Our baby box arrived

[andrewducker]

It's a bit bigger than I expected, comes with multiple warnings about not putting the lid on when the baby is in the box, and is stuffed full of clothes, toys, a mattress, ear thermometer, bath thermometer, and some condoms. Oh, and a poem written by the Scottish Poet Laureate.

We've already bought a bunch of clothes for the first few months, but this is a really useful collection of stuff, and has made me feel even more excited than I was.

Comments

[marahmarie]

Oh, so you're just against the lid. I'm against the box (adding a lid is simply unconscionable) but maybe that's just my inner "Something's gonna go wrong" bell going clang, clang, clang. I guess as a SIDS preventative a fairly snug box could be a good fix. Cribs are much freer looking (and in my family there was a fairly huge one, I don't even know why) but of course the baby stands a higher chance of suffocation (and more ways to do so) in a crib.

[andrewducker]

The box is government approved, and safety tested. It's basically a cardboard crib with a fitted mattress in it.

(With warnings not to put it on a table)

[marahmarie]

A fitted mattress sounds like a good idea (though trying to envision how tiny that must be is difficult). I hadn't thought about what the box might be lined with but once I read that realized it sounds better than blankets or other fabrics that don't cushion as much and can get disorganized.