Having a baby Old Style???

Phatmouse

I bought a baby bath for £1.87 from Asda, and it has a plug for ease of emptying. The Tomee Tipee Breast pump is reduced to £10 from £20 in asda and £11 in Tesco. I'm going to breast feed if I can but will express milk so partner can join in feeds.

My mattress and cot cost less than £40 combined from Ikea.

My biggest expense yet has been my travel system at £129.99 from Argos.:D

Pleased as punch
:j :j :j :j :j

jellyhead

hi chrismojam. my husband had taken my son away for a camping weekend, but my mum came round so i could wash the sick out of my hair baby had a nasty virus but my mum thought it was measles. hospital wanted to put a drip in him, poor babe but a tip top (ice pop?) costing 10p from the local shop helped bring his temp down and he was allowed to go home before bedtime. not really a moneysaving tip but it's one way to get fluid into a poorly baby. the community nurse also suggested jelly. of course if you need rehydration salts they can be prescribed but they don't taste as nice

i remember that broody stage well, wanting baby roo crept up on me and taking 3 years to get pregnant meant the broodiness had really kicked in and i was often cooing over everyone else's babies and sobbing in mothercare when buying presents for new ones. i feel ever so lucky to have roo.

ciara111 it can be very scary trying to budget for a baby, especially with the amount of money some people seem to spend but it can be done cheaply. a baby needs to be fed, kept warm and dry and somewhere to sleep. they don't care if their bedroom has matching furniture. hugs and best wishes for when it happens for you. i don't want to take over the thread, but i was stressed when i had my first unplanned baby. with the second i just felt so lucky to have him that i would have managed somehow no matter what. perhaps being unplanned adds to the stressful nature of pregnancy, it comes as a bit of a shock.

Chrismojam

jellyhead wrote:

hi chrismojam.......:D baby had a nasty virus....... hospital wanted to put a drip in him, poor babe but a tip top (ice pop?) costing 10p from the local shop helped bring his temp down and he was allowed to go home before bedtime..............i remember that broody stage well, wanting baby roo crept up on me and taking 3 years to get pregnant meant the broodiness had really kicked in and i was often cooing over everyone else's babies and sobbing in mothercare when buying presents for new ones. i feel ever so lucky to have roo...

Oh I hope babs is well now...poor little thing....

Well, I've come off depo now.........now I'm in the will they/won't they come back with the dreaded monthly's! Although, I'm rather hoping they do obviously! Which is bizarre because I've been quite happy without them for the past near 7 years! Saved a fortune!:p

Since I last posted, I have become a great aunty:D Not seen him in the flesh yet but the photo's have got me going ga ga enough already! Seeing him week after next:D

Also, the day after he was born, OH brother and GF had their little boy (8Ib 14oz:eek: )...not seen him yet either.....maybe this weekend....

thriftmummy

Hi there,
I have a little boy who's almost 2 years old and I wish I'd had some advice like this. When it's your first you tend to go overboard thinking they need every single thing you see in magazines, but in truth I never ended up using half of the things I bought. For me, the best money saving tips for having a baby are:

Cloth nappies and wipes, this has saved me an absolute fortune. I bought them second hand off ebay, which saved me even more money, and when my son is potty trained I will get most of the money back that I have paid for them by selling them on again. If you do use disposables, supermarket brands are so much better than pampers or huggies and a lot cheaper.

Breast feeding. I only did this for a week as after the birth I was very emotional and not thinking straight. Formula milk was costing us over £12 per week at one point, so breastfeeding can be a big money saver

I had most of my clothes given, I also buy a lot off ebay. I just recently sold a load of his old clothes and now have enough to buy the next lot of stuff he needs off ebay

Don't bother with fancy baby toiletrees. I went mad and bought everything from talc to conditioner. They only product I have ever used on him is shampoo - and I have only used a bottle and a half since he was born almost 2 years ago!

Don't ever buy baby equipment brand new. It costs a fortune and you can guarantee you can buy it second hand for next to nothing, especially at car boot sales. So many people have baby stuff to sell, that it's just not really worth much so you can pick it up cheap. As they don't get a lot of use they always tend to be in good condition.

Good luck, you will find that when you have a baby you dont spend as much anyway as you never get chance to go out!

ancasta_2

I feel all proud every time this thread gets bumped.

Hopefull once the wedding and new house is out the way, ill need to revisit it

jellyhead

good luck with it all ancasta

yes, baby is fine now, they get a few of these nasty little visuses (virii?) and even common colds can seem awful. i read somewhere about using olbas oil on a breastpad instead of buying expensive karvol capsules. they make olbas for babies, it doesn't have mint in it. anything tied to the bars of the cot in a place they won't reach it will do, but as my breasts never produced milk i had a stack of sample breast pads which would stick to the cot leg. i've probably already mentioned it on here about that, i do tend to ramble

chrismojam i'm waiting to see a new baby too, my first neice. i've had a flu type thing though, and although it's just me i can't really risk passing it on to a baby or an exhausted new mum. i've never had a neice before, lol!

Honeybee_2

I use oil burners around the house and if any of the rugrats have a cold, I use eucalyptus oil in them.

overlykeensaver

This is agreat thread - I have a 16 week old baby and here are a couple of
tips.
You really do not need to spend a lot of money on clothes; babies look great in sleepsuits that you can get very cheaply (job lots on ebay!) and just don't need lots of trendy outfits.
I have already started buying clothes for my daughter for next year in the summer sales and I will buy clothes for the following winter for her in the January 07 sales too!

jellyhead

i did that and got my fingers burned lol! baby went from being average to giraffe sized very quickly, jumping through the weight centiles from the centre to reach the very top by 6 weeks old. but being very MSE i'd bought clothes in the sales for future seasons. doh! when warm weather came at9 months old i had to ditch all the 12-18 summer stuff i'd bought him. bah humbug! it settles down as they get older though and don't grow so quickly. i can buy age 2-3 knowing it will most likely fit him at some point without being the wrong season, as the bigger sizes cover a whole year's worth of growing. and not many children are at the extreme ends of the centile charts anyhow

IanBroadhurst

One word - FREECYCLE!!!

Gosh I wish I knew about Freecycle before I went out and spent a small fortune on lots of things I have now sold on Ebay - so I can feel less guilty about wasting money. Everyday I see mums and dads offer perfectly good childrens clothes, equipment, toys FREE of charge to people in their community. I always keep a look out on Freecycle now and plan ahead for things my daughter might need. Of course then when my daughter no longer needs her stuff - I offer it up as well. Its a great reciprocal arrangement for all!