[blparent] Baby Organization Tips?

[Star Gazer]

				Do ask for help Alison. The only way I know to do this would be to have someone with a working set of eyeballs tell you what you've got and then put it where you think you'll need it. 
What is a diaper raffle? I don't seem to be understanding the words here. 
Right before we had our first daughter, my husband drove me nuts by saying "I know where it is" no matter what the "it" was. He was going to be going back to work and couldn't understand that his knowellege base would do me no good. 
My mom came over and helped. 
With my second, my daughter helped and I think my mom did too. 
If you don't know of anybody who can help you, I'd suggest you contact an LDS ward and see if the sister missionaries can help. They are looking for work they can do indoors and they are often times missing their own families. This sort of thing would be right up their alley. 
Realize too that you and your baby will need  a community. You can never have too many people who love and care about you guys as a family. I'd highly urge you to start getting that in place and to take advantage of opportunities that present themselves. 
Realize that professionally speaking, everybody has help. Plumbers and handymen have helpers and nobody thinks they are less competent. The same goes for doctors who have nurses and well just about anybody. There is nothing wrong with finding and using resources if they will bennifit you. 
As Julie said, the sleepers are a great idea. My girls lived in them for a really long time.  When you want to put them in regular clothes, you'll know and you'll do just that. 


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Subject: [blparent] Baby Organization Tips?

Hi Everybody,

Our baby girl will be arriving in approximately five weeks and I'm trying to get somewhat organized beforehand. We've finally reached the point that we've accumulated some baby supplies and we're now trying to sort through the clutter.

Does anyone have suggestions for keeping track of diapers and baby clothes? We had a diaper raffle at our shower, which seemed like a good idea at the time, but now we have tons of packs of diapers of varying sizes and shapes scattered throughout the house. Before I start sorting and Braille labeling everything, does anyone have a diaper size organization system that you recommend? In short, does anyone have an idea that sucks less than dymo tape and index cards? <smile>.

As for baby clothes... we have what feels like several dozen sizes of those too. A different size for every 3 months or so it seems. And the colors... oh the colors! Everything baby girl seems very matchy matchy. Which I actually love in theory cuz it's adorable, but in practice... will I actually be able to keep track of which pattern or specific color shade of pink or purple or aqua goes with which? Or which cute little owl or elephant or giraffe design goes with which other animal design? I have a system of labeling my own clothes which works just fine, but it appears that baby girls have many more possible shade, pattern,  and color combinations than I do. I use 3 or 4 different safety pin styles that I use on four main color categories for all of my clothes. Since my categories are based on more neutral colors like black and beige that one doesn't usually see in kid clothes, I'm thinking my own system won't quite work for baby. And Darrell, my fiancé who is also blind, God love him, doesn't label any of his clothes ever. I have no idea how he shows up to work matching at all. Given that, I think we may need a new labeling or organization system for baby clothes, ideally one that we can both follow since we will both be dressing baby. 

BTW, a terrific blind parent friend of mine whom I love and respect tremendously just suggested that I not worry about trying to match baby clothes since most everything is pink or purple and more or less goes together, but I admit that didn't feel quite right to me. Is she correct that I should let this go? Will I eventually be too sleep deprived to care about subtle shade and pattern matches? Like, does the fact that I'm concerned about this issue at all only demonstrate how much time I have on my hands now as compared to when baby actually arrives live on the scene?

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks,
Allison, Darrell, and Baby Girl Pending

P.S. What's up with all the owl designs on baby clothes? Does anyone else but me find them wise but totally not cute?


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