congrats bro! go read up a bit about parenting, its not that difficult, just stressful hehe. but all simple tasks. first few months easy as they cant run away ahhah. just research baby safety. such as no bumpers, how to sleep lah. SIDS lah. all those things.

my advise is go borrow the baby carrier & car seat from someone for the first 6 months.

for newborn the stroller and car seat have certain requirements. like need to fully lie down and such. best to borrow from someone for a few months and then invest in a better one when your kid is a bit older.

now at least got pretty good selection of things from Sweet Cherry (local brand but made in china). pretty decent quality and cheap. im using sweet cherry ISOFIX carseat. i think its from 4kg and up. forgot.

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For newly born you dont need this things yet, as it is expensive and you wont be using is straight away. plus it must follow your kids weight, which you wont know until he/she is born.

I'd suggest to just 'pangku' the baby for a few months. You wont be going out much anyways as the baby is newly born.

In my case, my son was 4 months then i buy a Car seat, bought the one that is included with stroller. Don't have baby carrier up till now. would need to buy one soon though.. my boy is 10 months now. it depends on you actually and your daily life. Buy what you think is needed and dont spend much before your baby is born. that'd be my advice.

What you need to buy for now is 'buai', pampers abit, pampers is good for stocks as its non-expiry. but shirts and toys better buy once they are truly needed.

thats true. my son only left the house for doctors appointments for the first 3 months.

we live in Malaysia, i think almost anything is available within reach. if you in KL, almost anything can be purchased within the hour. what you should prepare is you and your wifes 'go' bag. so that you can live in the hospital with everything.

please note, hospitals discourage pacifiers or formula milk.

just make sure a bag is packed with wife clothing towel tooth brush n pasten  ur clothing n wife maternity pad and put in ur car..

boy or girl? which hospital?

dont forget some snacks, you aint gonna be sleeping. dont lah bring potato chips. wake the baby and your wife will kill you.

also bring a sweater for yourself. damn cold that place. especially if you going into the op theatre if opting for c-sec.

and if you got money, recommend you buy nipple cream for your waifu. if she plan to breastfeed. need to use it a few weeks before the baby to 'strengthen' the nipple before the baby attack it. hahah. but a bit mahal. i bought and waifu didnt even use, she malas or whatever, burn that money. damn.

your wife? how many weeks your baby? Mine just 8 weeks yesterday, rotate with wife and so far still ok. Wife breastfeed until 1am last round, while I sleep from 9pm - 3am. Estimate baby awake by 3am, I still got about 6 hours of sleep, my wife sleeps from 2am to 7/8am.

I reached home around 6.30pm, cook, and dinner by 7.30/8pm. Sleep from 9pm - 3am.
I feed baby at 3am, 5am, and 7am before I go to work.

you need to work in shifts with your wife. otherwise you will really burn yourself out. at that time i was out of a job so in a way that was lucky haha. so can sleep during the day. because better to get 4-6 hours straight then wake up every two hours.

I am using Morinaga. Enfalac is expensive because it is vegetable based, no?

I used S26 for quite some time, its pretty good since my kid is prematured and doesnt seem to have any issue with this milk. tried other brands doesnt seem to work well as it seems like his immunity is low.

Now 1 year+ change to sustagen

mamours 1u had huge sales. dunno if still on. damn cheap car seat. maxi cosi cheaper than my sweet cherry hahahah.