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To think putting a baby boy in pink is a little odd?

313 replies

Reachout · 17/08/2015 11:09

Hi, this post isn't to point fingers, I just genuinely want to know if I'm the only one who thinks like this.

A friend of mine is putting her newborn baby boy in his sisters old sleepsuites etc and says it's just newborn clothing, why does it matter.
I'm sorry but I wouldn't even think of putting a boy in girls things, and I don't just mean 'pink', I mean properly girly.

AIBU? I can't see why you'd do it, and she isn't strapped for cash by any stretch of the imagination. It just doesn't sit right with me.

OP posts:
milliemanzi · 17/08/2015 11:11

Oh who cares, the baby doesn't care, mum doesn't care, why do you care? Saves wasting money on loads of "boy" clothes which are basically the same but in a different colour.

StealthPolarBear · 17/08/2015 11:11

Would you put a girl in boys things?

MrsFogi · 17/08/2015 11:12

Yabu - I am totally lost at what the issue is here? As long as the sleep suit is comfortable and clean what is the problem? Confused

googoodolly · 17/08/2015 11:12

Why waste money on buying more newborn clothes in a certain colour?

iamaboveandBeyond · 17/08/2015 11:12

She is BU, doesnt she know he will catch The Gay?! Shock

PosterEh · 17/08/2015 11:13

I can't see why you wouldn't do it? What problem do you think it is causing?

meglet · 17/08/2015 11:13

Does the baby care? is it warm and cosy? Then it doesn't matter.

Makes sense to re-use sleepysuits or gro-bags on babies. I did.

EdithWeston · 17/08/2015 11:14

Hand-me-downs are very sensible. And until very recently totally the norm.

I think it's dreadful the way that marketing departments of big companies have pushed gendered versions of what always used to be functional items that would last for a whole sibling set (and maybe their cousins too).

spreektengels · 17/08/2015 11:14

Yabu my dd often wears my ds old tops and pjs. Her favourite is Star Wars :)

Welshmaenad · 17/08/2015 11:15

Oh my god, The Gays! He will catch them, he will, from the pinkness! Then she'll be sorry!!!

Or, it could be a non issue and it's completely you who's being odd.

Guess which?

Coconutty · 17/08/2015 11:15

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Creatureofthenight · 17/08/2015 11:16

Good for her for being sensible.

NoArmaniNoPunani · 17/08/2015 11:16

Omg his willy will fall off

Lagodiatitlan · 17/08/2015 11:17

Until about 1900 pink was a boy colour. My DH and Dss have a lovely line in pink shirts. I think it looks great!

DextersMistress · 17/08/2015 11:18

Ridiculous attitude, especially as the example you've given is sleepsuits!

So should a baby girl not wear blue?

FarFromAnyRoad · 17/08/2015 11:19

Well if ever there was a topic to create a shitstorm of replies on AIBU then this was it. One might almost be tempted to wonder if the OP hasn't got a touch of the Goady Fuckers this morning. Surely not Hmm

Queenbean · 17/08/2015 11:19

Wind 'em up and watch 'em go ey OP?

Whatisaweekend · 17/08/2015 11:21

Welshmaenad Grin

In lots of European countries, pink is the colour for boys and blue for girls.

Yabu. And a bit silly.

EvansOvalPiesYumYum · 17/08/2015 11:21

DS often could be found in DH's hand-me-downs. Pink sleepsuits and pyjamas, floral bodyvests, because we already had them given as gifts, and seemed pointless to buy more, just because they would have been a different colour.

We have wonderful photos of him dressed as Snow White and Princess Jasmin from Aladdin over the years, for example. He never did 'catch the gay' either Grin

Similarly, because I didn't like a lot of girl's clothes, DD was often to be found wearing boy's jeans, boots and sweatshirts.

Don't see a problem, except for the adult objecting.

AllThatGlistens · 17/08/2015 11:22

I'm sure you weren't expecting this reaction, were you, OP? Wink

ApocalypseThen · 17/08/2015 11:22

Well I put my daughter in a sleep suit owned by her boy cousin and she grew a penis. It fell off when I dressed her right again, thankfully.

Phew!

Coffeemarkone · 17/08/2015 11:23

Just as long as you don't get his first passport pic done when he is wearing his sisters sleepsuit covered in bunches of pink roses, he will be fine .
Yes I was that mother Grin

EvansOvalPiesYumYum · 17/08/2015 11:23

(That should have said DD's, hand-me-downs, not DH's) Blush

DH has never worn a vest or pyjamas, in any colour Grin

DrSeuss · 17/08/2015 11:23

A bit off topic but I was given a load of second hand sleep suits for DD which were white. Even before she was born, I knew she would look like death in white, DS did and I do. I just bought some Dylon and turned them all a lovely shade of purple! Slightly dingy white sleepsuits looked like new.

YUDOTHIS · 17/08/2015 11:24

DS often could be found in DH's hand-me-downs. Pink sleepsuits and pyjamas, floral bodyvests, because we already had them given as gifts, and seemed pointless to buy more, just because they would have been a different colour.
I hope thats NOT a typo :)
OP, you're being absolutely ridiculous. I have a DS and DD and what bits I had left from DS DD wore, however if they'd been born the other way around I would have done the same!