Ohh, I haven't been on this week! lol.
For breastfeeding, I too will vouch for the kellymom.com website; a WEALTH of info on there!!! By all means get some bottles and stuff if you want (you really only need to sterilise for the first 3 months, after then a good clean is fine) but I'm like NDH there and have no real advice on pumps and bottles and stuff cos Caleb has never had a bottle or anything except boob! lol.
It is HARD WORK in those early days though, cos you will almost definitely doubt yourself and your ability to continue breastfeeding. Newborns go through bouts of 'cluster feeding', where they feed almost non-stop for a day or two (seriously NON STOP. You might get a few 20 min naps, and perhaps even a 45 min nap here and there, but otherwise it is 24-48 hours of solid feeding feeding feeding) which often sends mums into a spiral of 'oh no! I don't have enough milk! My baby is crying and hungry ALL THE TIME!' so I'm telling you now so you can perhaps remember it in the future! lol. But it DOES pass, and you may have to resign yourself to doing nothing but sitting there feeding bub for hours, but it is natures way of getting the supply to match the demand of a growing baby, and it is all worth it in the end if you stick it out. The cluster feedings/growth spurts happen all the time when they're tiny, and slowly space out and are less dramatic as they age.
Also what a lot of people have trouble with over breastfeeding is the inability to know exactly how much your baby is eating, and if it's enough. Basically the key is that if bub is making enough wet nappies a day (8-12 for a newborn) then yes, you are producing enough milk. A hungry baby doesn't mean you arne't producing enough; it's just as likely to be going through a growth spurt and be trying to up your supply, so if they act hungry; feed them! A pump is NOT a good indicator of how much milk you are making either!! Some mammas can pump tons of milk easily, but others have a lot of trouble and may only get a few drops. Just because they can only get a few drops does NOT mean they are only *producing* a few drops! Babies are far better at getting that milk out than any pump is.
Aaaaand finally, if there is one thing you research about breastfeeding, research about a good latch. The key to almost all pain and difficulty is sooooooooo often down to a poor latch. A good deep latch by baby SHOULD do a whole lot to help prevent any nipple trauma etc that makes breastfeeding *that* much harder. (and before you get scared by the whole IDEA of torn up nipples, it is totally possible to have NO pain or problems too!)
As for clothes, I don't have anything to add from what others have. We use onesies all the time still. Both long and short sleeved. On colder days he has a singlet under the onesie, and a jersey on top, as well as pants (often with tights underneath if it's really cold) when it's warm he'll have a short sleeved one (often still with a plain singlet underneath) and a T-shirt or light top ontop and one layer of pants. When it's actually hot, he's often just in his onesie an nappy; no top or pants. Or just naked. That works too. lol!!!
He wears a singlet, onesie, and babygrow to bed. If it's cold, then it's a thicker warmer babygrow and perhaps socks under the babygrow feet, but otherwise it's a light weight one.
If he doesn't have a onesie on during the day, he pulls his tops up and shows off his belly button. lol! Hence why we still use them all the time!
We have I think 5 of each long & short sleeved onesies, 3 or 4 different babygrows, some singlets, and a few each of t-shirts and pants and tights and socks and jerseys to mix and match on top.
Oh, and editing to add that be wary of label sizes!! Just like for *us* different brands fit differently, even in the basic clothing pattern (jeans for example. Or a tshirt even!) so too do different brands of baby clothes fit differently, despite being all labelled as '0-3m' or whatever. So when you are collecting bits of clothing, compare sizes to each other rather than labels, so you don't go and put away some nice 3-6 month stuff only to find later that they are almost too small when you pull them out of storage! And yes, get NB stuff as well as 0-3; Caleb was wearing both in the beginning even though he was a big baby. Different babies are built differently to each other too; some have long limbs, others have long torsos. Some are chubby and others are tall and lean. Some are TINY, others can be HUGE. There is no telling what your baby will fit or for how long, until they are here!!
Its hard to wait but you can do it.
