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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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to dress my baby in

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ooooooeak · 24/10/2010 19:27

vests and baby grows, and add a coat and hat when out and about??

I just don't see the point in jeans and tops at this age it looks so uncomfortable and needs changing so often.

Anyway a lady commneted today at lunchtime
"Ah he's ready for bed"

ummmmm wondering now AIBU?

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MrsHavisham · 24/10/2010 21:31

YANBU! DD is 16 months, and I took her out the other day in a babygro and jumper. Then got embarrassed and hid her outfit under her buggy cosy toes! (Don't call socail services!)

SheWillBeLoved · 24/10/2010 21:53

YANBU, DD is 15 months and she still wears them all day some days when I can't be arsed.

She looks so cute in them. Always looks so big and grown up in proper clothes, I almost wept the other day when I caught a glance of her looking like she was about to leave for Uni but most of all, they're comfy, and warm, and I'd love to waddle around the house in one all day if they came in my size!

Horton · 24/10/2010 21:57

YANBU. The only reason I stopped putting my baby in babygros was because she started walking rather early and the bottoms of the feet were too slippery on our non-carpeted floor. This was at about 9 or 10 months. But I would happily have left her in them if she hadn't kept slipping over - it was making me feel a bit guilty. She never crawled so I didn't have to worry about wear on the knees!

SheWillBeLoved · 24/10/2010 22:01

Horton - socks with little grips on the bottom were my saviour no way was I giving in to slippy floors!

Horton · 24/10/2010 22:03

I had those socks too but her feet got so hot when I put them on over the babygros!

SheWillBeLoved · 24/10/2010 22:06

Aww, DD's probably did too... I was too busy enjoying watching her little fat bum/legs waddle around to notice

Horton · 24/10/2010 22:14

I'm sure she was fine. I have a strange child who appears to have small but powerful furnaces in her feet.

susitwoshoes · 24/10/2010 22:22

YANBU, the only thing I would say is that I've noticed that since DD has been crawling if a babygro is even slightly too big her knees get caught up and she can't move so well. I had her in babygros till she was about 6 months then moved onto leggings and tops, and she zooms around fine. Baby Gap do thick leggings with reinforced knees. Think some of the earlier comments are weird - what does it matter??!!

northernrock · 24/10/2010 23:37

OFFS. I remember a friend of mine saying about my DS when he was 3 month old "oh he is a bit old to be wearing a babygro and a cardi.."
He's a BABY!
It's not the same as a grown person sitting around in pyjamas, is it? Babygros are warm and comfy, and what else matters?
Their clothes need chanf=ging all the time anyway, and I can't see the point of trussing them up in jeans when they are not even crawling.
YANBU.
I would be wearing a babygro right now if I could..

Boostini · 25/10/2010 08:25

YANBU. I have a three year old DS and now it's getting colder at night, I have been sending him to bed in a bug fleecy babygro. He looks so snug and reminds me that he is still my little baby.

My 5m old DS wears his baby gros for bed, but sometimes I'll keep him in it all day and other days I indulge myself and dress him up as if he's my real life dolly.

There will soon be the day when he will choose his own clothes, which I will no doubt hate - like trouser waist bands around his knees !!

SuePurblybilt · 25/10/2010 08:34

YADNBU. I'm much more judgy of the people who dress babies in fussy outfits. Even dungarees are a pain when they're sitting - they ride up at the front and food gets lost down the gap. Babygros are soft, warm, easy to layer and practical. And you can bung them all in the same wash.

Baby outfits are designed for parents, not babies. They don't care about branded jeans(with pockets ffs! Why?), they cannot even see them [hgrin]. As long as your baby is warm and comfortable then ignore the comments of helpful friends and old ladies. There will be more unfortunately for all kinds of things you've never considered a problem, ignore ignore ignore.

tegan · 25/10/2010 08:45

YANBU but i would not and have never done it. Even for the school run my babies have been fed and fully dressed. personal preference i guess

StrikeUpTheBand · 25/10/2010 08:49

YANBU - your choice and your baby will be comfy. However, there will always be people when you're out who will disagree. It's the same with shoes - many people are now asking me where DD's shoes are. She's 10 months FGS! Why should she wear shoes so she's 'properly dressed'?

That said, I generally with mine put them into something different for the daytime. I used a lot of 'playsuits' or 'romper suits' for DS until he was a year or so - basically babygros but some without feet and others just obviously not for sleeping in (hooded, collars etc). I also had a lot of soft long-sleeved tops with matching footed trousers. He was premature so we got away with this for ages (I mean they seem to stop making all-in-ones so much beyond 12 months size, but he was a lot older before he grew out of them)!

bytheMoonlight · 25/10/2010 08:56

Tegan a babygrow is fully dresseed - it's hardly leaving the baby half naked is it?

IMO its about putting your child first. They can either be comfy in a babygrow/soft clothes or you can dress them up for your own amusement and satisfaction and no concern for their comfort.

mamadiva · 25/10/2010 09:04

I dressed my DS everyday because I thought I would get dirty looks and judgey comments from others, but it wwould'nt have occurred to me not too.

If I was to have another now I would noot get them dressed frot eh first 6 months unless it was a secil occassion or something, although I do think it should be a different babygro for day amnd night IYKWIM.

Anyway YANBU your baby but I think at 8m it's time to get dressed even a few days a week.

tegan · 25/10/2010 13:14

like i said personal preference.

I just feel that is my baby is hungry i feed it
if my baby is dirty i change it
if my baby is leaving the house i get it dressed.

bytheMoonlight · 25/10/2010 14:26

Putting a clean babygrow on a baby is getting it dressed. Leaving the child naked would be not getting it dressed.

ForMashGetSmash · 25/10/2010 14:30

Moonlight....babygro's are nightwear....the plain white or coloured ones are for sleeping in...just as adults and kids have pyjamas...a baby has a gro.

You can buy soft, comfy all in one's for babies...or matching tops and footed pants...why not give the baby a proper outfit for going out and about? A gro isn't "dressed" for outside...it's dressed for bed or lounging.

JenaiMwahHaHaHaaaaah · 25/10/2010 14:33

DS had daywear and nightwear from Day One. I have no idea if there's any scientific evidence to support this, but it seemed sensible to me to change him into something different in the evenings and again in the morning, to help mark the difference between day and night.

He mainly wore the kind of soft leggings and tops or rompers that Gap do in the day (no need for jeans - although by 8mo he had some lovely velour dungarees), with babygros at night.

wayoftheworld · 25/10/2010 14:43

Its your baby: if you want to treat it like a doll, it is fine for as long as it is comfortable and sensible.

If you want to keep on baby grow it is fine, again, for as long as it is comfortable (which they are) and sensible (which they are).

Baby grows ruled in my household till 9months when they started walking . Motherhood is hard work without having to push fashion on kids- whatever makes your life that much easier...

EatingSwansHorror · 25/10/2010 14:44

I'm interested to know who makes the babygro laws and what happens if you break them?

As long as a baby is warm and clean and loved, it is "dressed". Anyone who takes issue with the way your baby is dressed obviously has much bigger issues themselves.

Personally I think babies in 'proper outfits' look slightly odd, particularly if a headband with a flower on a bald head is involved...

wayoftheworld · 25/10/2010 15:06

eatingswansHorror the headband with a flower should be classified as child abuse ..we should start a thread on this!!

..and ear pearcing!!

SheWillBeLoved · 25/10/2010 15:09

I love how some posters have said that people who judge what babies wear have issues/too much time etc, and then go on to say themselves "Besides, babies in proper outfits look ridiculous" [hgrin]

kenobi · 25/10/2010 15:17

If you don't mind people judging you when you're out and about, then don't worry about it. People do see babygros as night clothes once they're over about 6 months.

In terms of is it right or wrong then I second other people here: who cares???? Tis your baby.

I moved DD out of babygros because it was more of a shag undoing all the bloody poppers than it was doing the ol' heave with a pair of leggings and back on again.

Plus I like dressing her. it's fun. I may look like a sack of potatoes in clothes now, but she looks cute, so I can live vicariously. Sigh...

But you do what you bleddy well want.

Mumcentreplus · 25/10/2010 16:25

Well it actually depends on the gro..there are day babygros and bed-time babygros (white cotton / plain coloured)...

I liked to dress my DDs in romper suits (like gros but with the feet cut off)..plenty of room to move about and just some socks on..effort-less baby style and I put clips in their hair (they had lots of hair)

But I also dressed them in outfits when I felt like it dresses with tights, dungarees and tees.

I don't personally like seeing babies in dirty footed,baggy kneed numbers.

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