What's the earliest you bought something for baby?

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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...

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

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 :)

BananaToast - how do I get a bounty pack?

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.

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?

Thanks

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?

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 :)

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

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

we had a complete nursery by 20 weeks ha!

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

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.

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.