14 October 2013
Our son arrived in October 2013 and I’ve learnt several things since then. First lets start with what you should really get before you end up stuck.
If you’re planning to have a breast fed baby it is worth nothing that life doesn’t always go as planned. Sometimes, despite sticking with difficulties the choice of feeding method may be taken out of your hands.
So, with this in mind, you may need to express milk. We have a Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature set of bottles and express pump. The mimic the natural feel for a baby.
260 ml bottles You’ll probably want about 18+ of the bottles, the reason being that we found our baby can go through nine bottles in a 24 hour period. If baby is feeing all night you may not get many opportunities to clean the dirty stock (more on that later). You can never have too many bottles, they’re in high demand, you need a strong supply.
family fix base There are few things in this world that I think are well engineered and this base is one of them. The base fits onto a car using the ISO fixings, that means that practically all cars can accept this base. Once the clips on the base have latched onto the chassis of the car it’s solid. You can try to wobble the base, but you’ll find that the car just leans on its suspension.
max-cosi car seat This car seat fits snugly into the family fix base above. Again it’s pretty solid. At the bottom of the car seat there’s two solid bars which latch into the base, it’s all very simple yet such a good idea.