A Baby’s First Year Gets Parents £5,000 Down

A recent study from BabyDam has gotten the budget for your baby’s first year pat for you – it will come to £5,000 and more. Adding the cost of nappies, the decoration of the nursery, baby furniture and food researchers came up with a total of £5,213.25 parents have to put on the line to see their baby through to the first birthday.

The poll embracing 2,000 parents shows that even before the baby is delivered the happy parents get busy to obtain a pram, a car seat, whatever, letting go of nearly £1,500.

A spokesperson for BabyDam called it a “staggering” sum of money to pay before the birth, though everybody knows that having a baby entails considerable expenses – “and it only gets worse once you have your bundle of joy as nappies, milk and food are added in.”

Too true, for nappies, clothes and food have been found to come to £3,793 in the first twelve months.

Getting the nursery done up and furnished with a cot and special furniture takes away the fattest wad – around £547. Then a pushchair that scoops out £265 and a car seat for which parents leave about £131 in the store. Purchasing a travel cot and a high chair push the total figure up by £182.

Clothes are generally bought for the average amount of £106 plus £747 throughout the year as the baby grows and clothes have to be replaced.

Next in line are baby monitors that take something like £68 out of the wallet; sterilizing and feeding equipment that eats up further £82, whereas smaller items related to the baby’s bath and toilet in a bundle cost £148.

The year’s medicines amount to £96, the formula and baby food gradually add up to £1,108, and nappies to nearly £887.

Toys is the item that is often bought before the baby is born for the average amount of £74, but there’s usually another £771 spent on new more toys and games as the year is drawing on.

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