Baby gear

Few things have made Brian and me feel less-prepared to have a child than our recent trip to start a registry at Babies R Us.
After spending more than two hours in the store, we'd still made few decisions on the items we wanted but our heads were swimming. Who knew there were so many choices for bottles, strollers, car seats, play yards and monitors?
Since the stuff isn't cheap, and we want to get the right items for our child, we couldn't just randomly pick a product from the shelf. So now we're in the research phase of this process. We slapped some of our "best guess" choices on the registry while we were in the store, but planned on having plenty of time to change our minds.
Brian spent some quality time on the lap top yesterday comparing reviews and prices for the big ticket items. But we're hoping to solicit advice from our family and friends, too. If you have any suggestions of must-haves or must-avoids in baby gear, please let us know!

On a less frantic note... I'm happy to report baby is the size of an onion this week :) How cute, huh? Brian is using the onion reference to explain any spontaneous crying I do this week. Maybe that wonderful side effect will be gone when the baby moves on to it's next fruit/vegetable phase next week...