to have picked the 'Little Lady' badge off the front of my daughter's sleepsuit?

[katolla]

She's 7 weeks old, she's a baby not a 'little lady'. There'll be enough expectations about 'ladylike' behaviour once she grows up a bit.

Apart from anything they have halved their potential market with this badge, because the sleepsuit colours are blue, brown and red which seems to be deemed appropriate for boys too.

[spg1983]

To be honest - babies of that age puke and poop so much all over their clothes that whatever I dress my dd in, she has to be changed soon afterwards anyway!

By the way with the "good boy" suit for a girl - I put her in it when the health visitor made her first visit, it was hilarious watching her try to work out whether I was extremely laid-back or a bit of a loon!

[katolla]

Fairy wings, wellies and an iron man t shirt sounds a nice combination and I would dress her in that, or the 'good boy' sleepsuit, or anything that claimed she ate puppies.

'You wish' sleepsuit - awful. I would throw that out even though we don't have that many clothes for her.

[thingamajig]

Miaow, how do you know that the sleepsuit did not belong to little bear? [bugrin]

[Sirzy]

I'm not a fan of clothes like that but if given them would have used them when everything else was in the wash

[honeytea]

I am not sure if I think yabu, I hate clothing with naff slogans on such as little lady, daddy's princess or mummy's charmer but I do have some hand-me-downs which have wording on. We were given loads of "girls" clothes whilst I was pregnant and DS is at the moment sleeping in a "Daddy's little princess" babygrow. I think I would be more bothered if we had a girl.

I don't think I would go to the trouble of altering a babygrow, we just put the naff ones at the bottom of the pile and only use them once the plain ones are all in the wash.

[happyon]

Jesus, stop patronising the OP. She didn't say she had nothing else to worry about. YANBU.

[spg1983]

I think "little lady" is not too bad...my 4 week old daughter is currently wearing a green sleep suit with "good boy" on the front. I bought it before she was born and because we didn't know if she was a boy or girl I bought the only pack of suits which wasn't pink or blue but I didn't realise they were also boys ones! Oops!

[slightlysoupstained]

"little bear's" [bushock] [bushock] [bushock]

Okay, bit of an excuse to use the bunny ears. But I think I'd probably find a sleepsuit with a misplaced apostrophe annoying too.

[Moominsarescary]

Ds4 is 8 weeks I wouldn't care to be honest. They don't remember and I really don't think it's worth bothering about

[Fleecyslippers]

Am assuming first baby ? Looks around wearily at DC6 wearing fairy wings, wellies and Iron man T shirt.....

(Don't really have 6 kids but at 7 weeks old I don't think you need to over think things like this)

[janey68]

But even for those who strongly disagree with the slogan, why pick it off rather than just not put it on your baby in the first place? Are you that short of babygros you have to use it? Or are you planning to take a photo of your baby in it to show the person who gave it as a gift what you think of it?!

[crashdoll]

YABU, your baby does not care what she wears. It does not mean she will grow up to feel pressured to be 'ladylike' (whatever that is!) because she wore a label on her babygrow that said 'little lady'.

[MammaTJ]

My two youngest DC were born 54 weeks apart, DS, being the youngest, did indeed wear pink babygros a lot. I would have let him wear your DDs too OP, but then mine were not bright enough to read at that age.

[IneedAsockamnesty]

Bloody hell. Why just why do people have to go down the its chav route.

Its bigoted thick behaviour

[MumOfTheMoos]

YANBU - I hate gendered children's clothes.

[MDA]

I would probably unclench about this one, as much as pelvic floor exercises are useful after birth.

[Sanjifair]

Why did you buy it in the first place?

[lovetomoan]

YANBU. You do what you want with your baby's clothes.

I hate the whole: naughty/noisy/little terror/loud, etc. for baby boys.

[SteepApproach]

YANBU. I would've done the same with that or any other crappy slogan. No need to help the silly gender expectations along.

[SneezingwakestheJesus]

I could not have been arsed worrying about this when dd was 7 weeks old. If it was clean, it went on her!

[Bue]

I would have picked it off or not put it on her. I hate that kind of gendered crap for babies.

[Meglet]

Yanbu. It would be the sort of thing I'd do. 30 seconds with a stitch ripper = mummy not getting mildy irritated every time she looks at it.

[NightmareWalking]

YANBU. My DSis said my DD was 'unladylike' last week - she's 6 months old for heavens sake. Why are these ridiculous notions important at this age?