by Joyce Slaton posted in Products

Practically the minute you announce you're pregnant, as soon as everyone says a few too-personal things about your body and tells you every pregnancy/birth horror story they know, they immediately start bugging you to start a registry. Even when you say you're busy, oh, anything they'd want to get you would be welcomed and lovely, your mom is calling you to ask "Did you get that registry set up"" and your aunties and cousins are all texting you asking for the link.
Recent BabyCenter research from found that though 69 percent of U.S. moms set up at least one registry and ask for an average of 56 items apiece, yet they get only half of what they register for.
Want to see in black-and-white that you're not alone" Go to BabyCenter's Community and search something like "nothing from my registry." That particular combination of words gets 1.3 million results, page after page of woman saying things like "At my friend's shower maybe 3 things were purchased off of a registry of 50 items. Everything else was clothes and blankets... So many blankets..." and "I didn't get ANYTHING from my registry, and I ended up with a ton of bibs and Onesies that I never used."
All that time that you spent reading online reviews of things like highchairs, car seats, strollers, baby carriers, and cribs seems totally wasted when each new visitor shows up with newborn baby outfits and a blanket. And it's hard to be g...