Baby Shopping Is Done: Final Newborn Haul and Nursery Essentials

My life in 2 countries

Baby shopping is finally done, and Jetske shares the last items she bought for her baby in this cozy lifestyle vlog. After a morning at a festival for Dutch Liberation Day and a tired early wake-up, the day turns into a practical baby shoplog with her sister helping choose the final essentials.  She walks through everything from a mattress for the co-sleeper and changing pillow to vitamin D, bottles, storage baskets, muslin cloths, a diaper bag, and gifted baby items from her sister. Along the way, she checks what fits, what still needs extra covers, and what can wait until maternity leave. The vlog also includes sweet family touches, like handmade Dutch and Ugandan teddy bears from her mother.  If you enjoy baby haul videos, pregnancy vlogs, newborn essentials, or realistic baby shopping with honest updates, this one is a calm and practical watch. It is a mix of baby prep, nursery organization, and everyday family life across two countries.  Perfect for viewers searching for baby shopping vlog, newborn essentials, pregnancy shopping haul, baby haul Netherlands, maternity leave prep, nursery organization, and lifestyle vlog content with a personal family touch.

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00:00Hi everyone and thanks for watching this new vlog. Today it's Monday and it's the 5th of May and that

00:05means in the Netherlands that we celebrate our liberty. Liberty? Freedom. At least it's 80 years

00:13of freedom now. Insane. And we celebrate that we are going to a festival but I think we're not

00:22staying that long because I can't stand that long anymore. But hey we're going to make the best out

00:28of it and I'm also going to do some work as well today. I don't know what it is. I

00:33feel a little

00:33bit lazy. But yeah maybe the festival will give me some energy and then I have energy to work again.

00:58I don't know what it is. I feel a little bit lazy. So you can't do that. It's a little

01:08bit

01:09of a little bit. It's a little bit lazy. I'm going to go on for that. So I'm going to

01:14go on for it.

01:38Oh my goodness, hello, good morning, I don't look fantastic but it's Friday and I

01:43woke up at 4.30 with the song in my head. I can't get no sleep. And in the meantime

01:58there was a party

01:59going on in my stomach. This girl and Paula and Paula please. Oh I'm afraid she has the party moods

02:09from her mom. I hope the moves from her dad but the moods from her mom. But hey it's now

02:17almost

02:18well it's like 6.30, 6.40 actually to be precisely. Today it's going to be a nice day. I'm

02:27going to do

02:28the last baby shopping with my sister. She can help me also with yeah those last things like

02:35what is nice, what do we really need etc etc. I made a list. I am going to keep me

02:41on the list.

02:43How do you say that? Okay I can't speak English. Sorry my English is not Englishy.

02:53But what I'm going to do now I thought let's make the best out of it and just do some

02:58work in this

02:59early morning. The next shot will be a more awake better looking Jetsuke. I promise you. Oh my goodness

03:06indeed a little bit more awake Jetsuke but also a little bit more exhausting Jetsuke is here.

03:15Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. But I'm also so grateful because I finally bought

03:25everything we need for the baby. I went together with my sister and we have everything. And I will show

03:34you what we all bought. It's a lot. But at the same time it's it's okay. It's okay. Let's go

03:45quickly.

03:45To this shop log. First of all the biggest items. A mattress for in the maxi cozy. No not the

03:54maxi cozy.

03:54I still say it wrong. The co-sleeper. The bed for the baby. I have to check if it fits.

04:01But I think it

04:01will. Then the next big item is this. I hope you can see it even. It's uh yeah. How do

04:09you call it?

04:11A pillow to get dressed. It needs a cover as well. But I got two for free from a friend

04:17of mine.

04:18So I will see if those fit. And if they don't fit I have to buy a new one. But

04:24yeah I thought I'm not

04:25going to buy a cover for something that's yeah I maybe already have. So a pillow. Then I've got some

04:34Vaseline. It's actually more for when you want to measure the baby's temperature. You put Vaseline on the

04:43thermometer. Thermometer. Thermometer. Thermometer. I don't know how you pronounce it. I already

04:51tried it once. But at least you put it on that. You put it in the butt of the baby.

04:57And it gets more

04:58easily with Vaseline. Then some alcohol. I have the feeling that it is more to clean the

05:05thermometer. The thermometer. Jesus Christ. This works. I hate it. The thing that you measure things.

05:11I'm also tired. So my English is totally not English-ing. So I'm sorry. Then I've got some

05:16vitamin 3. No. Vitamin D. Sorry. I was reading D3. So the kids need until four years old. They need

05:26the

05:28extra vitamin D. That's what they recommend. Six drops a day. So those three things. Then I've got

05:36multiple of these ones. And I hope you can see it. Those are those boxes where you can put stuff

05:44in it.

05:45And it is six in a package. I thought I saw it somewhere. Yeah. Six in a package.

05:53And I have three of them. So we have 18. And I want to do it in my...

06:03Yeah. The dresser of the baby. So I can put the clothes in it or the washable diapers and all

06:13the

06:13other stuff. And I'm really excited to organize that thing and organize everything and just wash

06:21everything and stuff. But I will do that in my first week of maternity leave. And I decided already

06:27to film that for you. Because I think it's nice to see. So we have three of them. Then I've

06:33got another

06:33bottle for the baby. And my sister recommends me this. So I thought, why not? And yeah. I don't know

06:43if I

06:44will... Yeah. I hope I can breastfeed. I have now different types of bottles. But yeah. I will see

06:51which one I use most or whatever. And I thought, I just have one. And then I see. And

06:58maybe I'm only breastfeeding and I don't need the bottle yet. But it's always nice also for yourself

07:04that you can go on a trip, for example, and someone else can... Yeah. For example, my boyfriend can take

07:12care of the baby while I'm away. And then he can give a bottle, even if it's breast milk. Then

07:18I have

07:19another small basket for on the closet where I can dress my baby and then put this next to it.

07:25And then

07:25it can be like maybe small diapers in it or like a few diapers in it or the brush that

07:33I bought. And

07:34that kind of... I have to see how I go in to decorate it. But hey, it's nice. Then I've

07:41got some

07:43hydrofile diapers. Is that... Muslin nappy? Is this English? Now, anyhow, this is... Wait. Oh, 100% cotton.

07:57Wash with similar colors. It will be okay. So it's just easy to use this often when a kid...

08:07Yeah. How do you say that? Spill some milk or whatever. I hear a lot of stories that people

08:13love to use it a lot. I have now in total, these are six, but there will come three other

08:19ones. So

08:20nine in total. Some people will say that's too much. Some people will say that's not enough.

08:26Time will tell. If it's not enough, then I can always buy extra. That's my point. And that's actually

08:33the point of everything. I just bought now the most necessary stuff. And yeah, there are shops

08:40all around me. And online, it's also like fixed in the moment. Nowadays, it's just you order it today

08:48and tomorrow it's delivered. So yeah, like I said, if I think after two days, oh my goodness,

08:54I'm already out of all those blankets. What do I do? Then I go online and I press that I

09:01want to buy

09:02any ones. And that's with a lot of things. I also don't bought a baby phone yet because my stairs

09:09is literally in the living room. So if she was sleeping upstairs and I'm downstairs,

09:16then I can still hear her. But I think in, how do you say that? That's, we will put her

09:24like in the

09:25box and in the living room when I'm in the living room or up when we are also going up.

09:31So

09:34yeah. And otherwise, maybe after one month, I think, oh, or after one week, I think, oh,

09:39I need a baby phone. I miss this. I, my hormones are all over the place. And I have the

09:44feeling

09:44I want to hear her. Oh, sorry. Then I can buy a baby phone. I wanted to say. And that's

09:55with

09:55everything. Like I have now a bottle, but maybe I won't use it because I didn't buy yet a machine

10:03that's cook out my bottles to clean it again. And I don't have a breast pump yet because I don't

10:09know

10:10if I can give breast milk. So yeah. Oh, something is very dusty here. Sorry.

10:17So yeah, those are her things that, yeah, maybe I will buy in the future. Maybe I won't buy.

10:25Time will tell. But now I have the most necessary things, according to the Netherlands.

10:33I'm going to finish with the gifted things by my sister, because she also had some things left

10:38over. Ha! When I put this on my chest, you don't see it. Then I have this silk easy wipe.

10:46So I put my

10:47wipes in here for the baby. And this is for me, I like this a lot. I put the wipes

10:53in it and then

10:53I can grab it. So like when I clean the baby's butt. When I clean the baby's butt. Yeah. I

11:00just realized

11:00that this is now green and this is pink. But hey, it's, I love all colors. It's, it's going to

11:07be a

11:07colorful baby. Then I have this set. It's a nail care set. It's with a scissor, yeah, glass file

11:22and nail clippers. Well, I don't know. It's just to cut the nails of the baby. Also in blue. No,

11:32this is not

11:32blue. This is green. A brush for the baby's hair. I can't wait to just, oh. And like for example,

11:41I can

11:41put this nice in here. It's not nice now, but I hope that you get what I mean. Then this

11:49is actually

11:49what's left over. It's a lot of blankets and stuff, or at least these are again the muslin nappy.

11:58I think that this is English muslin nappy. No. Okay. In nice colors, three of them. So yeah,

12:05you can also, my sister said that she also sometimes lay it on the pillow where she changed

12:11the diaper of the baby. That if they shit or pee, that they, that she only have to remove this

12:16one

12:16and not the whole shelf or how do you say that, cover of the pillow. This is of course more

12:22easy to

12:23just put it in the washing machine. Then yeah, unzip a whole cover of a pillow. So that's

12:31why we have them. Then yeah, this is for the box mattress. So yeah, I can cover the mattress in

12:41the box.

12:41And then I have two of them for the mattress in the Coastkeeper. So of course I will all wash

12:48this.

12:49So I'm not going to do, yeah, anything yet with cover it up. Although I really want to,

12:56but I think it's nice to do it all in one video. Like I said, when I have my maternity

13:01leave and then

13:04just make a whole video about washing, decluttering, organizing, decorating, whatever. And then last,

13:15but not least, no, no, not less, but not least. Well, the last thing that I bought is this bag.

13:20It's a diaper bag and you can put, for example, the bottles in here. There is even, my sister said,

13:25this is really nice. This is a small cover for when you're going to change the diaper on the road.

13:33So you can just put this on a table or in a toilet or whatever, like when there are some

13:41disposes to change. So yeah, it's a big bag and it's nice. Oh, I realized that I still want to

13:50buy

13:50something. I want to, but that's also quite easy. It's just a bag. No, it's a box with plastic bags,

13:59which has like a smell that when you have dirty clothes, you can put them in there and then

14:05you don't smell it. And especially since I'm going to use the washable, washable diapers.

14:13Yeah. You don't want to put like a dirty washable diapers in this bag. So then it's good to have

14:19those plastic bags in it. So at home, you can just put it in the washing machine or whatever.

14:24I thought I had everything, but Hey, it's easy. You buy it. Yeah. Maybe I even going to buy it

14:30tomorrow.

14:30Well, anyhow, the bag is there and I'm grateful again. Okay. First of all, my sister gave me some

14:37books. Well, actually just two of them. They are actually from us when we were children

14:44and she got it from my parents. They kept them. So actually she has even more books, but for now,

14:52um, yeah, I just choose that one, those two, it's, I don't know if this is actually,

14:59if people know this in Uganda, I know Naintje is really worldwide famous,

15:07but let me know if you know Naintje. It's Miffy in English. So maybe you know Miffy. I never saw

15:13this

15:14actually in the bookstore, but also I didn't search for it. So maybe it's just there in a KCMO or

15:22whatever. And I never saw it because my eyes weren't there. Then things that I don't want to

15:28think about. This is a mattress cover for yourself. You have to put it on your bed and it's just

15:35to

15:35protect your mattress. If my water will break and blah, okay, that's or when I'm just gave birth

15:47and I'm still bleeding and I don't want to think about that. Then my sister had some vitamin K left

15:58over. The babies need it as well. I actually don't know until when they need it. I think the first

16:08few

16:09months I have to ask her because she still have a baby for three months. So, and she gave it

16:18to me.

16:18So I think, I don't know. Okay. I will ask her or the midwife or whatever. Anyhow,

16:27babies need this. Then she said already in the shop to me that she has a cover from a mattress

16:32for

16:32the box as well. I think I will put this one on the box. Um, it's this green one. We

16:40saw that in

16:40the box, in the shop. I said, Oh, this is a nice color. Also fitting to, uh, fitting nice with

16:47the

16:47black box. And then she said, Oh yeah, I have this one at home and you can actually have it.

16:54So I have this one and I have a pink one. I didn't want to buy also everything pink because

17:02you know, yeah, maybe in the future there will be, I don't know if I want a second child,

17:10if I can have a second child, but maybe if I can have a second child and I want it

17:16and it is a boy,

17:16then I don't want him to have everything pink. Not that he will care. I mean, I never heard a

17:24baby

17:25saying, Oh, I don't want a pink box. So yeah, but it's, I hope that you know what I mean.

17:31Then she gave me two jocks. It's for the baby. I even heard from someone, I don't know who told

17:39me

17:40this, but someone told me that you still have to keep your baby warm because babies in the beginning

17:45can't keep themselves warm. So yeah, it is, it is not sure if I need it or not because of

17:54course it's,

17:55it will be summertime when she is there. So maybe I won't need it at all. And maybe I also

18:03have to

18:03be like for three days in the hospital and then they have already a bed that is yeah, the right

18:10temperature for the baby. So maybe after those three days, I don't need it anymore. I don't know.

18:15But like I said, my sister just gave it to me like, here you have it. And maybe I don't

18:21use it.

18:21Maybe I will use it a lot. Time will tell. And then last but not least, these are the covers

18:27for

18:28the jocks that she gave me as well. So like I said, I don't know if I will use it

18:36or not, but

18:37time will tell. I think I want to do two things, three things. I want to try on if the

18:44box sleeve

18:46will fit. If this one will fit, the other one will fit as well because it's the same size. I

18:51want to try

18:52if the dress pillow cover will fit. And I want to try if the mattress cover will fit and if

19:00the mattress

19:00will fit in the baby bed. And if that all fits, my life is complete. No, no, but it's just

19:13for my own

19:15mind that I just want to check it out. And if it fits, it fits and it's done and I'm

19:20done and

19:22I leave it and then I can like next time wash it and do the whole nice cozy. Oh, look

19:30how cute

19:31everything looks thing. Oh, not here too early. Oh, sorry, sorry. Oh, this fits. Okay, check. Next one

19:55is the mattress and the cover. I have to open the mattress now.

20:06And the cover.

20:12Oh, sorry. Sometimes my hormones are hormoning.

20:23Oh, sorry.

20:29Yeah, it fits. Okay, I am too lazy to bring you upstairs. I will now go upstairs and try it

20:38in the bed.

20:39If it fits, I will let you know. And then I also bring the cover down from the dressing pillow.

20:46Okay,

20:47in my mind, it doesn't fit because the mattress is the same size as above, but you can push it

20:55down and

20:56then it's laying perfectly. Well, perfectly. You can just, yeah, fit in it. How do you say that?

21:05Because I think, I mean, and if I feel it, I don't feel like, um, heels, like you don't feel

21:12that there is

21:13like something uneven. So it still feels good to sleep on it. But since I had to push it down

21:24and form it into the bed, but maybe it's all supposed to be like that because if it's too small,

21:30maybe

21:32yeah, it's not laying very well or the blankets are not going well. I don't know. I have no

21:41clue. Okay, last but not least, this thing. This looks way too big for the first cover. I have two

21:50covers.

21:50I got gifted. So I'm going to try them both to see if it fits. So now I leave it

21:59like this. Okay, let's see.

22:03See how small the cover is according to

22:09this thing.

22:13Now, I say no, but maybe

22:20Oh, no. Okay, this one is too small. I have the feeling this is also really small. Otherwise, I have

22:28to check

22:28Ikea itself to see. Oh, no, no, yeah. Don't hear too loud. Oh, yeah.

22:42Oh, this fits. Now, at least one of the two fits. Okay, maybe I need two more covers still,

22:50but hey, it is what it is. The rest is okay. And now I'm going to relax. It's already five.

23:02It's

23:03in freaking sane. I wanted to shop for two hours and now it's five o'clock.

23:11And we went at 9.30. 9.45. Hello, hello. I forgot to

23:17yeah, actually finish the vlog. But before I finish today, it's Monday. Yesterday it was Mother's Day

23:23and I got a small gift from my mother. She had some cotton left over. So she made these cute

23:31little

23:31beers. It is a Ugandan and a Dutch colored beer. This is cute, right? So the baby can play with

23:40both

23:40cultures. It is a Ugandan Dutch baby. So yeah, this next week, I have to say, there will arrive a

23:50lot

23:50of stuff left over for the baby. So you will see it then. But for now, I will say thanks

23:57for watching

23:57this video. I hope you liked it. Please put a thumbs up. Don't forget to subscribe and I'll see you

24:03at the

24:03next. Bye bye!

24:05Bye bye!

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