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Judgey Pants or Not:: Taking a 7 mo out to lunch in their pyjamas

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QueenSconetta · 21/08/2010 21:51

...on the basis they have a cough and have been up since 2am with it.

I just wouldn't. Surely if they're too ill to have clothes put on them they're too ill to go out?

Or has my mother just drilled the 'if you're too ill to go to school, you're too ill to go out to play' mentality into too hard?

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terryble · 22/08/2010 07:10

Going off what aged relatives have said, I can't help thinking clothes manufacturers are on to an incredibly good thing here.

At first, boys and girls alike were put in little dresses, and if you were careful with your colours, you could keep handing down clothes, whatever the gender. And dresses don't pinch the toes as the baby begins to grow taller.

Then we had babygros. Which you have to get in a range of sizes to avoid toe-pinching. But they're a very convenient garment.

Now, babygros have been rebranded sleepsuits! And we all have to buy yet more clothes for babies to wear during waking hours. I won't even mention the increased washing this makes.

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QueenSconetta · 22/08/2010 08:55

I was having a think about this and I think I found it so unusual as NO ONE I know in RL does it. At all the baby groups I've been to I don't recall anyone bringing their baby in a sleepsuit.

Yet on here the vest majority of people keep their LOs in babygros most of the time, which is of course fine by me, they can dress their baby how they like.

Its funny how you get pockets of people doing different things.

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Bunbaker · 22/08/2010 09:17

My daughter wore babygros until she was about 9 months. She had medical issues so I hardly ever took her out of the house. Babygros are far more practical when they are that little anyway.

Bathsheba · 22/08/2010 09:24

I've found myself being judged and tutted at on MN for having my babies in "proper daytime clothes" from 3 weeks old....apparently I'm wrong and they should be in sleepsuits/babygros/allinones until they are about 1

ThatDamnDog · 22/08/2010 09:39

I've never felt that there's one done thing for everyone in a certain area. I was probably in a minority round here with mine in babygros but I didn't pay much attention. Apart from allowing myself the odd sneaky judge when I see newborns who can't even roll over if they're uncomfy but they're trussed up in stiff denim and waistcoats and hairbands and timberland boots. Ugh. Soft cotton stuff I wouldn't even notice I guess. People have mentioned pyjamas to me in the past when DS was a baby - I just say I don't like him in waistbands until he's old enough to move himself if he's uncomfy. Plus, lots easier to wash and dry ten breastfed baby poo covered sleepsuits a day than ten outfits. [lazy mare]

EricNorthmansmistress · 22/08/2010 09:40

I don't give a fuck what babies wear tbh. At that age I think we were just getting out of sleepsuits all day and into actual outfits but really, it doesn't matter.

Witchcat · 22/08/2010 09:54

I took my DS aged 18 months to costa for breakfast (i needed coffee) in wellies, pj's and a sun hat because thats what he wanted to wear. Most people there commented on the wellies and not his pj's! Blush

Isawthreeships · 22/08/2010 09:54

I had to look back and check our photos because I've already blanked out the early months (DS is 21mo)!. I did put him in cotton leggings and t-shirts by 7mo but as it was summer he spent most of the time just wearing a nappy and vest.

Wouldn't look twice if another baby was in a babygro. Have to confess to being a bit judgey at newborns dressed to the nines (except special occasions), or non-walkers wearing shoes.

Psammead · 22/08/2010 09:59

DD is 7 months. Since she was about 4 months she wears 'proper' clothes about half the time, babygros the other half. No biggie. So long as the baby is comfortable it's fine.

Actually, I only ever really get her dressed because I like to see her in nice clothes. No benefit to her whatsoever.

sunny2010 · 22/08/2010 10:04

My daughter only wore sleepsuits when out at home, and at nursery until she was 11 months old. I didnt like putting shoes on her feet at the start and thought it would be nice and comfy for her.

I also think people that waste loads of money on clothes in the first year are wasting their money really. I would rather have my child comfy and happy than having to worry about what she looks like and worrying about all different seperates.

deemented · 22/08/2010 10:47

Well, i've just changed DS3 from his night-time babygro into a lovely fresh clean one. DS2 has been in the same pair of PJ's for two days now and DD has insisted on getting dressed today, but as we aren't going out myself and the manshape are in PJ's too...

i am such a slattern

Longtalljosie · 22/08/2010 11:21

Queensconetta - you're not alone. DD has worn day clothes and night clothes from 4 months-ish. Day clothes are usually a stretchy top or t-shirt and leggings, so I really don't think she's uncomfortable. That said, some people at baby group do the babygro and cardi combo and I've never thought anything of it. We Are All Different. Neither Is Actually Wrong.

RunawayWife · 22/08/2010 11:27

Just lazy parenting

colditz · 22/08/2010 11:32

In Ds1's first year of school, I was sometimes so disorganised that ds2, aged 16 months, would be got dressed for the day in the baby changing room of the cafe near the school. I would bag the clothes up and take them with me in the morning.

half the time he was still asleep when we left the house.

It's not lazy parenting.

Waking a sleeping child to force them into clothes, or making an older child run late for school, simply because you are too frightened to be judged on your parenting - that's bad parentintg.

MilkNoSugarPlease · 22/08/2010 11:37

I have been know to put charge (Who is a whole 14m!) in a babygrow/pyjamas, for the school run and errands after....she'll stay in the buggy so frankly I'd rather she was comfy then be worried that people will think she's in her pyjamas!

Heracles · 22/08/2010 11:44

Surely at 7mo every outfit is potentially pyjamas...?

NoahAndTheWhale · 22/08/2010 12:27

I do feel a little that there is competitive sleepsuit wearing by babies at all times on mumsnet.

When DS and DD were babies they wore clothes in day time. And sleepsuits at night. There is some great line in a book by Libby Purves where she talks about dressing babies and them then not looking like sausages*. I was the same with PFB and then NSC. Although no head bands. That would have been very silly Grin.

*precise line is sadly forgotten. As is the name of the book.

Snobear4000 · 22/08/2010 12:45

I can see your camel-toe through those judgey pants.

Bunbaker · 22/08/2010 13:56

I don't see the point in dressing up tinies to the nines anyway. My daughter used to sick up a lot of her feeds and changing a babygro was far easier than an entire outfit. I don't really consider babygros as exclusively for night time. They are just baby clothes for small babies.

SingItBack · 22/08/2010 14:16

RAW what is lazy parenting?

YunoYurbubson · 22/08/2010 14:21

I don't think I had specific daytime and night time clothes for my dc at 7 months. Bar the odd outfit as a gift probably.

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QueenSconetta · 22/08/2010 15:00

Snobear, surely not, I have 2 pairs on Grin

lol, x.

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