To put my baby in a red coat when...

[missknows]

She has a purple pram?

Because a random old lady who wanted to look in the pram and see the baby (as they do) told me off for exactly that! Are the fashion police going to arrest me? Will my daughter be scarred for life?

P.s obviously this is a light-hearted thread but the lady was genuinely disgusted in me and made a point of telling me so. Thought she was going to phone childline on my baby's behalf.

[daughteritsmeagain]

Old women are weird

[Busymumto3dc]

I have a purple pram for my dd

She just outgrew her red coat

[weebleswillwobble]

Pmsl at missingmumxox's 'surfboard thing'!

[PickleMobile]

Dd's first ever clothes was a blue 'superbaby' sleepsuit. She also has a pale blue pram but it has multi coloured spots on the hood and lining so that's ok.

She's also ginger and I dress her in pink.

[MostlyMama]

My dd is 'ginger' as someone so eloquently put it and I dressed her in pink and still do, what is the issue?

[LtEveDallas]

DD had a red pram and I was told off by an older lady because "that colour was dangerous for her eyes". In my post natal haze (I think DD was 6 or 7 weeks) I actually thought it was a 'thing' and spent the rest of the day googling in case she was right.

DH came home and I was a neurotic mess until he pointed out that the inside of the pram (the only bit DD could see) was actually white.

[Busymumto3dc]

Red is one of the first colours a baby can see isn't it? Along with black and white. Never heard of it being dangerous

[MaryWestmacott]

Mostlymama, pink and orange-red hair can clash. Plus ginger children often have skin tones that make them look a bit ill in some pinks, I know my strawberry blonde dd looks terrible in purpley-pinks, and ginger DH can't do purple either. Red-pinks are fine.

I bought a camel coloured pram when I had dc1, I was complimented on my choice as it would go with most outfits, I hasn't realised this was something your supposed to do. The midwives should really tell you at your booking session...

[ZingWatermelon]

old women are weird

they certainly are!
I was 7 months pg, feeling quite warm on a sunny March afternoon when some old biddie told me to put my coat on, because it's not that warm yet.

I was 35.

[mummytime]

My Ds was usually called a girl - even when wearing just blue.
Then his sister, my DD, was always called a boy even when wearing Pink from head to toe.
Old ladies can be weird!

My DC never matched their prams, or each other or me - and lucky if they didn't clash somewhere. Maybe that explains everything...

[IneedAwittierNickname]

I got told off (by an older lady naturally) because ds2 had so much hair as a newborn
Apparently I should have cut it all off so that random strangers people knew he was a boy. He was 3 weeks old at the time. It was shoulder length when he was a toddler

[Trollsworth]

Someone asked me if ds1 was a premie once. He was 8lb 4oz at birth, had a head so big the paed measured it for hydrocephalus, and was abut six weeks old by this point so was actually about eleven pounds.

[LJBanana]

Well it's more than obvious to me that non of you heathens waited until your children were born to do their colours!
Throwing about all these options before they're suitably matched to their shades.
Neglectful!

[eurochick]

Mostly, as someone else said, pink and orange clash horribly! My niece looks lovely in other colours but 90% of her wardrobe is pink. And it looks dreadful on her. But her mum is a "girly girl" so pink it is.

What is wrong with describing hair as ginger? My husband and brother (niece's father) are Irish and both have a tinge of ginge themselves and I was a strawberry blonde baby, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if the one in my uterus now will turn out ginger. And if he/she has ginger hair, it will be described as ginger.

[Burren]

I think many or most redheads look astonishing in pink. (I never use the term 'ginger', as where I grew up, red hair was described as 'red', or 'foxy' - I've only come across the use of 'ginger' in England, and it's forever tainted for me by the connotations of disgust/bullying/disdain. )

A certain kind of elderly woman thinks that babies should only be clad in white or pastels, preferably in little crocheted matinee jackets with matching bootees, moving on to the kind of thing Prince George wore on his antipodean tour. It's not my look, and my son (when he wasn't wearing pink, floral handmedowns as a newborn) was wearing bright yellow, red, green, purple, grey, orange. In his scarlet pram.

[ZingWatermelon]

pink and orange are amazingly jazzy together if good strong shades.

look at some beautiful saris women wear - they are just so cheerful!

IMO

[CrispyFern]

It was probably my mum. Sorry.

[Ploppy16]

Hang on, back up a bit.
HavannaSlife you have a pram that has a Marvel Comic design?? Why do I only find out this is a thing when my last is growing out of her buggy??

[SaggyAndLucy]

only one thing could be worse than this...

putting her in a red coat when she was.... ginger!

[MrsDavidBowie]

I thought you were going to say you were taking her to Venice (if you've seen the film Don't look now, you'll understand)

[42andcounting]

Passmethecrisps and Moomin - I feel your pain! I almost feel obliged to dress DD in top to toe pink & frills because every single blessed time we go out at least two (usually older) people ask how old 'he' is, is 'he' a good sleeper etc. On Monday she had a pink top & trousers, pink bib, pink blanket, pink hat, pink socks, pink dummy clip and a purple dummy. Apparently the purple dummy was what caused the confusion. Bah.

I am considering getting a bumper sticker made for the pram saying 'please do not call my daughter a boy as a smack in the gob often offends'. My DP can't understand why it annoys me so much. I can't understand why people don't just stay non gender specific. It's not as if she looks like an all in wrestler, she's a cute little 6 month old baby FFS!

And breathe......

[42andcounting]

Oh, and yes, she's ginger too......

[Lollydaydream]

Thank you mrsdavidbowie for explaining why this thread title worried me - couldn't put my finger on it!
Regarding green - it's unlucky, apparently it lets the fairies know they can take the baby......