April 2007
Newborn clothing checklist
Use your own judgment on how much you want to buy yourself, and what you can expect as gifts.
BASICS
SUMMER BABIES
WINTER BABIES
BASICS
- Four sleeping outfits or one-piece sleepers with attached feet. Sleepers and sacks are preferable to covering a baby with
blankets, which can be a suffocation hazard. Snug-fitting cotton and flame-resistant sleepwear are the safest choices. Loose-fitting
sleepwear that's not made of flame-resistant material is a fire hazard.
- Six side-snap T-shirts.
- Four to six one-piece undershirts that snap around the crotch.
- A small baby cap (the hospital will probably give you one).
- Six pairs of socks/booties.
- Two to three soft, comfortable daytime outfits.
- Cotton sweater or light jacket.
- Brimmed hat with elastic chin strap to keep your baby from batting it off.
- Warm knit hat with elastic chin strap.
- Snowsuit.
