When did you start to buy things for your baby?

[MummaSue]

I didn't buy anything until 35 weeks. But I had this totally irrational fear of something going wrong. I'm quite an anxious person at the best of times and pregnancy made me worse! But even buying stuff at 35 weeks made me anxious!

I bought the pram and some little clothes - as the midwives told me to have my bag packed and ready by 30 weeks and to include some clothes for bubby.

Everything else I got when she came along. And we only bought the cot a few weeks ago too!

I just didn't want to be landed with a load of stuff that we didn't need. I watched too many friends around me "kit out" their nurseries and then regret it because they wasted loads of cash.

Sue x

[nickle730]

Erm... I'm the opposite end of the spectrum to MummaSue. I started buying little suits and stuff pretty much from the first positive test! First pg I started buying the bigger stuff at around 20 weeks. This time I don't have to buy much as I already have both a boy and a girl... but I've still managed to buy some new clothes and bits!!

[Calluna]

Hmmm, I think we bought a couple of little things - one or two outfits/ toy early on but most stuff we waited unti 15 or 20 weeks.

[~ Mylitta ~]

Lol, I started buying baby clothes and blankets before we even conceived our DS! Then bought more when we found out we were pregnant. Then bought even more (in blue!) when we found out he was a little boy.

I think we started buying the big stuff like pram and nursery stuff around 6-7 months.

MummaSue, if I had waited until 35 weeks I would have only had 2 weeks to set it all up because DS was anxious to meet us, hehe.

[MummaSue]

LOL, Mylitta, I figured if that happened to us then we live in a city so we can pretty much get anything we need quickly. And we ended up going for a mad dash round the shops on the way home from the hospital anyway to get the last few things as I was unexpectedly admitted to hospital for a week before missy was born!

[teresa]

i bought stuff pretty much straight away!!! i was too excited not too lol. but DS decided that he would come early and we still had some things left to get!!

my advice is dont forget socks! i thought of everything else but socks so when DS was born i had none at all MIL and mum had to go out and get him some