If I knew then . . . (part 1)

The other day I was thinking about all the different items I received at my baby showers. If I could go back in time to my 6th month of pregnancy, I would redo my registry list. I would take off somethings and add on others. For example, I would probably have left off the diaper genie and added on the convertible car seat. Sometimes when I am at the store and I see a young, eager, and pregnant couple registering for items, I want to steer them away from certain products and towards others. So many things that I now find indispensable never even crossed my mind. I just knew my kid would be healthy and never need a first-aid kit (ha, ha)!

Sickness

Yes, it will happen. It is not "if" but "when." The hospital gives you a little blue aspirator to take home. This is okay if your child has minimum snot. If you child is like mine and snot pours out like two rivers from his nose, then you want one of these. This little battery-powered dynamo sucks snot like a Hoover.

I also recommend a temporal artery thermometer. It is like something straight out of Star Trek. You run it across a your baby's head and it gives an accurate readying. Much better than sticking a thermometer up you know where. I have one like this. I was showing this to my family one night at the Olive Garden. Everyone had to try it out. All the other customers must have thought we were cray.

Monitors

My husband and I both give our seal of approval to the monitors offered by V-tech. We tried a couple of other brands, but they carried a lot of static. The V-tech monitor was very quiet and had lights on the parent's monitor. It was a little expensive, but well worth the money.