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From: jkr@gitpyr.UUCP (John Kenneth Riviere)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: What supplies do I need for newborn? (experience requested)
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Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 11:53:10 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  8 11:53:10 1986
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Reply-To: jkr@gitpyr.UUCP (John Kenneth Riviere)
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My name is Jean McSpadden and I am a guest on this account, please do not
repy by mail.
I would not advise buying very much for the baby ahead of time. You may
find you will not be able to use them.  For example I soon found out
that any fabric other then cotton caused my newborns skin to break
out, and that newborn size clothes were too small for a ten pound baby.
So hold off buying any but few one year old size items, another reason
to hold off on buying clothes is that after the first week or so the
new mother will probally find herself alone all day at home and bored,
and just dying to go buy somthing cute for her new baby.  One thing that
I believe is a must is a Snuggly(sp) baby carrier, besides being able
to carry the child with your hands free, babys seem to love then, and
will calm down quicker then anything. You are smart to hold off bying a crib,
I bought one because before my baby was born I could not conceive of the
idea of having the baby in the same room with us, let alone the same
bed, but I delivered my baby at Kaiser hospital in San Francisco which
let you go home the same day and have nurces visit you the first few
days and the nurce told me to take the kid to bed with me so I
would not have to be gitting up and down. I had a baby who wanted to eat
every hour all night long, if I hadn't keep him in bed with us I would
have died, and it is so nice and warm to have the whole family snuggled
down together, so we never used the crib.  What was handy was a basket
for the baby to take naps in that can be carried from room to room. When the
baby finally falls asleep after a 3 hour fit of colic, you don't want
to risk waking him during the long walk to the bedroom. Also its nice
to be able to be working in the kitchen and to be able to just look 
accross the room to check if your babys still breathing. My 
experance with strollers was that we were given two, a nice expencive
Apica(sp) and a $15 umbrella type, Abram (my baby) never seemed
to like the expencive one, but he loved the umbrella type, even when
he was three months old, he is now 2.5 and he still insist on taking his
nap in his stroller. The diaper service we used must have used somthing   
that irrated my sons skin. So i started using disposables. I have
never had any problem with them, even with a newborn who couldn't ware
polyester. Abram has never had diaper rash. I had been given some diapers
though and they came in very handy, because babys spit up a whole lot.
To the question of what to bring to the hospital, I can only think
of four things, a car seat to take the baby home in, clothes for the
baby, a husband or a good friend, and a six pack.  The six pack comes
in extreamly handy which I didn't know at the time and so my husband had to go
out looking through the city in the early mourning to find one. You
see they will not let you out of the recovery room until you urinate
and you are so brused and battered down there that you can't. the
beer forces the issue, so to speak.   
                                     
Jean McSpadden



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J. Kenneth Riviere   (JoKeR)
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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