Hi Zee
Yes pay weekend and I did not buy anything for baby as yet.
I have a lot of my daughter bigger stuff in storage so we don't have to buy the big things, only a new pram and babies clothes, toiletries and personal stuff. I get quiet overwhelmed shopping around for baby stuff just so much things and new advancements, but they outgrow them so fast. but it's great to window shop, lol
What I have done checked online for baby products that offer specials and discounts, I used Bennet's bum cream and product for my first born and will probably continue with the second one as well, I joined their mum and baby club, online for free, they send you monthly vouchers with discounts on their products, over the first few years, these help with the cost of everything going up.
Where does "daddy" work, away from home? Unfortunately our other halves can't feel all the pregnancy symptoms so often all they think is belly bump to understand how their baby is growing, one bounding exercise we learnt at an antenatal class, ask Daddy to try this everytime you guys are together, tell him to take a toilet roll holder and place on your belly and talk to baby, kinda channels their voice in the tummy, after a few weeks he will see or feel how baby moves towards the area where his voice amplifies from, its good stimulation in utero as well.