Classically Abby - Newborn MUST-HAVES + Things You Definitely SHOULD NOT Buy...

00:00:00.000 Hello Classic Crew and welcome to today's video where we're going to be talking about

00:00:04.160 my top newborn must-haves as well as some things you definitely shouldn't buy.

00:00:14.320 So welcome to my new space. We are in Florida officially so we are here. My baby is off to

00:00:21.560 the side here. He thinks this is hilarious that I am filming and talking to a camera. He is

00:00:26.020 really he thinks this is very funny and we have a new setup. I've also gotten a haircut since the

00:00:33.580 last time I filmed and yeah there's a lot new going on in our lives but it's all amazing. Let

00:00:40.400 me know in the comments if you'd like to hear a little bit of a life update about where we're at,

00:00:43.820 how we're enjoying Florida, motherhood. I know I've been doing motherhood updates so we can kind of

00:00:48.700 throw that in with the next motherhood update if that's what you want or I can just give you a

00:00:52.360 life update separately but let's focus. Today we're going to be doing my top newborn must-haves.

00:01:00.040 It's not just newborn it's also just like baby must-haves as well as the things that I don't

00:01:05.120 think you should buy. The things that did not work out for us and I didn't really like. If you notice

00:01:09.420 me looking off to the side that's why. I don't know if you can hear it but that's my baby being

00:01:15.320 super cute. We're going to hop right into today's video. So the first thing that I want to talk about

00:01:20.220 are weighted swaddles. I use the ones from Dreamland Baby Company and I absolutely love

00:01:26.400 them. I will link them in the description box below. I know that the AAP recently came out

00:01:31.460 with something against weighted sleep sacks but I think that they're fantastic. They've really helped

00:01:36.400 us out. My baby loves them. He only sleeps well when he's wearing them. If I try to put him in a

00:01:41.420 non-weighted sleep sack he doesn't sleep very well but that one allows me to transfer him from arms

00:01:45.880 into crib pretty well especially when he was a little younger. Now we're in the four month sleep

00:01:51.300 regression things are a little bit more complicated but what it does is it essentially calms your baby

00:01:56.160 down and allows them to relax as they're transferred because they still feel a comforting weight on

00:02:01.780 their body. So I really love them. I'm an affiliate with them so I will have it linked in the description

00:02:06.060 box below. Next up is the hatch changing pad. Now for us this was a great purchase. We initially had it on

00:02:14.920 our baby registry but then we thought maybe it was too expensive to actually purchase but then when

00:02:19.640 our son had reflux and was having trouble gaining weight we were having to go into the doctor's

00:02:24.020 office twice a week for a month for weight checks and at some point we were just like you know what

00:02:28.060 let's get a scale because that's what this does. So this hatch changing pad is just a changing pad but

00:02:33.660 it also has this amazing thing in it that allows you to weigh your baby and see a how much he's getting

00:02:39.720 per feeding so I don't really do that but you could and be kind of what percentile he's on what

00:02:45.420 the percentile of his growth chart is and that has been so helpful and amazing for us because our son

00:02:53.180 really did struggle with putting on weight at the beginning and now he's doing great thank god so it's

00:02:58.120 a really beautiful product I mean it looks great on a changing table it's easy to wipe down and it has

00:03:03.760 this really cool technology that allows you to weigh your baby. Number three is the hatch sound

00:03:08.100 machine so pretty much everyone talks about the hatch sound machine it's just a sound machine that has

00:03:13.060 a nightlight that's how I feel about it but I really like it I like that it has different options

00:03:18.080 for white noise we only use one and we like that it has the red light so that I can nurse him easily

00:03:23.900 without waking him up in the night and it also has just an easy tap on tap off situation I like it a

00:03:30.340 lot and I like that you can also control it from the other room and I think it'll be useful also as our

00:03:34.620 baby gets older and he can get up out of bed there are these kind of tricks you can do where

00:03:40.080 you can set the light to change from red to green when the kid is supposed to be able to come out of

00:03:45.600 his room so he knows okay it's still nighttime I shouldn't come out it's it's red but when it's

00:03:50.260 green oh it's morning I can leave my room now it's not like the kid can't leave the room but it's just

00:03:54.500 like a nice way to help them understand oh now it's still like three or four in the morning that's not

00:03:59.820 morning it's red still oh it's morning it's 8 a.m okay it's green I can leave the room that kind of

00:04:05.020 thing or 7 a.m let's be honest let's be honest might even be 6 a.m the next thing I want to talk

00:04:10.420 about is the shusher so I had the shusher I lost it for a few weeks stopped using it and then when I

00:04:17.040 restarted using it I realized how effective it was so basically what the shusher does is it just does a

00:04:21.840 rhythmic shushing that helps the baby at the beginning of his nap kind of relax and get into a deeper

00:04:28.400 sleep so without that you just have the white noise machine that's fine but I found that the

00:04:32.860 shusher and the white noise machine are like a really good combination that helps my baby fall

00:04:38.820 asleep and the shusher is easy to use so you just kind of twist it on and twist it off I really like

00:04:43.500 it and I found it's really helpful when I'm trying to get my baby to sleep I'm sure you're hearing all

00:04:48.580 of his sounds right now oh he found himself in the mirror oh he did oh my goodness

00:04:55.700 number five is something that no one really talks about but was recommended by our doctor and we

00:05:07.900 really love it is comoseptine so basically our son very early on had a diaper rash and we tried

00:05:14.100 the boudreaux's butt paste did not work for us at all we tried aquaphor was not great we use aquaphor

00:05:21.180 for other things but not so much for diaper rash and then we were recommended comoseptine by our

00:05:25.540 doctor which you can get on amazon and it was so effective and now it's the only cream we use on him

00:05:31.640 it's so good at protecting his skin so really what I do now is I use it preventatively so I use comoseptine

00:05:38.660 on his butt every single night before he goes to sleep because he's sitting in a dirty diaper all night 0.83

00:05:43.620 so I want to make sure that he doesn't get a diaper rash because he's sitting in a wet diaper 0.95

00:05:48.280 but comoseptine is thick enough that it really protects his delicate skin number six are love

00:05:53.980 every products so I work with love every and I love their products it's montessori style play

00:06:00.160 their play gym is awesome it's really beautiful number one and number two it lasts for a really long

00:06:05.740 time it's not just for a certain age like up until six months and it's just a lot of fun for him

00:06:11.360 it has a lot of really good educational things for him to learn and I love their play gym it's very

00:06:18.380 expensive but it lasts for so long that I think that's worth it and then on top of that their love

00:06:23.580 every boxes their kits are the only toys we really have for him and he really likes them they're wooden

00:06:28.960 they're really good for him to learn different skills and they come with little pamphlets little

00:06:34.140 books that teach you how to play with him in a way that's going to help his development so love every

00:06:40.120 boxes I really recommend them number seven are haka products so I did a whole video dedicated to

00:06:46.120 talking about some of haka's products but haka's products just generally are so important to have

00:06:50.780 when you have a baby having their silicone pump is really great having their ladybug is great they

00:06:56.400 have a lot of other products on their website as well and on amazon it's like everything they have

00:07:00.540 is really useful for a new mom I also just ordered their little teether food teether thing which you can 1.00

00:07:07.260 also freeze breast milk in and allows the baby to suck on that when their teeth and their gums are

00:07:13.040 hurting I don't know that my son is teething quite yet but he is chewing on his hands quite a lot I

00:07:18.200 looked it up and I think it's just kind of part of his development right now is that he wants to

00:07:21.560 taste everything put everything in his mouth but it's not necessarily a teething thing so when I tried

00:07:25.580 to put frozen breast milk on his teeth he was like why are you doing this to me but I did try it I have

00:07:31.040 it for the future and that is something I really like so everything from haka I just really recommend

00:07:35.260 next up is a swing so we have a gracko swing and my son loves it he will sit in there I like having

00:07:43.880 a few different options for him to play in and sit in or be in during the day while I need to get

00:07:50.300 things done so I can wear him I can put him into his swing I can put him into his chair or I can put

00:07:56.800 him in his play gym so there's four options for what he can do when I need to do other things and I

00:08:01.820 can't just be totally focused on him so the swing is a really good option I like that it is able to

00:08:06.980 separate the seat from the swing itself that's a really nice aspect of it and it's just a really

00:08:13.300 good product to have it's big it takes up a lot of room so you have to be prepared for that and I

00:08:17.840 wasn't totally planning on getting a swing but just having a swing is a nice thing because it gives us

00:08:22.180 an opportunity to put him down and when he's really little even now sometimes he can take a nap in

00:08:26.860 there which is nice speaking of his chair we have the baby delight chair I think that it's what it's

00:08:33.020 called it's like the baby bjorn knockoff but it's still pretty expensive but he loves his chair he

00:08:38.400 just loves it it's like his favorite thing to sit in he can really get a good view of everything

00:08:43.620 it moves when he kicks his legs he loves it so I really recommend getting a chair it was hard I will

00:08:50.580 say all of these products were not super useful early on when he had reflux because I couldn't put him

00:08:54.920 down after he'd eaten and he was eating all the time so it just wasn't great I was mostly wearing

00:09:00.240 him early on but now all of these products are super useful and he absolutely loves them another

00:09:05.280 product I really recommend is getting a stroller fan now I've tried two and you want to get one

00:09:10.280 specific one it's I think like the most highly rated one on Amazon the one that gets recommended

00:09:14.120 to you because it's light enough that it doesn't tip over when it's on the stroller so I had one that

00:09:18.740 was really top heavy and it would just flip over it was not useful at all but the new one that I got

00:09:23.540 which is a little more expensive is fantastic it's lightweight and so it can actually sit on the

00:09:28.700 stroller and not tip over now we have to talk about something kind of funny that I thought was

00:09:33.880 not that useful and then I got it and I was like oh my gosh this is brilliant baby poop bags essentially

00:09:39.620 they're like instead of a doggy bag that you use when a dog poops they have them for babies where you

00:09:45.220 can put their dirty diapers when you're out and about and you don't have to worry about smelling up the

00:09:49.080 restaurant by throwing it in their trash can or throwing it in someone else's trash can and smelling

00:09:52.980 up their house so it's just like a little arm and hammer bag it ties up it catches the scent so

00:09:58.100 that nothing else gets out and you can also put dirty wipes in there it's just nice to have a

00:10:02.560 little garbage bag when you're out on the go and you need somewhere to throw out dirty wipes dirty diapers

00:10:07.400 next up is the bum brush so the bum because sit tight so I talked about this I think in my newborn

00:10:15.180 must-haves when I was before I had the baby and a lot of those things I didn't end up using so

00:10:21.480 interesting but the bum brush is something that I did use and I do use every day and it's something

00:10:26.540 that allows you to apply cream to your baby without having to get your hands into that really sticky

00:10:30.380 stuff that's hard to get off I love it it's like a spatula for their butt and it's great the baby

00:10:35.840 bjorn carrier is my favorite carrier we tried another one which I'm going to talk about that did

00:10:41.240 not work for us but the baby bjorn carrier is great it's like the mini one I love it because it's

00:10:46.600 just one snap in the front and you don't have to worry about trying to do all these snaps behind

00:10:50.380 your head I hate that we tried that it didn't work for us and I really like having the ability

00:10:55.500 to put it on all by myself so that's a really great carrier what's up boo boo you okay this whole

00:11:03.400 video just has you in the background doesn't it okay come on so I've got a baby in my lap because he

00:11:10.320 did not want to be sitting off to the side the last couple things I want to talk about are the

00:11:15.020 oogie bear so the oogie bear is a it's like a little scooper that you use to get into your

00:11:20.260 baby's nose and get that those boogers out that are hard to get out I love this thing I think it's

00:11:25.200 really useful and helpful and I've used it when he had a cold I've used it when he's had any other

00:11:30.180 issues I can just go in and grab those boogers that are hard to reach it's kind of funny to talk

00:11:34.660 about right but it's it's really great okay things that are not useful that you should not buy

00:11:40.060 number one snap sleepers everyone says this but it's true you do not want to get sleepers

00:11:46.060 that you have to snap it's just they're very annoying there are too many snaps in the middle

00:11:50.400 of the night you're not doing that so just get a sleeper that has zippers and the ones that have

00:11:54.380 ones on both sides you know they're useful but I have a caveat people love the ones that zip from 0.99

00:12:01.120 the bottom the problem is is if you have a spit up or a poop that gets on the bottom and you've already

00:12:08.720 taken out half their body you then have to put them back into the poopy part to get it off them 0.96

00:12:14.080 because it doesn't zip all the way up if that makes sense so I don't know how useful it actually is in

00:12:19.480 those like dire scenarios it's useful during during like normal scenarios but not always so that's what

00:12:27.340 I would recommend as far as sleepers the peepee teepees I recommended those or said that I wanted those 0.99

00:12:33.120 on my baby registry video I never use them never not once and people said that and they were right 0.99

00:12:39.620 I never use them once so don't get those we tried the ergo baby 360 baby carrier I hated that thing

00:12:46.460 we could not figure out how to get it on I hate these ones that have like 70 snaps and they're really

00:12:51.560 hard to do just skip it it's not worth it there's another one that I'm interested in trying when he gets

00:12:56.740 bigger because the baby bjorn only goes up to basically a year old and if we want him to have it when

00:13:01.220 he's older then we need to get something different but we like it for right now another thing I

00:13:06.900 mentioned in my baby registry video was the itsy ritzy diaper bag so I was gifted that I returned it

00:13:13.400 because it was really heavy and a baby diaper bag is gonna be heavy just already because you put a lot

00:13:20.140 of stuff in it but if it starts off heavy that's just like a nightmare and it was really it was very

00:13:26.420 heavy it's very cute but it's very heavy so I don't recommend getting something like that

00:13:30.620 I traded for something that's a little bit less attractive but that is uh that's a lot lighter

00:13:35.660 okay last two things the electric nose frita this did not work I tried using it on my baby when he had

00:13:41.840 a cold it didn't suck anything out the only thing that worked for us was using the bulbs that they

00:13:47.020 have at the hospital and that worked great but using the electric nose frita it sounds nice but it

00:13:53.380 didn't work and last but not least is washable breast pads okay so here's the thing if you leak a lot 0.99

00:14:00.560 you're gonna need breast pads the washable breast pads show through your shirts and I've used the 1.00

00:14:06.740 lanceno ones that are disposable those don't show in the same way so it really prevents you from

00:14:12.420 wearing like anything that's remotely clingy which is kind of frustrating using the lanceno disposable

00:14:18.140 ones I was actually able to wear clothing that was a little more clingy and I'm so like annoyed at

00:14:23.160 myself that I didn't try it earlier because it took me basically four months to order the lanceno ones

00:14:27.860 and now I can wear way more clothes so even though I like the idea of using reusable breast pads

00:14:35.440 the fact is it really limits what you can wear and you're already limited in what you can wear

00:14:40.020 because you're nursing so that is it for today's video those are my newborn must-haves and the things

00:14:45.800 you definitely should not buy I hope you guys enjoyed it I hope you enjoyed it Mr. Man thank you so

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Classically Abby - August 03, 2022

Newborn MUST-HAVES + Things You Definitely SHOULD NOT Buy...

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