What is Reddit's opinion of OXO Tot Perfect Pull Wipes Dispenser?

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I love this wipes dispenser. It has a weighted plate to hold down the wipes, so that you don't end up dragging a whole row of wipes out.

Since she's had a c section, maybe bring her lots of home cooked, easy to heat up meals. Make sure to include paper plates, cups and silverware with each meal. You could package each meal up with reheating instructions, a recipe on how to duplicate the meal in the future, in nice casserole dishes that they can keep. House cleaning services would be awesome, too.

Sure. It's the oxo perfect pull dispenser. Here's the amazon link: https://smile.amazon.com/OXO-PerfectPull-Dispenser-Weighted-Plate/dp/B0067GKHVS?sa-no-redirect=1

Looks like lots of other places sell it too :)

Clothing is complicated. My son had some issues that took awhile to diagnose and the first month of his life he was having "failure to thrive." He wasn't really gaining weight or growing. He was born 19 inches and 7lb14oz and he stayed in newborn for the first month or so. We finally found out he has primary lactose intolerance and he was just incapable of digesting breast milk or the formula we were supplementing with. Once we got him on an appropriate formula he started to flourish. He gained weight and grew rapidly. He stayed in 0-3 for about a month. He was wearing 3-6 or 6 month clothes at 3 months, 6-12 at 4 months, 12 at 5 months and now at 6 months he's in 12-18 month clothing. But he's a big boy and definitely bigger than most of my friends' children who are around his age. So I'm not sure I'd just assume your child will grow that quickly. You never know though. I'd suggest getting a couple of newborn things and a couple of 0-3 and then just playing it by ear from there. Some babies never fit into newborn. So alternatively you could just get 0-3 and then buy newborn if it turns out that you'll use them. Though my son wasn't really technically ready for 0-3 till later he could wear them when he was first born. They were just really big on him. So, ya know, if your baby is like mine you could make it work with 0-3 if you don't have any newborn clothing available.

As for how many of everything I needed: I have a two story home and going up and down the stairs the first week or two PP was terrible. I set up a place to change diapers upstairs and downstairs. I also had a place for the baby to sleep downstairs as well as upstairs. If you have a two story home I'd recommend planning to have two of everything you need to change diapers. For me that was two flat surfaces where I could throw a changing pad (changing table upstairs and a folding table I'd been using for sewing downstairs), two changing pads, enough changing pad covers for both if you're using changing pad covers, and then of course diapers and wipes for both locations. Plus anything else you really want to have available to you.

Something that has made my life easier and that my husband also loves is this weighted baby wipe dispenser. Because it has the weight in it you can easily pull the wipes out without the whole wipe package picking up with you. There is something so frustrating about trying to hold baby's legs with one hang to keep the poopy butt from leaving a butt print on the changing pad while you angrily shake the wipe package trying to get the damn wipe out. Most of the other things that have made my life easier are pretty standard recommendations like something in the crib to entertain baby whether it's a mobile or a soother or whatever. A lovey, toy, blanket whatever that baby finds comforting. Pacificers. A couple of places to safely put baby down (swing, rock n play, pack n play, bouncer, whatever) and such.

I'll agree with everyone recommending sleep sacks. My baby was born in the heat of the summer when it was upper 90s every single day here. He still loved blankets though. Like blankets just brought him so much joy. Of course I didn't feel safe leaving him alone with a blanket so no blankets at night while I was sleeping or for naps or whatever if I was going to need to leave the room. And he'd get so sad when I'd take his blanket. I got him some sleep sacks and while he didn't love them quite as much they were good enough and kept him happy. I felt safe letting him wear them overnight or during unsupervised naps. Everyone won. I highly recommend sleep sacks.

If you're planning on breastfeeding get a breastfeeding pillow. If you have a long torso I'd recommend My Brest Friend. Otherwise probably a Boppy. I have a long torso and the Boppy just sat too low to be helpful. The way I'd have to bend over to make my boob accessible to my son was a real back breaker and just not helpful. For that reason I hated the Boppy. My Brest Friend worked much better for me. I know ladies who loved the Boppy and hated My Brest Friend though so your mileage my vary.

I've had this one for ~ 2 years and been super happy with it: https://www.amazon.com/OXO-PerfectPull-Dispenser-Weighted-Plate/dp/B0067GKHVS?th=1

Those baby "boats" are awesome, one of the things I wish I had gotten last time, and will be getting this time. Great for putting baby down in, but also a good place for baby to sleep if they get congested and they need to sleep propped up a little to help with drainage/breathing. Get some sort of carrier, the ability to carry baby with you, but have your hands free is great. Frees up the grocery cart while shopping (not having to take the car seat in, lets you carry baby and do stuff around the house, or just carry baby while out walking etc.

A disclaimer for socks, they never stayed on my son. Seriously they were a huge pain, and I only had one kind that I found worked (a no name bran, with a cute shoe design on them I got as a gift and couldn't find in the next sizes), and the rest got to sit in a drawer. I just ended up using sleepers with footies instead most of the time. Will vary by kid, but heads up, not everyone does well with baby socks.
I thought it was ridiculous that my friend had spent the money on this wipes dispenser until I had a squirming baby with a diaper full of liquid poop, and all the wipes coming out of the regular dispenser were sticking together. I then went and ordered the damn thing. Not a must must, but I'm glad to have wipes that come out one at a time. Cloth diapers (pre-folds) make amazing absorbent burp cloths, and hold up in the wash really well.

Like you said, you have a basics list, but those are the top of my mind, I am so glad I have things.