Baby Stuff List (1) - 日常用品

By 逍遙津 - Ingrid

文中引用的這篇文章作者是MitBBS NextGeneration版的liuyue/yatouliu，她總結了一個很好的baby stuff list. 基本上我們為寶寶采購就是按照這個list買的。Baby ingrid現在已經四個月了，（新媽媽做得也有了些心得體會，寫出來供後來得新爸爸媽媽參考，也請老資格的爸爸媽媽們指正，

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Nursing/Feeding

Breast Pump --- I bought the Avent Isis Manual Pump at first, which is shown in the picture below. If you won’t be away from your baby and the pump is just for breast engorgement, it’ll be fine. But if you will be traveling or working, this is not as powerful as Medela electronic ones. I bought Medela pump in style traveler later. It’s very convenient and I’ve never used the Avent one since. So if you are sure you will be away from your baby, I suggest you invest in a Medela at the very beginning. It has manual feature, any way.

Breast pump是非常非常有用的東西，在剛開始奶水還不足的時候需要用pump幫助吸奶，在後來開始上班的時候也需要為寶寶準備食物，但不一定要買，我覺得。

如果你需要出去上班，一定要一個電動的，手動的太累。有很多地方都可以租，一般隻要有醫生的處方，保險會管的。我們從WIC （Women, Infant and Children） program免費借了一個月，是Medela 電動的，其實半個月後基本上奶水就已經很足，不再需要了。後來朋友送給我們一個同樣的，現在正在用。

Nursing Pillow --- Extremely helpful in the first couple of months, when baby is really small.

非常非常有用，在開始的一個月裏是我們認為準備的最值得的東西。因為是C-section，所以剛開始的時候隻能用football的姿勢，boopy pillow起了很大的幫助作用。後來還可以作為寶寶 tummy time時的玩具。

Bottles and Newborn Nipples--- If you are planning breast feeding, this is not very important. However, if you will be away from your baby, you’d better start try bottle-feeding around 4-6 weeks. After that, it’s relatively hard for baby to accept a bottle. Also notice that when you buy Avent product like Isis pump, there will be bottles in the package (We didn’t buy any before Amy was born). In addition, some babies are really picky about bottle, so you might need to try different brands.

我們用的是Dr. Brown的奶瓶。可以有效防止空氣進入，拍起嗝來輕鬆一些。就是洗起來稍微麻煩一點。

Nursing Bras --- Extremely helpful if you are planning breast feeding. Buy at least one size and one cup bigger. For example, if you are 32A before pregnancy, you might need 34B or 34C or even bigger. You can buy a couple of them before giving birth and buy more when you are sure about your size. The ones at motherhood.com are not bad.

也是在motherhood買的。

Nursing Pads --- I find disposable ones (I like Gerber contour for medium and heavy flow) very useful in the first couple of months when my milk supply is more than enough. Since the leaking was really severe, using washable ones still gave me wet shirts. Later on when the leakage is not a big concern, the washable ones are fine.

我喜歡Lansinoh的disposable pad. 每一片有單獨包裝，更重要的是不起毛。用過garber和johnson的，不喜歡。

Breast cream --- Extremely helpful for the first couple of weeks. Your nurse might recommend some brand. I find Lansinoh very good.

Lansinoh is very good for me too.

Burping cloths --- Never had any. Some find them useful, though. I just let Amy spit on me. : p.

我們有兩塊，主要是來客人的時候墊在客人肩上（如果他們想抱抱寶寶的話）

Bottle Warmer --- Never had any.

買過一個，覺得用處不大。我們是用電水壺裏麵的水加熱奶瓶。（記得絕對不要用微波爐）
PS：現在覺得還是很有用的。不過你要是從小訓練她吃涼的問題也可以。

Bottle Sterilizer --- Avent Express Microwave Steam Sterilizer is very convenient. I’d call it a “must-have”. And in the package there are 4 bottles.

我們有一個上麵這樣的，是especially for baby牌子的，現在其實很少用。還是用開水煮的比較放心。

Bottle Drying Rack --- Never had any.

沒有。

Bottle Brush --- 1 should be enough. I bought mine at wal-mart.

Same here.

Pacifiers --- Different babies have different preference. Amy likes the Avent ones. I guess it’s because she uses Avent bottle and nipples. I didn’t give it to her until she was 1 month old to avoid nipple confusion. And she quit using it when she was 4 months old. She just didn’t like it any more. Some babies keep sucking on it till 3 years old. If you are afraid your babies gonna be like that, just don’t offer them any. So basically I suggest you hold off such things after your baby is born. The hospital will give you one for free any way.

從來沒有用過，我總覺得用pacifier不是太好，我挺不喜歡好幾歲的小孩還含一個pacifier。不過這樣的結果是有時候寶寶拿我自己當pacifier, 我覺得這個看個人的喜好。

Rattle and Teether --- Amy started to notice such things when she was 2 or 3 months. So again, you don’t need to pile up stock on this. But I couldn’t resist buying them before Amy was born. So it’s up to you.

Same here.

Baby Care

Baby Thermometer --- Don’t use the mercury ones. They are considered not safe. Buy a digital one which can be used rectally because that’s the most accurate way for newborns. I don’t think brand matters. I bought mine at Wal-mart.

我們是在RiteAid買的。Anyway,有一個就好了。

Baby Nail Scissor, Brush --- I cut Amy’s nails when she was 2 days old. You can certainly use the ones you use for yourself. But I feel they are way too big. There are a lot of other accessories. But we only have these two and find it enough so far.

我們買的是一個小包，裏麵有指甲刀、梳子。

Nasal Aspirator --- very useful for us.

非常非常有用。剛開始的時候有一天寶寶哭了很久，最後才發現是鼻子堵住了。從此知道寶寶哭除了餓和尿布濕了還有鼻子堵住了這種原因。

Room Thermometer --- very useful for us, you might want one of those meters that can tell humidity, too. Adults are not as sensitive as newborns. Some time you feel comfortable while they don’t. So these meters can help.

需要，不需要把房間的溫度弄得太高，隻要你自己感覺舒服就可以了。我覺得小孩冷一點比熱一點好，我們經常把寶寶脫光了讓她在床上爬來爬去。

Diaper Pail --- Never had any.

沒有。

Bath

Bath Tub --- We bought ours at IKEA, which is the first one below. It’s not as fancy as the second one, which is for new born. But we use a certain bath rack from wal-mart in it and it worked fine. Later when Amy is bigger we take the rack out and it’s much bigger.

總之是需要一個的，現在剛剛開始不用澡盆，直接讓她坐在浴缸裏玩水了。

Bath Towel --- They are cute. But actually our normal bath towel works, too.

Same here.

Soft Washcloths --- We bought about a dozen. It’s more than enough.

Same here.

Bath Toy --- We bought a couple, again, just because they are cute. But up until now, 6 months, Amy still doesn’t pay much attention to them.

現在（七個月）開始玩了。

Bath Water Thermometer --- We have one, never used it. Maybe for the first couple of baths you’d need it to avoid freaking out yourself. But generally you can just feel it to know.

沒有。

Toiletries

We bought a package of these things, including shampoo, wash, and lotion. There are some other fancy stuffs; like baby oil, rubbing alcohol, sun block. We don’t have them, and never need them. Recently Amy had eczema. And our ped said J&J is not very good. She said the only thing special about baby toiletries is that they are marketed for babies. She recommended a couple of brands, including Dove and Nivea, which I am using. So I don’t think you need to buy these things special for your baby.

基本上我們隻用清水給她洗澡。剛開始是有全套東西的，後來發現她可能會過敏，身上起紅斑，所以就不用了。
shampoo johnsohn的好像不是很好，頭發發黃。Aveeno好一點。

Mild soap for laundry --- We just wash Amy’s clothes together with ours, so never have this.

有一桶Draft的，不過也許不用也可以。

Cotton swabs Cotton Balls --- Before Amy was 1 month old, we use this and water to clean her bottoms. But wipes are fine, too, I think.

必需品。我們是用來給她擦眼睛，擦臉啊什麽的。

還有Q－tip的棉花棒，也很有用。

Petroleum jelly --- Useful, especially when you want to take the baby’s temperature rectally.

每次換完Diaper，洗完澡都需要抹。Vaselin也可以。

Diaper ointment (cream) --- Definitely a must have.

必需品，我前麵的帖子裏說過。

Alcohol Swabs --- You’d need this to clean baby’s belly button for a week or so.

現在最新的醫學研究表明，不用酒精擦的話更好。

Car Seat

Without this, you cannot take your baby out of the hospital. You can get an infant car seat, or a convertible car seat. The latter one can be used for much longer. But normally they are ugly.

Infant carseat可以在醫院買，我們這裏25元錢一個，比外麵便宜多了。可以找警察局的人幫忙檢查裝得對不對，醫院也應該有免費的seminar。不過我們是和下麵的travel system一起買的。

大概是從8個月的時候我們開始用Convertible carseat，是Evenflo Triumph 5 Comfort Touch Car Seat with LATCH，性價比不錯，Amazon評價很好，So far, so good.

Stroller

Full size stroller --- We get ours as a travel system, which including an infant car seat.

我們也是用的Travel System，是Graco Quattro Tour Travel System，用起來很方便。可以把從車上取下來的infant car seat直接放到stroller上麵，這樣不會打擾寶寶睡覺。直接提carseat很累的。

Umbrella Stroller (with sun-shielding) --- We haven’t got ours, so I don’t think you’d worry about this just yet.

等小孩會自己坐起來的時候就可以用這個了。ToyRUS有一陣子買夠75塊錢的東西就送一個，我們那個就是那時候拿來的。

Playards------We don’t have it, mostly because we don’t have that much room in an apartment.

我們有一個是在Target買的，是Evenflo的Baby GO，可以折疊起來放在車裏，剛買回來的時候好像很有用。可以把它放在院子裏，讓baby在裏麵曬太陽，出門去玩的時候也可以帶上，晚上可以睡在裏麵。但很快她學會滿地爬以後就不願意呆在裏麵了，現在基本沒用過了。可以跳過，我覺得。

Bouncers/Swings
We have a bouncer. Amy started to sit in it when she was 1 week old. She likes it a lot.

Some babies like swing better. We didn’t buy it because we don’t have that much room.

這兩個我們都有，是朋友送的。剛開始的時候很有用，相比之下她更喜歡swing。很快小孩長大了，就不能用了。

Highchair

We just bought ours last week. So you don’t need to worry about it just yet. And again, because we don’t have that much room, we bought a booster, which serves fine.

必需品。一個好的high chair是baby學會進食好的開端。

Diapers/Formula

Diapers --- We tried 3 different brands, pampers, huggies and white cloud from walmart. We find white cloud’s new born size very good, not as chunky as the other two. But starting size 1, they are not as good as the other two. We like pampers the best for size 1-2 and size 3, quality-wise and anti-leaking-wise.
We bought them either from Sams’ Club or Babiesrus (when we have coupons). Amy was born rather small, so we used 3 packs new born size (80 each). I guess you guys only need to buy new born ones. And since hospital will give you some, plus, if you register online, you’d always get samples, you can try different brand to see which one you like.


You can also use washable diapers. There are diaper services, which are not as expensive as I thought. It’s almost the same price as you purchased disposable ones.

這個在其他的帖子裏我說過了。我們目前隻用pampers Cruise，以前試過huggies和其他的一個雜牌子，很不喜歡。

我們用的是pampers cruise，很喜歡。用過一次huggis，感覺很不好，遇水後很容易結塊，硬邦邦地寶寶也很不舒服。好像其他的爸爸媽媽也有類似的經曆，不明白為什麽 huggies還是賣得挺好，反正我們以後再也不買了。一箱diaper一般是30塊左右，costco降價的時候是25，babyrus有coupon 的時候也可以（20% off）。上次amazon有買夠70送30塊錢gift card的deal，我們買了3箱（每箱30）。babyrus的coupon在哪些免費的baby雜誌上都有（American baby, baby talk之類的）

Wipes --- Brands don’t make a difference to us.

隻在出門的時候用，在家基本不用。基本上我們都是用水洗PP的，幹淨衛生，就是稍微麻煩些。Wipe用來擦地上的奶漬很有效。

Formula --- If you register on babycenter.com or something like that, they’d send you samples.

試過Enfamil，Similac和Nestle。目前baby ingrid隻吃 Milk based
Enfamil Lipil with Iron。我們都是買38oz的那種大桶，一個星期多一點就吃完了。一般的店裏找不到，隻有amazon和costco有。Amazon賣$31， Costco現在賣$29。因為有80％的GC，所以以前都是在Amazon買。不過現在Amazon沒貨了，隻好到Costco。

[南希]

太有用了，學到好多東西，收藏了，謝謝分享阿。。。

[月嫂]

謝謝gugu造訪，這一篇很有參考價值，所以收錄在此。

[gugu2004]

謝謝月嫂的經驗之談，對我這樣的新媽媽很有用。