On Saturday we decided to brave a baby shop to see what we were letting ourselves in for. They're full of shifty looking couples not making eye contact with others. The only contact to be made is when people turn over the price tag and a look of horror sweeps across their face and you can feel them mentally speed-dialling the abortion clinic. I felt like Tippi Hendron in "The Birds" as I negotiated the car-seat section, there were car-seats on the floor filled with genuine babies.
We ran away empty-handed and feeling a combination of rising horror at the prices of things and absolute fascination that anyone would spend 860 euros on a single cot. Which didn't even have built-in disco lights.
Yesterday I bought a couple of baby things, didn't unpack them - just put the bag away at the bottom of the wardrobe. It's all too real, I'm not sure I signed up for this.
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It must be very nerve wrecking to think of yourselves as future parents. the prices for baby things can be hugely astronomical - can you buy second hand/preloved ones? After all a cot isn't something you normally use throughout a lifetime. And people are always trying to get rid of their baby stuff when their baby(ies) grow out of it.
ReplyDeleteIt's terrifying... but I'm coming more to terms with it as the bump grows and it's visible. I suppose that's why pregnancy in humans is so long - it gives you a bloody good chance to wrap your head around it! ;-)
ReplyDeleteI'm definitely trawling the second hand market - if you bought everything they peddle in your direction you'd have to be a fekkin' millionaire!