When did you start buying "stuff"

[Sign Of The Fish Burger]

At what point in your pregnancy did you start buying things... whether it be little things like clothes and blankies, or the big things like swings, cribs etc.

 

[Leanna]

30 weeks ... after moving

 

[gracepaints]

Little things - about 14 weeks. Big things - about 20+

 

[Meshavrischika]

At what point in your pregnancy did you start buying things... whether it be little things like clothes and blankies, or the big things like swings, cribs etc.

immediately (but then I'm fertile myrtle and am basically like a brood mare... no problems ever here)

 

[GolfingMom]

I didn't purchase much. My family purchased so much for me I did pick up some gender neutral items when finances allowed or if I noticed I didn't have enough of something.
All the big items were given to us at our baby shower

 

[sparassidae]

The only 'big thing' we bought was a carseat, I guess that was about 30 weeks.

Clothes and stuff- most we were given either as hand-me-downs or new, but I bought a few things sometime in the last trimester.

 

[seamonster]

I was given a bassinet and baby bouncer a week after conception (yeah, I kinda "knew" I was pregnant before I got the + sign) but didn't actually buy anything (carseat, clothes, whatever) until 27-30 weeks.

 

[RedTulipMom]

with my first i started buying stuff about 13 weeks along when i hit my 2nd trimester...after that i would wait till a couple weeks before the baby was due to buy.

 

[jgonz]

I generally wait until the 2nd trimester when I have more energy to really start planning, making lists, going through existing baby clothes bins, and seeing what I need to get. Then I sloooowly start buying things, and like now that I have 6 wks to go, I'm in full buying mode. LOL

 

[jessesgirl]

As soon as I got a positive, I started buying things. I was too excited not to. I never thought I was going to be able to buy for my own baby...so I was quite excited!

 

[jessesgirl]

As soon as I got a positive, I started buying things. I was too excited not to. I never thought I was going to be able to buy for my own baby...so I was quite excited!

 

[Assisi]

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[Assisi]

I haven't bought anything yet. We've started to price cots, and that's it.

Oh, except we bought one book. And a rosary. We always buy a rosary for our children so we can pray for them on their own rosary. So actually I've bought two things.

 

[Sign Of The Fish Burger]

I haven't bought anything yet either. Well that's a lie about a year ago I picked up a little tshirt that has the cartoon Yellow Submarine Beatles on the front (if you're a beatles fan you know exactly what I mean). I'm a massive beatles fan and I fell in love with the t-shirt. It's a 3T and I got it on sale at Target for 2.99 I've had it in my lingerie drawer for so long haha.

 

[~Mrs. A2J~]

I think we bought the car seat right after we found out we were pregnant. Other than that we didn't get stuff till near the end of the pregnancy. But we kept things to a bare minimum and didn't want every baby gadget on the planet so we didn't buy that much.

 

[Linnis]

I resisted buying 'stuff' until we knew the gender.

 

[beccasmommy]

I started buying stuff early this time as our 3rd child we are not expecting many gifts of REALLY usable things, with our first we didn't buy anything except one baby blanket at 20 weeks.

 

[rocklife]

I had no clue about baby stuff when I was pregnant, I didn't really buy anything (I did move into a bigger apartment for baby space but that was it for a while) until people started giving me baby presents when I was just about due, then I realized :O I needed baby stuff it was kind of winging it when he was born to see what we would need

 

[JulySheMustFly]

I waited until sometime in the third trimester. It really takes me a long time to get excited because I hated pregnancy so much. By the third trimester I was able to see the light and start setting up house. By our last babe I didn't get anything until a week before my edd.

 

[Athene]

I waited until I was in my third trimester and I stretched it out as long as possible. I recommend this for serveral reasons, those last weeks just stretch out into eternity but knowing that you'll be going out on a saturday or whatever to buy something for the baby gives you something to look forward too, buying clothes and nappies as late as possible is advised, as you don't know how big the baby is going to be until the last few weeks. With my first I bought loads of new born size clothing and new born nappies (diapers), she was 10 lb 1 oz, hardly any of the clothes fitted and she only got through half the nappies we bought before they no longer fitted her.