Buying for your baby can be a very exciting time. Here is a guide to what you may need in the first weeks when you come home from hospital. Try not to go overboard when you shop as your baby will grow very quickly and you may find they do not get to wear some of the beautiful outfits you purchase. Clothes also seem to be given as gifts a lot. Generally they will spend most of their time in comfortable cotton “grow-suits”.

Clothes for Your Baby

• 6 body suits (these button up between baby’s legs and prevent it from riding up her back)
• 6 stretch suits (all-in one)
• 2 cardigans
• 1-2 hats
• 6 pairs of socks or bootees
• 5 newborn bibs
• 4 cotton wraps

Bathing

• Sorbolene cream
• Baby wash
• Baby Lotion
• 4 flannels or soft sponges
• 2 bath towels (preferable these would be reserved especially for your baby’s use)
• 1 pair of baby nail scissors or clippers
• Water temperature thermometer

Bedding

• 3 sheet sets (No pillow)
• 2 mattress protectors
• 2 underblankets
• 1 well fitted and clean cot mattress
• Remember that SIDS guidelines recommend you do not use quilts, doonas, soft toys, pillows and cot bumpers. See a diagram of how to make up your baby’s bed.

Your Baby

• 1 jumbo box of Huggies Ultra Diapers
• Diaper bin or disposal unit
• Diaper sacks
• Changing mat
• Pure Cotton wool
• Sorbolene or other diaper lotion

Bonding Before BirthBaby equipment

• Bonding Before Birth
• Buying for baby
• Baby equipment

• Packing your bags
• Coming home