Any other expectant Dads?
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Vaud said:
Local facebook groups (buy/sell) tend to be good as well. The second hand market is almost worthless, so lots of people give clothes away (at least in our area)
Also even though this is pistonheads and we all shop at Waitrose and Harrods...Get nappies from Aldi - £1 for 24 (size 1).. we tried all the usual Pampers etc and Aldi ones seem really good quality and much better for than Pampers - very impressed with them ..
fizz47 said:
Also even though this is pistonheads and we all shop at Waitrose and Harrods...
Get nappies from Aldi - £1 for 24 (size 1).. we tried all the usual Pampers etc and Aldi ones seem really good quality and much better for than Pampers - very impressed with them ..
+1 on this, 2.5yrs of Aldi nappies here (almost out of them), miles cheaper than Pampers etc and just as good. Not a single leak in all that time. Ditto their baby wipes very good value. Get nappies from Aldi - £1 for 24 (size 1).. we tried all the usual Pampers etc and Aldi ones seem really good quality and much better for than Pampers - very impressed with them ..
PurpleTurtle said:
fizz47 said:
Also even though this is pistonheads and we all shop at Waitrose and Harrods...
Get nappies from Aldi - £1 for 24 (size 1).. we tried all the usual Pampers etc and Aldi ones seem really good quality and much better for than Pampers - very impressed with them ..
+1 on this, 2.5yrs of Aldi nappies here (almost out of them), miles cheaper than Pampers etc and just as good. Not a single leak in all that time. Ditto their baby wipes very good value. Get nappies from Aldi - £1 for 24 (size 1).. we tried all the usual Pampers etc and Aldi ones seem really good quality and much better for than Pampers - very impressed with them ..
Damn, the paperwork involved !!!!
So we live in Singapore and neither my wife nor i are Singaporean, so our daughter will not be eligible for a Singapore passport.
I have both a UK and an Irish passport, my wife has an Indonesian, we have residency visa's in Singapore.
When the sprog is born we will get a birth cert from the Singapore hospital. As soon as she is born the clock starts ticking as she is now technically "illegal" in Singapore without travel documents or necessary visa's, we have 3 months in which to get her a passport and then get her associated to one of our residency visa's.
For both the UK and Irish passports I need birth Certs and Marriage certs for both of my parents as well as my own passport as she is being born outside of either UK or Ireland ... so i am now awaiting certified copies of birth certs from UK and Ireland and a Marriage Cert from UK for my parents (as it seems that neither of them actually have original copies either, only photocopies) , before i can even start the process of getting her own damn passport (any of the 3 options .... ).
So, we look to Indonesia .... naturally you have to be in Indonesia to do all this (and will still need all of the documentation previously mentioned anyway to add her to a "family book"), they will only issue a temporary travel permit so that sprog and mum can go there and then start that bureaucratic piece of fun (estimated at another 3 months ..... ).
Damn the world can be a bloody complicated place some times .....
Gave me some cathartic relief typing that though ....
So we live in Singapore and neither my wife nor i are Singaporean, so our daughter will not be eligible for a Singapore passport.
I have both a UK and an Irish passport, my wife has an Indonesian, we have residency visa's in Singapore.
When the sprog is born we will get a birth cert from the Singapore hospital. As soon as she is born the clock starts ticking as she is now technically "illegal" in Singapore without travel documents or necessary visa's, we have 3 months in which to get her a passport and then get her associated to one of our residency visa's.
For both the UK and Irish passports I need birth Certs and Marriage certs for both of my parents as well as my own passport as she is being born outside of either UK or Ireland ... so i am now awaiting certified copies of birth certs from UK and Ireland and a Marriage Cert from UK for my parents (as it seems that neither of them actually have original copies either, only photocopies) , before i can even start the process of getting her own damn passport (any of the 3 options .... ).
So, we look to Indonesia .... naturally you have to be in Indonesia to do all this (and will still need all of the documentation previously mentioned anyway to add her to a "family book"), they will only issue a temporary travel permit so that sprog and mum can go there and then start that bureaucratic piece of fun (estimated at another 3 months ..... ).
Damn the world can be a bloody complicated place some times .....
Gave me some cathartic relief typing that though ....
I went through similar in Greece although there was no time limit but we actually only had three months also as we wanted to head back to the UK for Christmas.
We also had to get an official translation of the Greek birth certificate, i'm going to assume your babies certificate will be in English and not Tamil or Malay or something?
We also had to get an official translation of the Greek birth certificate, i'm going to assume your babies certificate will be in English and not Tamil or Malay or something?
... Hadn't thought of that ... even if its in English, will probably have to get it translated for Indonesia 
.Original Poster said:
Another shout out to Aldi nappies.
We don't have an Aldi here but my father in law picks them up for us, by far the best ones. Been using them for the last year and a half and will be using them on the new little one in June.
And another. We don't have an Aldi here but my father in law picks them up for us, by far the best ones. Been using them for the last year and a half and will be using them on the new little one in June.
Expectant dads, don't even bother with experimenting with the other brands. Especially Huggies. Huggies were not designed for babies. I could believe that they were designed by babies.
Just cut out a few weeks of cost and frustration, and proceed to Aldi. If you pass Go, save at least £200.
Watch this and enjoy https://youtu.be/j1cFt2tWsI4 it is so true, and of course funny.
I guess the only things I can say as a Dad of a five year old boy is that loads of people without kids do as Michael McKintyre says have no idea what they are talking about, but will pass judgement regularly - you can either punch them in the face and/or just learn to be patient with those types of people and send their views immediately to the deleted items basket lol
But just roll with it, you are making the calls, don't worry if you think other people might think you are doing it wrong its none of their business!
I guess the only things I can say as a Dad of a five year old boy is that loads of people without kids do as Michael McKintyre says have no idea what they are talking about, but will pass judgement regularly - you can either punch them in the face and/or just learn to be patient with those types of people and send their views immediately to the deleted items basket lol
But just roll with it, you are making the calls, don't worry if you think other people might think you are doing it wrong its none of their business!
HannsG said:
Wife said she would like another kid. We already got 2 and 4 year boys.
Is a third child really that much of a hassle in terms of cost, time management, and general chaos?
That's when life completely falls apart, surely?Is a third child really that much of a hassle in terms of cost, time management, and general chaos?
We've got two aged six and two, and we're operating a good way beyond our comfortable limit.
HannsG said:
Wife said she would like another kid. We already got 2 and 4 year boys.
Is a third child really that much of a hassle in terms of cost, time management, and general chaos?
Parents with one: tiredIs a third child really that much of a hassle in terms of cost, time management, and general chaos?
Parents with two: holy crap this is a lot harder
Parents with three: broken
At least in my experience.
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