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E was 8 lb 2 oz and the hospital didn't even use newborns! They only had size 1

DS was 9.5 lbs he just barely fit in NB, at the hospital they ended up bring in 1s to put him in. I had bought 1 case of NB and tried to use them but he leaked I agree maybe return one and get a size up. It all depends how "chubby" / long they are.

Our LO was 8lb8oz 21in and wore newborns for just a few days.

DS was 8lb 5.5oz, and wore NB for 3-4 weeks. I'd keep them around, you can always exchange them for a different size later.

My little guy went straight to 1s when he was born (at 9#7oz).

My LO was 7 lbs, 1 oz when she was born and they didn't even use newborn size in the hospital--just folded over the 1's. We had one box of newborns, but once we blew through those, we just went to straight to ones and folded them over! We never had any issues using size ones.

DS was 6 pounds 15 ounces at birth and was in NB for 6-7 weeks. But he lost a lot of weight at the beginning and was a pretty slow gainer. The hospital sent us home with a ton of diapers and I think we went through 3 boxes of Swaddlers and had a few leftover that I used as overnight nursing pads, LOL. He was actually in size 1s the shortest amount of time - we were using size 2s for nights by 10 or 11 weeks. He was in size 3s for nights starting around 6 months.

Don't worry so much about sizing - most places let you do an even exchange even if your receipt is expired. I would just stick with 1s. If you are in NBs the hospital will most likely send some home with you. Our hospital gave size 1 Swaddlers standard but DS was so small they brought him NBs. So we took both sizes home. It might just be easier to go buy a small pack of NBs as you need them.

All told my diaper stash was something like 1000 Swaddlers? I think it was 1 box of NB, 2 boxes of size 1s, 2 boxes of size 2s, 3 boxes of size 3, and 2 boxes of size 4s (because it was all they had during a sale). I ended up exchanging the size 1 diapers for NBs and then exchanged the size 4 diapers for size 1s. I supplemented the size 1s with a small package of Target brand because I didn't need a full box and we needed to buy an extra box of size 2s at some point.

Most moms told me to stock up on size 3s as they were the size their kid was in the longest. We are on our 3rd box of size 3s now at almost 7 months and I think we may need to buy a fourth box before moving to size 4. I was told not to stock up on anything bigger than 3 because some babies don't need a bigger size than that for a long time or because at that point they may need a different type of diaper (i.e. Cruisers instead of Swaddlers). We're on our last box of my stash (aside from that one box of size 2s we bought) and I'm pretty happy with myself - the stash (including 2000 or so wipes) lasted about 7 months! I only spent about $150 on the whole stash when I was extreme couponing while I was pregnant so it was definitely worth it.