Should cot cards be gender neutral or dont you mind pink and blue?

[EachandEveryone]

Thats it really. We need to order a load more and theres no point wasting the NHS money. I just wondered if we had moved on from pink and blue as i notice a lot more babies are being dressed in neutral colours. Or, does it not bother you?

Anyway OP... I think this post proves that there are actually batshit crazy people out there who would actually be offended if their female baby had a blue piece of card tied to its cot, so I’d say stick to pink and blue!

I don't want my girl dressed as a boy!

Wearing blue does not mean you are dressed as a boy. Girls wear blue and lots of other colours. HTH.

"Maybe because I'm not a fucking weirdo who wants to use my baby to make some stupid point about gender." - this is just bizarre. Most people I know just dress their children in a range of colours and don't think that girls can't wear blue and boys can't wear pink!

I am pretty feminist, gender critical etc etc but this wouldn't bother me too much either way OP. As long as the NHS can work can record the sex of my baby correctly I'm happy .

I was so excited about my new little ones arrival and at the time certainly wanted a pink cot card for my daughter and blue for my son. I too saved them as it had their blood types on them plus the usual baby details.

Maybe if they were reared as a boy they wouldn't be so fucking confused.

Can’t believe all these parents asking what a cot label is? Don’t you keep your babies cot labels?

Sorry, I was distracted by all the machines and wires when my DS was first born and then when he was transfered by KIDS (aka high needs ambulance for children) to another hospital which took 5 hours from their arrival to their departure, I was similarly too distracted.

Maybe if they were reared as a boy they wouldn't be so fucking confused

I think you’re confused. You said above that dressing them in a particular colour won’t influence their gender, so which is it?
How the fuck would a boy baby having a pink card tied to the end of their cot in the first day of their life cause them issues?!

@AssassinatedBeauty not vital but useful. Prevents staff making errors/makes their life easier and with twins it's helpful when in the same cot - boy/girl twins can be identified quickly from the side they're on. I had id girls but colour coded them with their clothing and blankets (and painted a toe nail on each).

@Jazzhan I genuinely have no idea what you're going on about. You're confused about what gender neutral means and seem to be could

SleepingStandingUp
Was he wearing pink or blue.

... posted too soon..

...and seem to be conflating it with gender fluidity or transgenderism which is nothing to do with it.

I bet OP wishes they had asked for a Yes/No answer now.

IIRC the cot cards have the following info:
Name - eg baby "last name"
Date of birth
Weight
Length
Gestation
Sex

In SCBU (or NICU) we had plenty of time to look at the card - this one had all the above information (minus length) but plus hospital number & bar code so it could be scanned easily for tests etc

So the cards aren't there just to tell if the baby's male or female so inferring sex from the colour of a card probably wouldn't help the staff that much as there's more important information on it.

Jazzhan blue actually, with stars on it. We had a lovely box from Emily's Star charity containing tiny prem baby clothes that poppered open so they can fit around all the tubes. He was 2.5 weeks old and the nurses dressed him whilst we slept. They were so happy it could have been pink with yellow stripes for all we cared

Clothes don't yet have the power to change the sex chromosomes, no-one needs worry that they will change a girl into a boy or a boy into a girl.

I don’t remember having a card when my older child was born. Mind you, I don’t remember anyone actually interacting with me in the few hours before I discharged myself.

Most normal people, do still dress their kids in pink or blue
Poor DS was dressed in all sorts once we knew he was a boy. Green, red, yellow, orange, brown, blue, grey. His My Little Pony leggings are grew but the ponies are pink. I think he'll cope.

If someone had rocked up with a blue outfit for my baby girl, I'd have asked them were they visiting the wrong baby. I don't want my girl dressed as a boy! and I've have asked if you were feeling OK, we're coping OK and if I needed to worry about PND because quite clearly a blue dress isn't boys clothes, a blue inside with bunnies and butterflies isn't boys clothes and even the blue baby grow with trucks on doesn't require positioning of a penis to make it fit

The hospital we were in (not scbu though) just had white boards. I wouldnt mind what it was!

LOL at the boy babies not being allowed to wear pink. As I sit here in grey slippers, blue jeans and blue t shirt looking nothing like a bloke!

and I've have asked if you were feeling OK, we're coping OK and if I needed to worry about PND because quite clearly a blue dress isn't boys clothes, a blue inside with bunnies and butterflies isn't boys clothes and even the blue baby grow with trucks on doesn't require positioning of a penis to make it fit

And youd have been rude.

OP when DS was in SCBU I'm pretty sure it was a white card but they'd cheered it up with a sticker something like an animal/teddy.