To think shops shouldn't charge for 'tiny baby' clothes

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Looking at baby clothes in boots today (i'm sure lots of other places do them). They had tiny tiny vests suitable for 3lb babies that they were charging £8 for! And it had a tag on them that said the front opening for hospital wires. Horrible.

I've just found them online and the hospital wires tag isn't on them, it's now described as:
"Low Birth Weight Jacket features a friendly bear print, a wrapover front and opens flat with soft velcro fastenings to the front and sleeves to make dressing the little chap much easier."

If you 3lb baby is so ill in hospital it has tubes and wires, It's criminal to charge £8 for something for them to wear!

Ours had a local knitting circle which was handy while family frantically knitted smaller things for us

We've still got two of them that I think dp must have bought home with ds washing. I'm waiting till this baby is born then I'll take all my prem clothes to the hospital, including the stolen jumpers.

thisisyesterday equipment for tiny babies is more expensive because the demand is much less therefore the production run shorter and the unit cost higher.

When DD was on the Teenage Cancer Unit I used to knit for the teeeeeeny babies in the nicu. I made a hat from a small pattern and took it down to see if it would do. They said it was lovely but could I make it 'this' size. They showed me the smallest hat I had ever seen!
It was like an egg cosy.

I used to knock them out in about twenty minutes.

One St Patricks day I made loads of bright green ones with twirly bits coming out the top.

So if your baby was a preemie at UCLH in late 2005/early 2006 they might have worn one of my hats.

I dont know how to knit anymore. I dont remember how I did it. It was such a strange time.

It was lovely making the hats though. The nurses showed me round when I delivered them. I always thought that the two wards had lots of similarities. All that drama followed by hours and hours of sitting about but with everyone living on worry and adrenaline.

sorry for the ramble

And that is why we love you MrsDeVere - because in the face of it all you still think of other people [huge sloppy kiss]

I know it's "Business" and that Tescos, boots, whoever need to make a profit but it is also good business to be known as a company who have a heart. Making a few items of baby clothes at only a very small profit would make them see like the care and be good advertising. Luckily there are really very few "tiny" babies born and most babies are big and healthy so it wouldn't take much for these companies to offer a the items at a more reasonable price.

It kept me busy

And the thought of lots of teeny babies wearing mad bright green hats with twirly bits coming out the top made me laugh

i think the op has been 'got at' because she has 'form' for posting on another thread in a trolling and annoying manner and her op is poorly worded, she didnt make it clear what she was saying, people have answered that directly and said yes she is unreasonable.

and fwiw pumpkin patch sell prem clothes and they are the same prices as all their other clothes, so they are expensive in comparison to supermarkets but only because pumkin patch is expensive, BUT when they have a sale on there are always LOADS of the prem baby clothes (presumably due to lack of demand) so you can pick them up cheaply in the sales, i was in my pumkin patch last week and they had loads of little prem vest and sleepsuits etc for £2-3 :)

I would agree that a certain baby shop has extortianate prem clothes, having had to purchase some for ds I was a little [shocked] but then he needed clothes and was small.

I am trying not to cry and laugh at prem babies in twirly green hats tbh. I knew I shouldn't have logged on at work!

thefirstMrsDeVere thats really lovely that you made all those hats when you clearly had other things to worry about. I bet it ment loads to the parents of those tiny babies that people like you can be so kind to others at what must be a truely terrible time for them. :)

TheFirstMrsDeVere I have seen you around (I think encouraging people to give blood?) and I admire your strength and the way you write about your DD. Although DS was born at UCLH later (2009) he was one of those babies in the egg cosy hats, I get his first hat out sometimes and I can't believe how small it is. So I just wanted to say thanks, the tiny hats are precious to me and I am grateful, and I'm sure lots of parents feel the same.

That certain baby shope though- if it starts with M then it was the only aplce you could buy them when ds1 was born and we were so grateful.