Day Trips

Introduce baby to travel starting with a few day-trips to a local relative or friend. Basic equipment will be a packed diaper bag, a stroller or pram (if you’ll spend some time outdoors), and a car seat. Most modern car seats easily detach and convert into a baby carrier.

Be sure to pack your diaper bag with a diaper for each two hours you intend to be away from home. Pack 2 nipples for each bottle you pack, two to three receiving blankets, and an extra change of clothing for baby and an extra shirt for you. Cut down on diaper bag weight and keep things easy to find by using Ziploc bags to pack extras like nipples, wipes, and pacifiers. Pack one large, empty Ziploc for soiled items.

Overnights

For baby’s first overnight trip, you’ll need to extend your day-trip plan with a couple of extra receiving blankets and extra sets of clothing for baby. Even if your overnight trip is to Grandma’s house, remember that nighttime sounds and perceptions may be different from those during daytime hours. A good pram with wheel locks can double as a bassinet, helping baby feel right at home and enabling everyone to sleep more comfortably through night.

Decorations can be as modest or as extravagant as your budget and time allows. Literally there are a number of ways for decorating baby shower. Balloons, cakes, table settings, along with wall and ceiling decorations. Baby shower party decorations are an important part of any special baby shower.

Fill a basket or small wagon with stuffed animals to be used as a baby shower centerpiece. You can also place teddy bears around room along with some dolls and toys. Place them on tables, bookcases and peeking over lamps. Or set up a train on your table. Then fill cars with small baby items such as teething rings, pacifiers, rattles, and booties.

Although baby shower theme as well as baby shower party decorations of modern baby showers have changed with times, it is still traditional to use colors of baby's nursery. You can decorate nursery with fresh flowers, balloons and streamers.

As a general rule one should stick to traditional ways of baby shower party decorating. If you are going with traditional party decorations, you would use china and silver. No doubt every baby shower party needs some sort of baby shower party decorations.

In baby showers it is not a necessity to use a lot of baby shower party decorations. Just simple decorations would be sufficient if that is your desire, perhaps along with a few seasonal flowers and party toys.

If you do wish to celebrate baby shower in a big way there are many party stores that carry large assortments of baby decorations such as storks, teddy bears and nursery rhyme characters.

These baby shower decorations can be placed anywhere and removed easily after baby shower. You can give these to expectant couple to take home after baby shower party. Most of them can be reused for some other occasions such as a childs birthday party. One of these would be a baby diaper cake which has become very popular.