Get ready , a birth soon to be announced

that would have been a Bounty bag MissAdventure just samples from a selection of suppliers.The baby box has a list of things that are essentials for a newborn and for the first months.The reason I thought there would be moans is that whenever the SNP are involved, then on this site and many others the general concensus is that SNP BAD ....I was just pre empting the phrase

I'm sure a similar thing happened when I had my baby.
They sent me, (I think it was for everyone) home from hospital with a baby pack, with samples of everything.

Why on earth would anyone complain about the baby box paddyann? Its a brilliant idea and something that Finland has been doing since the 1930s.

Gillybob quite a few NHS Trusts across the UK are doing the baby boxes now too. I don't know whereabouts in the country you are but it might be worth Googling your maternity hospital to see?

What a good idea.

For all those in the wings about to complain about the baby box..people who dont NEED the help dont have to fill in the form.It is available for all babies though if the parents want it...In these tough times for young families every little bit helps .

www.foreveramber.co.uk/free-baby-box-scotland

Gillybob - If your grandbaby (or indeed the new Royal) were born in Scotland, they would be given, via their midwife, a baby box which can be used as a very safe crib and contains everything a new born could need for the first months. All this brand new and free as a gift from the Scottish Government.

The thinking behind this is that all babies should be born equal and have the best possible start in life.

I think those who knit for royal babies do so because they are devoted royalists and feel they have a connection with the family

gillybob I do find it strange that well-meaning (I suppose) people will send clothes and other gifts to the new Royal baby.

Now, that is not the fault of Kate and William and I hope they do pass them on to a deserving cause, but I have a friend who spent a long time knitting a beautiful 2 ply shawl for Prince George and was excited when she thought she saw him wrapped in it.
I just thought Why?

I knit for refugees.

Undoubtedly more extreme contrasts in India but the difference between the haves and have nots remains the same .

Anyway I’ve washed the clothes and they’re mostly okay . Still sad that my hardworking DD in 2018 is scouring charity shops for clothes for her much wanted and long awaited baby.

My DGC are always delighted to receive a bag of second hand clothes, as were my DC. And my DD decided that trawling the charity shops for excellent clothes is preferable to the rubbish that passes as 'fashion' in the shops these days.

mumofmadboys The contrast between rich and poor in India is so extreme; little girls are still sold to temples as 'handmaidens', little boys controlled by gangmasters, diving for money in the filthy Ganges and the rich become even richer.

DH used to say the same thing when he travelled to India for work.

Second hand clothes are fine. What matters to me is clean clothes.
I am on holiday in India at the moment. The contrast between rich and poor here is extreme++. Wealthy Indian children in private school clothes looking as if they came out of the 60s compared to street children living in home-made shacks who are filthy. I knew it would be like this but it remains shocking.

I really don’t have a “hang up” with the royals m0nica they don’t effect me or mine one iota .

Ooh MOnica can I come and live in your village - sounds great!

Gillybob why is using secondhand rather than new clothes automatically considered a poor second best? My instinct is always to reuse or rescue or buy secondhand and only if that fails, buy new. That applies whether for myself or family - and it is not poverty driven.

My children until they were about 5 wore hand me downs from friends, or clothes bought from charity shops. I was dressedly similarly when I was young and still have no hang-ups about doing the same today. I would be hard pressed to find a single piece of bought new furniture in my house.

As for your hang=up about the Royal family, they strike me as very ordinary people and rather dull compelled to live extrodinary lives. If I want to met the real odd balls, eccentrics and completely barking mad. I need only walk the half mile from my house to the village shop, Almost all my neighbours are delightfully off the wall.

Prince Phillip was in hospital for 11 days, hardly weeks!!!! and to be honest it really isn't anyone else's business how any family behaves towards each other! What suits one doesn't suit others, nothing weird about that!

What we know of Prince Phillip he quite possibly instructed - no bloody fuss .

Their staff are not people who drive to work every day, clock on and off. At one time queenie's private secretary was Sir Robert Fellows, Diana's brother in law. When Tiggy had William and Harry after their parents divorce, she is the daughter of Princess Anne's lady in waiting,

Firstly M0nica they are about as ordinary as the man in the moon .

Secondly there’s nothing wrong with wearing second hand clothes it just saddens me that my DD couldn’t be like many other hard working young mums to be and buy new clothes for her long awaited baby. Yes my baby son wore second hand (and third and fourth hand) clothes back in 1980 when I had nothing. I just hoped for better for my grandchild.

They strike me as a very ordinary family with a singularly difficult and unrelenting job. There are plenty of other people with jobs where they are home very little; long distance lorry drivers, merchant seamen, members of the armed services. They spend a lot of time sat in cars in couples being driven to official ocasions and when they are at home together seem to behave much like any other family. Bear in mind most Royal spouses come from very ordinary backgrounds these days.

What on earth is so odd about wearing second hand clothes? I've worn them all my life. I was born in war time.
I wore clothes handed down from older cousins. DF was in the army and most bases would have a Thrift Shop, DM used to volunteer with them and a lot of my clothes came from there.

I bought hardly any clothes for DD until she started school because of all the handdowns I had. The weirdos are the ones that never wear secondhand clothes and have to have new clothes for every occasion.

Prince Phillip is an 'interesting' individual. He may well have said he didn't want visitors. He's had major surgery at a grand age. Skype is an easy way of keeping in direct contact without clogging up the roads and hospitals as would inevitably happen if any member of the RF did go to visit.
It's their business, surely?
Good point Annie "they are no more weird than the rest of us" . How many of us would want to be exposed to the constant intrusion into our private lives? How many of our 'normal' family lives would withstand the kind of scrutiny and criticism the RF are subjected to.
I was a strong republican but the older I get, the more I conclude my father was right. The RF is our tradition and it's least worse than electing a President.

And I’m with paddyann with regards to the tree planting sermon from her maj.

How patronising. She should tell her kids and grandkids to stop driving gas guzzling cars and stop jetting around the world etc. And when all of her subjects enjoy the same medical care, are as warm, decently housed and well fed...... as her and her every increasing family, THEN and only then I might listen to her ramblings.

I wouldn’t criticise Kate’s mother for helping after the babies were born, that’s what many normal mothers do.

I am pretty sure nannies still do a great deal of the bringing up too.

I stand by my comment that they are mostly weird. I mean an old man in his 90’s in hospital for weeks and he gets one visit from his daughter and that’s it. What about his sons, grandchildren, wife for goodness sake?

They are no more weird than the rest of us ?. They live different lives to us. Kate is criticised for taking time off from public duties because she has the baby. Her mother was criticise for spending time with her daughter when she had her first and second child . One generation back the nannies brought up the children. So again they can't get it right .