WIBU to put baby clothes back in the loft?

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DS4 has just grown out of his newborn clothes (sob). DH is 100% sure he wants no more babies. I'm not sure, I think I might like another one or 3 in a few years. I want to put them back in the loft just in case we have another one. DH thinks we should give them to charity, or to his brother, for when they have DC's.

TBH I don't think a charity would want them, most of them were 2nd hand when we got them so have been worn by 5 DC's already and DS3 wore his 0-3 stuff for 6 months. BIL and SIL would definately rather have new clothes than our scruffy hand me downs. It's only me who would want to use them again because I have all the memories of where they came from. The set of dinosaur babygrows I bought for DS4 after he was born but still in scbu. The little t-shirt that we bought for DS1 when I got my BFP. The snowsuit that was originally bought for my cousin's baby but was first worn by my DS3 because my cousin's 2 boys were huge and my older 2 boys were summer babies.

In a few years time when I'm less hormonal (currently have pnd) I could sort through what I want to have made into memory quilts and get rid of the rest. We have loads of room in the loft so space not an issue.

It won't hurt to stash them away just while you're feeling vulnerable, I shouldn't think. Someone else might come along saying it'd be for the best to get rid and move on but I'm a bit of a hoarder (not too bad but will keep some of our newborn stuff for sentimental reasons despite the fact that we are definitely not having any more!)

Hope you're managing the pnd

My DC3 is now 16 months and I am starting to think about another. DH is sure he doesn't want anymore although he said that after the first 2 as well but I have still saved all my baby clothes in the loft.

My Dsis has a DD who is younger than mine so is borrowing some for her DD and her DS is in between DS1 and DS2 so is borrowing DS1's old ones. When they have grown out of them, I get them back plus all the ones she had herself so I have 5 DC's worth of clothes up there.

DH doesn't mind me keeping them even though his answer at the moment is a no as when the decision is finally made to stop, I can too go through and keep any, give away to friends or sell/charity.

90% of clothes from my eldest were put in the attic (in vacuum storage bags)

I wasn't supposed to be able to have a baby at all, so now baby 2 is wearing mostly clothes I bought for his brother, and as he outgrows them they're going back in the storage bags and in the attic :)

If I ever have another, I'll be glad I did it. If I don't, I have lots of memories and fabric to use for other projects eventually.

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It can't hurt to store them for a bit. If getting rid of them at this stage would upset you, and you have plenty of loft space, then surely it would be better to hang on to them for now...

Hope your PND improves soon.

I don't think it hurts to store them, but why not go through them all and just save the ones that are particularly sentimental?
i have done this and i;m planning on making a quilt out of them :)

Store them if you are not ready to pass them on yet, you will either be ready to do that one day or need them again so there no rush now.

I'm 100% happy with my only, butttt I still have a loft full. Oh says he's not moving house with them, me I can't let them go.

they work as contraceptives don't you know? give them away and you are likely to have a happy accident. something to do with sod's law I think.

After dc3 I couldn't bear to get rid of anything, but then as she turned into a toddler, I realised I didn't want any more babies so was able to get rid of things. But I have to do it at my own pace. For example, We still have the new born car seat and the sling, but have got rid of the clothes, bath and all the clothes they grow out of. As dc3 grows up and we need the space for other things, they will go, I feel far less sentimental about newborn 'stuff' as they all grow up it seems.

Thanks everyone. I'll tell DH they work as contraceptives, he'll want to keep everything then . I've decided I'm going to sort through it all and put half in the loft and give the other half away.