“What was the baby item you and your baby couldn’t

live without?”

 

I was going to write about how my oldest child loved her vibrating bouncy chair so much, I found her crawling across the living room floor one day with the chair still securely attached to her body. However, that was not one of my better parenting moments, so I’ve decided to tell a different tale of a much loved baby gift – the Bumbo Baby Seat.

The Bumbo Baby Seat was a lifesaver for us. My second and third children loved, loved, loved this chair. As soon they could hold their head ups they were in the seat. The chair supported the back and torso, while passive restraints prevented slipping. Built from comfortable cushy foam with a clip-on play tray, they were safe, happy and entertained. Could I have lived without it? Yes. Did I want to, no.

I got a swing for baby number one, not one of my kids liked it. It was a space sucker and nothing more. I had play mats, exersaucers, walkers you name it. It was the Bumbo Baby Seat they gravitated to (that and the vacuum during those lovely days of colic).

New parents tend to believe they need every gizmo on the market but, in reality your child is going to have his or her own ideas and you’ll know it. All babies are different, as are their likes and dislikes. So, we put the question out there, “What was the baby item you and your baby couldn’t live without?”

• Cindy Maxwell wrote: “A carrier. “
• Heather Czerwonka Giacomo wrote: “I don’t know about not living without, but the one gift that was awesome was one pack of every size of diapers all stacked up in a tower. It was so nice because as soon as my oldest grew out of one size, I’d have a little time to get to the store to get the next size up.”
• Amy Laban wrote: “A nice swaddle blanket. My baby just LOVED being swaddled.”
• Carly Smith wrote: “My go to shower gifts are books, a customized (by me!) onesie, teething tablets and gripe water. I didn’t find out about gripe water until I needed it, and it saved my life!!! Other good things were the bouncy seat and Bumbo.”
• Dana Schoon Dortch wrote: “A swing was the one thing we couldn’t have lived with out. I love getting gift cards as a shower gift. We were able to get stuff we needed like nursing pads and bags to store breast milk in.”
• Elena Brooks wrote: “With my first a swing was our life saver. With the second I would say the Aden & Anais Swaddle Blankets.”
• Caleigh Searle wrote: “The Baby Bjorn, got me and my babies fresh air!”
• Danielle Abrams Mcclary wrote: “Meals, frozen and fresh to get us parents through the first few weeks!”
• Shannon Arnold wrote: “Wipes warmer and diaper genie! Use it everyday all the time!”
• Jennifer Miller Duneman wrote: “Nursing cover! Wabbanub Pacifiers.”