Baby Bargains!

BatCat

From my experience the best thing to do is wait until people you know or family have kids and then have yours about a year after! We were the first to have babies and had to buy everything. Now we're giving or loaning the small baby things out to family and friends who have started to have theirs.
Borrow as much as you can!
Ebay is a great source of bargains. I've also got a lot of reusable nappies from https://www.kittykins.co.uk