Top 10 for Brittany

So I went to a baby shower yesterday, and before I went, I was trying to think what helpful advice I could pass on to the new mom to be. So I came up with this top 10 list of things I wish someone had told me. Then left it on the counter. So I figured a blog post was the next best thing!

Top 10 Things I wish someone had told me before I had a baby:

1. Babies use a LOT of diapers. Those boxes from Costco look big, they actually only last about two weeks.

2. Babies use a LOT of wipes. That big box that looks like it will last forever – one month.

3. Babies drink a LOT of formula. Sign up for the Similac coupons at your home address. And your work address. And Wade’s work address. And in your dog’s name. Even if you breastfeed, your baby will end up drinking a lot of formula, and its expensive.

4. Babies go to the doctor a LOT. And your pediatrician has a whole closet of free formula. All you have to do is ask, and they’ll fill up your diaper bag with the good, already mixed bottles.

5. It sounds like a good idea to buy the less expensive formula that you mix with water. It’s not. Use all your free coupons to buy the premixed ready to drink kind. You’ll thank me at 3am when you have the flu and can’t nurse. 

6. You don’t HAVE to wash everything before your baby wears it. Old people will tsk at you, but your child will be fine.

7. You also don’t HAVE to boil bottles any more. It’s called the dishwasher. And it works just as well.

8. When you are nursing, you can in fact eat an entire box of Cheese-Its every 2 hours and not gain weight. When you stop nursing, you lose that ability. But it takes about 15 pounds to figure that out.

9. You will in fact, do everything you said you wouldn’t do. It’s okay. We all did.

 
10. And yes, you do have the cutest baby. We think so too.