Protected: First Week as a Family of Four
June 2, 2021Protected: A Scary Thursday
June 5, 2021Just thought I would post some of our favorite things we have used for baby!
Sleeping
- Snoo – expensive but has been great for us so far with Miles. We got it used to save some money. It provides gentle rocking to help Miles sleep and the swaddle is pinned into the bassinet to keep him from rolling over while swaddled. It also has white noise that adjust based on if Miles is fussing or not. The swaying also gets faster to try to calm him down.
- Owlet for monitoring baby – this sensor sock has the base station right next to the bed and pulses green when vitals look normal. This is great so I don’t have to look at my phone and offers piece of mind while I sleep.
- Nanit for their Insights on sleeping and ability to stream on phone – we used their breathing wear with Hailey and it would’ve been great but she didn’t like their swaddle very much so we got some false alarms from putting the chest wrap over her Halo swaddle
- Halo swaddles when not using the Snoo, this swaddle was the easiest for us to keep Hailey swaddled
- Hatch sound machine – this one doesn’t auto turn off and has worked great for Hailey. We also love the program that makes the light green when it’s time for Hailey to get up
- Taking Cara Babies – Newborn Will I Ever Sleep Again class
- A red light bulb! We swapped out the lamp light bulb so that the red light wouldn’t be as harsh when doing night feedings – now we also use the hatch and set it dimmer with a red light
Eating
While breastfeeding-
- My breast friend pillow for feeding and back support
- Baby DDrops for vitamin D
- Spectra 2 pump
- Dr. Browns milk storage bags – these one seemed like they were less likely to leak
- Target pads to protect the shirt
- We like the avent natural bottles
- Amazon pumping bra – life changing so I had both hands – had I pumped longer, I would hve invested in a hands free pump as well
With formula-
- Dr. Browns formula mixing pitcher – this is amazing because it lets you make big batches
- Dr. Browns travel formula holder – a little blue tub with 3 dividers for portioned formula
Hanging out
- Bob running stroller with car seat adapter
- Boppy lounging pillow
- Fischer Price baby bouncer vibrating chair – this was awesome bouncing him with my feet. We never used the vibrating function
- Activity mat
- Ergo baby wearer – with infant insert, both kids have loved it
- Baby bjorn for after the infant stage, so easy to throw on
- Big Little Feelings Toddler class – so awesome for handling temper tantrums