Disagreements with partner re baby stuff.

I hear you. I found going into a shop together to look at the baby items helped reduce the disagreements.

Explain your reasons for things. We had some disagreements about carseats because I can't carry the infant car seats. So I wanted to get one that is birth to 4 years and stays in the car, however we have 2 cars and use his car whenever he is home. So after explaining why I wanted the car seat I wanted we came to the agreement that we would get an infant carseat that is for his car and can be used if we were to go in someone else's car and I would get the birth to 4years car seat as we would need to buy one anyway in around a years time. Now we can just upgrade his car seat rather than having to buy two then. Don't get frustrated by his options or thought process and explain yours.

We went to Mama’s and Papa’s together for one of their buying for baby appointments to see and try all the prams, the car seats, nursery furniture etc. Before we went he wasn’t thrilled at the idea of a day of shopping (as most men aren’t) but did it because it was for baby. By the end we had agreed on all our big purchases and made a £3000 order and he couldn’t stop talking about how much he ended up enjoying the day!! Would definitely recommend xx

@Ellie we did this, he is always happy to go baby shopping but we did it to get advice and because they had an offer on that if you book you got money back on what you ordered and they also had a sale on at the time. It meant the stuff that wasn't on offer we waited to come on offer and used the voucher to buy it. Which made him extra happy we had saved money (even though we went over budget 🤣)

Thank you everyone 💕 He’s very proactive and wanting to be involved and we attended the baby appointment at John Lewis for advice on pushchairs / car seats which was super helpful, just a shame that we came out with different opinions still! I think we view money a little differently too; he’s happy to spend more if it makes our lives easier whereas I’m more conscious about saving money where possible; if it means a small period of harder work I can deal with that if it’s saved us money for something that could be even more beneficial