My Favorite Baby Items – 1 Month Postpartum

The Boppy is one of the most popular nursing pillows and is on the lower end of the price range for pillows. I haven’t tried anything else but I think it works perfectly for baby. My husband uses it for nursing and I even like using it as extra support when I hold baby. I also love all the different cover designs and definitely recommend getting an extra cover! The pillow itself is also washable. Standard pricing is around $44.99 but I have seen Boppy’s at Nordstrom Rack for 40% off!

I wasn’t sure if we really needed a diaper caddy since everything is already in the nursery dresser, but we’re keeping baby in our room for the first few months and this caddy was absolutely necessary. I opted for the larger size at $24.95 and the regular size probably is too small. We keep diapers, aquaphor, extra onesies, burp cloths, hand sanitizer – everything we need in here. There’s so many compartments and it makes it easy to find.

This is more of a nice to have than a necessity, but at $6.99 it’s worth it for me. You could just use your hands, but it personally just feels cleaner to me to use this. Baby has peed and pooped while I was brushing Aquaphor on her so I would much rather her pee on this than my hand! It’s easy to wipe clean and the suction on the bottom sticks to the dresser so it doesn’t fall over while you’re changing baby. They also have a mini travel version that we also bought for the diaper bag.

We were given Pampers Swaddlers diapers in the hospital and can confirm that these are leakproof! We also tried Pampers Baby Dry and Pampers Pure. We found that baby would sometimes leak through the Baby Drys and it wasn’t very good against blow outs. The Pampers Pure works just as good as the Swaddlers.

This was one of the first gifts we received off our registry and also one of the first things we used for baby in the hospital! We put it in her bassinet while she slept in the hospital and we use this everyday when she falls asleep in the living room with us. It’s rechargeable, comes with a clip you can use to hang on the stroller, and we plan on taking this with us when we travel. It’s $40.99 with the case or you can opt for just the machine for $25.99.

I’m breastfeeding and pumping because I didn’t want to have to do every single feed and my husband wanted to help, so we definitely needed a bottle warmer. This one is $59.99 on Amazon and is super easy to use – you just fill it up with the appropriate amount of water, set the timer, and the bottle warms up! It does take a few minutes depending on the amount of milk in the bottle, which could feel like a lifetime if you have a crying baby but we’ve never had any issues with it and it does not overheat the milk.

I initially wasn’t going to buy this, but another breastfeeding mom friend highly recommended this! It’s a manual breast pump, but I’ve been using it to catch milk on the boob that baby isn’t nursing on. It took a big of figuring out how to make it suction correctly but I feel like it’s a lot easier than the Medela manual pump. The only thing is you have to be careful that baby doesn’t kick it off while you’re breastfeeding and making sure it doesn’t fall over on the table. I bought the basic version for $12.99, but if I could re do it, I’d buy the version with the cap and suction base ($26.53).

I met with a lactation specialist when I was in the hospital and she helped me correctly measure my flange size and had recommendations for which brands to buy depending on which pump I had. She recommended Maymom for Spectra and I ended up being a size 19mm. The flange size 100% makes a difference in pumping! It’s not painful to pump and I do feel like it pulls more milk.

I got a pair of these for the hospital and the shirt has been great for breastfeeding! These exact pajamas are $37.99 but I really wish I could just buy a pack of the shirts! So much easier to open a few buttons than lifting up a shirt, especially when your child is crying!

This baby carrier is the only thing my husband requested on the baby registry. I started trying to put baby in this baby backpack when she was a couple weeks old and I’m so glad she likes it. Some babies don’t like baby wearing, but she falls asleep and I get to move around the house and get things done. The Ergobaby 360 will run around $150 – $200 and takes a minute to figure out, but is not super complicated to put on. I didn’t realize how big baby wearing was and how many different carriers there are but I’ll definitely be looking into others!

I was initially dead set on not having a WiFi baby monitor but after more research, this is the only WiFi monitor that I would buy. It has 256-bit AES encryption, which for the non-technical people, is very secure. Also people don’t realize that you can still get hacked on non-WiFi monitors if the hackers can find the right frequency. I also love that you can get a travel stand for this so we plan to take this with us whenever we go out of town. It is pricy and runs $300+ depending which package you get, but I waited for the holiday sales to purchase and I’ve even seen it at TJ Maxx on sale! You can also use HSA/FSA funds for this (which I totally did!).

I’m a big fan of Dagne Dover bags and their Landon Caryall is one of my favorites for traveling. I immediately put the Indi Diaper Bag in Camel on my registry when I found out I was pregnant! It’s neoprene material and can be washed in the washing machine (use the dust bag and air dry it), plus there are so many compartments to put baby’s things in. I opted for the medium size instead of large, but if you’re an overpacker, I recommend the large. It is on the pricier side but you can use my link for $20 off.