You can’t for the day when you’ll hold your newborn in your arms, can you! It’s definitely one of the most beautiful feelings in the world, something you cant compare to anything else. Yet, you are a first time parent and you are pretty cluless as to what to do. Sure, there’s love and plenty of it – but what about all the other necessities a newborn needs? Here’s how to prepare your home for your wonderful bundle of joy!
Baby’s Room!
You are aware that you won’t get much sleep in the first months. You’ll be getting up for feedings during the night, to check on your baby, to see if all is okay… Think carefully where you want to position the baby’s room – is it going to be closer to the bedroom for feeding convenience or is it going to be a bit further away so that daddy can have a good sleep and be able to run his meetings the next day? You know best!
Decorations
Is it a girl or a boy? Either one, you’ll every second of decorating this lovely nursery! You want your baby to stay in the best looking room but you must neglect safety. Also, don’t overcrowd the room with too much baby stuff before your baby has even arrived. All you need for now are the basics – the crib, dresser, changing table, a rocking chair. Naturally, you can paint the walls any color you like and even decorate them with wall stickers. You’ve got plenty of time to add other items later.
Baby Proofing
Even though it probably seems like a huge and pretty overwhelming deal, baby proofing isn’t so time-consuming if you start right away. Once you come from the hospital, you’ll have plenty of other things in mind and won’t even think about dealing with it. Naturally, all safety needs should be re-evaluated once the baby starts crawling and walking.
Hygiene
You want every little thing to be perfect when your newborn arrives. One of the most important aspects of welcoming your bundle of joy to its new home is to welcome it in a clean house. Steam cleaners are your magic wand this time around! With them you’ll purify the air in the room, eliminate the bacteria and your baby will be safe and sound.
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11 responses to “Excited About Your Newborn Coming Home? Prepare Everything Just Right!”
new babies are always fun and exciting. one of my favorite parts of getting ready for a new baby is setting up their room.
I loved setting up the nursery and getting all of their baby stuff ready.
Though I really want a new baby in the house (we have kids already!) I can’t imagine myself going through baby proofing again!
Ah its not as bad as it seems, my youngest son is 10 year younger than my older kids. I love the age gap and they get along well.
With my daughter we were so unprepared! She came almost 2 weeks early and I really didn’t expect her to arrive before her “due” date. I’m Due with #2 in December and will definitely be on top of these types of things this time around!
My daughter came a week early and caught me kinda off guard too. Everything worked out though. My oldest son was a week late so I cleaned like a mad woman my last month of pregnancy and then I was bored.
I agree with Pehpot. Baby proofing is hard! 😀
It isn’t too bad. For the most part, I just picked up the small stuff, put the plastic things in the plugs, and locked up my chemicals.
I love babies a lot. Newborns always gives us more fun and exciting moments. All these are great tips for a newborn coming home & I would say Hygiene plays the most important role than anything else. Thanks for the nice article.
I love babies too. I agree hygiene is very important especially for visitors who are coming over to see the baby.
I remember preparing for everything months before. I painted the nursery a couple times and made sure to research and talked to the paint experts to see which paints I could use while pregnant and save for baby. I wanted to make sure it was dry and done long before baby arrived. I cleaned, disinfected everything. A few weeks before I was washing and folding clothes, all kinds of stuff. So much prep but it was always fun for me. The whole nesting thing I think