Poop Tables

Gentle readers, I am incapable of containing myself regarding this blog. Ever since posting , I have been thinking about changing tables.
So, as promised, changing tables! When I was younger and didn't really understand wtf was up with babies, I thought changing tables were so stupid. Why would you have a special table DEDICATED to wiping your baby's ass? I realize now that you need one because why on earth would you risk getting shit on your dining room table or your couch or even your floor. you need a dedicated shit table. I realize that with a baby, shit/piss/vomit is probably going to get on these other things anyway, but still.

Gulliver Changing Table, IKEA, $60

For our changing table options, I again find myself favoring the IKEA things. I'm going to be honest, probably 89% of the links/pictures on here are going to be to IKEA. I love their children's stuff and it's amazingly cheap. I actually tried looking a few other places to see if I liked something else that I could link so I didn't seem like such an IKEA freak. A changing table from Babies R Us is about $130. Anddddddd. No. The IKEA changing tables are nice and simple and (have I emphasized this enough yet?) cheap. There are several different kinds but the one on the left is $60 and matches the white crib I linked earlier. There is also a $70 one that matches (almost) the birch crib as well. I kind of like the birch ones more, but the white ones do match the bookshelf... It would be TOO much white though if every thing were white in this room. Yuck. I like a lot of color! Changing tables aren't that exciting overall. It's pretty much just choose a cheap one that has shelves for all your poop-catchers (aka diapers).

Solutions by Kids R Us, Toys R Us, $150

 This one to the right is pretty nice as well. It has a little drawer and shelves! And knobs on the drawer to maybe hang stuff off of? The birch adds a nice natural feel to it. It's definitely on the more expensive side at $150. These are all without the stupid little mat things you have to put in them, which aren't all that expensive (around $10), but still why doesn't the mat come with it? Dumb. Like I'm really going to put Baby down on that cold hard surface so that he/she/ze cries even more because, let's face it, diaper changing is already usually traumatic. 
Today I've been applying for a lot of day care/preschool teacher jobs and I feel like I should be able to use this blog as a reference. "See? I'm not making it up. I really love kids. Like TOO much. But not in a creepy way."
I spotted some AWESOME storage furniture (that will never in a million years fit into this tiny apartment) at IKEA so I think that will be the next topic for discussion. Where to Store the Toys.

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Outlet

Dear readers,
 I am hoping that this blog will help me with my baby obsession. Perhaps if I use this to channel some of my baby-envy, it will help me to put off having a baby until 1. I can afford it and 2. My husband goes back to school. Also maybe it will help me to not walk down the baby aisles at Target sighing loudly. Basically I'll talk baby stuff here. What I'm excited for, what I'm nervous about, etc. I'll also share pictures/links of stuff I super want for Baby. To clarify... not pregnant... this is hopefully all to help me put off pregnancy for... let's be optimistic and say at least a year.

Sniglar Crib, IKEA, $70

So, let's talk cribs. I was pretty sad to learn that drop-down cribs, cribs where one side can be lowered, aren't being made anymore. Apparently there are some safety issues with them. Whatever. I had one. I want one. But I also don't want my baby to die. SO. I guess it's a all-solid-sided crib for me! I looked at some Pottery Barn cribs recently and wowza. Nice, but... $400? C'mon, I'm not going to love the kid THAT much. Besides which, Baby is gonna grow so fast that crib is going to be useless in a few short years. So while at IKEA a few weekends ago, I checked out their crib section. I wasn't blown away by anything really but knowing I'm going to be a young, low-budget mom, I sure did like the price tag. The picture to the left is a Sniglar (wtf kind of name is that?) crib for just $70. It's a fairly basic crib. Very simple with not a lot of fru-fru. The mattress is adjustable and it's also a rather low crib, so even though it's not a drop side (sigh), you still don't necessarily have to bend wayyyy over to put your baby into bed. Because I'm so short, really high cribs with really low mattresses are hell for me trying to put a baby in. I always wake up the baby because I'm struggling so much to read the bottom of the crib. (Speaking like I've done it a million times. It was my fake nephew. Once.)

Hensvik Crib, IKEA, $100

 For not very much more is the Hensvik crib (also from IKEA) which is a little fancier. It also totally matches the bookcase that we have in the would-be nursery. I believe it also has the adjustable mattress height, which is nice and also allows you to put the height of the mattress back down once Baby is standing/capable of climbing out.
It's a little step up while still on the cheaper side of things. I mean, come on Pottery Barn. Get your shit together. Who even shops at you.
I haven't read any reviews of the IKEA cribs yet (shocking, right?) but honesty people can get kind of crazy about their baby's comfort and this cribs are probably just fine. Your baby does not need a Pottery Barn crib. I slept in a laundry basket for my first few months, and then slept in my DROP DOWN CRIB in the *dining room* for the next year. And I was a baby. So I really didn't give a shit. I didn't need anything special. My point is, while at first I was put off by these cribs because they weren't the MOST beautiful things EVER, one of them will probably be what we get.

And now, gentle readers, I invite you into my home to see where said nursery would be! (Well it's only part of the room because my in-laws are here and have taken it over.) But here is one corner of the room that would be the nursery! Right now my computer desk is in the corner by the windows but that's where I would want the crib to go! (And I don't want shit about how it's colder by the window. It's the only option.) You can also see the bookshelf I mentioned before. That would be moved somewhere else, but still in the room probably. Sometimes I weird my husband out by standing up in front of my computer and sighing heavily. If he makes the mistake of asking me what's wrong, I tell him all about where I think the crib should go, worry about how else to arrange the room, etc. While he wants a baby pretty badly as well (obviously no where near as much as I do), he can get kind of overwhelmed/doesn't understand all the baby talk. He often makes a face like O_O  He's also the meanie who reminds me to take my birth control all the time. Jerk.
While I would really like to keep writing this post and link more pictures of changing tables, storage containers, curtains, and MORE, I should probably limit myself. So, next time the topic will be changing tables; where you have to pay someone money to get a table to wipe your baby's ass on.

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