been swaddled since day 1 and I am still not ready to give it up. There are many products to help with swaddling and we ended up with a lot of them. For the first few weeks she was too small for any of these products so we just used blankets similar to these that my aunt got us from Pottery Barn.
We use the swaddling technique from the video, The Happiest Baby on the Block – The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Baby Sleep Longer (DVD)
When she gained a little weight we started using swaddle products and the easiest so far has been the Summer Swaddleme.
She rarely busts out of these although we have used them so much the velcro is starting to get a bit weaker.
Another unexpected gift was the Wubbanub
Although there are lots of great, and adorable, pajama options for babies the last thing you want to do at 11, 1, 3, 5, and 7 in the morning is deal with snapping up pj legs after changing a diaper. The gowns are awesome for sleeping and sometimes to hang out in all day if you have nowhere to go. My favorite gown has snaps all the way down so you don’t even have to deal with the over-the-head dressing issue. I don’t have the one below specifically but it looks nice and would make a great gift! In fact, I think I am going to get this one because we only have one with snaps and it is dirty now. Need more!
Snapibasic Side Snap Opening Gown
