With our first baby we spent about $1600 and we found after a little while we had lots of superfluous "stuff" that we didn't need. She was born in a public hospital so my antenatal care and birth cost nothing - that was just on baby things.

But no one was going to tell me that before she was born - I was convinced we needed all of it.

We also managed to spend a fair whack again when #2 came. Because he was a different sex, we bought all new clothes, bedding and other things that had to be in "boy" colours even though we already had them for our girl.

Babies are a money pit