Put your infant to sleep in a bare crib for the safest possible sleep. Your infant, a pacifier, and a fitted sheet on the mattress should be the only items in the crib. What about additional baby accessories like bumpers for cribs, top sheets, blankets, and baby pillows? All of them are unnecessary. Actuality, they’re risky in addition to being unnecessary.
Nothing is better than keeping your baby cuddled up against your chest in the early weeks. Carriers provide you the freedom to move around while letting your baby feel at ease, as though they’re still in the womb.
Sticking to the essentials is a wonderful place to start because new babies can go through a lot of clothing in a day. Think wrap-front shirts for quick changes, cotton bodysuits with snap-crotch multipacks.
Baby monitor with direct connection (not WiFi-connected) for immediate reporting. This is undoubtedly our favorite baby monitor out of the many that we’ve tried.