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Baby clothes.

May be a silly question, but this is our first and we’re unsure where to start. We have been picking up some bits, vests, baby grows, socks, mittens and hats. My partner is telling me that we don’t need any more than we have already and that we won’t use that many, but I don’t feel like it’s enough at all! Does anybody have a rough estimate of how many newborn vests and baby grows is a good idea.

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How many do you have already? My son was born during a heatwave so just lived in vests or a nappy but we would go through 5 or more a day sometimes as he had bad reflux and kept being sick even with muslins to try protect the vests, I was doing washing nearly every other day for his stuff and baby grows I had quite a few as well for the same reasons. Mittens we never used as I bought the baby grows that had built in mittens as I found they worked better as he couldn’t get them off and same with hats, I had loads and apart from leaving the hospital he never wore them, even in winter I would just use the hood of his jumpers or we had one winter hat that we used but that was all. It’s always better to be over prepared because you could have many poo explosions, sickness episodes etc (just talking from personal experience)

We easily filled a drawer full with vests and another of sleepsuits. Went through so many! However my LB was born in June so he didn’t wear them until the weather got cooler. I’d say if you’re doubting it.. buy more. Who can resist baby clothes anyway 🤷🏼‍♀️🤭

I had way too many clothes without realising it. It's always best to get like I dunno maybe 10 baby grows etc and if u ever need more of anything u can always go buy soke more rather than spending money on too many and not using them. Also, if anyone wants to buy clothes for your baby, always ask for the next size up so u have a variety x

I'd say it depends how fast you can dry clothes really but I'd say 12 sleepsuits and bodysuits in each size x

https://www.nhs.uk/baby/caring-for-a-newborn/what-you-will-need-for-your-baby/#:~:text=Baby%20clothes&text=You'll%20probably%20need%3A,6%20vests

You'll get through them quickly, so it depends how good you are at keeping up on washing and drying clothes! I recommend getting a few 'new baby', newborn and 0-1 month bits as we had nothing that fitted our tiny boy when he was born, it all swamped him.

Thank you all, this is really helpful! It’s hard to know what sizes we will need and when because we don’t know how big baby will be or how long they’ll need each size for to plan for weather😅