u/yourloverboy66

Currently pregnant with our first LO and trying to get everything ready before baby gets here, but omg every single thing online is marketed like it’s an absolute MUST HAVE for newborn life lol.
At first doing our registry and nursery setup was actually really fun, but now I feel like I’ve fully fallen into the baby shopping rabbit hole. Every TikTok, Reddit thread, or mom group has people saying some random gadget saved their sanity during the newborn stage, and now I can’t tell what’s genuinely useful vs what anxious FTM marketing is making me think I need.
Right now we’ve got the basics on our registry, bottles, bottle washer, swaddles, diaper stuff, stroller, some PP recovery things etc. But I’m constantly second guessing everything and adding/removing stuff at like 1am lol.
One minute I’m convinced we need a bottle warmer and sterilizer immediately, then the next post says their baby drank cold bottles just fine and they never touched it again.
Parents who’ve already survived the newborn trenches, what ended up being a complete waste of money, and what did you literally use every single day?

I almost locked myself out of an account last week because it wanted to text my old number back home.That number still exists, technically. I just don’t really use it anymore, and I had completely forgotten that a bunch of important stuff is still tied to it. Bank app, old email, a few subscriptions, random 2FA codes… all the boring things you only remember when something breaks.The stupid part is I wasn’t even doing anything unusual. Just logging in from another country, new device, normal travel stuff. Then suddenly the whole process depended on a SIM card I haven’t thought about in months.I always assumed the annoying digital nomad problems would be Wi-Fi, visas, calls at weird hours, finding a quiet place to work, etc. But honestly, keeping access to an old home-country phone number might be one of the more underrated headaches. Now I’m trying to move whatever I can away from SMS verification, but it’s annoying how many services still treat your phone number like the final proof that you are you.

I want to get one, but there’s surprisingly little video content and real user reviews about this model online.

Share your experience if you own it—how’s the performance, reliability and daily use? Appreciate it!

So, dragons taught firebenders, sky bisons taught airbenders, and badgermoles taught earthbenders.

So who taught waterbenders?