How are people affording multiple babies in this economy?! 👀

We waited for a second until the first was nearly at school, so we wouldn’t have double Nursery fees

It's really hard. We're expecting our second in September. I won't get any mat pay as self employed. I do worry about where we'll find the extra for our second but we'll somehow just make it work. I had this worry with my first and we somehow made it work.

We've cut back on non-essentials - sky sports, Netflix, partner's gym membership etc. It's not a lot but does help. Hoping to make that and the additional child benefit stretch to cover things like nappies, wipes etc for the second.

I do live from savings each month as well though. Not what I had intended my savings to be used for but needs must.

This is one of the reasons we decided on one and done. And we bought most big-ticket items second hand or heavily discounted. We didn’t want having a child to significantly impact our personal spending habits, so one child works for us. Some people want multiple kids because that’s what brings them joy and they’ll make the necessary sacrifices to have them. I think we’re all feeling the strain of the current economy and the big problem is that we have a government that does very little for families, offering limited support (£27 a week is a joke) yet crying that birth rates are down.

Do you buy everything new or seek out 2nd hand? There is very little in our home that we actually paid for..