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Tidying up for your Tiny One - 7 Organizational Tips To Help You Set Up Your Nursery Room
Tidying Up for Your Tiny One
Little humans come with a LOT of stuff and can somehow take over your entire house. In an effort to be prepared and to keep things tidy, here are 7 organizational tips to help you set up your nursery room (and other areas in the house) to welcome your new baby.
1. Pre-wash all the baby clothes, sheets, and burp cloths in unscented laundry detergent, then sort by size and type and arrange in drawers and in the closet. Some categories may include: socks, hats, and mittens, pajamas, onesies, swaddles and sleep sacks, burp cloths, etc. If you don’t have space for all the sizes you have on hand, use plastic bins or vacuum seal bags for each size, except for the size you expect your baby to wear when they are born. Label each bin or bag with the size and store it for later. 2. Use drawer organizers inside your drawers (order from Amazon or find them at a dollar store inexpensively) and file fold all the items so that you can see them all at once for easy access. Don’t have enough drawer space? Use an inexpensive over-the-door shoe holder to hold burp cloths, sheets, towels, blankets and other essentials.
3. Set up a health and wellness drawer or area in your nursery with all the baby care essentials including nail clippers and file, thermometer, Mylicon drops for gas, bulb syringe for the nose, infant Tylenol, diaper rash cream, Vaseline etc.
4. Establish a baby feeding station with a comfy chair or glider and a small side table in the
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nursery. Here’s where you can place smaller items like your coffee, water, and other bottle feeding/nursing necessities. Keep a few extra burping cloths nearby as well for the spit up that was bound to happen. This is also a great place to put a basket of books to read to your baby in-between feedings.
5. Think about where you will be bathing your baby and set up that area with your bath tub, baby wash, washcloths, towels. This does NOT have to be in a bathroom—think outside the box, especially if you have limited space.
6. Create a rolling cart as a mobile baby station with the essentials to take with you from room to room in your house. Fill it with items like: diapers, wipes, hand sanitizer, burp cloths, diaper rash cream.
7. Clear one shelf or drawer in your kitchen for baby items to store bottles, cups, dishes etc. Amyzing Spaces provides professional organization for your home & office! Amy Bergman, a native Flordian, has always had a passion for organizing & simplifying things in life. She would love to help you make your space Amyzing!!! Check out her website at www.amyzingspaces.com, and you will see that she will be working with her clients to organize spaces in your home & office creating systems that work for you so you can achieve more peaceful calm in your space and be even more.
Do you have an organizational question for Amy? Send it to info@PBParenting.com. To have her answer in an upcoming issue.
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