Just one night in my newborn life I discovered Hack to stay alertness during these night nutritions on the night nights: Internet shopping.

Of course, before the arrival of my baby I bought a lot of equipment and stock I knew we would need in the first year of parenting. I thought I was ready with what I could me. I carefully kicked the basket with postpower backs behind the toilet, he had a few meals in the freezer and felt safe that the great spending was behind me.

Oh, how wrong I was. My postpartment phase came with quite a few expenses such as new clothes, pajamas, postnatal vitamins, postportum pads, and even pelvic floor therapies. And I’m not the only one who went to the improvised cost after my baby was born. One in 4 new moms (28%) say that they gave unexpected purchases for themselves during their postpower stage, according to the January 2025 survey. Years.

Although it can be impossible to predict how you need or want to spend money postpartum, Babycenter has reviewed 1,399 moms on some of the most common surprise costs that could come to accounts that could come to accounts.

The most common cost of surprise? New clothes

Complete 28% of new moms are caught from guard by postparting new clothes in childbirth – these are almost all moms reported by surprise costs in any category.

From my side, I carried my pajamas about an hour during this time in life. No matter how often he changed, I always felt covered with saliva, daycare and my own postpower sweat. I spent about $ 75 on three new pairs of pajamas. In step with the laundry, he felt impossible, so the purchase was needed more.

And approximately two weeks postporod, I had a malfunction in his closet before pediatric naming, because my spuns didn’t answer, my pregnancy was too big, and nothing was that they weren’t breastfeeding. I invested in a few peaks of custom home to about $ 30 per piece. When I returned to work Three months Postpartum, my pre-pregnancy clothes I still didn’t answer, so I broke up $ 200 for work clothes.

Childbirth products such as Perry bottle and nipple cream also strains new moms

One in 5 mom (20%) says they had unexpected costs that fell into the postpart recovery category and mother care products; Think: Medical refrigeration pads, abdominal bands and pain relief spray.

For me, some of these purchases were less, like a $ 10 pack, which needed to buy me a week for seven weeks, or different nipples that I tried.

But some of my expenses in this category were not so juvenile – like when I was diagnosed with postpartum hypertension and I had to pay for two times a week visit to my ob-Gyn. Since these were not standard prenatal visits, my insurance did not completely cover them and I had to pay a $ 50 coplat for every visit. Fortunately, I ended up with these visits in three weeks postpower, when my blood pressure is normalized – but it did $ 300, I didn’t plan to spend.

And once I started returning to 10 weeks Postpartum, I realized pretty quickly that something wasn’t quite well with my body, despite the fact that I mitigated movement by regular walking. I would love him with my pants in light runs and I had a pretty pelvic pain.

When I talked to my ob-Gyne about it, she wrote me a recommendation for physicial pelvic floor therapy. While weeks visits resolved my symptoms in full after three months, they were with an expert, which meant the $ 60 digit was visited and about $ 720.

Although not all treated for chickenside for postpartum problems, it is the real possibility to be aware of, because 29% mom say that the pelvic pain postpartum and 24% experience pelvic pressure.

Knowing what I know now, I would like to extract the budget for postpartum health conditions while I was pregnant.

Vitamins, new shoes and mental health therapy are other common – and potentially expensive – surprise items

It is also a dressing for surprise by postpartum shopping are vitamins and accessories, which 17% mom say they are buying unexpectedly in this period.

I didn’t realize I would need to continue to take my prenatal as I came. And when my hair began to drop your fists about three months postparti, I was eviled with popular hair accessories like nutrafol, which comes with a steep price of $ 88 for a one-month supply. (Worth noting: usually lasts three to six months to see the results, according to the brand.)

About 1 in 8 mom (13%) are surprised by changes in their size of the foot during pregnancy and must buy new shoes as a result – and another 6% must unexpected new glasses for moving in their recipe.

“The space of hormonal changes may affect the vision of the new mom – most changes are temporary, but maybe maybe mom will need a new recipe,” Jane van Dis, MD, member of the certificate committee and a member of the Medical Advisory Board for Babies.

“Consult your eyes doctor if the blurred eyesight or inability focus,” she says. “Along the same line, shoe size can change, due to the hormone” relaxing “that leaning ligaments in preparation for childbirth. This may result in wider or longer legs and may require new shoes.”

Almost 1 in 10 new moms (9%) reports unexpectedly must pay mental health therapy during postparts.

I can absolutely connect. In the first few weeks of postpartum, I cried every day when the sun started to set up. For strange I found myself furiously furious when my little newborn wouldn’t return to sleep after night feeding. And then I felt guilty about why I couldn’t just “absorb a newborn” as if everyone had encouraged me to do.

Putting money aside to take care of yourself, it is critically important.

– Paige Bellenbaum, LCSW, PMH-C

I never needed therapy more than I postpartum. But I also did not anticipate this paragraph in my budget, because during pregnancy, my mental health was not concerned.

The data show that 1 in 5 new and expected mothers are maternally made by perinatal or postpartom disorder (PMAD), but many are not armed with information on that risk, LCSW, PMH-C, founder for the establishment of a maternal center.

“(Motherhood is) predicted to be blissful, beautiful, amazing, natural experiences that feel fulfilling … the happiest time of our life,” she says. In reality, motherhood can feel lonely and isolation during postparts.

Bellenbaum suggests that it will have a plan in your last pocket in case you need emotional support after your baby comes. “Is it a group of support or therapist or doing things for yourself what you feel good, as you will receive weekly mani / pedi or massage, budget for these things,” she says. “Putting money aside (take care of yourself) is critically important.”

All things were considered, I spent over $ 1,000 to unexpected costs for myself after the birth of my first child. And that is not even counting the purchase of a baby surprise. When my second baby arrived last year, let’s just say I singled out the robust “various” budget and felt much financial preparation.

Survey methodology

The cost of raising the children’s survey They spent the Bebycenter between 17. and 3. February 2025. Years. We surveyed 1,399 respondents who are at least one child in moments 0 to 8 years.