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    Sane Parents Guide: Getting Your Home Ready for Baby
    Sane Parents Guide: Getting Your Home Ready for Baby
    Sane Parents Guide: Getting Your Home Ready for Baby
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    Sane Parents Guide: Getting Your Home Ready for Baby

    By Brad Powell

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    Let’s cut to the chase: What stuff do you REALLY need to get your house ready for the arrival of your first baby? Not the stuff the Big Box retailer tells you that you need. Not the stuff the glossy magazines tell you need. The real and essential baby gear that you just can’t do without. The stuff that will keep you sane, without adding all the stuff that will drive you crazy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrad Powell
    Release dateMar 27, 2012
    ISBN9781476109237
    Sane Parents Guide: Getting Your Home Ready for Baby
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    Brad Powell

    America is seeing a fundamental shift in the role of men in parenting. While many in the media and academia have observed this trend, no company has emerged to meet the needs of these "New" fathers, the modern dads. Enter DadLabs, Inc., a start-up company dedicated to providing creative media content and information products to serve this new generation of "Super Dads." Headquartered in Austin, Texas, DadLabs is an information and entertainment company that fosters the father/child relationship through media, instructional and retail products.

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      Sane Parents Guide - Brad Powell

      Sane Parents Guide: Getting Your Home Ready for Baby

      Essential Gear, Goods and Gadgets to Make Your House Baby Ready

      by Clay Nichols, Brad Powell & Erica De Leon

      Published by DadLabs.com at Smashwords

      Copyright 2012 DadLabs

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of these authors.

      Table of Contents

      An Introduction for Sane Parents

      Chapter 1 – Bedding

      Video Spotlight – Preventing SIDS: New Safe Sleep Guidelines

      Video Spotlight: BabyBjörn Babysitter Balance

      Bedding – Sane Parents vs. Insanity

      Chapter 2 – Changing

      Video Spotlight – Cloth vs. Disposable Diapers

      Video Spotlight – Diaper Pail Sniff Test

      Video Spotlight – Diaper Rash

      Video Spotlight – Constipation

      Video Spotlight – How to Choose a Thermometer

      Video Spotlight – Baby Gear Essentials: High Tech Nail Trimmers

      Changing – Sane Parents vs. Insanity

      Chapter 3 – Bathing

      Video Spotlight – Baby Tubs 101

      Video Spotlight – Bathtub Safety

      Bathing – Sane Parents vs. Insanity

      Chapter 4 – Feeding

      Video Spotlight – Breastfeeding

      Video Spotlight – BPA

      Feeding – Sane Parents vs. Insanity

      Chapter 5 – Clothing

      Video Spotlight – Consignment and Resale Shops

      Video Spotlight – How to Swaddle a Baby

      Clothing – Sane Parents vs. Insanity

      Chapter 6 – Gadgets

      Video Spotlight – Choosing a Camera for Family Photos

      Video Spotlight – Photography Tips

      Video Spotlight – Deliver a Great Birth Video

      Video Spotlight – Baby Monitors

      Gadgets – Sane Parents vs. Insanity

      An Introduction for Sane Parents

      Let’s cut to the chase: What stuff do you REALLY need to get your house ready for the arrival of your first baby? Not the stuff the Big Box retailer tells you that you need. Not the stuff the glossy magazines tell you need. The real and essential baby gear that you just can’t do without. The stuff that will keep you sane, without adding all the stuff that will drive you crazy.

      That’s what you’ll find here.

      How do we know? From experience. Raising a bunch of our own kids. And from populating DadLabs.com with over 800 videos and 500 articles on the subject of being a parent. And also from talking to a whole lot of parents who come to the site with information and insights of their own. We don’t claim to be experts. Just veterans. And what we suggest here comes from our day-to-day lives as parents. And we’re still sane. Mostly.

      We will do our best to keep the fluff and frills to a minimum (though this is an eBook about babies after all).

      If you find something that you disagree with, you try something we suggest and it fails miserably (or succeeds wildly), we want to know about it. Join the conversation going on the forums at DadLabs.com and let us know what you think.

      A note on timing:

      When should we start getting the house ready for the baby?

      Although it may seem early, start thinking about the nursery when the pregnancy hits around 30 weeks or a couple of months before the baby is due. The biggest reason to start early - the outside possibility that your baby might arrive prematurely. Other circumstances in your life also might change unexpectedly. Our best advice is to be prepared.

      You’ll want to get your home prepared in 6 distinct areas:

      Bedding

      Changing

      Bathing

      Feeding

      Clothing

      Gadgets

      Each will get a chapter here.

      What you won’t find in this ebook:

      Anything on Mobility Gear (car seats and strollers), Financial Planning, Babyproofing, or Marriage Advice. Sane Parents Guides covering those topics are on their way.

      A final bit of housekeeping before we get to the nesting: This series of books is produced in partnership with BabyBjörn and their North

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