Newborn clothes - help!

I wouldn’t bother with newborn stuff. I had a long baby and started with 0-1 month. He lasted 6 weeks in them. Baby number 2 is long and heavier and she lasted 3 weeks in them. She’s 7 weeks now and almost out of the 0-3 months stuff.

Don’t bother with cute outfits at the start. They are a pain in the ass to change! Vests and babygros and a couple of cardigans. A couple of caps as well and you’ll be sorted. How many you need kind of depends on the baby. My little boy went through 3-4 outfits a day because he peed so much when we changed his nappy. Baby girl could wear the same babygro and vest for a few days.

Agree with the above, just babygrows until 3+ months because you are constantly changing them. I bought about 5 'up to one month' things for my kids, although my 9lb daughter grew out of them in two weeks, they were still good to have. I hate seeing little babies in clothes much too big. I would stick to sleepsuits, vests and muslins like the other poster said. Bibs are too fiddly on their tiny necks and I found cardigans annoying so always had a blanket to hand of I thought it was chilly.

I got newborn stuff for my first.... They thought she would be on the small side... She was short, but not small and I just about squeezed her into the going home outfit I'd packed!

She was in 0-3 months as soon as we got home from the hospital, although they were a little baggy on her for the first week or two.

For no. 2 I got up to 1 month for the hospital and the first week or two at home and they were ideal.

How soon will they move up sizes? It all depends on the baby really. I had no 2 in 0-1mth & 0-3mth from the beginning, you'll find some brands are smaller fitting and no2 grew according to the charts. No1 was still in 3-6mths at 8/9mths because she gained weight at her own pace.

As for how much you'll need, as people have said it all depends on how much you need to change baby and also what you get as presents. I'd get 1 pack of long and short sleeved vests and a pack of sleep suits in 0-1mth to get you started and then a couple in 0-3mths. I know it's awkward with things as they are at the moment, but you can always buy more if you need to. Tescos have decent quality vests/sleep suits.

Oh and, don't get bogged down with everything you 'need' that you see on the internet. All a newborn needs is the basics - some clothes/blankets, nappies, some where to sleep, food and a safe way to travel i.e car seat and a buggy/carrier.

I never really bought anything other than 0-3 months until I had my fourth baby. Maybe one or two 0-1 mo babygros, that they wore in the hospital and a small few other times. When I had my last baby she was smaller and the 0-3 was swimming on her, so I bought maybe 6 or 7 0-1 months babygros that she wore for 5 or 6 weeks.
Dunnes babygros tend to be shorter than m&s or next I found, so you might get away with 0-3 straight away If you’re expecting a long baby. You’ll be fine with 0-3 vests from the get go. For a summer baby you might need a couple of cardigans, depends on the summer we have!

Next are small as well I find. My little girl is in 3-6 months in next babygros and filling them and they won’t last much longer but in 0-3 in everything else (just about).

bee06 wrote: »

I wouldn’t bother with newborn stuff. I had a long baby and started with 0-1 month. He lasted 6 weeks in them. Baby number 2 is long and heavier and she lasted 3 weeks in them. She’s 7 weeks now and almost out of the 0-3 months stuff.

Don’t bother with cute outfits at the start. They are a pain in the ass to change! Vests and babygros and a couple of cardigans. A couple of caps as well and you’ll be sorted. How many you need kind of depends on the baby. My little boy went through 3-4 outfits a day because he peed so much when we changed his nappy. Baby girl could wear the same babygro and vest for a few days.

A Dad here. Them fancy outfits are a pain in the hole!

Feisar wrote: »

I only got as far as the outfits being a pain and added my tuppenny ha'pence.

As to little boys, you need to face the penis in the six o clock position to help avoid leaking. Also I found opening the nappy, exposing it to the air and leaving it a minute meant he's pee again into the dirty nappy.

Apologies if this is old hat to most, not everyone knows these things though.

My little boy got wise to the waiting and used to wait longer! I’ll never forget the time he managed to pee in his mouth!

I just use a cellular blanket until they start rolling. Our house is quite warm so it’s easier to remove / add if needed.

Gro bags have a minimum weight to ensure babies don't slip down into them and suffocate. We swaddled our two in cellular blankets until they hated it at about two/ three months. We switched them both to Gro bags but my daughter hated the restriction and we moved her back to blankets at about 7 months. My son stayed in a Gro bag until he was about a 1.5 years old. All kids are different so don't buy too many things like that at first. The hospital will swaddle them from the start so we just kept doing that until baby stopped liking it (but it shouldn't be done once they can roll over).

Edited to agree with all the muslin chat. My kids are 2.5 and 10 months and I still use them daily. Both kids went through about 10 a day as babies but we rarely use bibs.

funny how different all babies are, just indicates to you that you should only buy a few of each thing until you see what your baby is like.

we used milions of muslin cloths, we had them in every room cause we seemed to need them constantly and we found them perfect, absorbed everything and easy to throw in the wash etc.

bibs i used from the start on both of mine, the second guy in particular was a real dribbler so they were an absolute necessity unless you want to be changing wet baby gros and vests all the time, in fact the second lad I had bib and layerd a muslin over it to catch the rivers of drool that flowed out of him!so muslin got changed very frequently and the bib changed a little less often...

gro bags we used from the start too, they never slipped over their heads, the head hole was too small. the reason i liked using gro bags from the start was night feeds, if there was no nappy change needed we could just lift them in and out of the cot and not make them cold by having to remove blankets. my eldest wore his gro bag up till he was three and the other has taken his off at 18 months, he just keeps taking them off in bed so there is no point in putting them on so we are on a cot duvet for him.

i think one united message from everyone is forget about the cute outfits, definitly have one or two for pictures or special visitors (although that might not be a factor for you!) but as everyone said, babies live in babygros for the first three months at least, outfits are far too fiddly and hard to get on.

Milly33 wrote: »

One thing i find great for new borns and onwards those pants with feet socks in them as such, mighty

I love them! When I eventually take them out of a babygrow I use them! My kids were desperate for taking off their socks!!

Babygros until about 3 months. Then I use them as nightwear mostly. Maybe have one or two in a small size. Myself and husband are tall but I seem to have smallish skinny babies so their clothes tend to last them. My first was 6 weeks early so he went through every size. Small baby, newborn, 0-1 month, 0-3 months. Next two were born at 39 weeks. I suppose if they went overdue they would have been a lot bigger.
3 month old here is currently in cotton leggings or tracksuit bottoms type pants and various sweaters. He’s going thru an explosive poo Or spit up phase so I need an unlimited supply of vests and muslins.

really, what a shame. I was only just doing out a list of things to get for later and had them on it..Such a shame as they are great both mine never left socks on them and the booties are just a pain in the other end....