r/Buyingforbaby

Hello all,

my baby is 10-day old now.

I change his diapers like 10 times a day as he cries everytime he pees or poops.

I heard from experience parents that infant use a lot of diapers but I didn't think it would be this much.

A case of Huggie is gone in a week.

I recently found some parents buy premium diapers to use on their baby during night time. It helps out that the baby feels less damp in their diaper. Which means less waking up during the night and less diaper used.

I wonder if its true for other parents and if so would you recommend me some brands to try out.

Best regards.

OP

What is a good amount of diapers to buy before the baby is born? Ideally I’d like to have NB and size 1, but don’t want to overbuy too much. Our baby is measuring very small - 5th percentile. Will I get NB diapers at the hospital? Should I just buy some and wait until birth to determine how many I might need based on size?

Hello everyone!

We're expecting our first and are trying to decide on a car seat.

We have one car, which my husband also uses for full time Uber/Lyft so the car seat we get needs to be easy to install and remove.

For example, he may be dropping our baby at daycare in the morning then need to immediately remove the car seat to work, then reinstall it in the afternoon before picking her up from day care.

We obviously don't want one that leaves a base behind, so what are your recommendations for ones that install easily and fully remove? Are there any lol?

Thank you!

Does anyone use these outside of babies with medical requirements?

We are looking at picking one up for our 3mo due to a few long ish car trips coming up.

However, I can’t seem to see a great deal of conversation or info about them and their safety. The only thing I can see is that theyre primarily designed to support children with medical issues that a normal seat may not do.

UK based if that means anything

Thoughts on them?

FTM here, trying to decide if premium and transitional high chairs like the Stokke Tripp Trapp is actually worth it?

Hello! Considering Uppababy Minu V3 for main stroller. I’m petite. We live in the suburbs with sidewalks in the neighborhood. Most errands are quick in and outs of our CRV with an occasional day trip into the city.

I was considering Cruz V3 as a main and Minu V3 as a travel. However, I’m trying to evaluate if two strollers are truly necessary for our lifestyle.

Would love to hear your experience with the Minu and how it worked as a main stroller.

Thanks!

Trying not to go overboard with buying baby stuff that gets used for like 3 months and then sits in a closet Lol What is something you bought that your baby actually kept using as they got older?

Could be anything , furniture, toys, feeding stuff, whatever. I am curious what ended up being one of those purchases you were really glad you made.

We’re getting ready to choose a new car seat and I keep coming back to rotating models. I like the idea of being able to turn the seat toward me when buckling baby in, but I’m not sure which ones are genuinely convenient day to day. If you’ve used one for a while, which best rotating car seat has held up well and been easy to use? Thank you, I’d really appreciate some real parent feedback.

First time mom here… if I were to buy one or two nursing bras, which Kindred Bravely bras should I look into? And how should I size for them?

Or is Kindred Bravely overrated?

Searched but couldn’t find a prev post, ISO recs for a bottle washer/dryer/sterilizer. Must do all 3. We have a mixed assortment of glass bottles + 2 pumps. TIA!

I originally registered for the Mockingbird specifically because of the silicone straps, but now the new Lalo chair looks enticing and has these as well. It can also be used as a booster and a play chair. Looks like Lalo advertises the tray as being removable with one hand, I’m not sure how the Mockingbird compares there. The Mockingbird has a system to hold the hardness up and out of the way and Lalo does not.

Which would yall go for?

Hey all. FTM expecting in January 2027. My MIL preordered us the Uppababy Kona (decided as our main stroller after we did MONTHS of research haha). We are getting ready to send our shower invites and our registry, and are wondering if we should put a travel stroller on there too? Thinking along the lines of the Nuna Trvl or the Joolz Aer2. I know we already have the main stroller, but is it bad to put a second on there?

Having a tough time deciding between the Joie Ginger & Rue and the Graco Modes Pramette travel system. Both are lightweight, which is really important to me (FTM & single) and they seem to have a lot of the same great features.

For anyone who has experience with either one, I’d love to hear your honest feedback!

If you’ve owned both, even better — which one would you choose and why?

I’m a FTM looking to buy a stroller travel system for my baby that’s due in April. The top one I’m looking at rn is the Joie Ginger DLX and Mint Latch. I like that it has the bassinet feature, one hand pull, car seat, and toddler seat. I also like that it’s baseless bc we do plan on traveling a lot with baby and moving the car seat between different cars. Here’s my main questions/concerns:

1. As a stroller, up to what age did it realistically work for?
2. Once baby is no longer rear facing, how many other car seat purchases did you have to make? Was a travel system worth it?
3. We plan on having more kids relatively close together (about 2 year age gap or less). Would this be a functional system to use when more come along? (2 under 2 scenario)
4. honest reviews on joie vs paying a lot more for one like the nuna

this is mostly just a PSA. As FTM with existential dread about climate change, I was so excited to discover Hiro Diapers (biodegradable, mushroom diapers that are supposed to break down diapers in 6 mos vs. 500 years for normal diapers). Put them on my registry and was lucky be gifted plenty.

TLDR: they are TERRIBLE.

My 5 day old newborn peed through every single Hiro diaper... and like a LOT, soaking himself, whoever was holding him, the stroller pad, etc. We tried at least 4 of them thinking that we had put them on wrong or something.

Also, I didn't clock this because I'm a FTM, but the company brags about how there is no "chemical blue" pee indicator line on them. But there's also no indicator line at all. So if he hadn't have peed through them, we'd have had no way to tell that he had peed in them? Terrible from a design perspective and also terrible from a functionality perspective.

Save your money people.

Now instead of a stockpile of environmentally-friendly diapers, I have a pile of unused consumerist trash, oh, the irony.

Recently bought a britax 360, and found that it makes the passenger side a very tight squeeze for my husband in our older Rav4. We were already thinking of getting another car, and I was curious what people have that works well with rear facing, rotating car seats. The Toyota Highlander seems to give my husband the most leg room (though I still wouldn't say he has tons of space) and surprisingly the Honda Pilot felt quite squished. ​I would really like to avoid having to install the carseat in the middle seat!

Little one is only 7wks, sleeps in a bassinet and we have a cosleeper crib.

Her room is tiny, but we're considering having a small single bed in there with a cot for when she moves in there and one of us needs to sleep in the room with her. The thought being when she gets older we just remove the cot and the bed will be hers

But there are a lot of cots that lower then later turn into a toddler bed.

Should we just opt for that and just sleep on a mattress on the floor if needed, or will she be able to transition to a single bed (with appropriate measures to keep her safe) in due time?

As title says. We have one, i told my husband that a friend and quite a few people have more than one, he can't understand why 😂 i told him some are lightweight, trail, fold labke etc... so I'm just curious hahahah. I've seen some reels alluding to owning more than one.

How many do you have and why

our house is only 700sq ft so we try to be conscientious about what we bring in. I’m currently pregnant and have started working a little bit on our registry. I like idea of the nestig bc it’s just 1 thing and we could wheel it around the house as needed and not even buy a bassinet. Is this realistic?

Would I be better off just getting a bedside bassinet and a crib?

Any other recs from people with tiny/small homes?

Please share your favorites of the following (no budget)

- bassinet (do I even need one?? Or can I use a crib?)
- infant car seat (preferably without a base, can easily use in diff cars)
- what else do I need?? I’m trying to keep it extremely minimal and buying as needed once baby is here,

Thank you all in advance!!