The Best Baby Registry Items (That Aren’t For Your Baby)

Despite your best baby-prepping efforts and conducting all the research, there are some things you just can’t know until you know when it comes to parenthood. While there’s a ton of advice for what your baby will need, parents’ needs are often overlooked. Many parents find themselves late-night online shopping in the early postpartum days for last-minute items to make the parenting transition a bit easier or to help solve for things they’d never anticipated.

That’s where unexpected registry items come in. With a little planning (and thinking outside of the box) you can get ahead of the game by adding some unexpected essentials to your registry.

Here are the non-traditional items you’ll wish you’d registered for