Contrary to opinion that the kid cannot buy anything till the birth, nevertheless it is worth thinking of ""dowry"" in advance. In the first days the parents will have at all no time to go shopping behind things, necessary for the child.
""Dowry"" by the birth of the kid
- Carriage. - Bed.
- Table for swaddling or a changing board. The usual free table will be suitable for the same purposes, its height has to be convenient to mom. Or the dresser - it is convenient that it is possible to store all necessary accessories to care for the baby in the top boxes. - 1 flannelette and 1 woolen blankets.
- 3 bedding sets. - 3 oilcloths – to lay one in a bed, the second - on a changing table, and the third is useful, for example, if you take the child to yourself or just during feeding to enclose it. - Terry towels. One is necessary to enclose to the child under the head instead of a pillow, the second to wipe after bathing and the third the small size - for the person. - On 15 flannel and thin diapers if you plan to use constantly pampers, then on 5 pieces quite will be enough. Even if you are not going to swaddle the child, completely you should not refuse them, the diaper can be enclosed under oilcloths. - Gauze diapers and pampers. If you constantly use pampers, besides gauze diapers are not necessary. Do not buy many pampers because you do not know with what weight to be born the kid, and besides, children very quickly grow the first months.
Clothes for the newborn - Baby's undershirts or undershirts with fasteners on shoulders on 3 pieces warm and thin. - Jackets warm and thin, on 4 pieces. - A romper suit - 15-20 pieces, at continuous use of pampers there will be enough 4 pieces. - Cotton hats, 2 pieces. - 1 knitted hat for walks. - 4 pairs of socks. If the kid is born in cold season, then 2 pairs more of warm socks for walks. - An envelope or overalls for walks. It is better to buy overalls because the kid will quickly grow up from an envelope. - A beautiful suit for visits to the doctor or on a visit. - Mittens, 5 couples. Small children have sharp nails and even if in time to tonsure them, all the same there is a probability that they can scratch to themselves the person. A first-aid kit - For an umbilical cord obrabatyvaniye – peroxide of hydrogen and brilliant green. - For bathing – potassium permanganate, herbs of a camomile and a train. - Q-tips for processing of a nose, ears and a funic wound. - Cotton pads, them it is convenient to wash the kid. - Children's cream and oil for massage. - Vaseline oil is required to grease an exhaust tube or an enema. - The cleaning napkins which do not contain alcohol. It is desirable to buy 2 packs, to put the second to itself in a bag, they will be useful at a campaign to the doctor or on a visit. - 3 pipettes – for eyes, a nose and processing of an umbilical cord. - Gauze. - 2 small syringes, one of them for a nose. - Exhaust tube. - Nozhnichki with blunt ends. It is better to buy usual manicure because children's scissors, as a rule, inconvenient and are badly ground. - The thermometer for a body. It is desirable to get electronic. - Febrifugal candles. - Valerian herbs. - Tea with fennel. To give to the kid at gripes. - Fennel. Also dill water well helps at gripes. For bathing - the Bath. It is desirable to get to it the hill, in it it is much more convenient to bathe the kid. You should not buy a bath in which the hill is already provided, it is better separately because the kid will grow up from it, and it is necessary or to bathe him in an adult bathtub, or to buy new usual. - Natural sponge or cotton mitten. - The thermometer for water. Even if you think that you will be able to determine temperature, nevertheless you should not risk. Plus such thermometer also that they can take temperature not only waters, but also rooms. - Children's soap. The first months it is not recommended to use foams and shower gels, shampoos. For kormleniyaiskusstvenny feeding: - 3 small bottles with a cap, volume are from 100 to 250 ml. - 3 nipples. Nipples are constantly lost therefore best of all one always to remove and get only in necessary cases. - The brush for washing of small bottles. - A sterilizer and the heater for small bottles - useful accessories, but it is possible to do without them. - Children's thermos. It is convenient for an exit to walk or to the doctor. Breastfeeding: - 1 small bottle with a cap. Even if you plan to feed the child, the small bottle in the house will not be superfluous. It is useful for the period of your absence (for example, in shop), just decant milk and when the kid wants to eat, he will be fed with your milk from a small bottle. And besides to the kid it is necessary to allow to drink water. To mom in the help for feeding by a breast: - Milk pump. Convenient, but not necessary thing. - Overlays for a breast, for the first time weeks feeding by a breast brings many painful feelings, slips will help to cope with them. - Cream. The first feedings can cause cracks on nipples therefore, after each feeding of a pacifier it is necessary to rinse water and to grease with special or children's cream. Cream should not have a smell. - Laying for a breast. The first months at mom usually there is a lot of milk, and the kid is not able to drink everything therefore it proceeds, and the clothes become wet from milk that gives a big inconvenience therefore laying will be very useful, especially if you are outdoors.