at what point did you start buying cot, pushchair etc?

mary_hinge

I'm 16weeks and picked up our pram/pushchair yesterday as it was going on a local selling page at a bargain price, I picked up a few baby grows in the mothercare sale and a moses basket in the asda baby event. Have a few packs of nappies/wipes on offer but not many as experience tells me babies skin reacts differently to different products and they are always offers on! I'm keeping my eye out for the bouncy chair I'm wanting on the local selling pages/gumtree/ebay as sometimes if you are buying second hand you just have to get things when you see them!

Zandy_23

About 6 weeks. I was trying to look for good deals and was waiting to find one because we were on a budget anticipating hospital bills.

stinabean

Very paranoid FTM at 23 weeks here. I bought a neutral baby grow shortly after my 12 week scan as I felt reassured, and have only just bought my pram/car seat.

Everything else I'm lucky enough to have had gifted to me, and it's sitting unorganised in the spare room. Will sort through it more around 30 weeks.

onlyroz

There's no need to rush at buying anything - and it's not so terrible if you hold off buying some things until after the birth (and you might find that you don't need that baby bath and top-and-tail bowl after all). Personally I'd wait until 30 weeks before getting the expensive stuff like cot and car seat.

LavenderBee

As an update, we'd purchased car seat and pushchair and most smaller things by 25 weeks, purely because we had an opportunity to combine lots of offers and get the best price on what we needed/wanted. Not bought nursery furniture yet (but know what we're ordering) or our reusable nappies. I've been thwarted by PGP/SPD and am not in any position to go shopping or deal with large deliveries any more, so I'm glad I did everything "early".

Cash-Cows

We didn't by a pram. I'm glad we didn't it would have been a waste of money.

LavenderBee

I must admit to googling "do I NEED a pram?"! I wondered about just using a baby carrier instead. I hate having stuff and things around me I find it very cumbersome. Looking in the shops they all felt huge and I couldn't imagine myself being tethered to one. But apparently my joints may not go back to normal for 6 months after the birth; crutches, new mum, new baby in a carrier? Probably a recipe for disaster paid £200 for our pram/pushchair and we're getting rid of a car.

FreddieFrugal

LavenderBee wrote: »

I must admit to googling "do I NEED a pram?"! I wondered about just using a baby carrier instead. I hate having stuff and things around me I find it very cumbersome. Looking in the shops they all felt huge and I couldn't imagine myself being tethered to one. But apparently my joints may not go back to normal for 6 months after the birth; crutches, new mum, new baby in a carrier? Probably a recipe for disaster paid £200 for our pram/pushchair and we're getting rid of a car.

Our travel system was about £240.

We have used it lots. It's got decent size, air wheels and has coped pretty well over the sort of walks we like to do.

Although at times a pram/pushchair can feel cumbersome - you've got to balance it with the fact that you WILL have to carry a lot of things with you when you go out for any length of time and it's handy having a carry basket and changing bag on the handle. It means you've got somewhere to dump stuff.

It's also a handy place to put things when you're doing something like changing the baby.

And it's something, once weaned, you can easily feed them in when you're out somewhere.

We got a big backpack baby carrier too for when we do proper hiking, but we're still using the pushchair a lot.

LavenderBee

I've bought a second hand backpack baby carrier, £30 in fact, it may have even been the first thing I bought.

I saw a lady on the train the other day with her toddler strapped to her front, backpack on her back and she seemed absolutely fine (in fact she'd coordinated the colour of her jacket, baby's rainsuit, backpack, carrier and even flashes in her hair - I was envious on all levels!).

Hubby wanted a pram anyway so I was never going to win that one, I didn't even bother raising it but he knew I was struggling to really like any of them. I don't even push a trolley in the supermarket usually!

FreddieFrugal

LavenderBee wrote: »

I don't even push a trolley in the supermarket usually!

Do you balance the weekly shop on your head? :laugh: