| You can go to town fitting out your baby nursery. It | | | | We bought a mobile for above his cot. He loved the |
| can be a lovely thing to do whilst you are pregnant. | | | | music and movement of the animals as it turned |
| Choosing wallpaper, colour schemes, a cot, you name | | | | around. Newborns are supposed to see black and |
| it... or you can beg and borrow from friends and family | | | | white shapes the best. |
| and search online or in 2nd hand stores. Whatever you | | | | Changing table |
| choose, it can be a minefield for 1st time parents. Just | | | | The last thing you want to do is bend down on the |
| what do you need? I bought lots of things thinking I | | | | floor to change your baby - especially if you have just |
| MUST have them, only to never use them at all. | | | | given birth. A good safe changing table with a comfy |
| Clever marketing made me think I needed them. | | | | changing mat proved essential time and time again. |
| Every family and every baby is different, but this is | | | | We had a changing table upstairs and down - to make |
| what we put into our baby nursery | | | | life easier for us! |
| First things first - your baby will need somewhere to | | | | Drawers for clothes, towels, bedding |
| sleep. | | | | It's amazing how much room his clothes took up. We |
| But where to start - Cots, cribs, cot-beds, Moses | | | | only had a few vests and baby-grows before he was |
| baskets | | | | born. Friends and family all bought him gifts and the |
| We chose a crib for our room for the baby's first 6 | | | | chest of drawers in his room soon filled up. |
| months. We really didn't want to get up go to his room | | | | That's really all we had in his baby nursery. As he has |
| for night feeds. Also advice says that the safest place | | | | got older, teddies and soft toys have taken over his |
| for your baby is in your room by your bed, in a crib or | | | | cot. His drawers of clothes are overflowing - despite |
| cot. (For the first 6 months anyway.) | | | | numerous trips to the charity shop. The mobile had to |
| We put off buying a cot until he was going to use it. | | | | go - once he could reach it - it was too much of a |
| Newborns are expensive enough!! | | | | temptation for him! Sad for us to remove it though - his |
| Mobile | | | | baby days were going so fast! |