Buying baby stuff

[AlwaysDancing1234]

I'm 22 weeks and we made our first 'baby stuff' purchase this week. Had a tough time in early pregnancy, had twins but lost one very early and had lots of bleeds so thought we would lose this one too but she's held on and we had the 20 week scan and she's perfectly heathly thank goodness.
Finally starting to believe now that everything is ok and we will have our baby in 4 months time
Anyway my question is when did you start buying baby stuff? I feel like we haven't got anything sorted at all and I'm usually very organised! With DC1 I had everything ordered or bought pretty early but this time I feel like I've done nothing!

All you REALLY need for a newborn is something for it to wear, something to get it home from the hospital (carseat), and somewhere for it to sleep. Oh, and some nappies.

John Lewis, Kiddicare and Mothercare all do next day delivery.

I left things (more out of laziness, I am not superstitious) until about 36-37 weeks and then just got the essentials and then bought things as we realised we needed them, like a sling.

Thanks Beela and Dino
If the amount of clothes and stuff we got when DS was born are anything to go buy we won't need to buy much for the first 3 months!

We started after the 20 week scan. First up a nursery furniture set in the Jan sales. We need it as we're moving to a much bigger house which we have no furniture to fill, and thought it will be nice to have somewhere to store the baby's things even if he or she doesn't spend much/any time in there. Then last weekend, with the next paycheck we paid for the pram/travel system. We're trying to buy something each month and get the most expensive stuff out the way first.

i left it till the absolute last minute. i was never convinced i'd actually end up with a real actual baby. which did mean the day after dd's birth i was in mothercare buying all kinds of stuff. as beela says, all you really need is nappies, babygros, bed of some kind and a car seat for the first few days...