Ny- I did my registry online too! WAY easier! lol! Plus it just gave me a list of things I needed whether or not other people got them for me or not, I now have a list of what I still want eventually! Plus it's fun! My pump is medela, and from what I've experienced, heard & read, it's the best brand. But doesn't mean one of the others wouldn't work fine! I lucked out and got mine given to me by a really good friend, it was a $250-$300 one! Whichever route you choose I highly reccommend using a double electric one! If you do one boob at a time, the other one will leak out all over while your pumping the other side, lol. I dont mind the baby questions, I love helping people from my experiences! I b/f for 9 months, and we had a LOT of trouble with it off and on the entire time, but I stuck it out and learned tons about it from each trial and error! I never used a drop of formula the entire time until the end!! If you buy one of the boxes of the medela bottles, which you will need bc they are the only things that fit on the pump to pump the milk into, then you can put them in whatever bottles you want to feed baby, but you will need at least 2 of the the bottles that fit the machine, but anyway, in those boxes i think they give you one sterilizer bag for free! it lasts for awhile, but those bags arent expensive and work great! I did have a bottle warmer that doubled as a sterilizer with kylar, but after a few months it got really gross, the little bits of milk that would spill over would burn onto it and were almost impossible to get off, so everytime I turned it on, it smelled like burnt milk... yummm.... so this time I think I'm just sticking to the sterilizer bags for the parts, and im sure i'll just wash the bottles in the dishwasher!
Hope this helps!!
Also- My pregger friends, I recommend getting a pack of cheapo underwear, you will ruin your underwear for the first few weeks :/ Also some more things i've remembered at the last min lately- petroleum jelly for the umbilical chord care, if you are having a boy- u will need hydrogen peroxide to care for the circumsision (they give you stuff for this at the hopstial , but for when you get home) , If you dont already have saline drops and a nose sucker... a lot of babies get really nasal congested after birth, and i think i mentioned the gas drops before. If I think of anything else I'll let ya know!