HELP! My MIL just told me that I must NOT bring the cot home before the baby is born

[AnguaVonUberwald]

We haven't had the easiest pregnancy (had a misscarriage at the begining of the year which has made us very paranoid, and then had some bleeding and cramping in this pregnancy). Its all calmed down a bit now, but we do get very scared and paranoid about the pregnancy.

I was on the phone to my MIL last night, telling her that I wanted to get an amby nest www.amby.co.uk/ for the baby to use as a cot and she said:

"You can pay for it and book it before the baby comes but you must NOT collect it until the baby arrives, its bad luck."

AND then she said - "My daughter didn't buy anything before the baby came"

Now I know is ridiculous to listen to this and get all paranoid, but as I said, I haven't had the easiest of pregnancies and I just get really scared.

Plus, we are buying the amby nest on the internet, so how can we possibly arrange to get it after the baby arrives, AND, how on earth can you bring a baby home if you haven't bought anything for it, before it arrives?

Please reassure me that I am just being stupid and that its OK to go shopping in the January sales for my beautiful baby, as I have been looking forward to for months.

My mum was similarly suspicious but I think its because she has two stillbirths and had to take stuff back to the shops that they had bought for the babies

I bought stuff before the birth of both dd and ds but kept it in my MIL house, stuff like the pram and moses basket. Obviously things like babygros and vests had to go in labour bag so they came into the house.