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[quote=Anonymous]I struggled with this so much! Another minimalist, plus we live in a small apartment in a big city but our family live in huge houses in small towns, and we were very concerned about them buying us a billion things we would never have room for so I worried over ever little thing I put on the registry.

If I did it again, this is what I'd do:
- Your essentials are: stroller, carseat, one or two places for baby to sleep, diaper bag, a baby carrier, some clothes in the 0-3 size (like maybe 5-10 outfits), a changing pad, some bottles. You also need at least a few swaddle blankets or similar, but you don't need to register for those if you don't want to -- they just come into your life somehow. We wound up with approximately 72 of them somehow.

- Go to Wirecutter and Lucie's Lists, read the reviews for these items, add them to your list. Throw on a box of diapers (if newborn, make it a small box, but I recommend getting the next size up and just buying newborn if you need them), some wipes/soap/diaper cream.

- Now you are essentially done if you want to be, you can relax. And when you relax, start daydreaming about your new baby, the nursery, how you want to spend your maternity leave. And just start adding things here and there based on that daydreaming. Want to to take some trips with baby? Register for a good travel stroller. Want your nursery to be a dream? Register for fancy decor. Planning to breastfeed? Pump, rocking chair, etc. None of this stuff is essential. But you already registered for your essentials, so you're fine. You can add this stuff or not. This is the fun part! Don't overthink it.

A lot of people basically want you to do it backwards, where you do the daydreaming "fun" stuff first, because that's what they want to buy and they aren't having a baby at the moment, or already have one, so they aren't interested in practical logistics. Ignore these people. You are stressed and overwhelmed, take care of the practical logistics first, then you can daydream without panicking that you still don't have a carseat picked out or whatever.[/quote]

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