clothes for a newborn - how much is too much?

[mckenzie]

I'm busy sorting through all DS's old baby clothes to get them in boxes in some sort of order ready so that when the new baby arrives (not for ages yet) I will be able to get at what I need easily.

So, I've gpt DS's baby clothes and also clothes that friends have given me and I think that perhaps I have too much. I know the newborns can be sicky etc and I do remember getting through more than one outfit a day sometimes but even so, how many vests and how many babygrows do you think I really need at any one stage?

To be honest I don't remember my young baby needing that many outfits - but I do remember that alot of the things that I had bought were either too small to start off with or were outgrown rapidly. Personally if I was doing it again, I'd probably get a good supply of baby grows - maybe enough for 3 per day and take it from there. You can allways get plenty more as they grow. Good luck and how exciting!

I seem to have an obscene amount of vests and babygrows and dont know whether to keep them all for now and pass them on as and when i find I dont need them or whether to be a bit more ruthless and give some away now so that I haven't got so much to store for the next 5 months.
I obviously dont know whether the new baby will be a similar size to DS1 of course to know what will fit when and as the new baby is due in a different season as well soem clothes will just be no good at all.
It's a good job i'm pregnant though as I'm getting soooo broody sorting through these tiny little things and they all smell so lovely still.

Aw, Mckenzie, I know what you mean about baby clothes bringing on broodiness.. my dh is ruthless about passing on clothes ds has grown out of to my nephew... but I miss them and want to hang onto them! Think is part of dh's campaign to keep ds an only child .
Anyway, to answer your question, I don't think you can have too many vests/babygrows for a small baby. Maybe ds was just very possetty but I used every single babygrow we had ? and we'd bought or been given hundreds of the damn things! The washing machine was going all day long but I had so many there were always plenty of dry ones for him. If you can bear to let stuff go, do it as he grows, not before!
Congratulations!