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?

Assassinated yeah maybe. But going on this thread and rl, I would say most people divide on those lines.

I hated the blue/ pink cards btw , but think I'm in a minority

I honestly can't remember what colour my son's was when he was in SCBU (4 years ago) and I wouldn't have cared either way. I do recall his first blanket knitted by the local grannies who knit for the SCBU was pink and blue and I loved it. It's in his memory box now.

Yeah, I had very significant medical information incorrectly recorded on the notes and had to ask to get it corrected and noted. I get that staff are overworked and understaffed, but relying on a colour code to correctly identify the sex doesn't seem to be a sensible long term strategy.

Blimey. If white card is cheaper, order the white card. It’s really not worth an argument.

If they're relying on the cards and OP has stated that they occasionally run out then a blue card could end up on a baby girls cot.

The thing about it is, if dd was given a blue card, I actually would not have noticed. It's only when you know that there are pink and blue that you start to give a shit. And I'd be pissed off if they didn't give enough shits to give my baby the correct colour lol. All is fair in love, war, and when you've just given birth.

DDs stuff is in the attic though. I opened it about 4 years ago, and all I could smell was new baby (like Sudocrem, except I didn't use it). So I'm saving if up to open again on her 16th.
It will be nothing to her, but it's a flood of memories to me.
But she does love hearing her birth and baby stories.

I can’t remember now what colour cot card we had when DS was in SCBU. I’m guessing white or blue, because a pink card would have snagged my attention as it’s so associated with girls rather than boys.

I’d love to say that I wouldn’t be bothered by this but I can’t. White card, fine. Blue card for boy, fine. Pink card for my DS if they’d run out of blue? No. I’d have considered that odd at best and not really fine.

I know it’s a trivial thing and totally irrelevant in the greater scheme of things, but I also know that when DS was in SCBU, trivial things were bugging me more than they normally would, so in a pink card / blue card scenario where they were temporarily out of blue cards, I can easily imagine myself fixating on DS getting the wrong colour (pink) card and getting all upset about that as a distraction from the bigger problems.

So I’d go for all white cards. Might seem more bland and impersonal, but it also isn’t going to be interpreted as “wrong” and potentially upsetting in the way that pink for boys / blue for girls might be.