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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd definitely put a car seat on your registry. Hopefully you'll have the shower at like 30 weeks pregnant (not 38 like my inlaws thought was fun so they could "see me really pregnant" when I wasn't even supposed to be traveling that late). If you go into labor before 30 weeks, you would still have time to get a car seat (2 day amazon delivery!). Car seats, cribs and strollers usually always show up at the showers I've been to. Usually those are presents that parents or grandparents give to the new baby.

Definitely never needed a bottle warmer.

Things I'd focus on would be getting the nursery set up. I really enjoyed painting, decorating and sorting my nursery when pregnant. It helped me imagine the baby and kept the anxiety away that I wasn't doing enough. Also, having organizational stuff ready was great for when the onslaught arrived.

I have a 4 month old right now and I'm almost ready to move her into size 4 diapers. I've only used 2 boxes size 1 (squeezed her in until they were used up), 2 boxes size 2, 1 box size 3. She was 9lbs and didn't fit into the newborn diapers the hospital gave us. [/quote]

OP here, thanks for this. What types of organizational stuff was helpful? We had heard that a nursery wasn't really used until 6 months with the baby in some kind of bassinet by the bed. Has that been your experience? [/quote]

PP here. Not my experience at all. I have a 4 month old and it's my 3rd baby. All 3 used the same nursery. Where are you going to store clothes and diapers if not in their room?

Bassinet until 3 months next to my bed, and then they went to the crib. We used the changing table in the nursery for all changes. I also had a pack n play in my family room downstairs with the changing table feature and we loved that. Baby napped in the crib most days. The closet was used A LOT. Even if the baby doesn't sleep there, there's a lot of diaper changes, clothes changes and rocking that goes on in the nursery.

For organization we had a closet system put in- 3 sections of clothes and then the middle is drawers. The drawers are PJs, hats/bows, onesies, pants and socks. Everything else was hung up. The hanging sections- 1. next size up 2. play clothes/daycare clothes (dh needed this to help him dress the kids in the morning) 3. cuter outfits or holiday outfits.

We had our changing pad on a dresser. The dresser had 3 drawers. 1. baby medicine/nose frida/thermometer 2. extra diapers and wipes 3. clothes in larger sizes. And on the top of the dresser was a basket with wipes, lotion and diapers.

Next to the rocking chair have a small table with a lamp and a long iphone charger. [/quote]

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