{"id":160,"date":"2013-01-31T08:27:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T13:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2014-02-05T16:17:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T21:17:34","slug":"new-mommys-must-haves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/31\/new-mommys-must-haves\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mommy’s Must Haves"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I approach the arrival of our next little bundle, I\u2019ve been perusing our collection of baby gear and deciding what new things we need to prepare. \u00a0\u00a0The list of \u201cMust-Have Registry items\u201d expecting parents are given is enormous and expensive and most first-timers don\u2019t know better and think all the stuff is necessary to have a happy baby.\u00a0 Well, I\u2019m here to tell you, new parents have been fooled by these exhaustive lists.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I remember getting the list when I was\u00a0pregnant\u00a0with Honeybun\u00a0and just laughing.\u00a0 After many years of working in childcare I had a pretty good idea of what items were necessary for little babies and which were luxuries (or scams).<\/p>\n

\"exersaucer\"<\/a>\u00a0In terms of all the baby holders available, we tend to live very simply with our babies.\u00a0 Aside from necessary car seat, buggy, high chair and crib we are not big \u201cgear\u201d people, we have only a fraction of the \u201cMust-Have Registry Items\u201d listed on most baby sites (did you know according to one list \u00a0it\u2019s necessary to have 3 buggies and 2 car seats for a newborn?\u00a0 Granted, I\u2019ve had many more than that but, only 1 of each for the first year with Honeybun). \u00a0\u00a0The only other big items we\u2019ve ever had are a play yard (which we used as a napper\/changing table in our previous houses with more than 1 level), a boppy pillow, a bumbo chair (which Sugarplum hated and has since been recalled\u2026should figure out what to do with that one) and an exersaucer.\u00a0 No swing, no bouncer, no baby rocker, no cradle, no jumper, no walker, none of that business.<\/p>\n

\"DSC00432\"<\/a>\u00a0My girls spent most of their awake time on the floor (oh, the horror!\u00a0 A child on the floor?!?!).\u00a0 When they were tiny, I would spread a big blanket on the floor and tradeoff between back time, tummy time and propping them on tummy or back on the boppy pillow.\u00a0 When they got strong enough I also used the boppy to help support them while sitting (though I never wandered far, new sitters are very wobbly and a boppy won\u2019t hold them in!) and the exersaucer when their head control was good (at first I always wedged them in the saucer with a blanket to keep them from flopping over in excitement or frustration).<\/p>\n

So with all the options out there for amazing, wonderful, have to have it baby items, what is my one have to have it item for new moms?\u00a0 When I began pondering this question, the answer came quickly and easily to me: Breasts.<\/p>\n

Feeding is the most important thing you\u2019ll do with a baby when he\/she is young and also probably the thing you\u2019ll spend the most time on in the early months.\u00a0 Not only do breasts provide the perfect and best food source for young tummies, they are also the easiest solution to the constant feeding frenzy.\u00a0 They are easy to carry, come pre-assembled, pre-mixed, pre-heated and pre-filled, day and night.\u00a0 There is no extra washing, sanitizing, measuring, mixing, putting together\/taking apart and they can NEVER be lost or forgotten.\u00a0 And, they\u2019re FREE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I approach the arrival of our next little bundle, I\u2019ve been perusing our collection of baby gear and deciding what new things we need to prepare. \u00a0\u00a0The list of \u201cMust-Have Registry items\u201d expecting parents are given is enormous and expensive and most first-timers don\u2019t know better and think all the stuff is necessary to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,9],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-business","category-breastfeeding","category-family-life","tag-breastfeeding-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3078,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/3078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}