The Newborn Edit
Days nought to thirty, and nothing else.
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Start here. Two swaddles is the right number for a first month — one in the wash, one in use.
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Zips, rather than buttons. In the first month you will change a sleepsuit more often than you expect and you will do it half asleep.
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Five coordinated pieces in one go, which is the shortcut when you have not had time to think about a wardrobe. Quantities here are small.
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Four dollars, and the cheapest thing on any list we publish. Buy more than you think.
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For the fortnight when nothing else works. It is not decorative and it does not pretend to be.
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A stretch swaddle is the easier one to get right if you have never wrapped a baby before. Oat goes with everything, including a photograph.
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Too early to be useful, and that is the point — buy the attachment object before it becomes irreplaceable, then buy a second one.
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The one thing on this list bought for the photograph rather than the practicality, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
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Ends the list where most first months end: something you wish you had bought a week earlier.
