Baby Names

• Choosing baby names can be so much fun. If you aren't in the market to carry on a family name and haven't had the name of your first-born picked out since grade school, there are tons of resources out there to help you pick a baby name. Perhaps the most popular place to find a baby boy name or baby girl name is www.babynames.com. There are thousands of baby names to choose from and you can even check out celebrity baby names or search by the most popular. Another great resource is www.babynamesworld.com. This site also has thousands upon thousands of baby names but it also tells you the meaning of each, plus you can search by origin!

Baby Items

• With a baby comes the need for many other things...many necessities. Oftentimes, baby items are given as shower gifts and other times the new parents prefer to pick out the baby stuff on their own. Regardless, here's a checklist of just the basic baby items you know you'll need so you can be the most prepared parent.

  1. Baby bedding with a bottom sheet and a baby blanket. The "blankey" can go anywhere the baby does because it's good for comforting. These things, of course, go along with a baby crib.
  2. Other baby furniture, i.e. a rocking chair and changing table
  3. Baby clothes, namely onesies, socks, and seasonal items
  4. Baby bottles — lots of them! Also pick up feeding towels and burp cloths
  5. Baby gates: block off areas of your home and also purchase cabinet gates
  6. A baby stroller
  7. Baby monitors

Baby Poems & Quotes

• Baby poems and baby quotes make great filler for scrapbooks, photo albums, and baby books. Print off your favorite verses and creatively weave them in between pictures and other memorabilia that you place in albums and scrapbooks. You can also select a favorite baby poem or baby quote and have it written in calligraphy on brightly colored glossy paper. Frame it and you have a beautiful nursery decoration.

  Here are some popular baby quotes to get you started:

  • "Babies are the link between angels and man." — Unknown
  • "A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on." — Carl Sandburg
  • "When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy." — James Matthew Barrie
  • "Every child begins the world again." — Henry David Thoreau
  • "Children reinvent your world for you." — Susan Sarandon
  • "It is the nature of babies to be in bliss." — Deepak Chopra
  • "A new baby is like the beginning of all things — wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." — Eda Le Shan
  • "We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "A child enters your life and fills a special place in your heart. A place you never knew was empty." — Author Unknown