Observations on Baby Accoutrements
1) Most diaper bags are apparently hideously cutesy and obnoxious. I will not be carrying one of these bags. I will put baby x's diapers and formula in a plastic grocery sac before I carry one of these unsightly baby blue quilted bags with giggling teddy bears. Ugh.2) There are people on ebay selling USED baby accoutrements - including used baby bottles and used changing pads. And there are people buying these things for darn near what you could pay for a new one. Get a grip people - get thee to a Wal Mart for a new bottle or changing pad. What's next - used disposable diapers? I also saw a bunch of used Diaper Genie's - many claimed to be "like new" or "gently used". Call me crazy, but anything that has once held soiled diapers is neither "like new" or "gently used".
3) Nothing exists anymore that is gender-neural. Bedding is not - it is either blue or pink. You cannot buy anything with a sports theme for a girl because that is in blue. Blankets, bibs, outfits, and even bottles are either pretty pink and frilly or blue with trucks on them. We have decided to buy crib bedding with a sports theme - in blue and white. A girl can play sports too, and the younger she learns that, the better anyway. Women's liberation has clearly not yet hit the nursery.
4) You can drive yourself crazy finding the perfect baby product - no matter what you are looking for. There exists no perfect diaper bag, stroller, or car seat. I also figure you are just as well off to enter Babies R Us wearing a blindfold, point to a stoller, and say to the salesperson, "Ill take that one", and be done with it. I think I have aged 5 years just shopping for a crib. In the end, we will probably end up borrowing one. But the shopping for a mattress has yet to begin.
More random rants later - Tamara
posted by No Longer In Crisis @ 8/01/2005 11:51:00 AM
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