Know what’s coming, and what it costs.
A personalised estimate of your baby’s first-year shopping list, broken into one-off purchases and monthly costs, and when to buy each — built on UK prices, not converted from somewhere else.
No account needed to see your estimate.
The heaviest stretch is before the birth, at £1,220. After that it settles to about £168 a month.
Illustrated for a birth 5 months away, buying new. Put your own due date in and the whole timeline shifts with it.
- UK prices in poundsMoneyHelper and DayNurseries figures, not a dollar conversion
- Month by monthWhat lands before the birth, and what lands in month seven
- Childcare done properlyFunded hours and Tax-Free Childcare, which most calculators ignore
- The bill, not a wishlistNappies and formula rarely get gifted — those are in here
Three inputs, then the whole year
- 01Tell it your due date
And how you plan to feed, how you buy, and whether you are expecting more than one.
- 02See the ledger
Every category priced and colour-coded, and anything you have been given comes off as you record it.
- 03Work through the months
Open a month to see exactly what to buy, tick it off, and move the expensive things to a month that suits you.
Almost all of it is free
Nobody should meet a paywall they weren’t warned about, so here is the line, before you start. Free tells you what it costs and what you’ve already got. Premium helps you shop.
What premium actually does
Work the year a month at a time — what falls due when, ticked off in the month you bought it, and moved if the timing doesn't suit.
Tick something — everything below moves with it.
The first two move with the rows above. The rest come from the parts of the list this preview leaves out.
Most tools show you a wishlist. This one shows you the bill, and what reduces it.
Nappies and formula rarely get gifted — that’s where your own budget carries the most weight. And most calculators quietly ignore funded childcare hours and the support you may be entitled to, which is the difference between a number that frightens you and one you can plan against.
Or start with the question
Straight answers in UK prices, using the same researched figures as the calculator — so nothing in them contradicts what the tool tells you.
- How much does a baby cost in the UK?The real range, line by line, and why every article quotes a different number.
- Newborn essentials checklist: what you actually needWhat to buy before the birth, with prices — and the popular items you can skip.
- When to buy everything for a babyA month-by-month timeline, so the bill arrives in pieces rather than all at once.
Put your due date in and see the year.
Start freeNo account, no card, no email until you want to save it.