Being a new parent is hard, and a lot of proper parenting technique doesn't come intuitively. For instance, it might seem like you're supposed to just forsake your baby in the woods or on a desert island somewhere. THIS IS A BAD IDEA, as it turns out. You definitely want to try to minimize the extent to which you forsake your baby.
One of our writers worked at a baby store in college, and he can tell you to CALM DOWN when you're buying baby gear. It's going to be OK -- these are not nuclear launch codes you're handling here.