No cost is your first choice. Talk to all your friends and relatives having babies. Ask if you can borrow, rent, or buy maternity clothes they are storing in boxes. They will likely let you use them for free. We have a couple of big boxes of maternity clothes that have been passed between 3 or 4 women in our church. Most add a few new items when they use them and pass them along when they are done. Initial items on the tags that you buy so you can get all of yours back in the event two people need the clothes at the same time
Tags: Baby Bargains, no cost maternity clothes
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Visit the websites for BabyTalk magazine (http://www.parenting.com) and American Baby (http://www.americanbaby.com/) to get a free subscription for both. Parenting magazine costs money so you can skip that one for now.
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Before you go out spend money on special orthodontically (is that a word?) designed pacifiers that you may or may not use, just wait. Most hospitals provide a Soothie brand pacifier. Take it with you when you go home. Use that as needed, but you may find that your baby doesn’t need a pacifier. Our first wouldn’t have anything to do with it and we had bags of pacifiers that were never touched. If you find that yours does like a pacifier the dollar store variety works just fine.
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Posted in Bargain Strategies | |
Before leaving the hospital look on the baby cart your baby was wheeled around in. You’ve been charged for everything so take anything that’s left including diapers, sanitary pads, witch hazel pads, peri-bottles, sprays, formula samples and Vaseline tubes if your boy was circumcised. If you are not nursing ask your discharge nurse for extra formula samples
Tags: Baby Bargains, hospital freebies, hospital goody bags
Posted in Bargain Strategies, Birth | |
We are the sentimental type that like to compare our own hospital pictures to that of our parents and of our own newborns so we had to buy the newborn hospital pictures. But don’t get carried away, especially if you deliver in a smaller hospital where the nurse takes the picture instead of a professional. Buy an individual photo or a small package if they are really good. Otherwise take your own on a digital camera and take them to Wal-mart or Sam’s Club to get quality prints instead of printing on your home inkjet
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