I know I'm not a mom, but I lived with my oldest brother for the 2 years helping his raise his daughter (his crazy g.f got pregnant, didn't want the baby but he did. He said if she had the baby he would take full custody of it and she wouldn't have to have anything to do with it...she agreed and hasn't seen the baby since the csection...He only lives like 5 minutes from my parents house and he works night shift so for two years he watched her during the days when he didn't have to work and she went to my parents when he was sleeping during the day..and I watched her at night after school...Family effort lol...but he met a wonderful girl just after Shanna was born and they're married now so they don't need me anymore...point of this story is that I have delt with babies...so I'm going to throw my two cents in lol)

We never used the monitor, baby knapsac thing (the one you put the baby in and strap on your front) or those silly baby cd's

we couldn't have lived without the bassinet, since she was always moved from my bros bedroom to my bedroom it was the easiest thing to move around until she started sleeping in her crib in her room)

we never had issues with too many clothes because there wasn't a baby shower (it might be weird having a baby shower for the dad...since the mom didn't want anything to do with the baby she never had one either) ..and mom told everone up front to buy bigger clothes and most ppl did.....and I had a friend who worked at the babystore in town (small town so thats where most people shopped) so she let me exchange sizes on the clothes that we never used...

anyways..this is way too long and i've got to get to class...just thought I'd throw out my two cents...but it seems I had to explain alot so it was like a whole dollars worth ...