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Look to your own outfit, then dress the baby accordingly. YouвЂ™ll also have to fight a terrible compulsion to overdress the baby, since they seem so little and vulnerable and naked-newborn-puppy-like. And yet you will get these as gifts from people who either 1) donвЂ™t have children, or 2) HATE YOU.) YouвЂ™ll want to avoid pants for the first couple weeks until the umbilical cord heals.ДЈ. (And IвЂ™m including sleepers with buttons, or anything that fastens up the back. Avoid any clothing that does NOT snap around the legs or easily unzip.

A onesie and a footed sleeper/jammie works about 99.999% of the time.Дў. Some main points on dressing a newborn:ДЎ. Sorry, planet.)Д«ut! Your main question: dressing a newborn.

Six weeks later IвЂ™d say weвЂ™re down to about eight a day. (I can tell you that we went through about one package of newborn diapers a week. Some days you stop and realize that theyвЂ™ve been wearing the same sad pair of jammies since yesterday and feel the need to change them on principle. Some days you get a lot of spit up and leaky diapers and you change their clothes three or four times. But itвЂ™s not, because I either look in EzraвЂ™s closet and see waaaay, waaaaaaaaaay too many clothes that heвЂ™ll never wearвЂ¦or I look in his closet and see rows of bare hangers because he went through every outfit in record time and I have to do laundry AGAIN. So unfortunately I still canвЂ™t really help you with the question of quantity and вЂњhow much of this stuff do you REALLY need,вЂќ even though I should, seeing as I JUST HAD A BABY and my memory should be pretty fresh. DonвЂ™t these clothing manufacturers realize that they are messing with a VERY TIRED, VERY UNSTABLE audience of new parents here?)ДЄ onesie and a footed sleeper/jammie works about 99.999% of the time. And yet a 3-6 month outfit from Baby Gap fits him, but so does this other 0-3 month outfit from the SAME STORE. (LetвЂ™s also NOT TALK about how screwed up baby sizing even is to begin with, since Ezra is now over 10 pounds and outgrowing the very smallest of the newborn sleepers but just now fitting into other newborn sleepers (TargetвЂ™s Circo Brand! Is HUUUGE!) for the first time. IвЂ™m telling you all this - even though I know you didnвЂ™t even ASK about clothing sizes - because seriously, research and register and obsess all you want, youвЂ™re probably going to end up with a lot of the wrong stuff, and are going to be standing in the store four days postpartum buying the right stuff, wondering how the hell you manage to spend nine straight months thinking about baby things and STILL end up screwing it up. 0-3 month clothing was not just вЂњa little bigвЂќ on him. My second son, Ezra, was seven pounds, seven ounces and was just the wee-est little peanut IвЂ™d ever seen. ZERO.ДЄaaaaaand you either know or see where this is going. It was his coming-home outfit, since I guessed with a scheduled c-section before my due date there was a slight chance heвЂ™d be in the low eight-pound range. I bought one package of newborn onesies and one - ONE!! - pair of newborn footie pajamas. I dutifully hung up a few of my first sonвЂ™s, NoahвЂ™s, barely worn 0-3 month sleepers and bought two packages of 0-3 month onesies. Oh, did we EVER load up on 3-6 month clothing. So! This time! I was going to be so! Smart! Second babies tend to be even BIGGER, right? We loaded up on 3-6 month clothing. (I know! Apparently THEY ALL DO THAT.) He was born too big for the вЂњnewbornвЂќ clothing (generally fits babies up to 8 pounds or so, depending on length), and wore the 0-3 month clothing (up to 12 pounds, thereabouts) for barely a month.

An honest-to-God one-month-old at birth who only got bigger. So, as readers of my blog may know, my first baby was big. I live in the Boston-area so itвЂ™ll be cold when the bambino arrives.Дo I start with a white body suit and work up to some footed jammies? How many of these items do I realistically need? But, I have no idea what you put on the baby after the diaper goes on. IвЂ™ve read plenty of books about being pregnant, IвЂ™m signed up for my birthing class and IвЂ™m reading up on breast-feeding techniques (yes, IвЂ™m a nerd).

ONESIES WITH CLOSED HANDS HOW TO

IвЂ™m pregnant with my first child (due in March) and as I was registering for cute baby things, I realized that I have no idea how to dress a newborn baby. I have a ridiculous baby question вЂ“ this should be an easy one for you.

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