S2E8: Bringing Baby Home- What You Actually Need
Nebraska Extension Early Childhood Program Area-Emily Manning, Dr. Holly Hatton, Ingrid Lindal, Erin Kampbell, Linda Reddish, Katie Krause, and LaDonna Werth
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01/28/2025
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Nebraska Extension Educators Tasha Wulf and Katie Krause share their personal experiences preparing for a baby in this episode, offering a mix of humorous and heartfelt stories. They also explore research on marketing to new parents and how to identify reputable sources of information. Tune in for valuable insights into the emotional journey of parenthood, the influence of marketing on new parents' choices, and finding trusted resources along the way.
Resources:
Consumer Product Safety Commission- https://www.cpsc.gov/
American Academy of Pediatrics- https://www.aap.org/
Consumer Reports- Babies and Kids: https://www.consumerreports.org/babies-kids/
References:
Voice Group. (2010). Buying into motherhood? Problematic consumption and ambivalence in transitional phases. Consumption, Markets and Culture, 13(4), 373-397
Thompson , R. , Kehily , M.J. , Hadfield , L. and Sharpe , S. 2008 . The making of modern motherhood: Memories, identities and practices , The Open University .
Voice Group. (2010). Motherhood, marketization, and consumer vulnerability. Journal of Macromarketing, 30(4), 384-397.
The following music was used for this media project: Music: Afterparty Review by Sascha Ende Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/2962-afterparty-review License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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- [00:00:00.000]♪♪♪ This is the Good Life in Early Life a production of Nebraska Extension. I'm your host Emily Manning
- [00:00:13.280]an Early Childhood Extension Educator. We've got a great show lined up for you today where we're
- [00:00:18.060]going to be talking about that question of "What do you really need for bringing home a baby?" And
- [00:00:24.400]I've got two fabulous guests here with me today. Two of my colleagues Early Childhood Extension
- [00:00:28.660]Educators Katie Krause and Tasha Wolf. I'm so excited for you all to hear from them. So, Katie
- [00:00:34.280]and Tasha would you take a moment to tell us about yourself? Let's start with Tasha. Hi, everyone.
- [00:00:39.360]I'm Tasha Wolf and I do work for the University of Nebraska Lincoln. I'm actually housed in McCook
- [00:00:44.840]Nebraska and then my area of expertise is infants and toddlers and also social emotional development.
- [00:00:50.960]Wonderful that's awesome so you're very qualified to talk on this topic! So Tasha I heard you
- [00:00:55.820]had some good news...you might be bringing home a baby in the spring. Do you want to tell us a little
- [00:01:00.340]bit about that, if are you able to? Yeah so I'm actually in the process of doing a kinship
- [00:01:05.240]adoption. Right now she's four months old and so it's I've known since she was born and so it's
- [00:01:11.260]been fun kind of getting to know her and kind of live this experience of when will she come when
- [00:01:16.780]will she come. Our hope and goal is that in spring she'll be coming so we're really excited.
- [00:01:22.800]So excited for you Tasha, I can't wait for you to be able to bring her
- [00:01:25.800]home permanently and what a perfect way to share your knowledge and expertise and share your
- [00:01:30.920]experience with us on this podcast! Katie, how about you? Sure, yeah, so I'm Katie Krause. I live in Ralston
- [00:01:37.400]Nebraska so right in the Omaha area, and I serve Douglas and Sarpy counties through my role
- [00:01:42.340]as an Extension Educator with UNL. I specialize in nature-based learning and I do a lot of work
- [00:01:48.860]with teaching our teachers so those adults that care for children mostly ages birth to five but
- [00:01:54.620]also birth to eight.
- [00:01:55.780]And I do a lot of work in educational approaches and best practices in that kind of world and
- [00:02:02.280]also I'm starting to do a bit more with infant toddler care as well. So, at home, my spouse and I
- [00:02:08.060]have three littles, so I have a son that's seven, I have a daughter who's five, and then another
- [00:02:14.060]daughter who is 14 months tomorrow. So we have our three kiddos
- [00:02:19.680]and they are a blast. Wonderful, thanks, Katie. I'm so excited to have Katie's expertise and her
- [00:02:25.760]experience kind of being a more experienced mother and then I'm excited to have Tasha who's
- [00:02:29.880]just at the beginning of that journey. I think that'll be really fun to have both of your
- [00:02:34.600]perspectives here in this interview. First off, Katie or Tasha, do you have a funny or cute story
- [00:02:40.000]about you as an infant that your family has told you? So I have an older brother. He's
- [00:02:47.080]two and a half years older than me and my mom has said that in utero like before we were even born
- [00:02:53.980]she could tell our personality.
- [00:02:55.740]We were very different, my brother was born late. he like has always needed like a kick in the butt
- [00:03:02.240]like he's kind of just like very laid back, and then I have been the opposite. I wasn't born too
- [00:03:07.660]early but i broke my mom's tailbone when I was born, so she's like "you've always been like ready
- [00:03:14.500]to go" kind of needed rein back in. So yeah even before I was born I was giving my mom some
- [00:03:21.340]problems. I guess you were pushing the boundaries and testing limits
- [00:03:25.720]which you're known for. Which is literally my mother's poor body!
- [00:03:29.880]Thanks for sharing, Katie. Tasha, how about you? Yeah, I have a pretty interesting I guess birth
- [00:03:38.100]story. My mom always tells is that I'm her third and so she went to the hospital and they were
- [00:03:46.060]saying, "Hh you know it's gonna be a while. We're gonna go have dinner" and my mom's like, "No, I think
- [00:03:50.260]I feel the head right now" and they had just checked her. But she luckily went through
- [00:03:55.700]pretty fast with me and so they had to actually find a doctor that didn't even have shoes on to
- [00:04:00.140]come deliver me so that's kind of my birth story. Oh my gosh! That's funny that's you were ready to
- [00:04:05.900]come into this world! All right, so let's get into the focus of our episode which is how to prepare
- [00:04:11.400]for bringing home an infant. It's exciting to bring home an infant like "Yay! Baby's coming home!"
- [00:04:18.080]but then reality sets in and it's...Now what? Now what do I do? Where do I start? So Tasha,
- [00:04:25.680]you're preparing to bring home your first baby here in the spring. What's that experience been
- [00:04:30.700]like for you? What are you feeling and what are you thinking? I'm definitely very excited. This
- [00:04:36.240]process has taught me to really be patient and in the moment because I'm typically a planner
- [00:04:41.180]so there's not a definite time or definite idea always and so I'm just kind of trying to prepare
- [00:04:48.460]but not prepare which is very hard for me. So keeping up to date on where she is on her growth
- [00:04:53.400]as far as like diaper size clothing
- [00:04:55.660]size. She is very tall and so she just turned four months and I think we'll be moving to six
- [00:05:01.940]to nine month clothes soon. So that's one thing is is if I would have went out and bought a lot
- [00:05:05.860]of things and like the weather or according to what I thought normal growth would be I would
- [00:05:10.860]have had to probably you know not use it or return it just because her growth is going to be probably
- [00:05:15.220]different. So, just trying to keep up on that trying to realize what do I need or don't need
- [00:05:19.960]in this process. What will she outgrow by the time I will have her, it's kind of interesting
- [00:05:25.640]too and just keeping up to date on those things. Question for you out of a personal curiosity... when you
- [00:05:31.880]found out that you were going to be going through this kinship adoption, did your level of targeted
- [00:05:37.040]ads about pregnancy baby stuff increase once you found out that you're going to be going
- [00:05:42.640]through this process? Definitely. The moment I started looking up baby stuff whether I was
- [00:05:48.020]googling questions or looking up things to buy all of a sudden my social media and everything
- [00:05:54.200]started gearing towards baby
- [00:05:55.620]and so things would pop up as must-have items and I'd have to chuckle because some of them
- [00:06:01.200]were kind of crazy. Like this wicker giraffe basket is a must-have. I was like "Well, no, I don't think so."
- [00:06:07.980]But, even with my background of early childhood and knowing those things
- [00:06:12.280]that are probably helpful versus maybe not so helpful and just being marketed towards parents,
- [00:06:16.700]it was very hard, because you wanted to have the best for your baby or think you're doing the best
- [00:06:21.340]for your baby and there was lots of times I had to really stop and say "Yeah, that's really
- [00:06:25.600]cute and maybe someone wants that, but it's not a 'must' need." So, even trying to really keep myself
- [00:06:30.020]in check of what's just really cute or what's kind of really just being marketed to me to what
- [00:06:34.880]what is needed. So I'm guessing you didn't get the giraffe basket? No I did not get the giraffe basket.
- [00:06:41.320]Yeah, so what I hear kind of from what you're saying Tasha is you're hearing a lot of ads
- [00:06:48.240]that are saying like these are the things that you need for your baby. These are the things that
- [00:06:51.460]you need to be successful, and it's kind of like they're almost preying on
- [00:06:55.580]your vulnerability as an expecting parent or expecting to bring home a baby and wanting to
- [00:07:02.580]do the best for this infant that you're going to be bringing home. So that's what
- [00:07:06.680]it sounded like to me as you're talking. They definitely are and so that is really hard to
- [00:07:11.360]keep in mind when you are thinking 'I do want the best for my baby' but is that the best?
- [00:07:15.620]When you get marketed to like that and it's repetitively brought to you, it can be very hard.
- [00:07:21.600]So just going back kind of to my own growing up of like what do I really need? Or,
- [00:07:25.560]when I was in a classroom with kids, what did we really use? And what was really
- [00:07:29.600]suggested for development versus not really suggested for development? Yeah, absolutely.
- [00:07:34.940]Katie, I'm going to pull you in here. You've been through the process before where you've had stuff
- [00:07:40.660]marketed to you and then you've had the baby come home and probably know what you need and maybe
- [00:07:46.040]don't need just based on your own lived experience. Do you want to comment on that? Yeah at first I was
- [00:07:51.260]going to make a comment too, you know I was getting ready for our podcast together because
- [00:07:55.540]I do work for university and I really believe a lot in research and understanding the research
- [00:08:00.760]basis for things. And, I will say I would consider myself an expert in early childhood care and
- [00:08:06.520]education but that more so in the realm of working in child care working in preschools kind of care
- [00:08:13.200]outside of family care right like cared by not family child care but cared for by somebody
- [00:08:19.200]other than a family member like in child care settings preschool school. As far as family,
- [00:08:25.520]I don't know if iIhave a lot of expertise in parenting
- [00:08:30.740]across the board, I just share my own parenting experience. But, it's so interesting what Tasha
- [00:08:35.920]was sharing because a lot of the research in this area is all out of economics and marketing
- [00:08:40.100]and consumer like a consumer product type things and one of the articles from pretty recently was
- [00:08:45.800]talking about how when you look back at as long as there's been advertising and marketing that
- [00:08:52.060]companies create this like good mother kind of image.
- [00:08:55.500]It's like 'I'm the good mother. Here I am with this beautiful giraffe basket.' Or, 'Here I am with
- [00:09:00.680]you know whatever thing it is' that you're being told to buy. There's a campaign intentionally being
- [00:09:07.260]done to make you feel like if you get this thing it'll make you a better parent or a better
- [00:09:11.880]mother or better father or better caregiver. So I just think that's so interesting you know my
- [00:09:16.280]stories you know I got married a little older I got married when I was 30 but I had Weston
- [00:09:21.080]when I was almost 35. I turned 35 after I had him, so a little bit older.
- [00:09:25.480]And I've worked in infant toddler classrooms, I've been doing this for over 10 years by the time I
- [00:09:30.980]had my own child and it kind of felt like the way that people were talking to me like families and
- [00:09:38.200]friends and it wasn't intentional but it's like 'Your life is gonna change.' I was like "Yeah.
- [00:09:44.120]We know that. We are excited. We're having this baby on purpose." Like we are, this
- [00:09:50.540]is not like some like accidental you know. It was just very strange to me and
- [00:09:55.460]I was going to get some maternity clothes and at the brick and mortar [store] which sadly there's
- [00:10:00.720]brick and mortar stores of this are gone now but there's this brick and mortar store I would go up
- [00:10:05.320]to the cashier just to get a couple shirts or whatever and some pants and their kind of slogan
- [00:10:09.740]was 'This is going to be fun!' I like looked at the cashier and I was like 'I cannot tell you how badly
- [00:10:16.060]I needed to see that sign today!' Like this is going to be fun, and it doesn't always feel that
- [00:10:22.000]way when you're getting ready or when your baby is here with you.
- [00:10:25.440]But it was a way that consumer marketing really picked me up from a you know from a spotIi didn't
- [00:10:32.140]you know really picked me up and made me feel better to remind me that this is going to be
- [00:10:35.920]a lot of fun when baby comes. And I think for me as my husband and I prepared you know for our
- [00:10:40.980]first child it's kind of but it is a lot of fun like there's things you don't have to get and you
- [00:10:44.860]shouldn't feel pressured but it's also totally fine to you know if you want to go on you know
- [00:10:49.160]whatever you want to do that's helping you make that transition from who you are before you have
- [00:10:55.420]baby to, you know, if you're if you're having your baby through pregnancy or through adoption
- [00:11:00.080]that time between. Right? Like Tasha's going through that time between the baby's here, but I'm not
- [00:11:05.260]going to get the baby until the spring or you're pregnant with baby. And again, the research really
- [00:11:09.560]talks about the transitions and that we consume products to manage role uncertainty and also to
- [00:11:18.300]help us bridge identities so I think so much of how much of that like prepping for baby is
- [00:11:25.400]helping us think about that new role and what that's going to look like and it is about getting
- [00:11:30.920]stuff for baby. But a lot of times it's also for us and that's okay, right? But, don't be tricked into
- [00:11:36.240]getting things you don't need either. And how do we do that Katie hHow do we know what we need
- [00:11:41.700]when maybe we haven't ever experienced caregiving before or we haven't had a baby before?
- [00:11:49.700]Yeah s,o I was talking with a friend of mine that has two kiddos and is thinking about hopefully
- [00:11:55.380]trying for a third baby eventually and we were kind of laughing together about how for our first
- [00:11:59.740]baby we got a lot of things not only ourselves but we're gifted a lot especially if your baby
- [00:12:05.440]is one of the first babies in like the next generation or my middle child is the first
- [00:12:10.600]first girl on either side of our family but we kind of laughed because we were like yeah for
- [00:12:16.380]our first baby our preparation was buying all the stuff and then for our second and then
- [00:12:21.340]definitely for my third baby it was like just getting rid of all the things we've had
- [00:12:25.360]left over from our first from our first baby and for my third baby I think I bought like two things
- [00:12:31.740]and then I was more excited to find out Layla's gender so I could get rid of literally like seven
- [00:12:39.120]boxes of baby boy clothes and like toddler boy clothes and I had been hoarding in case we had a
- [00:12:44.820]boy so yeah but but what do you really need it's really hard to give a list right because it's
- [00:12:49.640]about your own beliefs your own cultural beliefs your own family beliefs what you value and
- [00:12:55.340]and it's so hard because things can but it's you just can't judge yourself or judge others for what
- [00:13:00.660]they decide to get or not to get I mean there are some essentials things like diapers we cloth
- [00:13:08.000]diaper so for our family that has been a huge money saving um over the years because I have
- [00:13:14.320]three children so I have cloth diaper at all three um so but that was something you know
- [00:13:19.060]having some diapers having a safe place maybe to sleep towels they don't need toys yet they
- [00:13:25.320]newborn clothes you got to be careful with because some babies come home from the hospital
- [00:13:28.900]not even fitting in newborn clothes yeah thanks for sharing on that Tasha how about you um
- [00:13:34.520]what's kind of been your thought process and how you've been organizing and preparing to
- [00:13:39.980]bring home baby yeah like I said um I'm a preparer and I've been in the field so
- [00:13:44.780]there were lots of things that I thought I would have done differently or probably would have would
- [00:13:49.960]do differently if I had been pregnant and was preparing ahead of time for I did a lot of
- [00:13:55.300]like trainings in the past about what's good for your baby and that I probably would have maybe
- [00:14:00.020]breastfed if I had given birth to the baby but of course that's not not possible and actually
- [00:14:05.160]she has a very sensitive stomach so we had to have a very specialized formula for her and I don't know
- [00:14:11.380]if that would have been different either way so just things like that that have changed because
- [00:14:15.480]of the circumstances that yeah now she does use formula in a bottle which is also fine you know
- [00:14:20.560]that's what their doctor recommends and she does have a lot of reflex so I never thought how many
- [00:14:25.280]burp floss or bibs I would need at such a young age luckily when I get to visit there's laundry
- [00:14:30.700]right there and we can wash it but usually it's like two loads a day for her so that's
- [00:14:34.980]definitely to think about is how much do you buy if you need to have laundry
- [00:14:38.500]somewhere else. Or, you know, for me, when I kind of can go visit her, I try to keep it minimal
- [00:14:43.750]because I don't know how much she's going to grow the next time I get to visit her. So doing laundry
- [00:14:48.290]works good for me because I can easily do that. But those are some things too, I had to kind of
- [00:14:52.210]think about and learn like buy less and do more laundry, which I'm kind of maybe would have been
- [00:14:57.430]a big spender and have lots and do laundry less if it wasn't the circumstance. So we've talked
- [00:15:03.330]about diapers. We talked about formula and breastfeeding just a little bit. What are some
- [00:15:06.970]other things that we might definitely need? Or is it hard to say that? I mean, you guys have been
- [00:15:12.670]saying like, it's hard to know. It's hard to know based on the growth and the time of year.
- [00:15:16.370]Yeah, I think that is one thing is that it is very individualized on what your situation is,
- [00:15:23.270]what maybe your economic situation is, what your personal beliefs are. And then I think it also,
- [00:15:28.390]things are going to change for each child. Baby girl is very much cold a lot. And so it's like,
- [00:15:36.610]I have to think about layers for her. Or, you know, lately, there's been a lot of research of
- [00:15:41.010]letting their feet be free to really kind of get sensory input from their feet. And she hates her
- [00:15:45.950]feet to be cold. So kind of also having to change and individualize to that child as well.
- [00:15:51.330]Yeah, Tasha, that's a great point. I usually recommend to like, even things like a burp cloth.
- [00:15:58.370]My favorite burp cloths are a trifold diaper insert that we don't use for diapers. We use
- [00:16:05.070]it as a burp cloth. So-
- [00:16:06.250]So I'm always like, don't buy like a hundred of something. Look at those registries. And when
- [00:16:12.450]they say to get like six packages of something, just get one or get one of two or three different
- [00:16:18.170]kinds, because there's so many different kinds out there and you're going to find your personal
- [00:16:22.610]preference and your baby's going to have a personal preference. Maybe if you have a,
- [00:16:26.430]you know, if there's somebody else that's co-parenting, a spouse or a partner,
- [00:16:29.550]you know, or if they're going to an in-home program or a childcare center,
- [00:16:33.930]they might prefer something else. So don't,
- [00:16:36.210]you know, that's what I usually say. Don't,
- [00:16:37.570]don't go like all your eggs in a basket of something because that might not
- [00:16:41.350]end up being what you want. And there is good resale. I mean,
- [00:16:44.930]we do resale to get a lot of our stuff. We do a lot of resale clothing,
- [00:16:47.830]but thinking about, you know, if you want to have more than one child,
- [00:16:51.170]it might be worth the investment in something that's a little more long
- [00:16:54.410]lasting. I wouldn't know.
- [00:16:56.290]I don't know if I'd recommend cloth diapers,
- [00:16:57.630]if you're only planning to ever have one baby because you know,
- [00:17:00.770]those kinds of things. So really thinking about where, again,
- [00:17:03.630]what you value, what's meaningful,
- [00:17:06.170]for you what's going to help you make that transition to parenthood or
- [00:17:09.790]motherhood feel good.
- [00:17:10.990]And that's okay to buy things just to feel good sometimes. So.
- [00:17:14.190]So it's really okay to be in the moment and,
- [00:17:16.650]and just learn as you go and you don't have to necessarily have everything
- [00:17:21.410]ready before baby comes.
- [00:17:23.610]You can kind of get things settled as you're as baby is growing and they'll
- [00:17:27.790]grow with you, I guess is kind of what I'm hearing.
- [00:17:30.030]Yeah. I do have a cautionary tale about that too, Emily.
- [00:17:32.870]I want to make sure I shared. So like I said, I did end up breastfeeding.
- [00:17:36.130]Breastfeeding is really, it disappoints me because it is something that unfortunately
- [00:17:41.870]has become something that is more accessible to people that have more flexible jobs,
- [00:17:47.030]higher incomes. It's just the nature of our society, which is kind of a bummer because
- [00:17:52.170]if you want to breastfeed your baby, you should have all the supports you need, hopefully.
- [00:17:56.670]And that's not how our society is. And if you choose not to breastfeed your baby,
- [00:18:01.090]fed is best. Right. But I was so excited about like getting my like prescription
- [00:18:06.090]from my doctor when I was pregnant with Weston that I went and got my pump when I was like three
- [00:18:11.410]or four months out from having him. And I want to be ready. And I was excited. And I was like,
- [00:18:15.770]this is great that I get covered by insurance. And then I didn't use it for eight or nine weeks
- [00:18:20.850]because I was home with him for eight weeks before I went back to work. And luckily, I only
- [00:18:26.010]I had one small issue with it that was fixable in-house at the at Milkworks lactation place that
- [00:18:31.590]I go. They help me fix it. But there's only a one year guarantee or one year warranty,
- [00:18:36.050]and most of those pumps. So I was already before I even use my pump, I was already almost seven
- [00:18:41.990]months into my one year warranty. So I learned that because I just you know, and and I didn't
- [00:18:47.210]buy my pump from the lactation consultants. So they they tell people that now I mean, they,
- [00:18:52.110]they do tell people that I just bought it somewhere else. I didn't know that. So when I
- [00:18:56.670]had my my daughters, I actually didn't buy a pump until I like a week before I went back to work,
- [00:19:02.090]just because I didn't want to, you know, if something went wrong with it, I didn't want to
- [00:19:06.010]have money and have to pay to replace it myself. So. So again, I'm hearing maybe we don't prepare.
- [00:19:10.730]No, I'm kidding. Please prepare. But maybe we need to prepare as much as we've been conditioned
- [00:19:18.790]to think we we should be. Yes. Yeah, I think prepare, but also be ready to adapt. You know,
- [00:19:25.490]like you might have, like Katie said earlier, you might have a bottle that you've researched and
- [00:19:31.090]this is going to be like the best bottle if you're doing formula and that baby might reject that bottle
- [00:19:35.970]as a nipple. So I have seen now that some places offer like a variety pack for like pacifiers and
- [00:19:42.570]bottles. And I actually do think that's a great idea. So then you have a few to try and kind of
- [00:19:49.030]see. So that is something I've seen that I'm like, hey, that's helpful that industries are doing now
- [00:19:53.590]or registry places are doing that. You can kind of get this variety pack.
- [00:19:57.910]Kasia, that's such a great point. And I think I mentioned earlier too, or get them and try them,
- [00:20:02.230]but don't open them all up and wash them all. I'll see a post on getting,
- [00:20:05.930]ready for baby. And they have like all their laundry hanging, you know, everything. They've
- [00:20:09.870]washed every single piece of clothing they've gotten and taken the tags off. And they washed
- [00:20:13.690]every single, you know, 30 bottles or something, all the same bottle with the same nipple size and
- [00:20:19.150]everything. And it's all ready to go when baby comes. And I'm like, Oh, I hope baby likes that
- [00:20:24.130]bottle. Right. I know we also kind of mentioned like things to buy or not to buy use. Cause I do
- [00:20:30.010]think for babies, that's a great thing. You know, there are some bassinets that are only good for
- [00:20:35.890]some babies are only going to be in it for a little bit. So there are some great used products
- [00:20:41.190]out there to kind of recycle within our world, especially cause they're not going to be overly
- [00:20:45.870]used. And so I think that's a great thing. I think we also were on it to say like, maybe things not
- [00:20:50.590]to rebuy. And one for me is because of my lifestyle, I wanted one of those car seats
- [00:20:56.650]that had a stroller connected to it. And so I did look at those online and I just
- [00:21:01.530]more and more felt uncomfortable about not knowing whether or not they were in an
- [00:21:05.850]accident or not, or then being preused. So that was something that I did eventually say, you know,
- [00:21:11.750]I'm going to buy that brand new because as much as you want to trust people reselling things,
- [00:21:16.270]you know, you just want to be really cautious about certain things. So that was definitely
- [00:21:19.830]something that I was like, you know, I'm going to invest in that because I think for my lifestyle,
- [00:21:24.010]that's going to be important. Any other tips for things that you would or wouldn't buy used?
- [00:21:29.270]So technically, you're not supposed to buy used breast pumps. Most of them are, they're not,
- [00:21:35.810]able to be reused. So that's, again, a personal decision for you to make.
- [00:21:40.370]I think always when you're doing kind of resale or looking out for used things to just
- [00:21:45.270]really knowing the value of what things are or what you could maybe find them on sale for as
- [00:21:50.610]well. I know I've looked for clothes sometimes and I've been like, um, I think I could buy that
- [00:21:55.470]actually in store cheaper. As someone buying, I just try to really be cautious of like,
- [00:22:00.850]is that a great deal or not? One thing that I've been really surprised with is I haven't
- [00:22:05.770]bought diapers from a store yet. I can find those being sold, whether that's a good thing or not.
- [00:22:11.510]We just make sure they're in their package still. And so, and we just make sure we're
- [00:22:15.590]getting a really good deal on them. Otherwise we probably would, you know,
- [00:22:18.430]buy them from the store otherwise. So. You know, that reminded me too,
- [00:22:22.270]just think about like safety issues. Another thing to consider, especially for new products,
- [00:22:27.510]is that just because something is being sold in a store or, you know, online,
- [00:22:31.930]wherever it might be, it doesn't necessarily mean that that product is really,
- [00:22:35.730]in the best interest for your baby and your family. There was some interesting research
- [00:22:40.370]about infant feeding practices, and they had looked at products that were being marketed towards
- [00:22:46.250]babies that are like coming off of formula or breast milk and starting to eat table foods and
- [00:22:51.450]all those different like packets and all kinds of things you can buy. And, you know, those can be
- [00:22:55.130]great, but they were finding that some of those really had poor nutritional value and were not
- [00:22:59.690]meeting nutritional requirements for children. So I do really like the Consumer Product Safety Commission
- [00:23:05.690]they do have safety regulations for some products like bedside sleepers, strollers, crib mattresses,
- [00:23:14.770]different types of baby swings. There's all kinds of things that kind of fall under that. So that's
- [00:23:19.730]a great resource to look for. And then also if you are buying something used to also double check
- [00:23:25.330]to make sure that product has not been recalled. We did buy our crib and like bedroom set for our
- [00:23:35.650]store in our community. And we, before we purchased it, we were able to check the labels on that and
- [00:23:41.610]make sure that that, that none of that equipment that we were buying that furniture had been
- [00:23:45.410]recalled either. So really keep that in mind too, that you don't just because it's being sold
- [00:23:50.850]doesn't mean it's, it's necessary or that it's even in the best interest of you and your baby.
- [00:23:56.250]Maybe we just need to let people know what we value as good sources,
- [00:24:01.270]because there is a lot of stuff getting marketed to you or geared towards you
- [00:24:05.610]so big things for me are American Association of Pediatrics. So AAP is huge. There's some really
- [00:24:12.330]good consumer safety product reports that are out there that you can look into. Lots of hospitals
- [00:24:18.030]have really great resources about these types of things. They're often written by doctors or
- [00:24:23.970]people that work within the hospital system. And then peer reviewed, they might not, there's
- [00:24:29.510]unfortunately not a lot of actual research articles. If you're like Emily and Tasha and I,
- [00:24:34.170]you love to read research articles.
- [00:24:35.730]There's not a lot of peer reviewed empirical research in this, but really looking for towards
- [00:24:41.810]some of those more reputable sources, you know, and I will admit, I love some folks on Instagram,
- [00:24:46.910]but I check their credentials, right? I'm like, is this person really a nutrition, you know,
- [00:24:53.050]a dietitian, which is a, is somebody who's gone through school and has a degree in dietetics and,
- [00:24:58.990]and, and, you know, not an, a nutritionist is different. I've, I work with nutrition and
- [00:25:03.570]dietitians. I have learned the difference.
- [00:25:05.530]Right. Or is this person saying that you're a nutritionist, which they might have a lot of
- [00:25:09.770]great credentials, or they just did their own research and have decided to make an Instagram
- [00:25:16.190]account about baby food and nutrition when they might not really know very much. So you do have
- [00:25:22.210]to do a little bit more of your own due diligence. I was just going to add another resource into the
- [00:25:26.810]mix. When I was doing my research for the, in preparation for this episode, I came across
- [00:25:31.030]consumer reports and that is where they kind of review products.
- [00:25:35.490]Tell you kind of the ratings on several products. Typically you have to have a subscription to see
- [00:25:41.550]some of those reviews, but for baby products, specifically car seats, you do not have to
- [00:25:47.230]have a subscription to view their information on how they've rated different products out on
- [00:25:52.570]the market because they've consumer reports have said that there's a lot of misinformation out
- [00:25:57.030]there and we want parents to have access to that information and they didn't want to put a paywall
- [00:26:02.590]to reduce access to that. So consumer reports is an,
- [00:26:05.450]another place that you can go to for some information on ratings on different products.
- [00:26:09.850]Ellie, that's a great point too. Car seats in the United States are regulated.
- [00:26:13.750]There, there could be different safety features above and beyond the minimum standards.
- [00:26:19.350]All the attachments that you see on car seats that you can buy, those are not recommended,
- [00:26:25.790]any attachments to car seats, unless it was made by the car seat manufacturer.
- [00:26:29.830]So I think that's a perfect example of like one part of the thing that is like
- [00:26:35.410]regulation, really solid.
- [00:26:37.150]And then right next to it in the aisle of the store are all of those things that you
- [00:26:42.630]can hang from it.
- [00:26:43.530]And none of those are recommended by AAP and Consumer Safety Products and Car Seat Safety,
- [00:26:50.370]I can't remember the name, but Certified Car Seat Safety Organizations.
- [00:26:53.870]So it can be super confusing.
- [00:26:56.830]Yeah, they make it difficult.
- [00:26:58.330]Tasha, you were going to chime in, I think.
- [00:27:00.250]Yeah, I was just going to kind of also recommend if they have the .edu,
- [00:27:05.370]like the university does, that usually means those sources are reputable,
- [00:27:09.550]their education resources.
- [00:27:10.970]And then also I was going to mention something else that's changed
- [00:27:15.690]that maybe people might not know is that big puffy coats are not allowed
- [00:27:20.250]with the car seats anymore.
- [00:27:21.530]So there have been people on social media kind of belittling moms
- [00:27:27.230]that their kids aren't in these big heavy coats,
- [00:27:29.290]but sometimes it's because they know they're going right from a heated building
- [00:27:33.750]to their heated car.
- [00:27:35.330]And that really those aren't safe anymore.
- [00:27:37.750]It should not be big and puffy for the car seat.
- [00:27:40.510]So that's another thing that just has happened over some time.
- [00:27:43.630]Great.
- [00:27:43.990]Thanks so much, Katie and Tasha,
- [00:27:45.550]for sharing your experiences with preparing to bring home a baby
- [00:27:50.130]and also your expertise in the field of early childhood
- [00:27:52.790]and really sharing some of those safety information
- [00:27:55.950]and some of those tips.
- [00:27:57.170]Really appreciated having you on the podcast
- [00:27:59.390]sharing about this really important topic of how to prepare for an infant.
- [00:28:03.470]Thank you so much for being here.
- [00:28:05.350]Thank you, Emily, for having us.
- [00:28:06.650]Thanks, Emily.
- [00:28:07.370]Tasha, it was great to be on with you.
- [00:28:08.910]Next up, we're going to get some advice from Nebraska youngsters
- [00:28:12.310]about what we need when we bring home an infant.
- [00:28:15.310]Okay, so I know somebody who's going to have a baby soon
- [00:28:19.870]and they're trying to get ready, like get all the things they need.
- [00:28:22.790]What would you tell them that they need for a baby?
- [00:28:25.350]Diapers and toys.
- [00:28:26.550]Diapers.
- [00:28:27.390]Diapers.
- [00:28:28.630]My babies need stuffies too.
- [00:28:31.750]My mom just got her a pinky.
- [00:28:35.550]And a puppy.
- [00:28:37.010]You heard it here, folks.
- [00:28:38.390]By majority opinion, the kids say you need to have diapers when you bring home a baby.
- [00:28:42.950]I'd say that's some pretty good advice.
- [00:28:44.690]Well, this has been another episode of The Good Life in Early Life,
- [00:28:49.070]a Nebraska Extension early childhood production with your host, Emily Manning.
- [00:28:52.750]For more information on early childhood, check out our website at child.unl.edu.
- [00:28:57.330]If you like the show, subscribe and tell your friends to listen.
- [00:29:00.430]The show production team is Emily Manning, Dr. Holly Hatton, Aaron Campbell,
- [00:29:05.210]Bridlyn Dahl, Linda Reddish, Kim Welsant, LaDonna Wirth, and Katie Krause.
- [00:29:09.410]See you next time and thanks for listening.
- [00:29:11.810]Bye-bye.
- [00:29:12.930]Bye.
- [00:29:12.970]Bye.
- [00:29:13.010]♪♪♪
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