If you are expecting a child, it can be pretty stressful as well as an exciting time. You have to prepare life at home for your new addition and there is so much to buy, from cot bed duvet cover and clothes through to really practical things like nappies and rash cream.
It is no wonder then that many people leave it till the last minute to buy all of the things that they need for baby which can sometimes mean that it is too much of a rush, especially if he or she decides to come early!
It can be more practical to buy things gradually and a little at a time, so that you do not have so much to do when you are too heavily pregnant to want to be shopping. Plus of course if you buy things over the course of two or three months it spreads the cost out and you do not notice it as much as if you had bought everything in one mad shopping spree.
Just a little here and a little there when you do your weekly grocery shopping will make the world of difference as you can pick up the real essentials for after the birth.
Most people are loathed to buy thing too early, which is understandable but by spreading out the shopping for a few months before the birth, the experience can be less stressful and far more pleasurable.