What to buy for your baby

What to Buy for Your Baby
Liat Hughes Joshi and Caroline Cosgrove
White Ladder
£9.99 from www.crimsonpublishing.co.uk

For all first time parents having to buy equipment for the impending arrival is rather like having to learn a whole new subject from scratch. If the shops are to be believed then you would end up with many beautiful items but ones that are useless or maybe only used once or twice.

The thrifty know that the place to buy good quality items for your new born is car boot sales. Forget the classifieds in the paper. Forget the charity shops these are all expensive options. Because new parents don’t know what the need they inevitably buy too much or the wrong thing until they manage to buy the right version of the wrong thing.

It is possible to pick up brand new never worn, still packaged baby clothes for around five pence an item. Because many items that the shops try to convince new parents they need, are actually very non-essential it is possible to pick these up practically new for nothing as well. 

This book is written by two people so all debates and discussions about what is necessary and what is not would have been firmly ironed out. Liat Hughes Joshi is a mother and a journalist. Caroline Cosgrove is one of London’s leading baby product gurus and has seen all and every baby related product that one could dream of.

If you want a practical, stylish nursery with money spent on the essentials then this is your book. Being a first time parent means you will be bombarded with advice from all directions so if you want to make your own, informed opinions and decisions use this great book as a starting point.