Bleuuuuuurgh!!!

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Was just on Amazon looking at baby clothes.

Erm...

Little sleepsuits etc with...

'Mommy's new man'
'Daddy's other woman'

All selling well with loads of reviews.

Seriously...
Wtf?

VOM

Yuck.

Ick

YANBU. Awful.

Can’t bear children’s clothing like that - not even the ‘My mummy loves me’ gumph - but there is clearly a market for it. Somehow.

Awful!

Better than the one I saw recently which said “I’m proof my Daddy doesn’t shoot blanks”

My DD had a t-shirt with "Daddy's girl" and I was ok with that, but the other examples... no.

Eeeew. That's a bit weird!

@Shrodingers that reminds me of when my dad got his first mobile and was struggling with it.

He sent me a blank text and I was about to text back 'you're firing blanks, dad!' then paused and thought no, better not

I think she looked lovely. Very vintage elegant. I would love to see that 1950s look come back into fashion and Kate really pulls it off.

Still laughing at confussings Hyacinth Bucket post.

Wrong thread atlast

At least it's better than 'daddy only wanted a blow job' 😷

I hate slogan clothes with a passion.

Revolting!

I hate all slogans on clothes, especially gendered twee ones.

A related point - I was just in Jojo maman Bebe to pick up a present for my cousin's new baby and the vast, vast majority of stuff was gendered. All but 3 cards specified 'new boy' or 'new girl' and loads of the clothes were branded in the same way. I did manage to find a couple of lovely babygros that had no references to gender and a little knitted dinosaur but this stuff was in the minority.

Why is 80% of baby stuff pink and frilly or blue and stripy? Why do so many cards specify the gender of the baby? I don't get it. I know pink isn't just for girls and blue for boys but I don't know why these are practically the only colours available and I don't know why it's so hard just to get a card that says 'baby'. It is bizarre that it is seen as totally normal that we colour code our infants so people immediately know what sex they are, as if that's the most fundamentally important thing in the world!

Struggling to see a problem with a card that says congratulations on your baby girl/boy personally...

Aside from that, ‘daddy’s other woman’ is gross. I hate hearing babies and children being referred to has little men and women.

I wouldn't like to send a neutral congrats on your new baby card - I'd feel it would look like I didn't know what sex the baby was and couldn't be arsed to find out.

We're just buying for our first and some baby clothes are horrendous, and don't even get me started on the pink and blue 🙈

mouse and seren I don't think there's anything wrong with it per se, but why are 90% of the cards gender specific and only 10% neutral? And when the cards are gender specific, why are they so stereotypical? My cousin's baby is a girl but if I had gone for a card indicating this, it would have had to have been pink or purple, with flowers or butterflies or hearts. The boy cards were all blue, grey or green with sail boats, dinosaurs and footballs. The only ones that weren't colour and theme coded in this way were the neutral ones (Beatrix Potter, yellow with stars, multicoloured dinosaurs, and a white stork).

My cousin and his partner are so not into gender stereotypes or weird enforcement of 'girls = pink' so none of the 'it's a girl' cards felt remotely right. I'd have had much less of a problem with them if even one of them hadn't been pink or purple.