To early to buy nursery furniture?

[Florin]

I am 15 and a half weeks pregnant with my first we have seen some really good offers on cot beds etc in the sales however it feels quite early to start buying. Should we snap up the 50% discount or wait until we are further along?

I personally would wait a bit - didn't feel like buying anything until after 20 week scan. Also, you'll probably find that there will be more sales close to your EDD as well? Hope that helps :)

I would be very tempted to snap up the discount. I know that lots of people would say that was tempting fate, but I find it soooo hard to pass up on a good bargain.

I would wait. Mothercare and John Lewis price match us what you want may change. I got a great cot bed with drop side - now I wish I had paid extra and got a bedside cot.

Alternatively I wished I had brought second hand as loads for sale at mo on Facebook groups.

As for nursery furniture- get regular sized wardrobes and chest of drawers. Last much longer!

If you want to buy it, then buy it. You might be kicking yourself later if you don't and then there are no decent sales or nothing you like as much. You've got to live with this furniture for a few years, so if you like it then why wait?

I don't believe in this 'tempting fate' or 'its bad luck to buy baby things before X weeks' bollocks. If something happens, then I don't see how having boxed-up furniture in the house is going to change a thing.

Definitely go for regular sized furniture though, and think twice about buying a changing unit - IMO they're a waste of time and once the baby can roll over you'll be fighting to keep it on there anyway. You're better off with a changing mat on the floor :)

Hello, I agree with Flisspaps about the regular size furniture. With my first I didn't bother with a changing unit but on the floor initially would have been quite tricky. We ended up buying a cot top changer for about £25 from K*ddicare. This was useful and we still sometimes use it over the bath (our bath tub is flat at the top) for when we pull the little one out of the baby bath. HTH :)

Re changing table- yes waste of money. I put a universal cot top changer for dc2 from mothercare - best £25 I spent.

Tricky one. I am 29 weeks and my MIL is horrified that we have bought stuff. If she had her way, we wouldn't buy anything at all until the baby was actually here, I think (not quite sure how she thinks this would work from a practical viewpoint - we would need some clothes and a car seat straightaway if nothing else). My reasoning is that buying stuff won't cause anything to go wrong, and if it does, as someone said above, it's hardly going to be made worse by already having stuff. That said, I didn't buy much, if anything, before my 20 week scan as in the awful event that we did have a hard decision to make, I didn't want it made even harder by being able to see the cot the baby should be going into. I think if I were you I would buy it and stick it in the loft if you can so it's out of sight if you were to have any problems at your scan (am sure you won't, of course) or if anything were to go wrong.

Oh, and we haven't bothered with a changing table - we've bought an ordinary chest of drawers and stuck a changing mat on the top, so it's still useful storage once the baby can roll rather than being pointless after a few months!

Mixed views from everyone. Finding it so hard to decide, we definitely want a cot bed so it will last and regular size drawers and wardrobe no point in the small ones. Seen some drawers which has a slide off changing bit so when you no longer need that bit you can slide it off and it is just a regular chest of drawers which seemed like a good idea. Wardrobe at the start may be used for some of our stuff at the beginning so again has to be regular size but seen sets with normal size one. It does feel early but I am due in June so worried there won't be such good sales before then as the next big sales tend to be end of June/beginning of July which would be too late.

Heya! I have to say that its entirely upto you and how u and your partner feel. I am 15 weeks with out first and we have ordered a moses basket as it was half price and very cute - i doubt that i will go off it b4 the baby is born as they don't really vary that much. Also my mum bought us a cot yday. Which i did think was maybe a bit soon but seen as it was £49 reduced from £200 it would have been stupid to pass it up. Its solid pine and gorgeous. It really is up to the individual and dont think you should be made to feel its too soon. Get a lil sumthin every month - u wil be prepared and not skinting yourselves xx

I really would try to hold off the urge to buy loads before the baby is born. A lot of stuff - changing table, baby bath, 95% of nursery decoration and equipment, wardrobe, super fancy buggy is not necessary and is sold to parents who don't know what they will need but understandably want to have everything prepared before the big day. Other stuff like a cot you may find you use or not. There will be more sales next year (as well as lots second hand) and there is nothing (apart from a car seat to get home with, some nappies and a few babygros) that you absolutely need on day 1.

I have just reached 25 weeks; due mid April. Mum and Dad bought us the cot bed, we bought a pushchair off ebay; saved around £500.

In Jan, we will buy the other stuff; clothing etc.
As someone said, buying stuff will not change the outcome.

Mum and Dad however came up with the idea that we should take the pushchair to them as they say it's bad luck. They live about 2 hrs away; why would we do that!!! Or to leave it with MIL, who is over 4 hours away!

I would personallt say go and buy it. We are now 23weeks pregnant and I have been buying since the start. It is all terribly exciting. xx

It is exciting. but it can be equally exciting without buying a tonne of stuff.

To be honest i think that the whole concept of 'equiping the nursery' is a con. The only people who have nurseries are pregnant first timers and characters out of Peter Pan and Mary Poppins. Once the baby comes along you find that it may sleep in the lovingingly prepared room some of the time, and it may not, and it won't mind either way, and in the end you won't either (although you may have wasted a load of your money along the way).

I'm curious as to how the "jinxing things" works with a second child anyway?

Having been the person getting DS1s stuff out of the attic at 26w and being told there's no need to do it yet, in hushed voices...

That's what I'm wondering To2012 - I was made to keep the pram elsewhere when pregnant with DD but it's still in the dining room and I'm 26w with DC2

I don't think it's too early - I would snap them up now! Honestly, there is sooo much to do and buy, you need to take advantage of any sales and having the energy to get things done. The second trimester is the best time to get these things done. You will be much more tired in the third and that's when all the hospital appointments, antenatal classes etc step up, so there's less time too.

Fliss my pram's still in the living room too!

personally I would wait - there are always sales and special offers - you might have changed your mind by them about which one you want anyway. You may also find that you have more time than you think as you might want the baby sleeping in a Moses basket for the first few weeks etc.
Not because you would jinx anything though.

I don't think its a case of jinxing things, but there is always the remote possibility that things will go wrong - and the earlier you are the more chances for that to happen. If you try and return goods more than a month or two after you bought them, few stores will take them back (I've come across one that does, and that's an independent). Having the baby things in the house or set up for DC>1 won't change anything - but if things don't happen as you hope then it does give you more to deal with and (from personal experience) its a very harsh reminder of the future that you no longer have.

I would agree that you need a lot less than you think you do for the first few weeks/months, so don't feel unduly pressured to have absolutely everything in place before your EDD.

Re. a cot bed - something to consider is whether you intend to have more children. DD was 2 (and not short for her age) when we shifted her out of a cot and into a full size single bed - which would have been pretty good timing if we'd had a 2nd with a 2 yr age gap, as many of our friends did. You never know what the future will bring, but if you are thinking of another and aren't planning on a large gap then you may need the cot bed in its "cot" state for DC2 before DC1 needs to move out of it...

Tangle - I'm doing that, DS is going straight from cotbed as cot to single bed, ready for DS2 to have the cot (I'm aiming to move him into the bed a month before my due date, when he'll be 17m, so he doesn't associate the move with the baby). I know the baby wont actually be in the cot for a while, but the cot top changer will be on there :)

We bought all our nursery furniture when I was 15-16 weeks. That was because similar to u we were at a baby show and the furniture we'd seen online the company had a stand there so we were able to have a good look at it. No where remotely near us stocked it. Also as it was a fair they had a really good package deal it Would have been stupid not to get what we REALLY wanted based in superstition. That said even though we bought in September we didn't arrange delivery till November. I say go for it

I found the urge to want to buy things...
I got round this by setting a John Lewis gift list.
Did the whole nursery advisor appointment thing too. MIL and Mum loved the appointment and were invaluable for advice (though, the advisor was brilliant too), and the free coffe and cake def. helped
Anyway, every time I felt like a shop, I tweaked my list online.
I also mercilessly stalked stuff on ebay and could take things off my list as I got them that way IYSWIM. Baby does have a nursery...in that there's a room with a cot and other grown-up sized furniture in it, and a mobile and we stuck some motif thingies on the wall, but it's still a spare room essentially...
...just waiting on baby and fretting about breast feeding and real nappies now.

I'm 17 weeks and we just bought our furniture. We found a furniture set we liked at Mamas & papas and they offered a 20% discount - which is a lot of money.

The furniture wont be delivered until Feb (our choice, as they could deliver it within 2 weeks) and they told us we could return it/cancel the order if anything would go wrong...

I would snap up the bargains as you see them. Ok, 15 wks is a wee bit early but you are past the first trimester, it would be unusual for anything to go wrong at this stage. I would advise as others have to buy adult furniture and a cot bed. You could just get a cheaper changing table with open shelves, good for storage too. In my experience nursery furniture is a waste of money as you will need to replace it all in a few yrs time. For my first I got the coastline range from mamas and papas, my dh is still complaining about the crap quality of the wardrobe 3.5 yrs on and it wasn't cheap. I am now expecting baby no 3 and will be putting the baby in the room with the nursery furniture I have and have brought some lovely furniture from Laura Ashley in various sales for my 3.5 yr old and 18 month old as this will stay in their rooms forever. The cot beds are good though because when they move out of the cot it is an easy transition. My dd1 is about to move into a double bed so the baby can have hers.