What do you NEED for your second bub?

[MrsB26]

Besides what everyone else has said - car seat, double pram, more towels, carrier etc i bought an electronic breast pump. Mainly cause with ds i found it took forever for me to be able to express enough for a bottle if i had to leave him and i'm sure i'll have less time now and i'll probaly be going back to work earlier so it will be more efficient. Also if i have to express again with this one for comp feeds in the early days it will help too

[meow]

We're planning on getting:
Car seat- a booster seat for our son actually and the convertible car seat will be passed down.
Cradle- older son is still in cot, not as a toddler bed so I'm hoping the larger size of a cradle will last us a little longer with baby#2 until the cot is free.
Skateboard for pram- I'll mainly use carriers for the baby too but I think the skateboard will be handy for a long time anyway.
Cleaner- I figure this will be an essential for a period of time while adjusting to having two!
Bath seat- We didn't use one last time but I think it'll make life easier with two in the bath. Obviously wont need that for a bit though.

We have a rocker already which we barely used last time but I can see it being handy this time.

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We got (for #3, since I needed to start from scratch for #2)

A bassinet + some sheets and blankets (which I got gifted)
Some clothes - despite them being polar opposite seasons, I had quite a bit of neutral coloured wintery stuff in between all the pink summer stuff
Nappies
Car seat (which just happened to come with quite a few bassinet sized sheets and blankets)
And out of season maternity gear for me

The whole lot added up to about $250. Second babies are cheap!

If I'd had two of the same gender in similar seasons I would have only needed cot and carseat.

[Cassius2]

newborn clothes as we gave alot away

carseat for DD1

big bed for DD1

double pram

night light...lost the last one somewhere along the way

newborn size socks...lost many of the pairs so had a lot of singletons floating around.

[Mum2Romone]

Just

[AnyDream]

Hehehe anything you wanted the first time round but couldn't afford LOL.

Naw only joking, it works the other way round, you realise with your first how little you actually do "need". But on the other hand you've got a better idea of what things are really useful.

Things I lashed out on with DD2:
a boori matilda cradle (much bigger than a basinette, kept her in it until she was big enough to go into a different room)
a shaped denton's preggy pillow & a breastfeeding pillow (made do with a sad & saggy u-shaped pillow first time)
a really good sling (had a cheap n nasty first time)
a new monitor (cos the first one died after a couple of years constant use)
an inflatable ducky bath (sits inside your regular bath, really handy for bathing little ones without filling the whole bath)
playpen (didn't need it with DD1 but it was brilliant with DD2)

[Cassius2]

:yeahthat:

this time i did splash out a bit more. like last time i made do with only bare essentials in terms of maternity clothing etc. this time i decided to spoil myself a bit more as this will no doubt be our last baby and only now do i truly realise how precious that is and how, for me, to feel pretty makes a big difference to my confidence itms. also bought some nice maternity bras (hot milk). last time i bought basic, but not pretty ones. which were fine, but now i wanna feel pretty lol!

i also bought a few really pretty things for bubs. last time i was like uber practical, but this time, again i guess because i figure it's the last, i went to town a bit so that i have a stash to have my *mwah* moments when they are all grown up...

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a new monitor (cos the first one died after a couple of years constant use)

We have the baby where we can't hear him and haven't actually wanted one of these yet - our toddler is very very good at telling us when "baby's sad. Baby needs a snuggle"