How much dI'd your second child cost?

Healthcare won't go up for us luckily. Once a kid is added, you become a family plan and no matter how many kids, it's the same price.

Daycare is our big one. Here in Houston, we pay ~$225 per week for one. Don't know if there is a discount for the second or not yet. That's the biggest expense.

Just don't want the rest of the expenses to hit us like a ton of bricks. Hoping most of the big things we are used to with our first and will slowly be transitioning from him to the next (so not doubling up). We do pretty well financially, so like you said, having 1 hasn't really stopped us from being able to do what we want (oh the money I've "wasted" on hobbies). I think this second one is really going to make us have to look at what we're doing more. I used to be that way, but when our incomes got so high that we were saving money even when we weren't paying attention, we lost that dedication. Harder to go back now, but we will get there.

How old is your first child? Things like diapers, food/formula, clothes, wipes, etc, haven't gone up that much in the last few years. If anything, there seems to be more generic options available these days.

If you have same gender for second kid and kept all the stuff from first kid, obvously you can reuse all that.

Car seats can be used for up to 5 years from date of purchase before they "expire"

Depending upon your current kid's age and bedroom stuff, you may need to buy someone a new bedroom set.

Childcare facilities will usually give you a slight multi-child discount. Maybe 5-10 percent. But remember the baby room is the most expensive room at a child care. When we lived in Katy, we used A Child's Reflection who was amazing and I think multiple kids got you 5 percent off the cheapest tuition (this was over 4 years ago).

The biggest thing for us (ours are two girls, three years apart) was the cost of prenatal care and childbirth. When we had our oldest, my wife's insurance was a good plan, we paid $50 flat fee for the entire prenatal stuff. We paid a flat $1500 for the entire hospital stay for childbirth, including mom and child.

By the time second kid came around, her insurance had been forced to switch to a high deducible plan. Total costs were closer to $6,000 for both prenatal and hospital care.