What was your most wasted purchase made in preparation for becoming a parent?

[GreyBalonz]

Can be anything

Moses basket, next to me crib- anything that involved my babies sleeping independently!

I have a 6 month old and I still use my nappy bin everyday. We have a 3 story house, so its great for night changes. I just empty every couple of days.

Pram suits. Baby born in winter but was such a hot baby, he got heat rash constantly. So I preferred just using blankets and layers. But ended up with about 8 pramsuits for some reason!

I love our baby bath. Baby grew out of it pretty quickly, but I can still use it as a sitz bath!

For my first child a baby monitor, total waste of £60.
For my second child spritz for bitz (but I would of totally benefitted from this with my first if it had existed!)

The baby carrier, wrap, sling whatever I could never get them on right and always felt like I had to hold my baby in place whilst using them, rendering one arm in constant use and therefore defeating the point of the flipping thing.

Reins, my first didn't need them and my second had to be confined to the pushchair for safety.

Baby bath! Never used it. She bathed with me until she was old enough to sit in the bath hersef.

Teething rings etc. She'd never chew them.

This just shows it’s all quite personal. Love the baby bath. Sling was probably our best buy, cost per wear must be almost nothing. Regret buying expensive travel system, just don’t need it, but I think most families do get a lot of use out of them (just not my babies). Next to me / cot never worked for us either but both hand me downs.

Lots but the lovely basket of Body Shop mum to be stuff(37 years ago) that my work colleagues got me was mostly a waste. Ylang ylang labour massage cream (the scent is one that does not go well with a long fraught labour), the NHS frowned upon candles even then, and the anti stretch mark cream was pretty useless. And as I had planned sections for 2 &3 the lovingly curated labour mix tape never even needed rewinding. The ridiculously frilly dress another colleague bought for number 4. Lord knows why, im the least frilly person you'd ever meet, apart from the woman who bought the bloody thing!

Moses baskets - we keep buying and never using. My babies were velcro babies so didn’t want to sleep anywhere but on me.

Snot removal sucker - gross and never got the courage to stick it up a baby’s nose!

Newborn baby clothes. They always ended up being too big, so used 0-3 months.

Various slings and wrap-arounds. Some were so complicated and confusing that I didn't bother trying to figure it out! I also worried too much about carrying them, and used sturdy baby carriers instead.

Colostrum harvesting - only heard about this in my latest pregnancy, and still think it is a myth! Couldn’t even get a drop. Bought all the kit for it hoping that it would help the tide the baby over while my milk came in.

@WishfulThinkingToday shocked at the snot sucker!! It was a lifesaver for our stuffy winter baby. It is gross, but also weirdly satisfying 😂

Same.

Cot! I had three of the damn things; one in DD's room, next to me in mine and a cot for downstairs. She's 18 months old and has slept in all three of them about 5 times 😂 they act as great storage though!! I'm expecting my second any day now and I've not bothered clearing out two of them - I'll try again with the next to me cot but only because we still have it!

Moses basket. Absolutely pointless as they grow out of it so quickly
Baby bath. Absolutely pointless as my newborns hated baths so mostly did facecloth washes in the sink. Then when they got older they were too big for the babybath

I was given an expensive high chair. It had a massive heavy base, which just got in the way and a huge tray that didn’t detach. We bought the cheap one from Ikea after using it for a week!

Cute baby bath towels with a hood - far too small and it was much easier to wrap the baby up in a normal size towel. Less cute though…

We used everything we bought but didn't buy anything in advance

From the gifts dribble bibs were the one thing that weren't used, I have had my second now and have 4 unopened packets.

We used our baby bath until my daughter was 3! We had a hot water tank and often didn't have hot water as we showered, we could fill the baby bath easy enough with the shower.

We didn't get a lot of use of the cot bed as a cot with my daughter as she was in our bed until she was 2 and then we converted it to the bed and she used that until 5. We have it set up as a next to me for my second so getting more use out of it.

Cot
Moses basket
Rockit