As the parents of a 4-year-old, and the aunt and uncle of more than 20 nieces and nephews, we’ve had a bit of experience buying baby, toddler and kids’ clothing, for personal use and for gifts.

We’ve put that hard-earned experience to work in choosing the brands that we carry here at Footy Pajamas LLC. In the next few weeks, we’ll tell you about our lessons learned and why we’ve chosen the brands that we have. If you have any buying tips or recommendations for products we should add, just let us know. We’ll post your thoughts in an upcoming blog.

In this first installment, we’ll talk a little about rompers and other products for newborns.

Over the years, we’ve bought lots of gifts for our nieces and nephews. And we’ve watched those same clothes get passed from family to family. Some wore out before the first child had outgrown them. Others are still going strong. Quality and care are what made the difference.

And we’ll admit it, we went overboard when our daughter was first born. We were given a lot of things for older babies, but not much for a newborn. So, we shopped (OK, Kim shopped). We bought way too many onesies and not enough swaddle blankets. We overdid the sleepsacks and bought polyester clothes (and tore off the tags and washed them) before we knew our daughter had eczema. Some of our choices were great, others just OK. We had fun and our daughter looked adorable.

Read on for a few things we’ve learned from experience:
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