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for keeping my 7 month DD in baby grows?

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fishybits · 06/08/2012 10:18

MIL and SIL have both said that I shouldn't keep dressing DD in "pyjamas" during the day. MIL has bought her "proper clothes" and pointedly said they are for nursery and SIL took DD upstairs and changed her.

DD is in baby grows for a number of reasons
they are cheap in baby bundles off eBay, her feet stay warm, she sleeps a lot so is comfortable, she's quick to dress/undress,
I don't mind when they get covered in paint etc at nursery etc.

Obviously for smart occasions she has a couple of dresses she wears but I intend to keep her in baby grows till she's about a year old. I said to SIL that when she had children of her own she could dress them in whatever she liked but that DD was my child and that I could dress her however I liked and would continue to dress her in baby grows for as long as I felt like it.

I'm curious to know if I am a bit odd or not. DD is my PFB so I don't know any different.

OP posts:
CaveJohnson · 06/08/2012 11:41

YANBU. I like proper outfits on babies, but pajamas are just so much easier. My 9 month old is typically in a vest and joggers now though, partly because I like to keep his feet uncovered as he is standing and they are slippy (also because like me he tends to get very hot feet!) and partly because crawling in babygros is hilarious wearing on the knees.

I still put my three year olds in all in one fleecy jamas in the winter - they look cute Blush

mumnosGOLDisbest · 06/08/2012 11:42

Some of dds babygrows are way too expensive cute to use as pjs and not show off.

LackingNameChangeInspiration · 06/08/2012 11:44

also if you have a leaky poo baby like I did, trousers and tops save you stripping them right down every few hours as you just have to change the bottom half and they stay in their warm top half outfit. With vests and gros you have to get em totally naked every time their BF leaky poos escape! (and DS pooed every 3 hours!)

baby jeans were great as they were dark and I could keep his top half warm during changes

princelypurpleparrot · 06/08/2012 11:54

Yanbu to be annoyed with your mil/ sil. But, I mostly gave up on baby gros from about 4-5m onwards, once DS1 and 2 started to try and crawl. Bgs are no good once they start moving and standing as there's no purchase for their feet.

Sainsburys sell packs of romper suits that I really like. I also find with ds2 that he's so twisty its easy to put on trousers than try to do up crotch poppers!

EugenesAxe · 06/08/2012 11:58

I started distinguishing between day and night clothes in earnest around 4-5 months old, but I would probably have been doing so most days from 3-4 months. It helps with their Circadian rhythm and routines etc.

I thought day clothes for size 0-3 months were a bit of a waste of time as they really are mostly sleeping then, and also you are still adjusting/ less organised. That may be just me though!!

You can do what you like but I don't think your MIL is being unreasonable either. I would be surprised to see a baby in babygros in the daytime at that age too.

nickelbarapasaurus · 06/08/2012 12:02

most of the time now DD is in babygrows most of the time.

the other day someone (random) said "oh, he's still in his pyjamas" Confused
I didn't even think of them as pyjamas.

They're comfortable, flexible and cute. what's the problem with wearing them all the time?

sometimes DD wears other outfits - trousers look very uncomfortable, and tights are daft in this weather.
she can't wear dresses much or rompers because she scratches her bare skin, so the ideal is the babygrow (especially as they have built-in feet and she can't scratch her bare ankles)

she is changed whenever she's dirty and always has clean for bed. no problem at all.

EugenesAxe · 06/08/2012 12:04

StopEatingThatMud - geez... I am a total slattern then. I would keep my children in the same vest for two days and nights, unless it was obviously dirty from food or whatever...

nickelbarapasaurus · 06/08/2012 12:11

wish i had that option, Eugene Grin

DD is an incessant drooler.

nickelbarapasaurus · 06/08/2012 12:13

LackingNameChange - when DD does an explosive poo, a waistband does not stop the flow!

Rhubarbgarden · 06/08/2012 12:19

Babygros are lovely. Ds will be in them till he crawls, and all the complicated little 'outfits' that MIL and others have bought for him will gather dust on the shelf. Babygros are just so much comfier and easier, and I've never considered them as purely for nighttime.

Dd, on the other hand, had lots of pretty little dresses. But she was my PFB and I wasn't juggling a toddler at the same time then. This time around, convenience rules.

Oh and I keep ds in the same vest till it gets milk/wee/poo on it. That might be two hours or if I'm lucky it might be three days. So shoot me - it's not like he rolls around in the mud or gets sweaty running round the block; he's a baby.

LackingNameChangeInspiration · 06/08/2012 12:19

so? it did for DS! my point is him being in jeans wasn't the impractical uncomfortable choice

Numbthumbs · 06/08/2012 12:22

Babies are babies for such a short time and they look so cute in baby grows, especially clean white ones (bulk buy stain remover). DD is 13 months and she wears baby grows in the day if we're just pottering about at home.
If we go out or she goes to childminders i do put her in leggings and a top but we put her 'comfies' on as soon as we get home.

RawShark · 06/08/2012 12:33

YANBU. Babygros are comfy and practical for smaller babies. I still have mine in a footless one for bed. You are right to let it slide though, let them have their fun. I do find it strange that people think using babygros is odd however I seem to be in the minority as I thought people dressing their children in little shoes/baseball caps etc at 3 months was odd.

I think people can be in a bit of a hurry for "little" clothes, especially denim which I found too stiff in most makes especially in dungarees. Although raisinmay have apoint but we used dark/light/calm atmosphere to differentiate day/night.

HOwever I think little joggers are more practical from a nappy POV as there is a) the possibility you don't have to wash the top and b) no f*** poppers. And you can get trousers with einforced knees- better for crawling.

But I wouldn;t give a damn about people not thinking you'd got her dressed. Who cares as long as it's clean. They'd be lucky I was either dressed or clean, let alone the baby.

WilsonFrickett · 06/08/2012 12:34

You don't need to search out footless ones, just cut the feet off ones you have, also extends the life of any that are tight in the leg but fine in the body.

Gah! Why didn't I think of that! What a great idea...

nickelbarapasaurus · 06/08/2012 12:36

in that case Lacking - i give you the Envy smiley Grin

AmberNectarine · 06/08/2012 12:39

Do whatever you like, she's your baby! Mine wore mostly babygros for the first 9ish months, because they are warm and comfortable. When a baby spends large parts of the day asleep it makes sense to me to keep them in what are basically pyjamas!

If we were visiting/being visited I dressed her up a bit. Now she is 13mo and a total thug so wears legging and tunic tops as dresses just get in her way. She occasionally wears a little jersey sundress in warm weather. My MIL thinks she should be trussed up like a china doll in yards of pink voile but I ignore her because she is a moron (for many other reasons).

nickelbarapasaurus · 06/08/2012 12:49

actually, DD's in a teeshirt and trousers today - they're those pyjama trousers that look like he bottom half of a baby grow.
i would use those (and the billions of tops we've got) if we could get more of those.
noone sells that kind of trouser separately

BartletForTeamGB · 06/08/2012 12:54

I hate seeing babies all dressed up like little dolls & did exactly the same as you. If I was going to spend most of my time lying around in bed or on the floor, I'd want to be in clothes that didn't all pull up.

dixiechick1975 · 06/08/2012 13:00

Check with your nursery aswell.

DD's had a rule that once they were cruising or walking they had to wear shoes or bare feet - floor was laminate in the baby room. Feet in just a babygrow would have been too slippy.

LackingNameChangeInspiration · 06/08/2012 13:01

I also heard a lot of "LET THEM BE BABIES".. he was a baby FFS, he'ld be a baby in a gro or in jeans or in a kermit de frog outfit teamed with a tutu! I'm not kicking him out to work down the mines!

so OP don't worry about the 50% who think your child is in jammas
because if you didn't use gros during the day you'ld have the other 50% judging you for dressing em!

PetiteRaleuse · 06/08/2012 13:03

At that age I would dress DD in 'proper' clothes only if we were going out anywhere other than just a push in the pram. She'd be dressed therefore to go out to dinner, the supermarket etc; The rest of the time she was in vest and baby grows (changed morning and evening).

It doesn't seem to have ever affected her night / day patterns. She continued like this when she went to the childminder and then I switched her to day clothes / night clothes when she started to stand up, so she wouldn't slip.

So no, IMO, YANBU

educatingarti · 06/08/2012 13:03

In the 1970's and 80's babygrows were standard day time as well as night time wear for babies. People often used the patterned/newer ones in the day an the older/plain/3rd hand washed-out ones at night. All this newfangled nonsense about "proper" outfits. Whatever next!

hlipop · 06/08/2012 13:03

YANBU dress your child however you want to =] we where given lots of baby clothes so I would dress DD as I didnt like her to be in the same clothes she had slept on all night and it made people happy to see her wearing stuff they had baught(sp) specially

LackingNameChangeInspiration · 06/08/2012 13:06

educatingarti a lot of DS's day outfits were actually MINE from when I was a baby in the early 80s (mother is enourmous hoarder) - only difference was in the 70s/80s day clothes were for the most part GN, there weren't boy dungarees and girl dungarees, there were just baby dungarees, my cousins and I shared hand me downs regardless of gender

so day outfits are not a new craze!

LackingNameChangeInspiration · 06/08/2012 13:07

(so most of them had their first use in the 70s with my older cousins)

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