by Joyce Slaton posted in Products

When you're staring at a big blank new online registry -- or standing in the aisles of a baby store with a scanner gun -- it can be truly overwhelming to not just figure out what your baby needs, but pick from all the various styles, colors, and models available.
It can help to hear what another parent-to-be is choosing, and so Shelley Gingrich, who heads up branded content at BabyCenter and is 26 weeks pregnant, generously allowed us to take a good long look at her registry.

Here's Shelley with her husband on her recent babymoon in Paris.She?s in the baby business, so she knew just what to register for, no problems, right"
"I feel overwhelmed," she says. "I'm surprised by how many things people register for. And I live in an apartment and don't like clutter. I love how our apartment looks now, and I'm a little concerned about stuff just cluttering up the space. I know that's a very pre-baby thing to say, but I'm trying not to overdo it." With that in mind, here's what Shelley put on her minimalist registries -- one online, for her friends who prefer to shop that way, and one at Babies"R"Us for her mom and the other women in her family who like to shop in-store. (Note: Now that the store is closing, she's transferred items she still wants to Babylist, and left a few non-essentials on her Babies "R" Us registry: "I figure if people do go into the stores for closing sales, they at least wou...