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£12k over six MONTHS ?
Gold trimmed nappies ?
Gold trimmed nappies ?
Babies are bloody expensive!
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Its crazy isnt it, We are expecting twins in march, and if you think buying for one is expensive... double it...
Isofix bases at £150 each
Learn how to belt them in properly and don't waste money in ISO bases.
Some of that cost was lost earnings as my partner chose to have more time off outside of Maternity pay.
We probably got about £1k back from selling nursery furniture, push chair, bases and car seats when they were finished with.
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We had both, not at that cost, but my wife found the manual pump had a much more lifelike action, expressed the milk better and more volume in a shorter time.
Basically this
http://www.boots.com/en/Medela-Harm...gle-_-PLAs-_-Boots Shopping - Category - Baby
older model, but same thing, probably can be got cheaper from amazon, and was much more efficient.
Basically this
http://www.boots.com/en/Medela-Harm...gle-_-PLAs-_-Boots Shopping - Category - Baby
older model, but same thing, probably can be got cheaper from amazon, and was much more efficient.
Ah yes the clothes. Constant buying as they grow. Perfectly good shoes that are now too small. Then all the school stuff when they get to that age. And Christmas and birthdays get progressively more expensive as they grow too
Basically just open your wallet and hand it out because you won't see much of it anymore.
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Its crazy isnt it, We are expecting twins in march, and if you think buying for one is expensive... double it...
Isofix bases at £150 each
Gumtree is your friend. Picked up the isofix base and pebble (0-9mths I think) car seat for less than the price of the isofix base new!
Wife didn't even use a breast pump, it was either on the boobie or getting fed from a bottle with baby forumla - top tip, don't let health care professionals guilt your wife into having to breast feed, not all women can produce enough to feed the baby. Our health visitor etc were pressuring my wife for weeks, child wasnt' putting weight on until I persuaded her to give her a bottle of formula (just one), wife and baby got the first decent sleep in weeks after that.
From them on we mixed and matched, wife enjoyed breast feeding as the pressure was off. I gave any healthcare professional an ear full if they even tried to guilt trip my wife and we had a happy healthy baby.
Also kids aren't that expensive, they can be - but like the others have said you can usually get better, cheaper alternatives. such as baby monitors. Our first one cost over £100 (camera, movement pad etc), I hated it - sold it to a mate who was about to become a dad and got a £20 one that only has a mic and a nightlight, it's brilliant, still use it to chat to our 5 year old when she's being noisy!
From them on we mixed and matched, wife enjoyed breast feeding as the pressure was off. I gave any healthcare professional an ear full if they even tried to guilt trip my wife and we had a happy healthy baby.
Also kids aren't that expensive, they can be - but like the others have said you can usually get better, cheaper alternatives. such as baby monitors. Our first one cost over £100 (camera, movement pad etc), I hated it - sold it to a mate who was about to become a dad and got a £20 one that only has a mic and a nightlight, it's brilliant, still use it to chat to our 5 year old when she's being noisy!
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You don't need a breast pump. Her breasts will already be bigger from the pregnancy.
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Point taken.
You'll soon look at lost or spent money in the same way you regard a little bit of spilled salt.
It's sleep that children really cost you, thousands of hours of sleep you won't get back untill your children are telling their children not to wake grandad 'cos he's old and tired.
It's sleep that children really cost you, thousands of hours of sleep you won't get back untill your children are telling their children not to wake grandad 'cos he's old and tired.
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I dont know much about boobies,But why would you even need a breast pump..cant she just wip em out and let the little one feast?
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Sometimes so the dad can feed or someone can baby sit. Other times they skip a feed and the breast need draining as when they are really full they are the painful. Other times some babies can't "latch" or have trouble feeding off the breast but they still want to feed breast milk.