Must-have items

[RuthChan]

What products, items and equipment do you find completely essential as parents?
What can you not imagine being without?

nappies

that's about it, could cope without everything else if i had to but i love their pretty cloth nappies and it would kill me to use sposies

umm- the cage at the bottom of the garden wouldn't be without it!

Baby bouncer
Changing unit
Infacol
Dummies
Babygro's
Bodysuits
Flat cot sheets, for swaddling

Cage at the bottom of the garden?
Gotta get me one of those.

Garden?
Better get me one of those first!!!

Calpol, sudacrem

ear plugs

When they were babies I couldn't have lived without Infacol (well I had to for the first 3 months with DS1 because it was off the shelves & boy did I suffer for it!), dummies, muslin squares, baby bouncer & obviously nappies!

Oh yes, and calpol!

Cordless phone.

kitchen roll - in fact lets be specific - bounty. makes and emergency bib, and emergency clean up, high chair scrubber, floor cleaner its brilliant. That and baby wipes cos you can use them to clean the carpet, sofa, loo, yourself, the child and take your make up off!

Cordless phone and remote control when breast feeding..............

Infacol, dummy, playgym, car with huge boot, Vanish stain remover tablets, comfy pillow to lean against for night feeds.

This is really interesting.
Keep 'um coming...

Decent pushchair.

a camera!

Laminate floor and leather sofa to wipe the sick off. Moved to a place with carpet when DS was 3m and its gross.

Deep pockets
Medised
Tixylix
Savlon Spray or Magic Make it Better spray as it was known here.
Placebo medicine, or water from the tap on a medicine spoon - worked wonders when they were little.

saline nose drops - bloomin lifesaver when they are very small with the snuffles

My dishwasher

Bum cream....Metanium ...messy but brilliant.