What's the earliest you bought something for baby?

[avocadotoast]

I feel like I'm tempting fate/going completely bonkers... I'm 9 weeks and just bought a little checked-shirt-type all in one because my hormones went into overload and I "had" to have it! I felt a bit silly and I certainly won't buy anything else until after my scan... I hope...

[avocadotoast]

I must admit, a couple of weeks ago I nearly bought an amazingly cheap bundle of newborn clothes on eBay. I showed DH and he shook his head in a real "don't be mental" way haha.

[Dogsmom]

I bought a neutral outfit at 5 weeks but bothing else until after the 16 week gender scan then I hit the shops.

I know it's very frowned upon on mn to buy anything aimed towards a specific gender but meh, I don't care

By the time she was born we had everything and am doing the same again with dd2, I plan to bring her home and enjoy her without the pressure of going out to buy anything.

[Ludways]

About 5 hours after he was born, I sent dh out with a list. I was in denial until then!

[beckymurray12]

we had a complete nursery by 20 weeks ha!

[Flisspaps]

The day I found out I was pg with DD - made it feel 'real' :)

[purplebiro]

Thanks - we have a great local FB group too :)

[VintageCherry26]

Purplebiro, I haven't seen any threads on here but you can find super cheap baby clothes on ebay! Some are even brand new unwanted gifts that you can get for a bargain :)

[purplebiro]

I've not got anything yet - mostly because we're waiting til after the scan (next week hopefully) to tell everyone and a lot of our friends have little ones, have indicated that they're "done" and have really good taste so I'm waiting to see what gets offered to us before I start buying. Dreadful really but we're going to have to take a fairly significant income drop in the next year for various reasons and I'm pretty keen to have a baby on the cheap! On which note, are there any long running thrifty pregnancy/parenting threads on here anyone can point me at?

[Lizzy86]

Thanks

[scrivette]

When I was about 15 I bought a beautiful baby dress in the sale and couldn't bear to give it away so thought I would keep it for my future child. 15 years later I had DS (bet I have another DS so it won't be used!) Do I win?

[BananaToast]

Lizzy I got a pack of Bounty advertising from my midwife at my booking appointment, which includes a form to sign up to the Bounty parenting club. If you fill that in and take it to Boots (and some other shops, can't remember which) they will give you a bag of goodies.

If you're not that far along yet you can also get freebies from the Emma's Diary app - you can download three vouchers for free goody bags from Argos or Boots.

[Lizzy86]

BananaToast - how do I get a bounty pack?

[skyra13]

I am 16 weeks now, didn't buy anything untill my first scan! Only got a few onsies now as they were gifts, I have a travel cot and high chair as my friend wanted rid and only wanted 20quid for them and hardly been used.

Waiting till after my 20 week scan for the more bigger items :)

[celestialsquirrels]

Btw the baby is now a stroppy 17 year old young woman!

[celestialsquirrels]

The day after my positive test. I went to gap and bought a tiny teddy bear and a mini newborn babygro. I put them in a drawer and every so often I would open the drawer, look st them, go "Aurgh! I'm having a baby!" And shut the drawer again. It was as though I needed to look at them for it to properly sink in that I was going to be a mother. It is one of my fondest memories of that time, those secret stomach churning peeps into that drawer!
In my defence I was 27 and got pregnant in the first month of trying so it was all rather a shock!

[fortywinx]

I haven't bought anything yet at 6+5, but my friend was attempting to clear up her 4 month old daughter's nursery, and asked if I wanted any of the things she either didn't use or no longer needed as she wanted the space. So I now have a baby bath, a moses basket (minus mattress) and two carrier bags of unisex baby clothes sat in what will be the nursery. I'm not particularly superstitious, so I might end up buying something before my 12 week scan.

[DecaffTastesWeird]

I don't see anything wrong with buying whatever you want as soon as you want to. I so happened to wait till after my 20 week scan to buy anything, but that was just one little outfit I couldn't resist. Didn't really start shopping for things till recently. That was more to do with DH though who just didn't want to have a house full of baby things so soon. He only entered Mothercare willingly for the first time yesterday and I am nearly 33 weeks!

Also, now I am having to buy things, I have realised how much I don't like some of the things which are available in the shops. I kind of wish I'd started a bit sooner now.

Also a friend of mine has a pram already and hasn't even started TTC yet!

[TinyMonkey]

I bought a baby hat after a successful 12 week scan. We had a MMC last year and I couldn't let myself be optimistic until after the 20 week scan.

Didn't really start buying anything else until about 25/30 weeks.

[VintageCherry26]

I bought a few items when we decided to TTC but now that I'm pregnant (5 and a half weeks) it feels way too early to buy anything, even gender neutral items..

[DanyStormborn]

Before we were TTC! I couldn't help it - mostly clothes and small items. I thought of it a spreading the costs and am glad we did now. I thought the overwhelming probablility was that we would one day be able to conceive a baby and I'm not superstitious. The only things I think it is important to hold off on are big items that you want the warrenty to last on or that you think a better model of might become available closer to birth. I'm 20 weeks now and have almost everything we will need for the first 3 months.

[weeblueberry]

I bought a gorgeous childrens book before Id even met DP because I knew I'd want it for any future children I had.

Mum also bought a Cath kidston cherry bib before I was ttc because they were limited edition.

[ThinkIveBeenHacked]

First time.round I only bought stuff between weeks 12 & 20 that I was in love with and would have been gutted if theyd sold out after 20 weeks.

This pregnancy I bought maternity wear at six weeks (got a pot from very very early on), and had some babygrows in by 12 weeks. Everything else was sorted and bought and unpacked by 32 weeks but tbh I did have most of it from dd.

[liesal79]

I was 20 weeks before I allowed myself to think this time might be the one. We started sorting out the Nursery this weekend, (I am 30+6) and it has thrown me into a bit of a panic!!!

[jaykay34]

With my first pregnancy I bought a girls and boys outfit and some unisex babygro's before the first scan - then found out i was having twins at the scan which turned out to be a boy and girl . I bought everything pretty early with them.

With my singleton son, we left it quite late to buy anything - I was probably about 7 months. I hadn't known I was pregnant until 15 weeks and then bled up until 20 weeks so I didn't feel confident with the pregnancy until much later on.

[ladylala28]

Im 12 weeks 3 days pregnant and had my scan... then bought loads! Travel system, cot, nursery stuff even loads of bath stuff and nappies ... then realised i bought size 3 for a new born whoops! :)