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Newborn Diapers: The Cost

I always thought that newborn diapers were more cost efficient than the other sizes, because you got so many more diapers per package. (For those of you without children, every time you move up a size in diapers, you get fewer diapers in the package for the same price.) When I saw how many we were actually going through, I realized that we weren’t actually saving any money.

My little angel was was a pooping and peeing machine, and we were going through more diapers than I thought possible for something so small. And it wasn’t just the newborn diapers, either - the resources this child consumed was amazing. For something so small, the baby created more laundry than my wife and I combined.

I knew going in to this, theoretically, that having a baby was expensive. But I had been thinking a little further down the road, things like braces and university. Just how much could a little baby consume and cost? As it turns out, way more than I thought.

And now, I’ve become that guy. You know, the guy that clips coupons, but not only for newborn diapers, but for other things as well, anything that will help us save money. Then I get all my little coupons in an envelope and head off to do the shopping; what’s happened to me?

Another thing that I’m doing that I’ve never done before is actually going through the grocery store flyers and making a list. The real reason I do this? Not to save money (although that is a plus) or help to get the money for all those newborn diapers. No, it’s because I’ve been running on less than three hours of sleep for going on three weeks now, and I’ll probably forget everything I came for if I go without a list.

And then I’ll just come home with newborn diapers. Packages and packages of newborn diapers, because I know at least that we need those, even if I’ve forgotten everything else we need. So I’ve started making my list, and I wait anxiously for the flyers to be delivered each week. In order to make sure that I’m getting all the best deals, I go thorugh all the flyers and make a list of what I need to get from each store

Still, despite the lack of sleep and shock over actual amount having a baby costs, I’m trying to commit every last moment to memory. Because I know that my beautiful baby won’t fit into those newborn diapers for long, that soon I’ll look back and wonder how she ever fit into something so small. I will hang on to each moment I have with my baby now, while my little child is small enough to still fit into those teeny-tiny newborn diapers.

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