My parents got us sheets, then realised very late they got the wrong size and silly me mentioned this in passing to the inlaws - so I bought myself two sets off ebay at the last minute and then everyone else got us heaps too. I have around 10 sets of cot sheets. Several are still in their packets and I probably should resell them.

Only the fitted sheets of two sets get used - plain ones in summer, flanellette ones in winter. Last bubs wasn't a puker.

We NEVER used those stupid wraps everyone gives you. We have dozens. They are too small to properly wrap a baby. They make good dusters and change table covers though. I got my mother to make us some special, really long polar fleece thingies to wrap the wrigglebum with in winter, which wrigglebum now uses to make cubbyhouses with behind the couch.

This baby has to be in a bassinette as we have no room for a second big cot, and I'm probably just going to use the top sheets from the cot as bottom sheets in the bassinette. We bought a secondhand baby capsule and the person we bought it from threw in a stack of flanellette bunny rugs too, so we're seriously set for sheets. Even if this one turns out to be a puker I reckon I could go a solid month without *needing* to wash sheets, we've got so many.

What we did find useful was "puke cloths". Basically tea-towels or facewashers. Great for mopping up milk dribbles after feeds. Essential stuff, as we had a baby that stuffed herself at high speed at feeds and would then need burping or she'd scream a few hours later (took us a while to work this out), and those burps needed cleanup. Every baby is different.