My family is having a small shower-type thing for me in about a month, so I’m putting together a baby registry. And unlike a wedding registry, where it was fairly easy to go through the store and wave the gun at things I liked, this has been a slightly frustrating and almost painful experience.
As much as I wanted to resist, I eventually signed up at Babies R Us. And I can’t even begin to tell you how much I’m cringing while typing this. Because BrU is, next to Toys ‘R Us, one of my most loathed places to be of all time. I’ve been in that store many times for friends and relatives who’ve given birth, and every time I have wanted to shoot myself.
But when it comes to baby junk, it has EVERYTHING. And it’s where normal people who don’t have baby stuff phobias (like me) apparently want to buy baby things.
I’ve gotten some good recommendations from two dear cousins who are old pros at this baby thing, and I’m trying to pick the essential items. Friends have given seemingly solid advice, but it’s still a bit overwhelming. Just like everything else, I’m finding myself sifting through piles and piles of useless, ugly, annoying, overpriced, gadgety baby bullshit, stuff “every mother MUST have.” Well, not this mother. What do they do at first other than eat, poop and sleep? Would you put on your nicest shirt in the morning if you knew that there was a 99% chance you’d be barfing on it by noon?
Don’t even get me started on how the clothing sizes apparently do not match up to the actual age of the baby. My head might explode.
So it goes. I am hoping that anyone who is generous enough to donate an item to the cause will know more about this stuff than I do.
And please tell me that they haven’t started stamping infant clothing and gear with that Hannah Montana idiot. I’m more of a Classic Pooh fan, myself.
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Target has a lot of Classic Pooh stuff for the nursery, or at least they did the last time I was in the store looking for a baby gift. (Looks like two different collections online…)
Just a little FYI. And Pooh is gender-neutral.