Mrs Baba Me did not spend £6000!
Recent reports by mumsmall estimate that it costs £10,500 for the cost of the first child.
Gemma Campbell, data analyst at mumsmall says:
Before baby arrives, parents typically shell out more than £1,500 on pre-natal expenses, such as maternity clothing and other pregnancy-related necessities, and essential newborn nursery furniture such as a cot. But spending jumps sharply once baby arrives. Buggies and strollers, car seats, health and safety items, personal care products, travel accessories and daily consumables, such as nappies, formula and weaning food, can easily add another £4,450Estimated expenditure could be as much as £ 1,547 for pre-natal costs, £4,454 first year essentials, £ 4,500 child care, making £10,501 in all.
Excluding childcare, this is £6000. Yikes!
Whilst some parents do spend this, Mrs Baba Me did a quick calc on her last spend:
£200 maternity clothes {even this could be a Lot less, a recent post on our facebook page gave great tips from moms on how to cut this down}.
A manduca baby carrier £89
Other essentials such as creams, toiletries, lansinoh etc £100
Recaro seat £110. We never recommend buying a 2nd hand car seat though, never.
Pram - nope we just used a carrier.
Cot - £0, we co slept.
Bouncy chair - £60
High Chair - £100
Baby Clothes - £200 {guessing!}
How much did you spend on raising baby no.1?
Comments
We were given most of our baby equipment and clothes 2nd hand or bought it from charity shops. Our high chair was £15 from Ikea.
It doesn't really matter how much you spend though, so long as you are comfortable with it and can afford it- babies don't really need very much at all, but you buy what is helpful to you as a parent. :)
Everything reused for number two, haven't had to buy much at all! Even use cloth breastpads & Csp so am saving a tonne!
Cloth nappies were prob our biggest expense, with push chair next!
Also a preloved wrap was a godsend!
Now I'm on my 2 nd baby, I've barely had to spend a penny!!