Welcome

Welcome to my baby blog.


Here I will post most of my baby/family related stuff.


A bit of background:


I am 32 years old and have been married for 1 year and 4 months (and a few days - yes we are still counting). I am currently 13 weeks pregnant with our first child, the due date is 9th October 2009, this baby has been longed for and prayed for throughout our marriage.


My husband and I are over-joyed to be expecting a child and I suspect that I will be blogging a lot about baby stuff over the next 6 months (or next few years). As I know that not everyone who reads my regular blog is likely to be interested in my baby-blabber I decided to start a new blog to have an outlet for this side of things.


One of the things that I intend to blog about here is baby/child-related expenses (watch the running total on the right-hand bar), - we are all told that it is so expensive to have children and I will be testing that theory here by declaring pretty much everything related to the "cost of children". I admit that I am biased and will be doing my best to prove that it is possible to have a budget-baby. I know for a fact there are people who spend less than we are likely to spend, however this is about my baby not theirs and I wish to show that it is possible to be reasonably frugal when bringing a child into this world. Of course with this being my first child I might find that my ideologies are totally un-realistic, - in which case I will blog that too.


So to start with here is a little break-down of my maternity wear situation so far (and yes I am already showing and no it is not twins).


While I was off sick from work at about 10 weeks I was able to spend some time considering my maternity wardrobe (potential) needs and I discovered eBay and bought a maternity dress through there (£0.99 + £3.00 postage = total £3.99) and I bought a nice linen skirt from Blooming Marvellous that was reduced from £36.99 to £6.99 (the postage cost £4.95 on top bringing the total to £11.94). As soon as I found out I was pregnant I bought a maternity skirt from a charity shop (the only maternity wear I have ever seen in a charity shop in 16 years of charity shopping) - I didn't dare wait in case it got sold £3.50.
I have bought a "bra-extender" which is basically a piece of bra elastic with hooks and eyes on it that can be used to extend the width of a bra (not the cup obviously but it has bought me some time) - I don't want to buy too many different sizes but to wait till I am at my maximum pre-birth size or as close as I can comfortably get before buying maternity bras (obviously I am only using the non-wired type of bra for this purpose) (cost: £3.20). I have also bought some "button-hole" elastic (3m total: £1.60) for possible adaption projects if I find nice clothes in larger sizes (fantastic tutorial here) or for making my own.
I will also very busy adapting my current clothing for maternity wear, but that is another post.

Total for this post: £24.23