[Fatherhood] Initial goodies for the coming Angel !

You thought selecting your own clothes/gadgets was hard. Come try what to buy for your coming baby and you will realize that you were thinking wrong. At least you know few parameters about shirt/pants/jeans/at to buy for yourself, but do you know how to buy a baby bed ? Or do you know what a Baby Car Seat comprise of and what parameter you should look into while buying ?

Its really fun to be a kid is realized by parents only. I do not remember what I used to do when from the time of birth to around 4 years old. What I know is just from what my parents say about me. Also after when I was between 5 years old to 10 years old, I remember few things as a flash of pictures in my memory. Same is the situation with us now. We don't know that our coming angel will even realize this now or not, but we are having fun in doing this for sure.

This weekend when we went to get first initial goodies for our coming angel, such memories/thoughts were gushing through my mind. Also started thinking that the kids who have born after Year 2000 or so will/is a separate breed of kids with lot of "prosperity" around them. I remember that we had B&W television in my conscience mind and saw it changing to Color, advent of telephone in our house, coming of mobile phone and then came computers/laptops recently. But post 2000 babies will remember all these things as we remember B&W TVs.

I must say More than baby, the parents can enjoy a lot when they go out for getting few things and doing arrangement for the new infant. Sometimes I think that are recent parents overdoing the things, since things were fine in our childhoods too. But saying that we enjoyed doing what we did :)

So we set out to buy
1. A Baby Bed with bed guard rails around it (Some are without wheels, with wheels, some are portable like made up of material of which bags are made up of)


2. A cushion for it (3 to 5 cms width is fine)

3. A cover over it with one side soft and plastic on the other side so that the cushion remains dry (5 mm to 1 cm is fine)

4. A soft cottony/towel like cover which will be in direct contact with baby (any soft material will do, mostly cotton) This should be prefrably printed with some cartoons so that the baby gets some good feelings. Not sure baby understands that or not :)

5. A soft blanket for the baby (they are of polyester also but mostly cotton is preferable)

6. A soft cushiony bed guard rail cover so that the baby does not come in direct contact with hard bed sides. (they are different sizes. Make sure the perimeter of the guard is covered). This also should have some design baby will stare at this all time...






7. Some initial clothes to be used immediately after birth (some are with buttons, zips, some are without buttons with strings) Strings are preferable

8. A Baby car seat (Some are small without stands, Some are reclining with stands, turnable, Can fit into seat belt from one side/both sides)

9. A baby carrying thing which enable to carry baby in 4 ways..(toughness of the straps, softness of the material and neck support for the baby should be prioritized)

For buying just those things we were shuttling between 3-4 shops for 3-4 times each and took 3 days to make a decision on what to buy :) since we started from understanding the parameters. But in the end the result of gratifying and pleased with the outcome.

We might be wrong in what we selected, but wanted to share what we settled for in the end.

Few months back I used to search of electronics gadget shops for new Apple goodies or new gadgets, but at the same time my eyes now look for baby shops also :) amazing...this is how the changes get into a person without even realizing it.....