How to Buy Baby Clothing for First Time Moms
Where do you start?
Buying baby clothing can be tricky business, especially for first time mums, there are so many baby dresses and outfits to choose from! I know I had a difficult time and made some blunders with my purchases along the way. Take advice from the guide below there are plenty of tips from mums on ‘how to buy baby clothing’ successfully.
1) What kind of baby clothing will I need?
Buying baby clothing can be a boggling experience, as your bump grows you will probably start to panic – ‘I don’t have any baby clothes!’ You will probably do what I did and start wandering around all the stores that sell baby clothes, baby furniture, baby gifts and so on. The choice is endless, this is where the danger lies in buying too many clothes for baby.
Too many baby clothes means your baby will only wear them once or twice (or sometimes not at all), babies grow very quickly and the next size up in that special outfit is needed before you know it! Leaving you with the cutest outfits ever, but no VALUE FOR MONEY.
The ideal way to buy baby clothing is to make sure you have enough outfits to get you through the week in a couple of different sizes, but not so many that you have overflowing drawers of baby outfits that haven’t even been unwrapped before your baby gets too big to wear them; or duplicate clothing that you didn’t really need.
Well, to be fair, duplicate baby clothing isn’t that big of any issue really, especially in the early days when baby clothes can only be worn once and usually for a couple of hours and all clothing needs to be continually washed and washed! In the early days make sure you have numerous baby dresses, bodysuits, comfortable playgro suits, and sleeping suits, basic tees, comfortable cotton pants, warm cardigans and coats or sunhats, depending on the season.
Before you buy new baby clothes check what time of the year your baby will be born, it could be around sale time, which is the best time to buy bulk lots of newborn baby clothing that you are going to need.
Once all of the confusion has settled you will have an exciting time buying your first newborn baby clothes, it is much more fun than buying clothes for yourself (honestly) – and then in time you will be having more fun when your baby grows out of that first lot of clothes, you will find yourself a more experienced shopper in the baby clothing department.
Sizes of Baby Clothing:
Sizes of baby clothing vary from manufacturer to manufacturer so we haven’t listed a definitive sizing guide here. Newborn sizes generally start from 0000 but this is actually quite a small size and unless you have a smaller than average baby, you might only get a month or two from this size. The best advice is to pre-buy in size 000 and then buy extra supplies in the 0000 size if you need to after the birth. Check labels for weight and height guidelines before you buy (average birth weight is 3.5kg). baby clothing tips
What to look for when Buying Baby Clothes:
- wide necks, or easy fastenings to get clothes over baby’s neck easily
- fastenings to enable you to remove and change a nappy without completely undressing baby
- snaps / press-studs are easy, safer and quicker than buttons
- no rough seams or uncomfortable material – natural, cotton, etc, is best
- machine washable
- check that buttons are sewn on well (baby could choke on little buttons)
- no loose threads that little fingers or toes could get caught in
- avoid ribbons and strings that babies can wrap around their necks
Hopefully this comprehensive guide to baby your babies first clothes has been helpful to you! Remember, don’t rush in a buy too many clothes before your baby is born, you can always buy more of the garments you need after the arrival of your newborn.
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great idea… but I would NEVER spend 60$ on such a small gift. I’d just make it myself
wow these are starting at $60!! so expensive for just one outfit because everything else is just going to the trash
that was just cheap and stoopid
We got some things ahead but kept them in the attic so we didn't have an empty nursery (crib, carseat). We matched 2 weeks before the birth and bought the bare minimum, two outfits, some diapers, wipes, bottles, blankets. Although we knew we were matched with a girl, I bought generic clothes in case this fell though and we later ended up with a boy. We bought a few more things (formula etc) the day she was coming home from the hospital with us, just before the bmom signed the papers.
We had a baby shower the day she turned a month old, and got lots of gifts, but most important got to share her with our friends.
Onesies…..definitely…..try old navy baby. Not only do they have REALLY cute onesies, but they also have them in three packs for really cheap!
also, you will need a lot of them…..keep in mind, most babies don't fit newborn size when they are born. Start with 3-6 month old size clothes.
I've also been very lucky to not have to buy many clothes. I got hand me downs from my sister and two sister in laws. Just lately I have been picking a few things up here and there. I wait for sales as I am not hurting for clothes. I just spend 10$ on an outfit. They grow out of things so fast that even if its a hand me down, its usually not used very much anyways. If your worried about not knowing the people you are getting them from just throw it in the wash before you put it on the baby. Baby clothes can range in price depending on where you buy them.
what about a session with a professional photographer for when the baby is born. You can pay the sitting fee and they can pay for the photo's to be developed.
Every first time mum wants heaps of photo's of their bubs
The other idea is a gift voucher for a pregnancy massage for the mum to be, a girlfriend of mine had her baby 4 years ago and still talks about it.
I WOULD AVOID the gift baskets, i got so many of these and I ended up giving away most of the stuff because I prefer the body shop stuff for my baby and got pretty much all johnson & johnson stuff. I wouldn't bother about nappies either, i had already brought a fair few nappies before my baby shower and i would rather something a bit better than nappies, it's like getting toilet paper for christmas, yeah it's practical but do you really want it as a gift or is it something that you would just go out and buy!
Now i just have to wait until someone has a baby!
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Good Luck I hope you find something!!
Great idea. Makes a nice gift. It is different. Great for a babyshower.
All craft stores. Micheals is a good place.
I wouldn't worry about clothes just yet. for the first 20 weeks concentrate on saving as much money as you can. Clothes and all the little things like that are usually bought for the mummy-to-be at her baby shower. Save your money now, so if you choose to find out the sex at your 20 week scan you can co-ordinate what you buy with the sex of your baby.
For furniture (depending on your finance) try Babies Galore, Baby Kingdom, Toys 'R" Us, Target, or E-bay. Also look in classified section of Local paper for people looking to sell baby furniture.
Clothes can be bought from Best and Less, Pumpkin Patch, Target, K-mart, E-bay and plenty more.
I really want to make one of these for my nephew, does anyone know where to get the flowers and leaves they used here? Are they silk? I’m really new to crafts btw.
Not at all!!
Most of my daughters clothes are second hand. They do sell some cute things at Family Dollar, and Dollar General. Even Walmart has cheap outfits! But for the most part, I go to little shops for babies, but second hand ones. That way, I buy 'nicer' (And you can find really nice things in those shops) things for her birthday, ect.
Save money now!
Congrats!!!
I love it!!!!
lol.
Unless you have super sensitive skin, theres no reason to buy special detergents. Its a marketing ploy. Of all the babies Ive known in my 14 years of child care, I have never known ONE who was sensitive to regular detergents.
Ive also never known anyone who wasted the time or water for a second rinse.
You make your choices, but generally after the first couple louds of special laundry, or by the second child you realize its just more work than you need to commit yourself to.
Maybe they told you not to because they wanted to and didn't want you to have too many.
Does the floral tape stuff come off ok??