When to start buying?

I’ve started buying the essential and big bits that I know I’d need if baby turned up tommorow like car seat and bassinet other than that I think drips and drabs helps make it feel less stressful I’m 25weeks

I would start buying things here and there or now just to be prepared

I suppose everyone's different i had an ectopic in September and id excitedly started buying stuff already now with my second pregnancy it feels like those things are extra special because it's like a gift from my first baby to my second. I never really believed in the superstitions around buying stuff to early and so ive always just approached it with the mindset of buying things for my first baby weather it's the one from this pregnancy or a future one. Ive only been through that loss once though so im sure it feels different after so much time. Just be gentle with yourself if it hurts too much just start small and buy little things as and when you feel you can because pressure to get it all done isn't there yet

I hear you! This is my 4th pregnancy and the first baby earthside. I’m turning 24 tomorrow, and while I did start buying little things after I turned 16(I had an early reassurance anomaly scan), I didn’t start buying significant stuff like a pram until after 20. And it was like a bittersweet kind of thing, wanting to celebrate this baby but all the time scared history would repeat.
What I try to do is remind myself is that from now on statistically it’s very likely things will work out positively for us, that this baby needs a place to sleep and clothes to put on, and he also deserves to be celebrated and feel welcomed in our family.
With time and the more little things I get, more excited I feel and less scared. But It’s not easy, before him one of my pregnancies reached 15 weeks, we knew it was a girl, and I often dream having both of them at the same time (as if twins).