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The Perfect Nursery
10 Essentials for Baby's Room
By Sue Marquette Poremba
Newborn babies feel safer and more comfortable when swaddled in blankets. A nursery can never have enough receiving blankets. The small blankets are used to wrap the baby for nursing and cuddling or to soothe the baby. They also can double as burp cloths and a changing pad.
9. Health care items. Mooney recommends that every nursery have an ear thermometer. Other items to include in the nursery medicine cabinet include diaper rash cream, an aspirator bulb, infant pain reliever, rubbing alcohol (especially for cleaning the umbilical cord), teething gel, infant nail clippers and petroleum jelly. For the parents and other caregivers, the nursery also should include disinfecting soap and at least one book on medical advice.
10. Diaper pail.And finally, the most important essential is not an item that can be found in stores. Every nursery should include caring adults. Not just the parents, but the adults who will be a part of the baby's life. Every baby deserves to have someone who responds affectionately to the baby and to be lovingly cared for, says Kostelc.
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