CBH - What stuff have you already bought?

[changedname]

I'll admit that at the beginning of ttc I was a little excited and bought a ton of books for my children. I also bought a Christmas onesie outfit (well I bought 2 but gave one to a friend this Christmas).

I also bought this at an antique store:

[bronxgirl]

That is so cute!  I love that plate.  Before I got PG with my daughter I bought a couple books and toys that I found for really good deals.  Some of them I saved for her and some I gave as gifts to people who had babies before I did.  We won't really need a lot of new stuff this time around, but I did buy a boppy pillow over the summer at a garage sale.  It was such a good deal that even if I never get PG it's not a big loss and I could probably resell it for what I paid.

[lola]

I haven't bought anything, and I don't think I will. My older sister just moved and offered to save a bunch of stuff (bouncer seat, swing, etc.) for me but I told her to sell it if she had the chance because I just don't want that in the back of my mind. Plus, I live in an apartment, so not much room to store things.

That plate is really cute, though.

[Cheesecake]

Nothing. The only baby related thing I have in this house is a pack of receiving blankets which I bought for a friend as a gift, but then she never came to pick them up and by the time we saw each other again, she really really didn't need them anymore. They're in my gift-pile though. If I end up wanting to give a pregnant friend a gift, those will go. They're pretty cute though, so if I get pregnant before giving them to someone, I'll keep 'em.

[discogranny]

We have a ton of books but that's because I started collecting those before I was even married and still collect them now. I think I have close to 40 right now.

There is also a onesie I bought when first starting to TTC to tell my DH I was pregnant. I finally got to use it after IVF#1, but now we have packed it away in the bottom of a box in a closet because it will always belong to my last pregnancy. This time around we won't do anything cutesy for a BFP, so other than books I doubt I will add anything.

[G22]

Nothing. I have some toddler dishes from my grandma's house when we cleaned it out. But the box is still sealed up in a closet because we haven't needed them yet.

[ilovecandy]

I haven't bought anything. We do have a ton of kid books but i was a preschool teacher for awhile. Also We have hand me downs a cradle made by my grandpa, and after my brother moved out they left us their crib and some other stuff they used for their kid.

[Deleted]

Nothing and likely never will. I think my grandmother crocheted a baby blanket for me before she passed away ( this was long before I was even married). Makes me a little sad to think there's a good chance it will never serve its intended purpose. My parents said they were going to start a 529 account a few years back ( again well before the discussion of children and well before we learned we were IF) wonder if they ever did and what will happen to that.

[pamela]

I bought a few clothing items when we were pregnant with the one before DS that I lost around 11 weeks because that was the farthest I had made it by far and we thought it was a keeper. Now 2 m/c after DS (one early, 1 @ 12 weeks), I still won't buy anything specifically for this baby until at least the anatomy scan.

[jewel]

I have a shitload of baby stuff.

I have a travel system, changing table, cosleeper, swing, boppy, bouncy seat, bassinet, high chair, and boxes and boxes of clothes. Most of it has been given to me by friends who are done with babies. I'll admit to buying some of those clothes, because they were too cute and/or a great deal.

I don't believe in jinxing a pregnancy, so I'll continue to collect all this crap until I have a little person who will use it.

[KaraOrNot]

I have not bought anything for myself. However, there is a running joke between me/H and my SIL/BIL about who will have kids first. For years, we each added a small baby item to all gifts. We stopped doing it a few years ago and I got rid of most of the stuff. I did keep a set of bibs. I also know that my mom has a few outfits that she bought.

[murdock]

I haven't. It gets me emotional, so I do 'earmuffs' when it comes to that stuff. : )

[degal99]

I haven't bought anything, but I'm eyeing some things for when/if we get pregnant.

[kershnic]

The closest I came was starting an Amazon baby wish list after my IVF beta doubled. Deleting it was one of the first things I did after confirmed m/c.

[bronxgirl]

Feb 8, 2013 22:22:02 GMT -5 kershnic said:

The closest I came was starting an Amazon baby wish list after my IVF beta doubled. Deleting it was one of the first things I did after confirmed m/c.

I'm sorry, kershnic.  How far along were you?

[kershnic]

Feb 9, 2013 15:07:15 GMT -5 bronxgirl said:

Feb 8, 2013 22:22:02 GMT -5 kershnic said:

The closest I came was starting an Amazon baby wish list after my IVF beta doubled. Deleting it was one of the first things I did after confirmed m/c.

I'm sorry, kershnic.  How far along were you?

Only about 5 1/2 weeks.  Not far at all, but just enough to feel like maybe we'd actually made it this time....  IVF was difficult and we had no frozen embryos and for a few amazing weeks we thought it actually worked.  Sigh.