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- 7 Lip 2022
Specifically diapers, clothes, baby food, etc.
Tips on alternatives and what to avoid would be appreciated as well
Tips on alternatives and what to avoid would be appreciated as well
Budgetting for babies
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- 7 Sty 2021
Congratulations!
When it comes to clothes, you can find great 2nd hand struff. I can't help you with the diapers or food though, sorry :/
When it comes to clothes, you can find great 2nd hand struff. I can't help you with the diapers or food though, sorry :/
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- 7 Lip 2022
Typical moid
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- 7 Sty 2021
I just tried to help.
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- 27 Lut 2020
Breastfeeding is free and better for the baby than formula so it really should be done unless there's a problem with being able to enough produce milk. When it's time for the baby to move onto food, there are recipes for homemade baby food (it usually just involved pureeing bland food) that's more economical than buying the premade stuff.
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- 17 Gru 2019
Buy second hand goods directly from parents especially strollers / sitting chairs/ clothes/ cribs there are plenty of families who are done with kids and emptying their attic that they will sell stuff to you for almost free prices if you just show up and pick up the stuff . Especially the first year they grow like crazy and outgrow everything in matter of weeks. Diapers you can try cloth diapers but cleaning washing them is going to be a chore .
Food / formula you can get samples from lot of places but try breastfeeding if you could if not look around there always governments giving discounted goods and organisations . Looks around and ask around Facebook parents groups are great resource
Food / formula you can get samples from lot of places but try breastfeeding if you could if not look around there always governments giving discounted goods and organisations . Looks around and ask around Facebook parents groups are great resource
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- 7 Sty 2021
Same goes for toys, plushies, books and so on. Books might not be useful just yet, but if you can passively pick up the ones you like. It can save you quite a chunk of money. Especially if the child goes through a bookworm phase.
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- 12 Lut 2023
How much do disposable diapers cost per month for one baby? Like i have no idea how many they would go through.
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- 5 Kwi 2015
Count on changing them about every 60 to 90 minutes for the first three or four months. By then you should have a fiar handle on whether you've got a camel or one that pisses like a racehorse. Assuming baby is getting enough milk and the pee is pale yellow, there's no unusually unpleasant smell and baby's not unwell, some babies just pee more than others and there is a certain natural variation in that.
Much like puppies, babies will pee when they feed. They will also pee randomly. Ngl for the first six to nine months of life they are peeing like it's their life's work. Just change them.
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- 2 Sie 2021
Counterpoint: breastfeeding can be time-consuming and physically uncomfortable (engorgement, leakage, etc.) and not every woman can do it efficiently. And while it should feel good to directly breastfeed (baby at the breast), everybody loathes pumping breast milk and dealing with all the little plastic parts and storage and carrying your expressed milk around in an insulated lunchbox. And breastfeeding will also cost money: the aforementioned pump will be covered by insurance, but maternity bras and tops won't be. Lunchboxes, cold packs, freezer space, mind bandwidth (how much milk do we have? when was it expressed? will we be able to stockpile more? Did I remember to do that 3 am pumping session?) And then you need to price out the mother's time, because time is also valuable. There is also a cosmesis question; some women's breasts are bigger after weaning, and some kind of shrivel up and flatten out.
Breast milk in general is touted as this magical substance that turns your kids into Uebermenschen, but the research (I read this in Expecting Better by Emily Oster) doesn't bear out all the conventional wisdom. For example, women who breastfeed only lost a little more weight in their postpartum period than those who didn't, like 2 more pounds. Kids who are breastfed do have a lower incidence of getting colitis, and fewer infections per kid during the first year of life. (Also, women who breastfeed are at a lower risk of breast cancer than those who don't.)
Then again, formula is also pricey, and you want to make sure you source it from a country with good safety standards like US or EU or AU/NZ. Upsides: it's consistent, available on demand, and easier to transport than breast milk. Ultimately, I think it comes down to what the mom wants to do,
Oh boy.. well, younger babies need their diapers changed more often. We go through 5-7 per day at 9 months and use size 3 diapers. According to Wal-Mart, a 132-pack of size 3 diapers costs $37.99.
Math time: 6 diapers per day x 30 = 180 diapers. So you'd use about 1.25 boxes of diapers per month, give or take, 37.99 x 1.25 = 47.5 ~ 50 bucks per month for diapers. YMMV NFA DYR. Buying diapers in smaller quantities tends to raise the cost per diaper.
Even considering environmental impact, I would not want to use cloth diapers. They would be really difficult to deal with when you're traveling. They would be a hassle at home; another chore to do, like bottle-washing. It involves handling baby's dirty diapers and putting them in a washing machine where I wash my clothes (unless you want to buy a dedicated washing machine for dirty jobs like this.) Or you can engage a diaper service, which picks up the dirty ones each week and gives you a week's worth of clean ones. When you're sleep deprived and burning low, the convenience of disposable diapers is a godsend. But I'm not everybody, and some people swear by these. And if you are an environmentalist, breastfeeding and cloth diapering are much better for the environment than using cow's milk formula and disposable diapers.
Other tips: yard sales/Craigslist/FB Marketplace is a good place to get baby toys and furniture, but for safety's sake it may be optimal to buy your crib and mattress new. This is just so you can be sure you're not putting baby in an unsafe crib. Baby swings, I would also buy those new. (Older, recalled models are dangerous, but you may still find the notorious Fischer-Price Rock n' Play out in the wild. )
Play mats, musical instruments, child-size chairs and tables, minifridge (sounds weird but you will like it) rocking chairs/recliners, you can all find secondhand. I would be cautious about older toys having lead paint on them, though.
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- 9 Mar 2022
Diaper-wise it will depend on how fast the lil'guy will grow.
Get at least one big pack of the Newborn and two of the Size 1 (both would have well over 100 diapers) and that should get you through the first trimester. You will know when it's time to change when they start having a little too many accidents, or obviously when the diaper is looking a tad too snug to close.
Don't worry about getting a baby bathtub if you have a tub or a big enough sink, there's like baby recliners/supports to help you keep the baby's head off the water as you clean them. Those tend to be cheaper, store better and you can use if you need to sit them somewhere in the restroom while YOU are doing your hygiene. Also very useful for propping them up for brushing their mouths and applying lotion!
Regarding clothes: Family's gonna family and they will want to buy tons of outfits, probably. Gently encourage them to buy bigger clothes, like 3mo-6mo at least and you WILL appreciate getting a 1yo outfit at your baby shower eventually. Newborn sizes are all over the place for some reason and you do not need more than a few outfits; they will get outgrown extremely quick and really they don't require tons of clothes change since you shouldn't be bathing them until the umbilical chord falls off and even then baths should be at most a twice a week thing, blowouts excluded. Tell them to avoid clothes with buttons (zippers ftw) and maybe gravitate towards darker colors (cleaning baby poop off white clothes is hell).
I would also suggest a small pack of ready made formula even if you plan on breast feeding. Milk sometimes doesn't come fast enough and also it's a decent emergency food if the mom needs to be out somewhere and can't breastfeed.
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Get at least one big pack of the Newborn and two of the Size 1 (both would have well over 100 diapers) and that should get you through the first trimester. You will know when it's time to change when they start having a little too many accidents, or obviously when the diaper is looking a tad too snug to close.
Don't worry about getting a baby bathtub if you have a tub or a big enough sink, there's like baby recliners/supports to help you keep the baby's head off the water as you clean them. Those tend to be cheaper, store better and you can use if you need to sit them somewhere in the restroom while YOU are doing your hygiene. Also very useful for propping them up for brushing their mouths and applying lotion!
Regarding clothes: Family's gonna family and they will want to buy tons of outfits, probably. Gently encourage them to buy bigger clothes, like 3mo-6mo at least and you WILL appreciate getting a 1yo outfit at your baby shower eventually. Newborn sizes are all over the place for some reason and you do not need more than a few outfits; they will get outgrown extremely quick and really they don't require tons of clothes change since you shouldn't be bathing them until the umbilical chord falls off and even then baths should be at most a twice a week thing, blowouts excluded. Tell them to avoid clothes with buttons (zippers ftw) and maybe gravitate towards darker colors (cleaning baby poop off white clothes is hell).
I would also suggest a small pack of ready made formula even if you plan on breast feeding. Milk sometimes doesn't come fast enough and also it's a decent emergency food if the mom needs to be out somewhere and can't breastfeed.
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- 2 Sie 2021
P.S. Baby food: for the most part we have avoided using commercial baby food. Instead we give her soft/mashed/fine-chopped bits of the food we are eating. She is also fed applesauce, soft cheese (laughing cow, cream cheese, etc.), bananas, peeled orange slices, or bits of mango, or crackers to chew on for her emerging teeth. All of which is supplementary to her formula intake.
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- 16 Gru 2019
for tit-locking: you will likely have some nurse offer to talk about breastfeeding right afterwards - pay attention! The canard about "the only natural user interface is the nipple" is bullshit - the little fucker has to be taught how to suck on that thing and if you do NOT get him doing it correctly you will be in a world of pain. The baby should basically have the whole areola in his mouth like a suckerfish, not slurping on the nipple itself. go back as many times as you need (most hospitals have free titlessons but if not, shop around).
even if you tit, at 3-6 mos have mom use a few bottles of formula, or if pumping, milk mixed with formula, then when baby explodes in the night dad has a fighting chance of doing something, which will be greatly appreciated
cloth diapers are basically silly unless you have a shitfuckton of them and multiple wash machines. You will need to dedicate a wash machine to the cloth diapers or you're fucked. Even so, use disposables when leaving the house.
get clothes anywhere, it's cheap and kids outgrow it so fast it's not worth spending a ton of time on it. The kid will change outfits 3-5 times a day because of exploding on one or more ends. make sure that if you buy a cute outfit, you fucking put it on the slobbermachine immediately and take the damn picture - they will outgrow shit way faster than you expect.
find diapers that work for both parents, some won't care but some will have Opinions. Don't fight it. Targay often has "buy $100 of diapers, get a $20 gift card" shit going, use that but cross-shop - https://www.target.com/pl/582570416 Some diapers have rewards programs for buying them (Pampers does) which actually adds up.
do not buy more than one or two big boxes at a time, because the baby will change in size surprisingly fast (or slow) at times. sizes overlap so the moment one size is getting a tiny bit small, try sizing up.
do your best to get to know parents of children a bit larger than yours to get an infinite supply of free shit: most churches, schools, etc will have an unofficial hand me down setup where things are passed along
buy a butt wipe warmer, you and your spawn will appreciate it, as nothing wakes them up screaming like 40 degree wipes directly to the ass
if the spawn has a dick MAKE SURE THAT SHIT IS POINTING DOWN AT ALL TIMES or they will 1000000% blow out the top of the diaper
if you want to recuse diaper costs, look into potty training as early as possible, it can be done below 2 (they'll still be in pull-ups, but you'll not need to replace them that often
also - everyone (including this post here) will have fucking opinions, they're all full of shit, it's damn hard to hurt or kill the kid unless you're a nigger, do what works for you - some will be a fucking mistake you'll pay for later (pacifiers) but fuck it, roll with what works
babies are cheap as long as you don't go nuts. They're fucking babies they don't give a shit, so $100 for a carseat (cheaper if you get one used for free), diapers are maybe $100 a month at maximum (protip you don't have to change them the moment the stupid line turns blue, they wick away piss so you can wait longer, especially if you have a leaker. shits should be changed soon after completion but remember they have tiny insides and will often doubletap.) - clothing is whatever you want to spend on it but you can do quite fine for $20 a month or even less. Food if tits is free, formula is a fuck but you can get off that pretty fast. they say whole milk at a year but talk to the doctor, if you're not a fuck you can do that sooner
even if you tit, at 3-6 mos have mom use a few bottles of formula, or if pumping, milk mixed with formula, then when baby explodes in the night dad has a fighting chance of doing something, which will be greatly appreciated
cloth diapers are basically silly unless you have a shitfuckton of them and multiple wash machines. You will need to dedicate a wash machine to the cloth diapers or you're fucked. Even so, use disposables when leaving the house.
get clothes anywhere, it's cheap and kids outgrow it so fast it's not worth spending a ton of time on it. The kid will change outfits 3-5 times a day because of exploding on one or more ends. make sure that if you buy a cute outfit, you fucking put it on the slobbermachine immediately and take the damn picture - they will outgrow shit way faster than you expect.
find diapers that work for both parents, some won't care but some will have Opinions. Don't fight it. Targay often has "buy $100 of diapers, get a $20 gift card" shit going, use that but cross-shop - https://www.target.com/pl/582570416 Some diapers have rewards programs for buying them (Pampers does) which actually adds up.
do not buy more than one or two big boxes at a time, because the baby will change in size surprisingly fast (or slow) at times. sizes overlap so the moment one size is getting a tiny bit small, try sizing up.
do your best to get to know parents of children a bit larger than yours to get an infinite supply of free shit: most churches, schools, etc will have an unofficial hand me down setup where things are passed along
buy a butt wipe warmer, you and your spawn will appreciate it, as nothing wakes them up screaming like 40 degree wipes directly to the ass
if the spawn has a dick MAKE SURE THAT SHIT IS POINTING DOWN AT ALL TIMES or they will 1000000% blow out the top of the diaper
if you want to recuse diaper costs, look into potty training as early as possible, it can be done below 2 (they'll still be in pull-ups, but you'll not need to replace them that often
also - everyone (including this post here) will have fucking opinions, they're all full of shit, it's damn hard to hurt or kill the kid unless you're a nigger, do what works for you - some will be a fucking mistake you'll pay for later (pacifiers) but fuck it, roll with what works
babies are cheap as long as you don't go nuts. They're fucking babies they don't give a shit, so $100 for a carseat (cheaper if you get one used for free), diapers are maybe $100 a month at maximum (protip you don't have to change them the moment the stupid line turns blue, they wick away piss so you can wait longer, especially if you have a leaker. shits should be changed soon after completion but remember they have tiny insides and will often doubletap.) - clothing is whatever you want to spend on it but you can do quite fine for $20 a month or even less. Food if tits is free, formula is a fuck but you can get off that pretty fast. they say whole milk at a year but talk to the doctor, if you're not a fuck you can do that sooner
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- 6 Sty 2019
Congratulations.
Clothes: people will give you clothes. Babies outgrow stuff fast, look for local buy and sell groups or ask people you know who have slightly older kids. If family want to buy you stuff ask for older sizes.
Baby food - not needed at all. None of mine ever touched the stuff. Breastfeed, if you top up with formula use one of the better ones (they’re very strict with ingredients, some. Are better than others though.) when they hit about 4-6m you just smoosh up what you’re eating and give them that. You honestly do not need baby food. It smells and tastes repellent and all mine refused it if offered
Diapers - all much the same for quality , but you’ll find that babies are different shapes and different brands fit skinny or fat babies. You just experiment. Cloth diapers are trendy but vast amounts of laundry.
If you get a soft carrier like a baby born one you can carry them around with you while you do stuff.
Get a place to change nappies that’s at a height that won’t kill your back
The babynest things are great, you can sew them easily.
Crib mattress is one thing to always buy new. Ditto car seat unless you know the seller and trust them. But… None of mine ever slept in a crib. So it was useless.
Clothes: people will give you clothes. Babies outgrow stuff fast, look for local buy and sell groups or ask people you know who have slightly older kids. If family want to buy you stuff ask for older sizes.
Baby food - not needed at all. None of mine ever touched the stuff. Breastfeed, if you top up with formula use one of the better ones (they’re very strict with ingredients, some. Are better than others though.) when they hit about 4-6m you just smoosh up what you’re eating and give them that. You honestly do not need baby food. It smells and tastes repellent and all mine refused it if offered
Diapers - all much the same for quality , but you’ll find that babies are different shapes and different brands fit skinny or fat babies. You just experiment. Cloth diapers are trendy but vast amounts of laundry.
If you get a soft carrier like a baby born one you can carry them around with you while you do stuff.
Get a place to change nappies that’s at a height that won’t kill your back
The babynest things are great, you can sew them easily.
Crib mattress is one thing to always buy new. Ditto car seat unless you know the seller and trust them. But… None of mine ever slept in a crib. So it was useless.
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- 22 Sie 2020
The solids are scraped into the toilet, and the diaper rinsed well, to the point that the amount of extra baby poop in your washing machine is about equivalent to if your baby gets a blowout or needs wiping up with cloths. Yes, it's extra work, but it's not extra stinky ! For my part, the extra work of going to the store and picking up more disposables, plus, you know, doing the disposing, etc etc and the extra cost is a lot. I obviously still have backups of disposables for in case there is some insane poopsplosion or a diaper rash or I'm just too tired that day or whatever, but it's not that much extra yuck on top of disposables. (Plus I heard someone say you're technically meant to empty solids from disposables into the toilet as well? IDK, I've never done that, hehe.)
I was lucky and found a buttload (heh) of them for quite cheap second-hand, though, if I had had to build up my collection from scratch all at $15/per, it would have easily been $300 just to start. Some places do rent/deal with them for you to try them out, if you'd like.
Everyone so far has had great advice; all I would add is that baby-led weaning (as Stan described above, basically giving them easy to manage bits of normal human food) is both cheap and easier. I don't have to worry about pureeing things or figuring out how to feed the baby, I just steam some extra veggies and set aside a serving of whatever but without salt.
And a crib mattress protector + 2 changes of sheets is really nice for midnight peesasters.
My baby has probably too many toys and she doesn't play with most of them; when she was not mobile she played with crinkly activity book things or, honestly, dog toys with bells in them. And now that she is more of a toddler than a baby, most of the time she plays with either blocks/magnatiles, or whatever random container she can take things out of and put things into, lol. Books, if you're in the USA, you can get from websites like Book Depot for a quite good price. Orrrr just a library card fo free. You'll get bored of reading the same book 20 times pretty quickly so I'd cycle out which books they have available to go choose by either putting some out of reach or using the library a lot.
and overall - let people spoil you! if it's your first, and it's your parents' or parental figures' first grandkid, they'll likely be very excited to give you things, lol. Don't feel bad about taking gifts from people who care about you, I know I did for a while.
Biggimus Bettimus
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- 22 Sie 2020
https://solidstarts.com/ <- i use this as a reference for how to safely prepare and cut food for babbus
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- 22 Sie 2020
save watermelon rinds and mango pits to freeze for teething babies or a summer chew
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- 1 Kwi 2019
I have clothes in multiple sizes, diapers (NB and Size1), bottles, breast pump (electric if that matters), seat tub, thermometer, nasal asperator, bassinet, baby wipes, infant spoons, car seat, pacifiers, stroller. I've got to get a few more things like a changing table, but that's the most major thing I lack. I've got a "to go" bag packed :3 If I missed something major tell me please.