I got a 'script' from my paediatrician for baby Tylenol yesterday, so they must have it!

Also, I *cannot* get decent nursing pads here - the same *crap* brand is stocked by all the supermarkets/department stores, but inside it's just the same product.

Oh, and nappies, we use the cheapest brand we can get - again, same product, different packaging (in fact, it's the same product we buy in the 'home brand' packaging in Australia!)...

Essential baby items:
A bigger bed for mum and dad so baby fits (breastfeeding in bed makes life a lot easier).
Good baby sling (ask around your friends, I have an Australian one made by the breastfeeding association which I love, there are lots of *crap* ones out there)...
Good baby books (again, ask around from experienced mums whose parenting philosophy you agree with, plenty of *crap* books out there too!)...
Stroller/Pram - there is a whole thread on the forum here on how to choose a good one - but in some ways better to save your money and buy one *after* you have the baby, so you know what is practical (I'm in no hurry to take my bubs out in the snow in a stroller, prefer to carry them in a sling because they are against my body and warm/protected and I can constantly check their hands and feet to make sure they aren't cold).

I gotta say too the idea of the 'diaper genie' is lost on me - purely on an environmental level, plastic-wrapping every nappy with added perfumes simply to throw it in the bin...seems overkill. Although I do use plastic nappies (I don't like to call them 'disposables')...so I guess my kids already have made an enormous contribution to the waste pile..