I refuse to say “nursery” shopping.
It seems ludicrous that you can get a cot for less than forty euro (excluding the mattress).
And a mattress for less than ten.
And a changing table for twenty euro.
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But you can.
My instinct with IKEA would be to go for a more expensive mattress and a more expensive cot. But that changing table might look fifty times better painted a nice bright colour. I think I’ll keep that in mind.
Baby shopping is an interesting experience. You look at the sleep suits for “newborn” and think, “can babies really be that small” and then you think, “nah, or even if they are, better to have room to grow” and you purchase size 0 to 3 months or something larger than “new born”. Afterwards, you find yourself thinking “I hope that they are that tiny, the smaller the better come giving birth”. And then you float away on your “I’ll still try to do it without drugs” cloud of superhero delusion. After all, birth pain is healthy pain apparently. Then you remember that your placenta might not co-operate and you might have to have a C-Section anyway, then you’ll want all the drugs they can give you. Then you get kicked in the ribs and you curse the parasite and think how much fun you’ll have poking them in the ribs and see how they like it after they are born.
2010 for my husband and I is all about newness.
New country.
New city.
New baby.
New life, basically.
If the new baby was arriving in Dublin, it would be all about IKEA/Mothercare/not too many other choices that I know about on the baby furniture front. Babies don’t need too much. A cot. A changing table. Etc.
But, as we will be in Austria, some furniture from a German company has caught my eye and so I am drooling over their images. I think they deliver to Austria.
Btw, no, we have no idea whether it is a boy or a girl. There is a 50-50 chance it will be either. We were hoping for a giraffe, a polar bear or ducklings, but the scans indicated a human singleton. If it’s a boy it will get the pink stuff, not the blue stuff, pink was a colour for boys once!
