Baby items waste of money?

[Littlebean23]

First time mum with no idea 🙋‍♀️

On the back of a fantastic thread for essential items to buy, can I ask which items were a complete waste of money/bought but didn't use/to avoid?

It’s so personal. For me cot, sleeping bags and a breast pump.

www.gentlenursery.com/breastfeeding/haakaa-breast-pumps/

this at £23 was far better at collecting milk thank all the other electronic pumps I used. Just popped it on whilst feeding and collected milk from the other boob - then swapped. Ideal for freezing and then using if out for a couple of hours as a back up for babysitter

Each baby is so different so what is useless for one baby is essential for another.

I wouldn’t get any swaddling things or blankets if I had a second because DD hated it so much but Sod’s law says that no 2 would have to be swaddled!

I think the thing is to not spend a fortune on anything until you can work out what your baby likes. When buying something I would ask myself if I would be happy wasting this much if it doesn’t get used. You might find you have different thresholds for different things - so your threshold for bathing might be £10 but for sleep it will probably be a lot higher (you might be prepared to not eat for a week if it means you might get some sleep)!

these are just the things I found to have wasted money on:

-clothes, don’t bother with outfits, just get loads of vests and babygrows preferably zip ones, the poppy up ones got bloody tedious and so I rarely used them and half the stuff I bought she never even wore so don’t go overboard! I wasted so much bloody money
-baby towels, pointless and expensive!
-tons of baby blankets and swaddles- not needed
-a changing station, never bothered to go upstairs every time I wanted to change her and when I bathed her I just used to get her ready on my bed so I could sit down too 😂
-those bloody Ewan sheep, waste of money, too quiet, battery dies dead quick and is awkward to put on next to me crib! just buy an Alexa dot to play white noise in the room, I’ve found it’s been useful for playing nursery rhymes now she’s a bit older 😂
-don’t go buy a baby carrier before you’ve had baby, what I didn’t realise is every baby is different and you can go and try them on to find best fit for you and baby, I spent £150 on a carrier that was no good 🙃

there’s probs loads more but I can’t think 😂

Yes very different

see we use a changing mat ontop of chest of drawers as changing table. In Ds room. I ( or dh) have changed every single nappy at home at the changing area upstairs for over 2 years. Never downstairs on the floor, I couldn’t be bothered bending down, and water to clean baby and my hands is easier upstairs

Very interesting seeing how different our babies our. Mine loved a sleeping bag and still does now at nearly two. Also a changing table was a godsend after an unplanned c section as was a sling for a baby with reflux.

The useless things for me was the gro egg, that angry red face drove me mad! Ewan the sheep, the white nosie stopped after 20 mins and woke her up, a continuous white noise machine is 10x better (still use now and shes an amazing sleeper). Also cute outfits, my DD got bought so many v unpractical outfits for a newborn!

Absolutely agree with this. Also I don't think people should buy too much before the baby is born as with things like slings different ones suit different babies .