To dress my baby in babygrow a

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A few times in the last few weeks I've had comments that my baby must be 'dressed for bed' or 'has nobody got you dressed yet'. My Dd is only 12 weeks old but I don't plan on changing things soon. I love baby grows and I'm pretty sure they must be the comfiest thing around when your little. I've had her in few outfits (mainly just for a photo and to say to people she's worn their gift) but on the whole she's in babygrows/sleepsuits. I don't suppose I'm being unreasonable but am I being unusual? We've got years of choosing clothes and 'matching' things up ahead of us. What does everyone else do?

I always got mine dressed in the morning ( changed from babygrow) but I noticed when my youngest was at playgroup, the mums with toddlers the same age as mine, with new babies, left theirs in baby grows, or put fresh babygrows on, instead of day clothes.
So I assumed this must be the new thing, or at least one did it, so the rest all thought it a great idea.
It didn’t bother me, and they may have dressed them in other clothes if they were going somewhere other than playgroup. I would have been embarrassed, but I did use to drop my little one of in their pajamas for my mum to dress in their clothes as I dashed off to work .
Must say at baby age, I bought only soft clothes, and dressed the baby in baby style clothes, not mini adult ones, for comfort .

I only use babygrows for bed and if we aren't going out anywhere. Personally for me it's just I like dressing her in all the cute clothes she has. I don't actually find babygrows any easier to dress them in than normal clothes. Each to their own though, my sister has twin boys and dresses them in babygrows most days.

After the first couple of weeks then babygo's for bed and proper clothes for daytime. Clothes can still be comfy. I think putting a baby to bed in clothes/babygro it's worn all day is not great unless it's an absolute necessity. Surely you'd want to wash or bath them and get them into something clean? I'd rather they were wearing their night things all day than wearing their day outfit through the night.

I wasn't a "young" mum. I had mine at 35/6. This was also very much the norm at baby & toddler groups with all parents and childminders.

Third baby coming soon and I’m only really going to use baby gros or vests and tights.

I agree with PP, I think it’s younger mums that do ‘outfits’.

rompers are great, whereas things like jeans and even stiff dungarees on babies, little denim jackets, not so good...urgh really.
babies need soft, washable clothes to be mobile in no zips under chin or hard buttons to dig into them.

but babies also like patterns and bright colours, and textures.

When I had DD2 (who is now 9 months and usually dressed in a long sleeved top and leggings) we were given loads of gifts of baby clothes. However one day I realised she still had nothing to wear because the vast majority of gifts we received were beautiful dresses, so completely impractical. I returned loads because she wouldn’t have worn them otherwise.

I now bear this in mind whenever I buy a baby gift.

Also I'm not a young mum.

I also don’t agree with “young mums use outfits”. In my area I’m one of the younger mums at 32. I still don’t see baby grows used as daywear. I wouldn’t judge (I’d probably do it if everyone else did tbh) but I don’t think it’s difficult to stick on a pair of leggings and a vest.

I did that with DS, DD on the way, and we're doing likewise. Babygro with a little cardi over if the weather calls for it. We did have plain ones which came in multi packs for on a night, then smarter/posher/fancier ones which usually were bought individually through the day. There were a few pairs of dungarees, and a couple of pairs of trousers with feet in that I paired with t-shirts, but they were made from the same fabric so much the same thing really.

I personally can't stand seeing little ones done up in outfits you may see on a pottery doll. It can;t eb comfortable, and it's certainly not practical. Each to their own though.

I think the phrase "young mum" in this context is meant to mean lower class....

I think so too.

Yes I think you’re probably right.

I still disagree.

I did not mean ‘lower class’, I meant younger, given I am 40.

Lol I’m an old mum in my area, I had my child at twenty nine.

Dm was a nightmare for this "why is this baby in pyjamas? It's daytime!" Probably because he doesn't give a shit about his sartorial elegance at the minute Mam given that he's just about realised he's got hands.

He's 17 months now and most days I'm wondering if he needs clothes at all given the punch up it takes to dress him.

Although you've never known fear till you've just lost your ankle grip on the retreating bare arse of a toddler with the shits on a cream carpet.

Plenty of clothes options that aren't crinoline frocks or denim jackets. Soft dungarees/jumpsuits leggings and tshirts or tops etc are all perfectly cosy and comfy. I will be completely judged now but my newborn came home from hospital in shorts and t-shirt with a cardi. He was unexpectedly large (9lb 13) unexpectedly long and was a section, he puked repeatedly and we were in for longer than expected. I had to cut the feet off some of his babygros so he could wear them but we ran out by the time we left (I signed myself out so not a planned discharge) so we had to start using our gifted outfits that people had brought into the hospital.

My lo was in baby grows until 9 months! They're great - so easy and you layer themnupnor down and they don’t slip around when you pick them up like when they wear separates. Enjoy them while you can I say!

I'm not keen on babies in jeans, shoes, head bows etc. snuggly sleepsuits and shorties are the way to go for the early months.

Baby gro until 6 months here.

When I sold babywear we used to sell babygros as standard clothing up until maybe 1/1.5 ish? Past that people seemed to buy them more as PJs, from chatting to people. I think they're a great idea, as are rompers. Tiny baby clothes look so cute on hangers but some outfits look so stiff or impractical.

Both of mine gave been out of babygros in the day by about 4 weeks. I find them irritating to put on, all those poppers and having to wrangle all 4 limbs into the same outfit st the same time. I love dungarees and a variety of long and short sleeve bodysuits underneath.

DD, 4 months, now wears her brothers old "jeans" quite often. The inverted commas because it always bemuses me when people are worried about them being stiff and uncomfortable. They're not really jeans just soft joggers that look like denim.

DH hated getting DS into babygros at night time and we both found it so much easier once he fitted separate pyjamas.

Most of the baby jeans we had were made from nice soft materials rather than hard stiff denim. Same with the baby dungarees we had.

Outfits aren’t necessarily uncomfortable for babies.

I usually dressed my baby in babygrows for the first six months. They’re comfy, convenient and, in my opinion, the cutest thing a baby can wear is a little striped babygrow

I dressed my first born in actual outfits from day 2 leaving hospital. Even had jeans in newborn size . Then dc2 and dc3 I realised that was awful and had them in babygrows until 10 months ish. No jeans until about age 2 at least, just soft dungarees and leggings once in clothes. I don't know what I was thinking first time round, my poor baby. I just thought it was the done thing.

I did have day and night babygrows after the first week though.