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--Nony
My husband and I adopted our son after years of infertility. He was placed with us at birth. We passed on all of his baby stuff, certain that we would never have another infant. We had planned to either enjoy being parents of an only child or possibly adopt an older child in the future. Since you can’t accidentally adopt a baby, we thought we were perfectly safe to get rid of everything.
Well, just after our son turned 3, I got pregnant. After eleven years (yes, eleven years!) of infertility, this was a Biblical level surprise. Our second son was born the same month as our first. So we had screwed up the perfect hand me down situation- two boys, born in the same season even.
You know what? It was completely fine. We didn’t even care. We planned to just buy more baby stuff. Then one of my husband’s co-workers ended up giving us everything his son had used for the first three years of life. They had it in a storage unit for 10 years. A lot of it still had tags on!
Anyhow, that’s my answer to the unanswerable “Do I get rid of the baby clothes?” question. Yes, get rid of the baby clothes! There will always be more where those came from.