Buying baby stuff before you are pregnant

chloephoebecali · January 2009

Have any of you done this?

Personally, I would be nervous to buy anything not knowing it would happen ever/anytime soon. Maybe I am superstitious.

My cousin didn't even tell the extended family she was pregnant. I just saw her last Saturday, and she is more than 6 mos pregnant. To my knowledge, she has not had any problems. She has a 1 year old. That is a little much, for me, but I guess everyone is different.

izzybella · January 2009

When I had baby fever (and was unhappy in my job) I bought outfits and little things (I shopped to take my mind off stuff).

sgrl · January 2009

At this point I wouldn't even buy baby stuff AFTER I'm pregnant - until the 3rd tri, maybe.

Anna&Matt · January 2009

I bought stuff when we were pregnant the first time around I bought baby stuff - does that count?

DNK777 · January 2009

I didn't buy anything when ttc. Which I'm glad, because we had trouble ttc so it took a while before I actually got pregnant.

KariChadDora · January 2009

Personally, I wouldn't. But different people may feel differently about it. I didn't buy a single piece/item of baby stuff (other than pregnancy books) until I was about 19 weeks pregnant.

sgrl · January 2009

savannah_girl:
I am lost, why is buying baby stuff before your pg have any thing to do with your cousin not telling the family she is almost 6 months pg.

I was confused about that too!

MattysGirl81 · January 2009

Nope. ?The only things we've purchased so far are a few onesies, bibs, blankets and socks. ?Most of these items were purchased by MIL for Christmas. ?Once we know the sex I'll feel more prepared to buy things.

chloephoebecali · January 2009

We are both superstitous. Just that I thought not telling us that she was pregnant when she is going to have a baby in two months was a little strange. Yeah, whatever, if that is how she feels, fine. But obviously she is pregnant and other people know it. Why not let family know also. We are close in age/location and she knows we would probably be trying soon too. I just think her level of superstitous is a little much and mine is more normal. God forbid, if she was to lose it, we would find out so why not tell us you are pregnant?

easjer05 · January 2009

I bought quite a few things (everything on sale) throughout the years before we started ttc. My reasoning was that we would have a baby someday, somehow.

I did not buy anything after we started ttc, probably because that took care of any baby fever I had. I had anticipated that I would go nuts when I got pregnant, but I was extremely reticent to buy anything. In fact, we only bought one item - a blue stuffed elephant.

That ended in m/c - and while the other baby stuff didn't bother me (it's pretty much out of sight and mind), that elephant made me sad for awhile. It stays on our bed for now.

I don't feel superstitious about it, necessarily. I don't think buying or not buying baby stuff has any real bearing on my fertility, and spreading out some of the costs is not a bad thing. But I understand why people don't want to do it.

mrskilbride · January 2009

Nope, didn't by a thing last time and next time I won't buy anything till maybe 3rd tri. Last BFP we told everyone the moment the pee on the stick was dry. Then when we passed the 12

mrskilbride · January 2009

Nope, didn't by a thing last time and next time I won't buy anything till maybe 3rd tri. Last BFP we told everyone the moment the pee on the stick was dry. Then when we passed the 12 week

mrskilbride · January 2009

Nope, didn't by a thing last time and next time I won't buy anything till maybe 3rd tri. Last BFP we told everyone the moment the pee on the stick was dry. Then when we passed the 12 week mark,

mrskilbride · January 2009

Nope, didn't by a thing last time and next time I won't buy anything till maybe 3rd tri. Last BFP we told everyone the moment the pee on the stick was dry. Then when we passed the 12 week mark, our

mrskilbride · January 2009

Nope, didn't by a thing last time and next time I won't buy anything till maybe 3rd tri. Last BFP we told everyone the moment the pee on the stick was dry. Then when we passed the 12 week mark, our parents

mrskilbride · January 2009

Nope, didn't by a thing last time and next time I won't buy anything till maybe 3rd tri. Last BFP we told everyone the moment the pee on the stick was dry. Then when we passed the 12 week mark, our parents bought

mrskilbride · January 2009

Nope, didn't by a thing last time and next time I won't buy anything till maybe 3rd tri. Last BFP we told everyone the moment the pee on the stick was dry. Then when we passed the 12 week mark, our parents bought us

mrskilbride · January 2009

Nope, didn't by a thing last time and next time I won't buy anything till maybe 3rd tri. Last BFP we told everyone the moment the pee on the stick was dry. Then when we passed the 12 week mark, our parents bought us some

mrskilbride · January 2009

Nope, didn't by a thing last time and next time I won't buy anything till maybe 3rd tri. Last BFP we told everyone the moment the pee on the stick was dry. Then when we passed the 12 week mark, our parents bought us some little t

mrskilbride · January 2009

Wow, sorry about that all...either the bump or my computer weirded out and duplicated half my post...anywho

we now have a sweet set of little Gator booties and a Red Sox binky, my DH tried to hide them in the back of the drawer but I know they are there and it still hurts to look at them. Even when we get PG again, I'll feel like they belonged to our baby we lost :-(

lo45fd98wq32 · January 2009

DH won't let me buy anything baby related. It's for the best. Once I get started--it will be all downhill from there.

GBCK · January 2009

I've said it before and I'll say it again, 'it aint about superstition, it's about balancing hope w/ pain'

I have, in my basement, a pile of baby crap I've been given/handed down. It'll be tremendously useful when/if I get PG (and if we can't get PG, I have no reason to think that I'll definately have infants and not adopt older...). But that doesn't mean, seeing as that crap has been in my basement for 4 years, that having to deal w/ it doesn't hurt.

There are days when dealing w/ a pile of hand-me-downs, tucked off in a store room, under a tarp can bring me to tears; I can't even imagine how much greater that pain would be if, instead of it merely being 'just in case' hand me down storage it was a pile of my own hopes for the future sitting there.

dhdana7 · January 2009

I buy things if they are on clearance (mainly @ Target). I have so many friends & relatives that are pregnant/ttc, that I figure, if I'm never blessed with a child, I've got plenty of gifts.

I haven't made any large purchases (not saying I haven't thought about it - almost bought a maclaren stroller last year), and my hubs is guilty of phantom baby shopping, too, so no guilty conscience or suspicious mind here.

annibes · January 2009

kdodge423:
sgrl:
savannah_girl:

I am lost, why is buying baby stuff before your pg have any thing to do with your cousin not telling the family she is almost 6 months pg.

?

I was confused about that too!?

Add another one to the confusion.

Closest I have come to buying anything?is the whole Target fiasco.

Same here, Target fiasco. I think that was the week or so after I got bfp, but I would have placed the order even if that was before a bfp. I am all for deals, and I know that one day I will have a child, whether I have one myself or DH and I adopt- we'll be parents and we will need things for the kids. If I can find a kick-booty deal on a top-of-the-line product, I'll buy it.?

BlairWaldorf · January 2009

I bought some gender neutral clothes when I found things on sale (aka Gap onesies for $1.97 apiece). ?When I was pg with Harpie, we bought our stroller & a few other things.

I don't believe in superstitions, honestly. ?Buying a stroller before the 2nd trimester is not what caused me to lose the babe.

And it doesn't bother us having it in the house. ?We know we'll have a baby some day, some way.?

tri047 · January 2009

I didn't buy anything other than books before I got pg - I had What to Expect and Belly Laughs. DH pretty much restricted me from buying anything until I was at least 12 weeks, then I didn't buy much until the big u/s anyways.

k.koreis · January 2009

I have a few things, not many and mostly hand me downs from when I was a baby, but I know my sister has things stored for me from her little girl. I want to buy things, I look all the time at craigslist, or clearance sales and think it would be smart to buy now and spread out the cost of things. But we haven't even started TTC yet, we're just talking about it now. I'm so scared of being infertile (I'm overweight) that I don't want to cause myself anymore heartache then there might already be. Although I fell in love with a gorgeous stroller the other day. Someday soon right? My DH better believe that at 12 weeks we'll start buying like crazy!

*KC*luvs*RJ* · January 2009

I bought a bunch of baby stuff before we got pregnant, but it was only because my friend owned this super chic baby boutique and decided to close it to spend more time with her daughters. She told me I could have whatever I want for 50% off, and I'd have been CRAZY not to take it!

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