How Do I Get “Baby Bargains for Clothes, Furniture, Toys and More?

Before you go out spend money on special orthodontically (is that a word?) designed pacifiers that you may or may not use, just wait. Most hospitals provide a Soothie brand pacifier. Take it with you when you go home. Use that as needed, but you may find that your baby doesn’t need a pacifier. Our first wouldn’t have anything to do with it and we had bags of pacifiers that were never touched. If you find that yours does like a pacifier the dollar store variety works just fine.

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Before leaving the hospital look on the baby cart your baby was wheeled around in. You’ve been charged for everything so take anything that’s left including diapers, sanitary pads, witch hazel pads, peri-bottles, sprays, formula samples and Vaseline tubes if your boy was circumcised. If you are not nursing ask your discharge nurse for extra formula samples

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We are the sentimental type that like to compare our own hospital pictures to that of our parents and of our own newborns so we had to buy the newborn hospital pictures. But don’t get carried away, especially if you deliver in a smaller hospital where the nurse takes the picture instead of a professional. Buy an individual photo or a small package if they are really good. Otherwise take your own on a digital camera and take them to Wal-mart or Sam’s Club to get quality prints instead of printing on your home inkjet

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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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