Hey Cailin, we bought one of those safety first things too !!! thought it would be handy to have something at bed height next to our bed for easy access. Never used it, but threw out the box. It's in the garage now full of baby toys.

Friends also gave us one of the safetfy first bouncers that vibrate - and Caitlin was too big for that by about 4 months old ! Glad I didn't pay for that one.

If you plan on breastfeeding, you must absolutely purchase that sheeps wool waxy nipple cream in the purple tube (can't remember what its called :-( I wore the tube around my neck for the first six weeks, it was my best friend. And the curash baby bum powder was good instead of creams and stuff.

Jolly Jumper was prolly the worst buy, used that about twice. Kept the box for that one, shudda taken it back.

Also didnt really need the fancy change table and bath and drawers in one. A nice wooden chest of drawers with the foam matt on top would have been more useful in the long term.

A good high chair is a must - I looked everywhere for a prima pappa on sale, cos i didnt want to pay $300 ! and ended up with a swallow one that did the same things. I could put caitlin in it and turn my back and know that she wasnt going anywhere.

cheers,
barb.