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Mine had 46 items. I only got 7 or 8 (the moby wrap, changing pad, boppy, travel boppy, bath kit, swing, stroller frame).

Most people will buy off registry, unfortunately. Luckily, I was able to returned 80% of it and get the things I needed instead.

I had a big shower, it was coed and I think about 70 people so I put a ton of things on there. Still I got a good amount of off registry stuff like clothes. People love to buy little girl clothes, and I didn't register for any. It was great because my LO needs to be clothed, but I did end up having to go back and buy things like sheets, changing pad covers, etc.

I was impressed by how much we did get off our registries. Granted some looked at them and then bought elsewhere (Target, amazon, etc). We did register for toys. No blankets, besides A&A ones, or clothes. People are going to buy the clothes they think are cute.

I think it is better to have more on the registry then to few. Then you get people buying you things that they think you need or will like, and you can't return it. Plus you can put stuff on there, return it if you don't really need it, and have gift cards for diapers.

I just got a swing and activity saucer from work yesterday. We got handme downs from my nephews, so I am going to return them. Use the $ for what else we do need and save the rest on gift cards for all the diapers and wipes we will need.

I had three showers and got almost everything off my registries. I had two - one at BRU and another on Amazon - with about 75-100 items on each. Almost everyone bought off the registry and the few non registry gifts we recd (stuffed animals, books, clothes) were fine. I didn't register for clothes, toys or books. I tried to include a good mix of prices but most people purchased in the above 50$ range. We have so many generous friends!!

We got maybe 10% of the items on our registry. But fewer than half the people invited to my shower actually bothered to show up. Those who did come either got something off the registry or something completely random like DIY art or picture frames and stuff like that. Or clothes.

ETA since I didn't really answer your question... We had about 80 items split between 2 registries. We didn't register for clothes (except white onesies from Carter's in each size, through the amazon universal registry, which nobody bought) or books (I wouldn't have been able to narrow it down). I registered for a few toys for those who wanted to buy something cute instead of useful, and we got all the toys. We also got a ton of hand me down toys so I wish I hadn't registered for them because there was other stuff we needed.

If you're comfortable with it there is a ton of feeding supplies you can also register for, unless you want to wait and see if breastfeeding works out - milk storage bags, lanolin, hot/cool packs, a hand pump (useful for pumping off small amounts pre-feed during the engorgement phase), breast pads, boppy/Brest friend pillow, etc.

We probably received 60% of what was on our registry. A lot of people bought us clothes and blankets, which we didn't register for. But it helped us a lot since we didn't need to buy any clothes for the first few months.