Articles | Findababysitter.com. UK Study: Parents Spend $7,700 On Baby Gear Within First Year | Being Pregnant. A UK study shows that British parents are spending £5,000 which translates to 7,700 US dollars before their baby has turned one! That seems completely insane to me. There are IKEAS in the UK, what gives? Then I saw the breakdown: What would you guess the biggest expense would be? A Bugaboo? Babyfood and formula milk £1,108Nappies £887Clothes £747Toys, games and books £771Nursery, pram £547Pushchair/pram £265Toiletries, bouncers £148Car seat £131Clothes for newborn £106Toiletries and medicines £96Travel cot £91Highchair £91Sterilising/feeding equipment £82Toys £74Baby monitors £68Total £5,212 Apparently over 80% of new parents said they overdid it and bought things they did not need.
Starting a family does require some initial spending: Even if you go the IKEA route and skip the changing table, which we did, there’s no denying it all adds up. I do encourage first time parents to score some free hand-me-downs when possible. Parents spend £5,000 on newborn baby blog at mypage5.com. A baby costs £5000 before his first birthday - Product news - ThinkBaby. Babies - they don't come cheap! We know having a baby is an expensive business and a new survey has confirmed revealing that parents will spend around £5000 before their tot turns one. The 2,000 parents surveyed by BabyDam said most money went on preparing their baby’s nursery, while a pushchair, car seat and baby monitor bumped up the average spend before the baby was born. Once their baby arrives, parents spend a further £3,800 on items such as nappies, clothes, food, books and toys before their child’s first birthday.
Parents also admit spending far more on their first child and watching the purse strings more carefully with subsequent children. With the excitement of a first baby, just over half of the parents were happy to accept hand-me-downs. This rose to over three quarters with the second child. Deciding what to buy? First child costs parents £2,000 before he’s even born - Pregnancy. Babies 'cost £5k in first year' Babies 'cost £5k in first year'