Our in-bedroom-NURSERY

April 19, 2021

Since we live in an apartment that we will move out of within 3 months (no, we don’t know where to move yet but we’ll figure it out then) and we don’t want the baby to be by her-/himself upstairs, we have an in-bedroom-nursery. Babies needs to sleep in your bedroom for the first 6 months anyway, so to have a separate nursery ready right when baby is born isn’t exactly necessary for anyone. 

After a lot of thoughts and research, we decided to get a crib only. Right when we got pregnant someone recommended the Snoo bassinet, but to pay $1500 for a bassinet that you only use for 6 months sounded a bit crazy (you can rent them as well but that didn’t sound too safe or clean to me). I was looking at bassinets cause it takes less space, but a lot of them are plastic and looks like spaceships. A lot of them didn’t seem too safe either and some that I looked at where even recalled. I found tons of cute moses baskets as well, but again, I wasn’t sure how safe it really is. So, a 4-in-1 crib sounded like the best option for us. I love the one we picked out, the walnut detail in the bottom makes it very stylish I think. 

I found a cute crib mobile on Etsy, contacted the woman in Russia who makes them and made a custom order to get a good mix of colors (it was all blue before). It turned out perfect! It’s so cute, I can’t stop looking at it. It took a few weeks for it to arrive but I think it was worth it!

I cleaned out two drawers in our dressers for diapers, cloths and some clothes. In the walk-in-closet there are some more clothes on hangers up to 6 months. What I’m not showing in pictures is also tons of clothes for older ages, a nursing pillow, baby bottles, more diapers, crib sheets, two baby nests, breast pump and a bunch of other stuff that we have received. Also, since I took these pictures of the nursery and the drawers, we have received more toys, books, clothes, burp cloths, pjs and you name it, so it does look a little bit different now.

We also have a super cute playmat in the living room, a baby bouncer and a baby gym, but we haven’t put that out yet cause we don’t need it until baby is actually here and we don’t need Thor to sniff it every day til then:) So I will show you that at a different time.

In one of the bath drawers I’ve made a postpartum “station”, meaning, there are postpartum cooling pads, adult diapers and a perineal spray for recovery. In the bathroom we also have a baby bath and a little basket with super soft bamboo wash cloths and baby wash products.

In the living room we have the stroller and the car seat just standing there waiting for baby’s arrival.

I think we are pretty prepared. We ended up with so much more stuff than I had imagined. In my mind we wouldn’t have like any toys and barely any clothes cause baby’s don’t really need it, I wanted a more minimalistic approach. I wanted to buy stuff along the way when I notice that we would need it, but I was asked to put a registry together and people have been incredibly generous, we feel so spoiled!! Very grateful for all the love and support!

The blanket is only there for now, once the baby sleeps there it will be gone.
Please remember that nothing other than a fitted sheet and the baby is allowed in a crib or bassinet. In Europe they are all about the cute bumpers, canopy etc. but that’s actually not even sold here for the risk of SIDS
Jim bought an air purifier so that we can get rid of the weed smells from the neighbors I don’t understand the whole side diaper changing thing, so we made sure there is enough space on the right side there to stand in front of it to change
We were gifted both a Hatch light and sound machine and a Baby Sense monitor
Those little bear booties that my friend gave us are so cute some of baby’s clothes, 0-3 and 3-6 monthsWe have both a wrap and a carrier, lots of swaddles, and then binkies and baby safety stuff
I made space and put all this in the kitchen yesterday. Our friend gifted us with this bottle warmer/sterilizer, I have yet to try it. I’m also excited about this grass drying rack:)