9.What was the first baby or pregnancy-related purchase you ever made? Was it before or after you started trying to conceive? Or was it after you were already pregnant? Why did you choose that particular item to buy first? If you haven’t purchased anything yet, why not?
Shannon:
I haven't bought anything for ourselves. I want to, have wanted to since we started trying. I have even searched products and designs and bookmarked them. Hubs won't let me buy anything because he worries that having them in the house and seeing them might make me depressed. He has a point :/ I have crocheted stuff for our future children though! I'm sure when I finally get pregnant I'll start buying stuff. Not a lot at first... but to start gradually getting everything and finding where we want to get everything (Target, Walmart, and Babies-R-Us don't sell the theme we want).
Mrs Red:
The first thing I ever bought was actually not for my future kids... Well... Kinda... Lol it was after my smallest girl cousin was born, I was already graduated and working at the mutual fund company and I went on base and they had a dress sale. She was like 1 and a half and it was spring so I bought a really cute dress size 2t, I never gave it to my uncle and she grew really fast so it wouldn't fit the next year. So I said I'd give it to someone else or save for my daughter... I have yet to give it to anyone so im saving it for my daughter. If I don't have one, I'll adopt one. But this is my daughters dress. :-) After I got married and we started ttc, I hadn't bought anything in fear of 'jinxing' it but last year when I worked at a shopping channel call center I bought a set of story/nursery rhyme CDs. My husbands family doesn't know English/American nursery rhymes and I love them. I want my kids to know them. :-)
Shannon:
I haven't bought anything for ourselves. I want to, have wanted to since we started trying. I have even searched products and designs and bookmarked them. Hubs won't let me buy anything because he worries that having them in the house and seeing them might make me depressed. He has a point :/ I have crocheted stuff for our future children though! I'm sure when I finally get pregnant I'll start buying stuff. Not a lot at first... but to start gradually getting everything and finding where we want to get everything (Target, Walmart, and Babies-R-Us don't sell the theme we want).
Mrs Red:
The first thing I ever bought was actually not for my future kids... Well... Kinda... Lol it was after my smallest girl cousin was born, I was already graduated and working at the mutual fund company and I went on base and they had a dress sale. She was like 1 and a half and it was spring so I bought a really cute dress size 2t, I never gave it to my uncle and she grew really fast so it wouldn't fit the next year. So I said I'd give it to someone else or save for my daughter... I have yet to give it to anyone so im saving it for my daughter. If I don't have one, I'll adopt one. But this is my daughters dress. :-) After I got married and we started ttc, I hadn't bought anything in fear of 'jinxing' it but last year when I worked at a shopping channel call center I bought a set of story/nursery rhyme CDs. My husbands family doesn't know English/American nursery rhymes and I love them. I want my kids to know them. :-)
Ashley:
I actually haven't made my first item purchase yet for myself. Which is kind of strange when I think about it, because I am a planner and usually have things in place and boughten way before they need to be. I think I haven't bought anything yet because I don't want to "jinx" myself. I also feel like it would be a reminder of what I can't have. I also think if we do get pregnant I wouldn't want to buy things right away out of fear that it wouldn't last.
about 6 months into trying I purchased a maternity dress because it was on sale. The hubs thinks it's kinda a jinx to buy baby stuff before we're pregnant so I've tried to be good. If I really feel the need to buy something baby then I get something for my nephew.
ReplyDeleteI really wanted to buy this bedding set. It was exactly what we were looking for but I was told not to. It isn't for sale anymore (it's been a couple years...) but we actually recently changed our minds on the design. And it is one that we BOTH love. Know if we only had the baby for a reason to decorate the room!
ReplyDeleteI have a entire tub in my basement ready for baby. I started buying stuff even before I was with my husband. I always wanted a baby and was with my previous ex for 5 yrs and thought we would be getting married and having babies. I think that the first thing I bought was a premade quilt at Walmart when they still sold material. It is blue jean teddy, all you had to do was add a border around the edge, I also bought all of the material to make the bedding and room stuff but recently sold that b/c I think it is too big of a project for me to actually do and finish. I have a flat sheet and pillowcase and almost all the things to decorate the room with. I don't know if I will change my theme or not. Will find out when the time comes, I guess!!
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