Babies are bloody expensive!

Devrij

Devrij

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So my first is due at the end of March and we are wrapping up the essentials that we could get 2nd hand off of neighbours and friends, and I am stunned by the prices of some of this stuff. The margins must be unreal.

Example: electric breast pump in mothercare for £350 quid! You could get a nice watercooling setup for that and the pump would probably be better quality!

Obviously they've got their market by the short and curlies, but why aren't there companies trying to undercut them?
 
Anyone who spends that much money on a breast pump is an idiot. For a start, the most expensive one on the Mothercare web site is £100 cheaper than that but really, if you need one then why do you need an electric one when a manual one is just £20.
 
Yer....don't use mothercare, you can get decent ones for a third of that online or from your local farm supplies wholesaler.

Like everything shop around for baby stuff
 
^Yup^

My Missus found it extremely painful expressing milk manually. I imagine it would be unbearable if she had used an electric milking machine especially if we'd paid big bucks for it.

Mothercare do have competitors as well

Kiddicare https://goo.gl/maps/tAWPNxtMoNC2

Babies R us

And I think I saw another one last night in Dodworth (Barnsley) Direct 2 Mums
 
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Yes the potential to spend a fortune on stuff you'll never ever use is massive.

£350 on a breast pump is daft. More fool you for buying it.

The most useful stuff is pennies. Musslins tetha etc

You'll be buying a cctv breathing heartbeat infra red baby monitor next
 
Mrs Faysh had to express (using their Gucci electric hospital grade one) with our eldest when he was in hospital just after being born. I used to giggle and make "moo"-ing noises. :D

We bought a cheap one hand-cranked one for at home, it was less than £20 and worked great.
 
And wet wipes. Lots of them. Wet wipes. Wet wipes. Wet wipes.

But what you spend on babies you save on not having a social life for the next 15 years.
 
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And wet wipes. Lots of them. Wet wipes. Wet wipes. Wet wipes.

But what you spend on babies you save on not having a social life for the next 15 years.
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That balances out until after 15 years of age when they start the "Daaaaaaaaaaad - Can I borrow (borrow of no return) £20 and can you take me an my eleventy bazillion friends to ... Wherever" .. Hundreds of times a month !!
 
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And wet wipes. Lots of them. Wet wipes. Wet wipes. Wet wipes.

But what you spend on babies you save on not having a social life for the next 15 years.
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We still get through about 50 packets of wet wipes a week, and my kids are now 12, 9 and 8. I'm sure they eat them!
 
childbirth - it's so magical.

Electronically assisted condensed sweat removal breast suction device.
 
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 :(
 
You can rent breast pumps. My wife is currently breastfeeding exclusively, and only occasionally uses her £30 manual breast pump when the little one doesn't take a full feed.

Join a local Facebook group for buy/sell baby stuff, you can get stuff that is almost brand new for a fraction of the price.

And yes babies are expensive - endless nappies, wipes and out growing clothes.
 
As above, it can be as expensive as you want it to be.
Ours cost us about £12k over the first 6 months, then £1.1k per month on nursery costs. Clothes & shoes need replacing every few months, toys, trips out, etc... extra food and drinks - when we go shopping half of the trolley is stuff for him.
 
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