Buying diapers before baby?

Hello all! I am in a pickle here.. as everyone around me is saying I HAVE to buy diapers before baby is born.. to stockpile or have a few packs of different brands. I have Everything I need for baby besides diapers. I’m 32 weeks already too.

I’m a FTM , but I don’t really want to buy a bunch of diapers before baby. He could be preemie for all I know, or go straight into a size 1… The diapers I buy could give him a major rash then I have a good amount I can’t use.. plus I know hospital will AT LEAST give 1 package of them..

Is this wrong for me to think this way? Cause everyone is making such a big fuss about it.. and I am lost. Worse comes to worse, baby will be sent home in a diaper and I can have my hubby go in store and get a pack on the way home. UGH 😭

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If I was you I’d buy maybe 1 or 2 packs of preemie (if they estimate baby to be small) and a big or medium pack of newborn. And when I say packs I mean the smallest packs, they have 10$ packs (I think) of diapers at Walmart, I get the parents choice so it’s 7$ for the smallest pack, as long as u have transportation it’s not a HUGE deal, I bought big packs of diapers newborn and my baby was a preemie so I had to buy preemie. The hospital u should be able to load up at. Maybe buy a medium or big pack of each, but don’t got to go all out!

No you’re fine! Just wait to see what works the best for the baby. Thats what am doing

So if you stockpile diapers it's 100% okay because (at least in the US) every store takes and exchanged them out without receipts! Just have to make sure the store carries the brand! Same with switching them out for different brands, as long as the store sells the brand you're returning you can return without receipt for a different brand.

I personally had a diaper raffle at my baby shower and used all the diapers from either switching them out/returning them or using that brand/size. It saved us like 1k lol

I’m continuing to buy size 1 because my first was in size 1 for a while. I did buy a box of newborn but will wait and see if I need more. It really depends. I understand what you mean about waiting. I did that with my first.

My first baby was big and didn’t spend long in newborn diapers. I would get small packages of a few different brands in newborn and 1s, so you can see what you like. With delivery and store pick up as convenient as they are, I think stockpiling is unnecessary. For this baby we have a small pack of Huggies newborns and will get a big box of Costco 1s, to get us started. We’ll buy more newborns as needed.

I had one box of size 1 on hand. It was the biggest option I did my research on diapers and lucked out had no issue with earth and eden brand. We use the hospital newborn ones but my first was 9lb ill probably skip newborn size again.

Size 1 will fit for a long time, so it doesn’t hurt to have those. I would get a small pack of newborn just to have and not have to worry about coming home from the hospital.
But we also didn’t have to buy diapers for the first year and a half, just from diapers people bought us. Second baby we just bought cases from Costco and they last a decent amount of time.
This baby I have a box of newborn and then I expecting to go up to ones after a month or so (my babies were 8lbs 6oz at birth and were in NB size for about a month ish). I also tend to size up at the minimum weight of the next size, even though there’s overlap. That’s how I avoided having leftover diapers. Worked with the first two 🤷🏼‍♀️

I have been buying ahead of time. Me and my partner want enough to last for the first year but we bought from size 1 and up. We’re also doing a diaper raffle at our baby shower.

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I know that sounds harsh. But one of my best friends has changed since she married her husband who has money..

Shes due in May, doesnt seem excited about the baby at all. Talks about how she would never get pregnant again and would use a surrogate even tho shes had 0 real issues .. and surrogacy is hardly ethical. Regardless i dont judge it because its her choice.. now its added in with this other stuff im feeling otherwise.

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