What your baby needs
Feeding
Breastfeeding
- 2 bottles & teats
- sterilizer or sterilizing tablets
- bottlebrush
- pump for expressing milk (if you wish to do so)
Bottlefeeding
- 6 bottles & teats
- sterilizer
- bottlebrush
- infant milk
Changing
- changing mat
- baby wipes
- nappy rash cream
- disposable nappies or cloth nappies
For cloth nappies
- safety pins
- plastic pants
- 2 nappy buckets
- sterilizing fluid
- nappy liners
Some councils (e.g milton keynes) will give cashback to parents that buy cloth nappies as a reward for reducing the nappy waste for going to landfill, see here for details of council schemes. For more info. on the advantages of cloth nappies visit the real nappy campaign.
Clothes
- 4 Baby Grows
- 2 nightdresses or sleep suits or extra baby grows
- 4 cotton vests
- 3 cardigans
- 4 bibs
- 2 shawls
- hat
- mittens
- grobag (baby sleeping bag)
Bathtime
- baby bath
- cotton wool
- baby toiletries
- 2 soft towels or hooded towels
- flannel or sponge
- blunt-ended scissors
- hairbrush
Bedtime
- moses basket, cradle or cot & mattress or cotbed & mattress
- fitted bottom sheets
- top sheets (optional)
- lightweight blankets
Car & travel
- car seat
- travel cot
- changing bag
- pram or pushchair
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