Ben and Ella’s Baby Registry

Hello, loves! We are joyfully welcoming a new member of the flip fam this fall! We had long since thought we were out of the baby stage for good so it kind of feels like a first baby in terms of what we have and we can use all the help we can get! Ella’s chronic conditions prevent her from working and while we are masters of making a teacher salary stretch this is an entirely unplanned addition to the family and wow, has the cost of a pregnancy gone up in the last dozen years (not to mention the extra tests and labs we are running to make sure Ella’s sickypoo bod is maintaining a hospitable environment for our incredible plot twist). We are very open to second hand and “this really worked for us” items, it certainly feels like a brave new world of babyhood for us. We tried to find approximations of what we’ve already gathered ourselves (wow, has facebook marketplace evolved since the last time we had babies) or been given by friends or family (endless gratitude). We don’t necessarily need the versions of items we put on the registry—overall it’s more of a guideline of what we have, what we need, what we are looking for etc.