Unfortunately, despite the fact that we live in the age of digital technologies and are on the verge of interplanetary travel, some future mothers are in prison for superstitious fears. They are intrigued by the question of whether it is possible to buy things to a newborn in advance, but most do not even know where the roots of this superstition come from.
Fears and superstitions
In fact, everything is explained quite simply. In ancient times it was believed that if things were already purchased before the child appeared in the light of God, then they are already occupied by some otherworldly forces that were here before the child. It was believed that such clothes will bring the kid only illness and misfortune. Although in fact everything is explained much easier. Most families in Ancient Rus were large and poor. For them, the question of what things to buy a newborn, did not even stand. To buy things simply did not have the money, and in order to justify the fact that the newborn receives the rejuvenation of the things of the older child and was invented a very fanciful legend about the house and the devil, harming the child. In families of boyars such superstitions took place much less often than in families of commoners. So think about who you are like when you believe in such stories.
Shopping - a pleasure for the future mother
If the question of why you can not buy things for a newborn will lose relevance for a future mother, then she will not deprive herself of the pleasure of buying those things that she really likes, and not what her relatives will buy. Who can better than the future mother know what to buy her child before giving birth? Nobody, definitely nobody. Also there is an opinion that the mother of the child is in no way