We bought some little things like stuffed toys before we were even pg. Then we bought our cot from a manufacturers sale when I was about 6 wks pg but we lost that bub. We knew we would need the cot eventually so just packed it away in the back room. Then when we fell pg again we bought our pram, chest of drawers and bookcase from a baby expo when I was 18 weeks pg. And then we just continuously bought things as the pg progressed. DH is as impulsive as me when it comes to shopping!
This time round we bought a new cot set and some stuffed toys at around 12 wks and we have just got back from the USA and spent a lot at the outlets on "neutral" clothes ranging from NB to 6-12 moths sizes! We can't help ourselves
I was 23 weeks when my Dad came to visit and insisted on buying us some of the bigger items (cot, carseat, changetable, pram etc - yes we were very lucky) and he couldn't believe we didn't have anything for the baby yet. I just wasn't comfortable doing so as I was so burnt from our first loss, I had a real fear of jinxing things. I didn't buy anything else till after about 32weeks, but only bought the bare minimum as I didn't want to be stuck with a heap of stuff I didn't need or wanted a different version of iykwim? Plus we didn't know what we were having so didn't buy many clothes until after she arrived. We scored heaps of good quality 2nd hand stuff too so considered ourselves lucky in that respect also.
People always told me to wait until after the 12 week mark. But we didnt start getting things until about the 20 week mark. I had to really know my baby was ok.
But we didnt have everything until about a week before i had her. There was even stuff we didnt have until after she was born
We bought stuff at around 24 weeks for DD, but them like MummaSue I was very anxious and once he had put it in the baby to be's room DH wasn't allowed to touch it until after I was 30weeks. Though saying that I had 3 baby showers and so didn't really need to buy a whole lot.
With baby#2 I started straight away. I wanted to build up my nappy stash (cloth) and get some little bits and pieces early, but that baby left us at 12 weeks.
As a result poor DS hardly had anything until 24 weeks when we thought he was going to deliver and then only very basic stuff until about 34weeks when I found out he was a he.
I usually wait until after the morphology/anatomy scan, so around 21 weeks.
As we'd lost Noah 3 months before conceiving DS2, when pregnant with DS2 I waited until the very last minute to take things off lay bye. I figured it was as good as buying them but not feeling like I was jinxing myself by having them at home. From memory, we set things up at about 37 weeks.
First baby I didn't buy anything ..... I was always at work, my parents collected stuff for me once I told them, which would have been around 2-3 months.
Second after we told everyone, which was about 4-5 months.
Third my parents bought us a basinette, and we picked up 2 or 3 onesies and a box of nappies so that barely counts
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