Unless you receive one of these ink kits where you can make hand and feet prints for your baby book, don’t go out and buy one. Save your money and use the hospital ink. The nurse will gladly make extra sets for you. If you want them in your baby book bring extra pages because those little newborns don’t particularly like making prints and are likely to squirm and smudge and require more than one attempt to get a good set. Our hospital made extra prints for us on something that looked like large address labels so we could peel and stick them where we wanted in the baby book and avoid messing something up when baby squirms.
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When it comes to shopping and packing for your hospital stay ignore the lists from books. You will waaay over pack. Talk to other moms for advice. You’ll need toiletries and an outfit to go home in. Beyond that, the hospital takes care of most everything else. Use their gowns for labor, delivery and recovery. If you are very modest you might feel more comfortable throwing on a robe for when visitors come. But don’t concern yourself with getting nightgowns that might get stained or special (aka expensive) ones especially for nursing.
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Some websites have daily deals that provide opportunities to buy name brand items at severely discounted prices. Our favorite baby related bargain sites are http://www.babysteals.com and http://www.mamabargains.com. They both offer daily, or until sold out, deals on baby items. Another new daily deal is http://www.biglots.com. They are listing, online only, a different product each day that they don’t have enough of to place in all their stores.
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When you shop for baby items and personal items make sure you have a bargain mindset. Don’t just pick up the usual. Take a step back and see if a comparable brand is on sale. Look at other brands. Look at other sizes. Be aware though, that larger is not always cheaper. Some manufacturers have started pricing their larger units higher per serving, ounce, etc. than the smaller bottles because we have been trained to get the bigger and therefore better value. If they don’t show the price per X so you can compare then get out a calculator. It only takes a second to check. Most cell phones have a calculator on them so no excuses.
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Have you ever been to a ball game or amusement park and bought the food? They have you locked into their venue and know you will need food so they ratchet the prices up very high. The hospital does the exact same thing with all those pills they give you while in the hospital for the birth of your baby. They know you aren’t going to get up during post-delivery recovery and run to Wal-Mart to get ibuprofen so they chargeyou a bundle. When we got the itemized bill for our first child in 2006 we were amazed at the charges for things like $8.80 for ibuprofen, $1.60 for each vitamin, and $2.20 for stool softener. The second time around in 2008 we brought our own ibuprofen, pre-natal vitamins and Wal-Mart brand stool softener. We still got dosage amounts from the nurse and showed them what we brought, but saved a lot of money over the 3 days by taking our own.
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