I just moved from massachusetts and if you recieve WIC then they have a place called the baby center that you can go to once every 30 days untill your child is 3 years old or untill you stop recieving WIC and you can get free diapers, wipes and they let you choose some clothes for your child for free.
I now live in Peachtree City, GA and I am wondering if there are any places like that near where I live. If anyone knows of any please respond to this. Because I am in need of a little help for clothing and such for my 5 month old.

I have…
8 baby bottles (BPA free)
Diapers (Yeah I know I will need lots more of these lol)
Wet Wipes (Ditto)
8 Recieving blankets
10 soft baby blankets
The crib is ready
Onsies and other clothes
Socks
Shoes
Stuff animals (She can’t play with them now though lol)
Infant car seat
Toddler Car seat
Swing
Diaper Bag
2 baby spoons
3 bottles of baby lotion
2 bottles of baby wash/ shampoo
1 baby oil
baby hair brush
3 baby hats
The thing that holds the baby while bathing lol
Stroller
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Now I know I need:
Baby Nail Clippers
Teething Rings
Pacifiers
Rattle/baby toys
Formula
Crib Mobile
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My brain isn’t working anymore (lol) I’m afraid I am going to forget something I need so if you can see anything I am missing then please tell me… I have one more baby shower and I need to tell them (ugh) I hate my brain… my little baby girl sucked all my brain away haha
Thank you for the help =]

I don’t mind if it can’t speak English.

baby stuff they would like to give away??? im in perth western australia. north of the river

My husband and I desperatly want a baby. We have about 800-900 dollars left over after paying bills..etc. We are just debating if we can afford a baby. We have great insurance because my husband is in the air force. I see all these other couples my age having babies, and they seem to have so much nice stuff for their babies, and I want my baby to have everything they need plus more.
What do you think? I also want to be able to have enough to go out to dinner once in a while. I live an hour from Orlando, so we like going up there and bumming around downtown disney, and hitting up all the cool restaurants, and even going and listening to live free bands. lol.

When I went to pick up my dog’s canidae, the check out lady gave me a 4 lb bag of this wellness core food for free. But I don’t know anything about it except what’s on the package, it looks like it’s primarily made of fish. Has anyone used? Could I sprinkle it in with his Canidae to give him some variety?

I’m prego and I don’t want a shower. I know baby showers can be fun but it doesn’t seem right to me. I like the idea of having a party to celebrate a new life, but the mandatory gift giving seems selfish. I mean you are inviting all these people and expecting them to give you gifts from a list you give them without their asking! I think if people actually wanted to give you anything they wouldn’t require a party to do it and if they didn’t want to get anything useless they would ask you for ideas. And sending individual invitations is basically feeding off of peoples’ kindness-they are going to go, with a gift, so you don’t think bad about them.
Have you ever felt this way about baby showers? And if you’ve had one/several did you honestly feel right about taking all the free stuff you told people to get?

I have looked everywhere for these instructions. I found them on Ebay, but it costs $4.99. I just can’t see paying for something I may be able to get for free. I would think that they are on the net somewhere, but I’ve had no luck finding them. Thanks to anyone that can help=)

We even took him to a dermatologist and had no luck with the expensive creams. We have used soapless soap. Perfume free wipes, and all kinds of vasoline, cortizone, etc. It’s real splotchy and red. Can anyone give me some home remedies or something that might work?

Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas is a fairly famous institution and for a variety of reasons:
1. John F. Kennedy died there in 1963
2. Lee Harvey Oswald died there shortly after
3. Jack Ruby-who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, died there a few years later..by coincidence
‘On the flip side, Parkland is also home to the second busiest maternity ward in the country with almost 16,000 new babies arriving each year. (That’s almost 44 per day every day)
A recent patient survey indicated that 70 percent of the women who gave birth at Parkland in three months were illegal immigrants. That’s 11,200 anchor babies born every year just in Dallas
According to the article, the hospital spent $70.7 million delivering 15,938 babies but managed to end up with almost $8 million dollars in surplus funding. Medicaid kicked in $34.5 million, Dallas County taxpayers kicked in $31.3 million and the feds tossed in another $9.5 million.
The average patient in Parkland ‘S maternity wards is 25 years old, married and giving birth to her second child.
She is also an illegal immigrant.
By law, pregnant women cannot be denied medical care based on their immigration status or ability to pay. OK, fine. That doesn’t mean they should receive better care than everyday, middle-class American citizens. But at Parkland Hospital, they do. ‘ Parkland Memorial Hospital has nine prenatal clinics’.
That’s right !!! NINE.
The Dallas Morning News article followed a Hispanic woman who was a patient at one of the clinics and pregnant with her third child, her previous two were also born at Parkland. Her first two deliveries were free and the Mexican native was grateful because it would have cost $200 to have them in Mexico. This time, the hospital wants her to pay $10 per visit and $100 for the delivery but she was unsure if she could come up with the money. Not that it matters, the hospital won’t turn her away. (I wonder why they even bother asking at this point.)
‘How long has this been going on? What are the long-term affects?
Well, another subject of the article was born at Parkland in 1986 shortly after her mother entered the US illegally – now she is having her own child there as well. (That’s right, she’s technically a US citizen.)
These women receive free prenatal care including medication, nutrition, birthing classes and child care classes. They also get freebies such as car seats, bottles, diapers and formula.
Most of these things are available to American citizens as well but only for low-income applicants and even then, the red tape involved is almost insurmountable..
Because these women are illegal immigrants, they do not have to provide any sort of legitimate identification – no proof of income. An American cit izen would have to provide a social security number which would reveal their annual income – an illegal immigrant need only claim to be poor and the hospital must take them at their word.
Parkland Hospital offers indigent care to Dallas County residents who earn less than $40,000 per year. (They also have to prove that they did not refuse health coverage at their current job. Yeah, the ‘free’ care is not so easy for Americans.)
There are about 140 patients who received roughly $4 million dollars for un-reimbursed medical care. As it turns out, they did not qualify for free treatment because they resided outside of Dallas County so the hospital is going to sue them! Illegals get it all free! But U. S citizens who live outside of Dallas County get s ued! How stupid is this?
As if that isn’t annoying enough, the illegal immigrant patients are actually complaining about hospital staff not speaking Spanish. In this AP story, the author speaks with a woman who is upset that she had to translate comments from the hospital staff into Spanish for her husband. The doctor was trying to explain the situation to the family and the mother was forced to translate for her husband who only spoke Spanish. This was apparently a great injustice to her.
In an attempt to create a Spanish-speaking staff, Parkland Hospital is now providing incentives in the form of extra pay for applicants who speak Spanish. Additionally, medical students at the University of Texas Southwestern for which Parkland Hospital is the training facility will now have a Spanish language requirement added to their already jammed-packed curriculum. No other school in the country boasts such a ridiculous multi-semester (multi-cultural) requirement.
(Sorry for the length, but this needs wide circulation particularly to our ‘employees’ in Congress.)
Remember that this is only ONE hospital is Dallas, Texas. There are many more hospitals across our country that also have to deal with this.