I'm 26 weeks, and we have only just started buying stuff.
I agree with the in limbo thing we had our first mw appointment at 6 weeks (I think) and then there’s a whole lot of nothing waiting for the scan so you can start telling people. Once you get past a certain number of weeks though, the time just seems to fly by, I’m not quite sure how I got to 26 weeks!
Have a look out on freecycle for stuff, I’ve just bagged a full set of washable nappies to take us right through form birth to potty training on our freecycle – that’s a serious amount of money saved! Bought cot on ebay as well, so that was a lot saved – the baby doesn’t care if anything’s brand new!
We're now at the stage where he can feel the baby moving about as well as me, which is fab, and off for a 4d scan in a couple of weeks which I'm really excited about.