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The cost of baby's first year = Â£1,000. Surveys suggest you'll spend over Â£9,000 on a child's first 12 months. Nonsense, says Hilary Osborne, you can do it for much less. Baby Wyn â the cost was in 'hundreds rather than thousands' says his mum.
The costs of raising a child from birth to age 17, including housing, food, clothing, health care, education, and other expenses, will come to $241,080 for a child born in 2012, up 2.6 percent from the year before, according to new data released by the Department of Agriculture.