This is your ticket to freedom. It hooks onto just about any bar or table, so you can go to your favorite restaurants, or attach it to your kitchen island while you make dinner. You want one that secures easily, folds up compact, and can be easily wiped down. Bonus points if you can remove the cover and machine wash like these two recommendations: 

• Inglesina Fast table Chair $69
• Chicco QuickSeat Hook-On Chair $70

We all want the very best for our babies, but not everyone has time to whip up homemade baby food. These subscription services deliver fresh purees and kid meals to your doorstep. The biggest differentiators are price, all organic (or not), and frequency, so choose what works best for your family.

• Little Spoon, Prices vary on plans
• Cerebelly From $2 per pouch
• Yumi From $4 per meal

Pacifier clips will help simplify things more than you might think! Attach it to baby’s clothes to easily prevent losing or cleaning (for the 10th time in a day!). It does the trick for teethers and small stuffies too. 

• Pretty Please Classic Clips $16
• Loulou Lollipop Pacifier Clips $15

We’ve been there: Baby is on the changing table, dirty diaper is off, and there isn’t a single fresh diaper to be found. Don’t let this happen to you. Consider signing up for a diaper subscription to help take one more thing off of your "to-do" list. And, while you're doing so, don't forget to subscribe for wipes too! Just choose by the design, price, and add-ons that work best for you.

• Honest $80/month
• Hello Bello $65/month
• Coterie $90/month

You'll definitely want to make sure to have a portable changing pad on hand whenever you leave the house. We love Dockatot's all-in-one portable changing mat as it comes complete with pockets and pouches to hold all your essentials (and the chic designs don't hurt!). Make sure to choose one that has a compact fold design and easily wipeable surface. 

• Dockatot Clutch Changing Pad, $60
• Hesrchel Sprout Changing Pad, $34.99 
• Skip Hop Pronto Changing Station, $29.99

The Hatch Baby Rest is a night light! It’s a sound machine! It’s an audio monitor! It’s an okay-to-wake clock! It’s all of the above. And it’s genius. You control it all from your smartphone, so you don’t have to go into the nursery every time baby gets fussy. The difference between the two Hatch Baby options is the Rest+ offers a 2-way audio monitor and clock. 

• Hatch Baby Rest $60
• Hatch Baby Rest+, $90

Every single product from Fridababy brilliantly solves a parenting pain point. It all started with the snotsucker. (Is there anything more satisfying? We think not.) And then there’s the scalp-stimulating hair brush, the 3-in-1 humidifier/diffuser/night light, the foolproof baby nail clippers, and the thermometer patch that checks baby’s temp every four seconds. It’s safe to say if they make it, you need it. 

• Fridababy Baby Basics Kit, $39.99
• Fridaybaby 3-in-1 Tru Temp Thermometer, $19.99

We’ll never know how or why babies manage to always get their socks off (aren’t their tootsies cold?), but they do. Leave it to a mother of seven (!!) to come up with this smart innovation that keeps. them. on. 

• Sock Ons $6

This is one of those things that some parents swear by and others never take out of the box, but if your baby is finicky about milk temperature, it will take the stress out of getting the bottle at the perfect temp. Our advice? Register for it and save the receipt. You can always return if the need never arises. 

• Philips Avent Fast Baby Bottle Warmer $50
• Dr. Brown's Natural Flow Deluxe Bottle Warmer $45

Babies (and toddlers) are hard on rugs. Between spills, spit up, accidents, and eventually “crafts” gone awry, being able to throw it in the washing machine means you can rest easy and say “yes” way more often than “no”.

• Lorena Canals Bubbly Rug $119
• Lorena Canals Bereber Rug $325