Stop Guessing and Start Dressing
Time to learn how to dress your newborn!
When dressing a newborn you will need all the proper accessories.
Now that your newborn has entered the world, they must enter in style!
Diapers, Diapers, and more Diapers
The biggest necessity for a newborn is diapers. In the newborn stage, your baby will go through thousands of diapers, and you need to be prepared. A newborn poops about 6-8 times a day and urinates about 4 times a day, which means you will be changing too many diapers to count! However, it is important to know what size your newborn should be wearing, because if the diaper is too big or too small it could slip off or worse, allow its contents to slip out!
Messy Little Monsters
Don’t worry, your baby will be cute no matter how messy s/he gets. However, you need to be prepared for anything: messy food, overflowed diaper, vomit, etc. The reasons listed above are only some examples, and pretty soon your baby will find something new to try out and get sloppier and sloppier throughout the day. For that reason, you will need to change their clothes several times. Make sure that your baby's clothes are easy to get on and off and allow simple access for diaper changes. Also, make sure there are no irritating seams or tags that could bother the babys' soft skin.
Comfort Time
A newborn has to be kept at the right temperature because s/he can get too hot or too cold very easily. However, your clothing choice can help support your baby's temperature. For instance on a hot summer day, you can put them in a short sleeve shirt with elastic waist stretchy pants and a sun hat, and make sure they have plenty of sunscreen on if they are wearing short sleeves. If it is really cold outside, make sure your baby has on mittens, socks, long sleeve shirt, sweater, jacket, warm pants, etc. On a cold day it is effective to put your baby in a long sleeve jumper or sleeper because it keeps all their body warmth inside one article of clothing. Also, on a cold day your baby should be wearing one more layer than you are.
Cute, Comfortable, and Convenient
Everyone wants to show off their newborn, and what a better way than to dress him/her in the most adorable outfits out there. When shopping for your baby’s clothes, you need to look for the "3 C's": Cute, Comfortable, and Convenient. The first C is cute because you want your baby looking cute when s/he is shown to the world. The second C is comfortable. Your baby will need clothing based on the weather, time of day, size, etc. If you live somewhere hot, some of the things your baby will need are short sleeves, pants, and hats to shield their face from the sun, if the weather is cold your baby my need more sweaters, hats to keep their body heat in, mittens, and blankets. It is important that you remember that newborns are sensitive and do not like to be fussed with, so buying 10 onesie pajamas for your baby to wear around is a good idea. The third C is convenient because you need both convenient for the mother, and the mothers wallet. A babies clothes needs to be convenient because the mother needs to be able to easily access diapers for changing. But clothing has to be convenient to the mothers wallet because babies need cotton and soft materials but they cannot be too expensive because you baby is growing rapidly and will eventually grow out of their current clothes, and the clothes often get stained and or ruined very quickly. I would also be convenient to keep an extra outfit with you at all times just in case an accident occurs and your newborn needs a change of clothes.