Ideally i think i might steal them and keep them for the future - we are going to have kids at some point so i could happily keep them BUT is there a point where you can buy childrens clothes too early or is anytime a good time to prepare.
― james (james), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 11:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― james (james), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 12:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 12:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 12:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
Usually the belief is that if you buy things too early in the pregnancy things might go wrong, but there's an added worry factor if your partner isn't even pregnant yet.
Obviously the superstition itself has no basis in fact - buying some clothes won't cause things to go wrong. But pregnancy can be a risky business. The chance of miscarriage is relatively high early on, and while the longer a pregnancy goes on, the greater the chance that everything goes well, tragedies do happen.
The reason I wouldn't buy things too early (either for yourselves or friends) is that if things do go wrong, the last thing people would want to see is a pile of baby clothes. It'd just be an awful reminder of what has been lost.
(On a personal note, friends of ours were expecting a baby last December. We had a lot of things that our son had grown out of - clothes, moses basket, cot, baby bouncer - that we passed on to them. Tragically, things went badly wrong during labour and the baby was so severely affected that she died a few days later. I can only begin to imagine how terrible it must've been for our friends, but it can't have helped them at all to go home from the hospital to a flat full of the baby gear that we'd given them.)
Sorry to be all doom and gloom. It's a lovely thing to be planning for a baby, it's great that your friends are expecting one, and the probability is that everything will go alright. I wish you all the best.
― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 12:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
Touch wood that would never happen but i guess its important to consider the risks and the implications.
One pair of cool as converse to one lucky kid i think
(btw my sincerest apoplogies to your friends - i can only imagine the pain that must have caused i hope time has eased it for them)
― james (james), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 12:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 13:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
See, I'm not going to have any kidlets, so I get to expend all of that nurturing/mothering/nesting on others.
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 17:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sand.y, Tuesday, 1 April 2003 22:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
Funny baby clothing story: Rockabilly revival queen has baby and insists on all organic cotton diapers, etc. *But* is quite proud of all the vintage 50's baby clothes she has stored. Friend snidely points out the hypocrisy by saying that all those vintage pieces are probably made out of asbetos.
― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 01:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 01:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1037/1169545725_f92caf6072.jpg
HAHAHAHHAAHAHAHA OH MRS STARMORE YOU CRACK ME THE FUCK UP
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 8 July 2010 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
that's hilarious, i am in love with absurd knitted objects lately
― the girl with the butt tattoo (harbl), Thursday, 8 July 2010 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
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― Οὖτις, Thursday, 25 August 2016 18:27 (seven years ago) link
when your clothes care