The latest Consumer Reports Best Baby Products guide morphs the group's essential safety-testing reports and bargain-hunting advice into a 368-page book that will fit easily into a diaper bag. But do check the prices online first to be sure. There are other great baby-product buying guides out there. But Consumer Reports remains the gold standard when it comes to independent safety testing. This new book is full of eye-opening advice, including. Conny and Federico Fields's Baby Bargains helped us make it through our daughter's infancy without going bankrupt.

Even though they're the kind we all grew up in, recent safety recalls suggest they pose too much of a risk. Go for a fold-down side or stationary side instead.

Baby gear is often cheaper at Wal-Mart or Target than at the manufacturer's website, since the megamerchandisers discount baby gear so heavily. As of today, that problem's solved. Advice From Consumer Reports Buying for Baby.

Advice From Consumer Reports Surely I'm not the only parent who was frustrated to find that the most up-to-date Consumer Reports safety ratings for car seats, cribs, and other essential baby gear are scattered across the website € making for a bunch of dog-eared printouts at the New-Parents-Spend-a-Squidrillion Store.