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Nesting and Preparation
In this section of the PSP website, you will find articles to help you with nesting and preparation. Looking for PSP member reviews of stores in the neeighborhood related to shopping for the baby? Go to the recommendations section of the PSP website here.
Shoe Advice For Pregnant Moms
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- Category: Pregnancy and Childbirth, Shopping and more, Nesting and Preparation
Tips and recommendations from PSP members for what to wear when your feet swell during pregancy.
Cord Blood Banking
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- Parent Category: Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Category: Nesting and Preparation
Wondering what to do with your baby’s cord blood? Park Slope Parents members discuss the pros and cons as well as deliberating public vs. private cord blood banks. Here are some tips and insights as well as some resources for further research.
Stuff for Baby
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- Parent Category: Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Category: Nesting and Preparation
Suggested list of items to buy for your new baby
Belly Cast
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- Parent Category: Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Category: Nesting and Preparation
What is a belly cast and should I care?
What to Bring to the Hospital
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- Parent Category: Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Category: Nesting and Preparation
A list of things to make your labor, delivery, and recovery comfortable.
Morning Sickness/ Nausea
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- Parent Category: Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Category: Nesting and Preparation
Help for Morning Sickness
How To Take Beautiful Maternity Photos of your Pregnancy
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- Parent Category: Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Category: Nesting and Preparation
Taking photos of your body developing, growing, and expanding with your baby is a wonderful way to document your experiences as a soon-to-be-mother. You don't need to be a professional to take beautiful images. Here, Park Slope Parents' own Susan Fox shares her images and wisdom that will hopefully inspire you to take beautiful photos of your own.
Tips for managing the family - before, during, after giving birth
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- Parent Category: Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Category: Nesting and Preparation, New Parent Big Stuff
Here are some tips and advice on how to strike the right balance of managing the family before, during, and after giving birth…
Baby Resources - awesome advice from a PSP Member
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- Parent Category: Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Category: Nesting and Preparation, Pregnancy and Childbirth
Below are Resources offered by one of our Park Slope Parents members based on her journey. It was adapted from “MARA’S BABY RESOURCES” by Park Slope Parents Member, Mara Sheftel. Thanks Mara!
Gift Ideas: Practical Baby Items
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- Parent Category: Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Category: Nesting and Preparation, Gifts and Tipping, Pregnancy and Childbirth
One PSP member asked their baby group: "I'm putting together a baby gift for my newly pregnant friend, and the theme of the gift is "highly practical baby items." (I suspect most of her other gifts will be highly impractical.) Thinking back to after you had your baby: what were highly practical, must-have items you wish you'd gotten in advance, rather than having to do a midnight Duane Reade run?"
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