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Thanks for the advice before I have my list.

Here are a few other things
1. pack and play for travel (grandma/Grandpa house)
2. exesaucer or a jumperoo (which do you think more)
3. High Chair
4. Baby Carrier (I am petite just about 5')
5. Diaper Pail
6.Baby food blender
7. Swaddles
8. Sleep Sac

Also do I need a swing. bouncer and a rock and play??? if so what kinds???? I was thinking the rock and play for night time sleeping in our room...Is this ok??

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1. Graco pack n play with the diaper changer attachment. Esprcialky if you have a a house with bedrooms upstairs.
2. I had jumperoo as did all my friends. My dd absolutely loved it! Fisher price rainforest is the one i had as well as a few of my friends.
3. Graco blossom. Loveeee it and again most of my friends have it. Its goy inserts for when they are smaller. And the booster is included. Which is great for travel or if you ever decide that you dont want to use the highchair. Easy clean up and comfy...
4. Not sure i didnt use this much though i wish i would have. Lots of friends used bjorn.
5. I have diaper dekkor. Easy to use. Works but 2 years later nothing is cobering up the smell of that poop lol but overall im happy with it.
6. You really dont need this. You can use your reg food processor. It does xactly the same thing. It doesnt do anything special cause they put the word baby in front of it. They just charge you more. Most foods can be baked and then pureed. I even used my hand mixer to puree most things.
7. My dd hated swadlling so i dont know.
8. Dd hated this too so i dont know. I know friends used halo.

Swing yes yes yes 100% haha fisher price snugabunny or whateva other xharacter you like but this type of swing i say you need it lol this thing saved my life many nights lol
I found the bouncer a waste. Dd hated it and i never used it.
Rock n play 100% most babies dont like to sleep flat my dd slept in this. Worked like a charm.
If you have a friend that you can borrow a bassinet from i would say do that and dont register for it. If you need to register for it then register dpr the pack n play with the bassinet attachment so if your dc doesnt like it its not wasted $

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1. Pack and Play- I'd get the graco.
2. I would get both if you can. If not, I would get the exersaucer. We got more use out of it.
3. High Chair: Fisher Price Space Saver
4. Baby Carrier: Moby or a beco. I also just got the ergo but havent used it yet.
5. Diaper Pail: Unnecessary
6.Baby food blender: Unnecessary- just get a regular food processor.
7. Swaddles: Just get one- my DS hated it.
8. Sleep Sac: We have the halo. Dont go crazy getting too many- you only need 1 or 2.

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Swing

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1. pack and play for travel : Graco
2. exesaucer or a jumperoo : never had one
3. High Chair - Graco Duo Diner. It's awesome because it can be used as a space saver/travel high chair by taking it off the base
4. Baby Carrier - never used
5. Diaper Pail - Diaper Genie Elite. We had the arm and Hammer one, but the lid constantly gets stuck
6.Baby food blender - Baby Breza. I totally disagree about the usefulness. I was able to plop the food in to steam, walk away, and it would blend on its own once it was done steaming. Nothing to clean but the blender.
7. Swaddles - Halo
8. Sleep Sack - Halo

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1. Graco, although for the grandparents house, we got a cheaper grace model, not sure of which model though.
2. We have both, and overall I would say he used the jumperoo more. We had the fisher price luv u zoo one.
3.We have both a space saver and fisher price ocean wonder high chair. In the beginning we liked the high chair, but once we he was on table food, the space saver seemed easier.
4. I had a born and ergo. I loveeeeeeeeeeee my ergo.
5. We have the diaper genie elite.
6. I just used my reg. food processor.
7. We swaddle for only 3 weeks, and the miracle blanket was the best for the short amount of time. DS hated being swaddled so we stopped.
8. Sleep sac- we had about 4 of them. We used the halo ones.

We had all 3, a swing, a bouncer and rock and play. I felt we needed all three. Our swing was our life saver. He slept in the rock in play the first couple of months and the bouncer is where he would just chill out, and sometimes napped in it.

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1. pack and play for travel : Graco

2. exesaucer or a jumperoo : fisher price jumperoo

3. High Chair - FIsher price EZ clean high chair.

4. Baby Carrier - never used

5. Diaper Pail - Diaper Genie Elite.

6.Baby food blender - Never used

7. Swaddles - Halo

8. Sleep Sack - Halo

Absolutely need a swing! My girls loved their swing. Fisher price little lamb was the one we had. I wouldn't even get a bouncy seat next time. I never used it

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IMO it's all a personal preference. Go look and decide for yourself. The reasons you pick something will be different from someone else

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I agree, most of it is personal preference, so I'll just tell you what I used:

1. pack and play for travel (grandma/Grandpa house)
-Graco w/o the bassinet part, cause we just didn't think it was necessary.

2. exesaucer or a jumperoo (which do you think more)
-Whichever toys you like more

3. High Chair - We had the Graco for DD#1, but the wheels didn't swivel well. Had the Peg Perego for DD#2...DON'T get this one -- the tray is very high, and very tough for the babies to eat by themselves, as they have to sort of reach UP to get stuff off the tray. For DS, I got the Chicco Polly, as it is a very slim fold, and all 4 wheels swivel. I noticed on the new Graco ones, either the front, or rear wheels don't swivel so it would have scratched our wood floors. We already had enough scratches from the first Graco chair we got.

4. Baby Carrier (I am petite just about 5')
Don't know, never really used one.

5. Diaper Pail
-Had the Diaper Champ for DD#1 and loved it. Got a new one for DD#2 and hated it bc they changed the design, go the Diaper Genie now for DS.

6.Baby food blender
-Never used. But the one mentioned above that steams and then blends sounds good if you want to get one.

7. Swaddles
-Can't recommend the Miracle Blanket enough! So much better than any others that I tried. DS is still in it at 5 months.

8. Sleep Sac
-Halo.

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Do you have the book Baby Bargains? I found it to be extremely helpful when I registered. It gives reviews for pretty much everything, and really helped me narrow down my choices.

To answer your question:

1. pack and play- We didn't use one.
2. exesaucer or a jumperoo (which do you think more)- DD preferred the exersaucer for a longer period of time, but both got a lot of use. We had the Baby Einstein Neptune exersaucer and the Fisher Price Rainforest jumperoo.
3. High Chair- Fisher Price Space Saver
4. Baby Carrier (I am petite just about 5')- Didn't use
5. Diaper Pail- Diaper Dekor Plus
6.Baby food blender- Didn't make my own food, but I've heard a regular blender/food processor is fine.
7. Swaddles- only get 1 or 2 to try in the beginning, my DD hated them. She did better with regular receiving blankets.
8. Sleep Sac- Halo

We didn't have a swing and didn't miss it. The bouncy seat was helpful as another safe place to put her the first few months. The Rock n Play was a must have for us. We had just the basic model, and yes it's good for overnight sleeping.

Good luck!

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Get the rnp that is plain, not with the bunny ears or anything. She had that at first, and was such a peanut, that the extra fabric was around her face. We showed the doctor a photo of her in it, and the doctor advised us to get the plain one.

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I'll preface with - it's all preference and all opinions, so you'll have to find what you like and what works for you and DC.

1. We have a Graco Pack 'n Play at my parents house for when DS sleeps over or is napping there. The newborn napper is not supposed to be so safe so you can skip that. I never bothered to use the changer either.

2. We had the Jumperoo here and Exersaucer at my parents house. Similar but different. If I only had one, I'd choose the Jumperoo. But you really don't need to register for this since it'll be about 4 months before you need one.

3. IMO, don't register for one. You'll get one when you need it. They are big and will just take up space in the meantime.

4. Ergo. Doesn't matter if you're petite or your husband is gigantic or whatever. It's the best for anyone's back and for the baby's hips.

5. Yes, you need one. We have the Diaper Genie. It's ok with keeping the smell contained.

6. Don't need one, IMO.

7. Buy a few kinds and see what you prefer. We liked the Swaddle Me. It kept DS the happiest.

8. You won't need sleep sacks until you stop swaddling. So again, I wouldn't register for them since you won't know what size you'll need and they will just take up space for now.

DS slept in the swing for the first couple of months and napped in there for longer. It was my lifesaver.

The bouncer was the only way I could shower if DH wasn't home. Would put DS on the floor by the door of the bathroom with the music entertaining him so I could shower. He'd often fall asleep in there and I'd just leave him.

We skipped the RnP and just used the swing for night sleep. I know many people love it, but you have to manually rock it and for me, I'd rather just leave the swing going and let DS sleep on his own so I could get things done or sleep myself.

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