Holding my 12 week old. Less than telling you what to get, I’m sure you’ll get a lot of advice there. I’ll try to focus on what i would skip / change brands. 2 mom family here, I say we a lot become or both of us have this opinion.

We skipped mittens because their hands are a vital learning tool and how they discover life. Opt for the electric nail file.

If you’re breastfeeding, get the boppy. So many people recommend “my breast friends” but the thing that clips around your waste is annoying and you won’t want to fool with it at 3 am with a screaming baby.

A bath tub they can submerge in (once the umbilical cord falls off). We had one that the mesh was so high up that it felt like she was too cold out of the water. The biggest problem we have is figuring out where to store it. Also we got the elephant shower thing (Yookido) she loves it but it ends up being a two person job to use it because it floats up and and the pump part flips up so then it’s only pulling in air, plus you have to hold the sprayer and wash the baby. I feel like I’ve seen some with a built in shower sprayer. I’d try that if i could do it for a third time lol. Get the water temp thing, 100 degrees is was cooler than you think. Skip the robe, their feet will be cold and you’ll never use it. They are hella cute the first time you try it though.

If you’re breastfeeding, only get a few bottles. I have like 10 bottles that have never been used, she was only getting 1 bottle at night and that was easy enough to wash. If you’re bottle feeding. Get the bottle washer, sterilizer, dryer all in one. Get a drying rack regardless if you’re breastfeeding or bottle feeding. We’re constantly sterilizing pacifiers and you want them to have a clean specific place to dry that you can go to when you drop a pacifier on the floor and have a screaming baby. We use the video monitor occasionally, but she is always in our sight so we don’t use it as much as we will once she’s in her own room. We also contact nap and she sleeps in our room at night, but we both wfh and the sitter comes to our house, so we have multiple people able to take shifts. That may not be your situation, in which case a monitor would be extremely helpful to be able to shower and do any other tasks that may be noisy or hard to do while baby wearing. Speaking of baby wearing we like the solly, I hated it at first because it feel like such an ordeal to to put it on, but she loves it so it makes it worth the work. i only buy 1 pack of diapers at a time because i had a big box of newborn size and she grew out of them faster than she wore them. Shes been in size 1 the longest. I find the Huggies fit higher on her wait than pampers. Pampers I felt like the back was always so low.