Baby Stuff

My cousin's wife is pregnant with the first grandchild.  Very exciting.  He/she/it is due in May.  My cousin won't let his wife find out the sex of the baby.  How rude!  Anyway, I got around to looking at their baby registries and realized I had no idea what to get them.  I know from friends that a lot of baby stuff is unnecessary and just plan suck.  So I gmail chatted a good friend from high school to get her take.  By the end of the conversation, I had come to the conclusion that babies and the accompanying baby stuff are complicated.  All these new terms were being thrown at me: swaddling, bouncy seat, blow out (this wasn't in today's chat, but this was a while ago, I was shocked to learn this one), udder cover, my brest friend, boppy, bumbo.  It's like another universe.  I've got a good idea what to get them, but man, after talking with my friend, it left me the feeling that my parents were super parents and it's a miracle any of us survived with all these baby things available to us.