Beanie is officially 6 weeks old. Boy has it been exhausting! He's still not sleeping through the night. But I digress...
Before I had him I had a lot of anxiety about how much having a baby was really going to cost us.
So far, the answer is $385 a month. Of course this will change, but it's the first concrete figure I have.
It is as follows:
$200 to 529 college savings act
$60 in extra insurance premiums
$15 pediatrician copay for monthly visit
$50 in diapers and misc., but that is estimating high.
$60 for breast pump rental
It's not as bad as I had expected.
I suspect it is so low as well because he still eats 90 to 95 percent breast milk every day. we are supplementing with formula so I can get some sleep, but we received so many free samples that we could use the free stuff for months before having to buy any.
The diapers are hit or miss.I have reusable cloth diapers but we don't use them exclusively because in many situations, they leak. The last thing I need is to have him wake up too many times at night because his clothes are soaked through, so it's worth it to use some disposables. We pay probably $13 every 10 days or less for disposables. I also included odds and ends, like special baby laundry detergent in this total.
Not too shabby.
The cost of baby bean, part 2
May 16th, 2008 at 03:50 am
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http://www.diapersetc.com/
Fuzzibuns is one brand...I can't remember the guys I bought (we didn't use them because breastfeeding turned out to be so immense that I decided that was enough mother earth for me at the time).
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May 20th, 2008 at 02:11 am 1211245905
Not bad on the expenses! For us our health insurance was $100/month before kids and today runs closer to $800/month today for the fam. Between that & preschool they cost about $1400/month. Though the latter is clearly luxury. The rest of the stuff is minimal though. I am sure I posted as much before (the kicker is lost wages, childcare, health insurance, etc. Food and clothes and accessories can be had rather cheaply, as you are finding).
July 14th, 2008 at 06:42 am 1216014149
Good luck!
Sarah