What to save?

I wouldn't worry about too many clothes either you will get given heaps, DD is 7 months old and we are still working our way through clothes we've been given either as gifts or hand me downs.

Buy a couple of packs of nappies - wait till your baby arrives. DD was a teeny tiny newborn and was too little for newborn nappies and we needed premie clothes for the first couple of weeks.

Breastpads - I still leak and went thru heaps of these till I discovered reusables which are the only thing that work at night.

Farmers vouchers were great gifts.

I would avoid meals with too much garlic as well as DD was a very windy newborn she hated anything with too much garlic or herbs in it.

Do your research on breast pumps and bottles, introducing a bottle of EBM in the first couple of weeks was a god send. Allowed Dh to feed DD and me an extra couple of hours sleep.

I agree with some of the others that buying grocery vouchers and fuel vouchers are a good idea. We didn't stockpile anything and were fine, I have probably used more napisan and friend direct than I use to but not enough that I would stockpile it personally. Babystore vouchers aren't a bad idea as once your baby is born you may find you need stuff you don't have or want more clothes. I wouldn't rely on people giving you stuff as we didn't get much at all.
Hope everything goes well.

I would definitely say breast pads - I really liked the J&J pink packet ones - I went through LOADS of these in the first few weeks.. Also the sanitary pads - I brought some expensive libra maternity ones but soon realised that the home brand ones were the same as the hospital ones so just went for them! And all at the bank breaking price of $2/pack!!!

I would get some NB nappies in the early days (even if you are thinking of going cloth).. I really love Huggies but I have heard other people like different brands - guess all babies are shaped differently! :)

I would also get a few packs of baby wipes (again I liked the Huggies ones) because the last thing you will want to do with a new bubba is loads of washing of face cloths!

Thats about all we ever dashed to the supermarket for..
Oh treats and snacks for you - cos you will be hungry! :) And when they yack on about taking food to the hospital - take it more seriously than I did because at 2am after my c/s after having been in labor all day I was STARVING and had only lollies left from the day :) Poor DH was living on fruit bursts too :)

Good luck and yipee how exciting :)

fairy1 wrote: I agree with some of the others that buying grocery vouchers and fuel vouchers are a good idea. We didn't stockpile anything and were fine, I have probably used more napisan and friend direct than I use to but not enough that I would stockpile it personally. Babystore vouchers aren't a bad idea as once your baby is born you may find you need stuff you don't have or want more clothes. I wouldn't rely on people giving you stuff as we didn't get much at all. Hope everything goes well.

Us too, we had to buy almost everything ourselves, so dont rely on others giving you heaps. it is worth buying bigger sized clothes though. Like 0 and 1.    

Those old school flat square cloth nappies were fabulous and I still use them 3 years on.

Def reusable breast pads much softer as well.

A moby or any wrap style carrier, mine was the best purchase I made for ds.

I am now writing a list of things I need to stockpile

Hoping we can get loads of stuff free, but not that sure so will be getting the bare essentials once im about 7-8 months and have an idea of the amount of clothes etc needed.

Anyone have any reusable breast pad, and sanitary pad reccomendations? or is it better to just use disposables for the first few weeks?

you ladies are so incredible with adcive yay for ohbaby!

hahaha Bowie you creep

I bought a pile of breastpads but I didn't leak at all. Not a drop, even once. I gave most of them to my sister who leaks like a sieve, apparently. I've bought some reusable maternity pads from ecomoon for this bub, haven't tried them yet. But last time I ended up resorting to a prefold nappy cos I reacted badly to having to wear the disposable variety for so long - and honestly, it was sore enough down there without the allergic reaction If you have decent support around you, a bit of extra washing is no big deal. I soaked mine and then tossed them in with the nappies.

For a spilly baby, the cloth flats were awesome. I still use them now for toilet training whoopsies! I'll be getting more for my next little puker

I think moral of this thread - get vouchers cos everyone likes and uses different stuff

Its so crazy, how different we all are. I have been through tonnes of breastpads - I leaked all over the place for the first five months or so, and even now when I feed one side the other leaks. I bought reusable ones to save some money (although I have to admit I find the disposable ones more comfortable).

te best things i had were these massive muslin clothes (or you could use cloth nappies ). i used them all the time , either to wrap baby or throw over my shoulder so my clothes didnt get baby spew on them , and also uses them for cleaning up spills on baby too , very handy and just pop them in the wash after ! 

the singlets that dome between the legs are great , buy heaps!

As mentioned above breastpads were great too ! i used heaps the first couple months ,

its really good to stock up on bigger baby clothes too , so if you see some things on end of season special really cheap  even if they are a size 00, 0, or 1 buy them!!!! you alwasy get given heaps of newborn clothes but not so much when they get older and they grow soooo quickly! also a good idea to get some bulk lots of secondhand clothes off trade me , say a bulk lot of nb-3mths or even nb-6mths at this age the babies grow out of clothes so quickly and arent into getting too messy yet either so most clothes are in really good condition

i bought a baby sling which was awesome because i had a colic/reflux baby so it was easier to do things while i could be holding her and the sling i had even meant i could breastfeed with no hands so i even started vaccuming , dishes and breastfeeding at the same time , very handy

a bouncenette is also very handy if you want to have a shower or something , just move it into the bathroom with baby in it and they can watch you shower , also handy for general things you want to do when you dont want to hold the baby , i had an electric baby  swing also but this was more for my babys reflux then anything else but still handy when i needed to be doing other things .

Vouchers as metioned above will be very handy because then you can decide what sorts of things you may need depending on the type of baby you have (like the sling and swing i bought after bubs was born because it helped her reflux but wouldnt of matterd so much if she didnt have reflux - i probably would not of bought them )

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