Freebies & Samples...Discovery Baby Bag

BeingMom pregnancy pack

Who likes freebies and samples!?!? I DO!! ;) Once I reached one of the first pregnancy milestones, 9 weeks, I received a little welcome bag from my gynae's office which included the following:

- Bio Oil Scan album (which I love, because I use to stick scans to the fridge)
- Mediclinic baby Pregnancy journal
- A chart with all the milestones  the baby will reach in the 9 months
- Emergancy cards
- various sample size products, bennets bum cream, dove soap etc.

The goodies bags were sponsored by BeingMom.

Discovery Baby Bag Items

I also recently collected the Discovery Baby bag at the Toys r Us in Bellville. As part of the Discovery Baby benefit with Vitality, Discovery provides you with a bag filled with baby goodies. You can read more about it here.

In the Discovery Baby bag:

- Nuk Orthopedic pacifier
- Baby beanie and two pairs of booties
- A Babysense taglet
- White Discovery fleece receiving blanket
- Huggies Newborn nappies (sample pack of 6 nappies)
- Discovery sun shades x2
-  Sample items, J&J Top-to-toe, J&J aqueous cream and Bennets bum cream
- A vaccination schedule card
- Vouchers: 4 x 10% off Huggies nappies voucher and 60% off Nania carseat voucher

Stuff for Mommy too:

- Cariwell maternity pad x1
- Cariwell maternity panties x1
- Tommee Tippee breast pads x6

The Discovery Vitality bag

When you give birth at a Mediclinic Hospital, you receive a Mother and Baby bag as well with all the baby toiletry essentials:

Mediclinic Mother and Baby bag

You can find out more about the Mediclinic Mother and Baby bag here.

Where to start...Baby shopping

Baby shopping, where do I start?

So, we've reached a milestone at 3 months, even though we decided not to buy until the beginning of the new year (we'll be just over 5 months then), I want to get my ducks in a row and plan out what and how we're going to buy.

So I'd like some suggestions from Moms and Moms-to-be out there. What did you find useful, an essential, and utterly useless when baby came around. I'd like to avoid making unecessary purchases and your input will be greatly valued.


What was your best purchase?
The essentials?
Utterly useless?

Also,

When you found the best time to starting buying?

Looking forward to hearing from you guys :D