hi everyone we are the doctors bjorkman we're a physician couple that is going through pregnancy
for the very first time yeah and this week we're gonna do something completely non-medical as we
actually share some of the advice you guys gave us i reached out to our followers on instagram and
said hey what are those essential newborn things that we need in our nursery please
help we don't know what we're doing and of course you all delivered so we wanted to share with you
um the things in our nursery that were mom and dad approved by you guys
in case you've never met us i'm kurt i'm a pediatrician i'm sarah i'm an ob gyn
and in the third trimester of pregnancy and we are the doctors bjorkman
welcome back as we said this week we are going to give you a nursery tour
and show you all the things um that we have in our nursery for our little one
a lot of this is based on recommendations from all of you thank you um so yeah and this house that
we live in is actually something we're renting right now so our setup here is not perfect for
a magazine um and something we put together with a lot of help from friends and family
and so hopefully the things that we're sharing are things that are affordable for just about everyone
who's watching yeah and we'll be sure to point out like the things that we think are essential and
things that were definitely kind of luxury items or gifts from other people so i want to preface
all of this with you really don't need that much stuff for a newborn baby you need some diapers
a place for the kid to safely sleep and your boobs or a bottle and some formula that is
what you need for your newborn baby so all of these things if you don't have them when your
baby shows up you can figure out what you need to acquire that works for you and your
workflow we're going to share what we have and we're going to start over here with our
dresser changing table yeah so um we were actually given this uh dresser as a gift you can see like
something we want to learn something that was going to last kind of both through the baby period
through childhood and into hopefully young adulthood when she comes home to visit us from
college um and so a nice place for storage but also something would double as the changing space
so this particular dresser has a really nice secure station for doing changing on top that you
can eventually take off hope she likes it um so something that was recommended that we didn't do
was a changing pad that is wipeable um a lot of people like this kikaru peanut thing or
other things that were wipeable we were given um a changing pad that has a washable cover
it's gonna work just fine it's free we'll take it yeah um and then onesies onesies everybody says
these double zipper onesies sleep sack sleep things are just essential and what the baby's
gonna live in you don't wanna worry about outfits you don't wanna worry about everything else by
double zipper you mean that it's got a zipper at the foot foot and the top and one at the top
i will say like having to undo and redo baby's outfits every morning in the hospital when i'm
examining them the ones that have snaps around the crotch i cannot tell you how many times i
get those wrong and so i can only imagine this is going to be invaluable to us for middle of
the night changing to try to do things rather than trying to snap those little snaps that are
hard in the daylight let alone in the middle everybody swears by these one of my friends
says she's keeping a list of people who gave them baby clothes with buttons or other things on them
because she plans to do the same to them um people recommended a variety of different swaddlers the
ollie swaddler the halo dream sack we have this little thing that she's just gonna get zipped into
we were gifted a variety of things we'll try and let you know what our favorite swaddle brand is
um yeah other important things that we have kind of here easily accessible on the top
of our changing table so um some absolute musk kind of things like from caring for
lots of babies with lots of diaper rashes too um just some good butt paste so decitin badou
boudreaux boudreau's butt paste um you know both of these are kind of classic things for diapers
um the biggest thing for anything you're going to put on baby's skin
scent free dye free if you do those things it's really going to limit the amount that
it irritates baby's skin which is aquaphor is the thing we kept hearing for aquaphor
eucerin or vaseline are all like great kind of basic brands that are scent free diet free
pediatrician recommended yeah uh the one other thing that we don't have that i want to put here
and i haven't gotten yet everyone swears by a sound machine for white noise the hatch sound
machine was listed for us many times anything that makes white noise seems to be one of those things
all the sleep books recommend your pediatrician recommends all my friends recommend in terms of
helping baby sleep and i want this baby to sleep so we will be acquiring a sound machine yeah
other things that were strongly recommended by you all on instagram and then also friends family and
something that i recommend as a pediatrician often is the nose frida so this seems kind of gross
babies have all sorts of boogers all the time they get the sniffles they have little fast
breathing periods that come and go because they've got little airways that easily get
plugged with snot and so in the hospital you'll see those classic little blue sucker bulbs
that have been around for eons that work great the issue with that is they don't work that great and
all of those burgers that you suck up just get stuck in the ball and they are almost impossible
to clean even if you're washing them out with soap and water no my mom swears by them still
i've cut them open before they are nasty and so the nose frida i know you can get them at target
or many other places on the line is a sucker you actually like literally suck on one tube on one
end and the other tube is in the baby's nose there is a filter in between that keeps the boogers from
going into your mouth but kind of that concept seems a little gross but they are amazing in terms
of getting boogers out of those little noses i'm going to let him demonstrate that for the first
long long time the other things in that basket are there's like a little baby brush if they get any
cradle cap there is some little baby fingernail clippers and this was like came in a 4.99 amazon
pack of all these little baby we'll make sure this is linked in the description below in our
affiliate links um other things kind of big topics that we did quite a bit of research in we're not
sure if we made the right choice was about a diaper pail it seems like the biggest things
that we came down to was the munchkin step or the ubby diaper pail which is like a stainless steel
kind of scent proof thing yeah we ended up going with um the the abi step no no this is the
mushroom sorry munchkin step yeah forgive me i'm we watch a lot of youtube videos and ask a
lot of people about the diaper pail hilariously so this we differed on what the final decision
should be um but i think we made a good decision and honestly it came down to we chose the munchkin
because it had the step function that you could hands-free open it up both of them seem to have
really nice sealing functions in terms of how do you keep the odor locked into the diaper pail so
it doesn't fill this little mixture you had to you had to like open to put a diaper in it i was like
how do you hold the baby into i got i wanted to step on it to open it so i hope we like it
so coming down into the corner of the room the one thing that baby needs is a safe
place to sleep and if you remember back to our episode a couple weeks ago about kind of caring
for that newborn baby the key essentials for baby sleep place is something that is
flat something that has nothing in it no toys no bumpers no extra blankets um and that's it okay
and so that's kind of what we did in our bedroom we've got a bedside bassinet co-sleeper
that again gives baby a safe place to sleep that is separate from mom and dad but is in the same
room as mom and dad so during those first couple weeks we're gonna be able to care for baby um for
this we got this crib actually um on a big sale on wayfair um nothing fancy we got like a classic uh
newborn mattress also and a plain sheet you'll notice if you can see in the video or not there
are no bumpers in this crib there are no extra blankets there are some stuffed animals in there
right now but that's just because it's cute and there's no baby and i like to look at it yeah um
but those will go and so like for a newborn baby again empty crib just one plain mattress covered
in one sheet no extra blankets baby's gonna sleep in whatever they're wearing and then their swaddle
so um which we have like a little basket here yep just something cute of little baby swaddles
next to the crib for that purpose the other thing in this corner is one of the things that was kind
of a splurge item we got a nanite baby monitor it was well loved by many friends and all of you
it connects to your phone there's an app on your phone so you can see the baby at all times
if you're in the house or if i'm at work and she's i can creep on her um we are going to
play with the ins and outs of it and probably do a video kind of review on how we feel about the
nanite but that was what we went with there was a big black friday sale and we said let's go with
the name the other thing that was people swore by was the boppy lounger it's got it's not like one
of the boppies you put around you it's like got a little depression in the middle for a baby to sit
and bring away lay you just apparently if you need to set the baby down this is a great place to just
lay them you can set it on a counter or on the couch or wherever and the babies apparently just
love it um you can get a variety of cheap covers on amazon if you want a variety of colors and
i'll let you know if the kiddo likes it but supposedly they do um other things so like
there's definitely always the temptation to like decorate babies nursery to make it cute plan on
spending a lot of time in this room we were very budget conscious for this we painted some walls
white and then we literally got stick on wallpaper from target um yes that we got because it's really
easy to remove and we're gonna have to move from our house that we're renting and so um i would
not give it a high recommendation but it works um definitely as temperature changes it bubbles and
then unbubbles but if you're looking for something cheap and easy to add color to a wall stick on
wallpaper from target try it out was an option yes uh so finally kind of the last corner of our
nursery and something that we wanted for ourselves was something a comfortable place to just sit
and rock baby whether it's daytime nighttime we got pretty fortunate we got this lazy boy recliner
rocker on super sale at a blowout sale earlier this winter and just again something that's
going to be comfy and a place that we are going to fight over for those hours of just sitting
and rocking baby girl this whole baby essential thing started um with our very first baby purchase
for little girl which was these rainbow boots and started this argument of you know were these
boots an essential purpose purchase for the baby and everyone except kurt agreed that they were um
but the i guess the only other things over here we have we have a basket of books um that was
something we asked for absolutely pediatrician recommended um one of the best things you can do
what book do i want to read one of the best things you can do for your baby and young infant is
to read to them in terms of brain development in terms of them learning social interactions
and communication is to read to them that is quality time for bonding between you and baby
and just a way for them to learn and grow so we've got a basket of books here
with all the classics like love you forever good night moon runaway bunny and just time to spend
with that newborn baby to bond and both to help mom and dad in terms of making those connections
reducing the risk of postpartum depression postpartum blues and also just showering
that little baby with a love to help them grow and develop so that is kind of our tour of the
nursery and the things we have going through that we still need a white noise machine if there's
anything else you can think of that's a must-have that we should add please leave us a comment below
we still have a little time before she shows up in the coming weeks we're going to talk about some of
those other things um to get ready for baby we'll talk about breastfeeding or using a breast pump
or bottle feeding and different troubleshooting things in those early baby days as well as some
last pregnancy topics before this little girl shows up so we hope you enjoyed yeah thanks
for joining us guys make sure you're subscribed we'll see you next week see you next week bye
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