To think there's nothing wrong with zoo animals for a girl?

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I'm expecting DC2, we have been led to believe from the scan that it is a little girl. We have DS already.

I went to John Lewis yesterday to pick up some baby night gowns for easy night changes. They were in the sale and the only ones they had were grey and white striped and zoo animals, in a set of two (one of each).

My mum and sister told me I couldn't buy them as they weren't 'girly' enough. My sister even went as far as to ask the assistant if they had any girl ones (which they didn't). I told them to stop being ridiculous and bought them anyway.

Mum wouldn't stop going on about how everyone would think I had a lovely little boy in those. Firstly, who gives a crap? and secondly - THEY ARE FOR NIGHT TIME! Also thirdly, DS was about 6 weeks old, dressed head to toe in blue and two people told me what a lovely little girl I had!

AIBU to think that zoo animals on a white background are unisex? And that it wouldn't have mattered even if they'd have been boy ones? FWIW I fully intent to dress DD in some of DSs old clothes, including a cute little baby grow with blue robots on, just because I like it! DD has plenty of time to assert her desire for pink sparkly clothes when she is older, which is her right and will be honored.

When my dd was about 6 weeks old my DH dresses her head to toe in pink. I laughed and said she looked like a marshmallow. I answered the door with her in my arms later tomthe postman. He told me what a cute baby boy I had

This is why so many girls have hangups. It isn't the 1950s! Of course it doesn't matter what colour her clothes are!

My dd had a load of vests in green and blue with zoo animals on. She also has aeroplane pjs from the “boys” section of a certain shop.
One time she went in for her jabs at the drs and she was wearing a blue set my friend bought her with little pinky shoes. I got asked “how old is he, is he a good baby?” by some random man, his wife hit him on the way out!

I bought a load of bright animal bed linen recently from John Lewis for grandchildren's beds. They love it. All 3 girls and one boy. Yes, it is good for all of them and much nicer than grubby looking pinks.

When I was pregnant I bought a few things early babygrows etc, primary colours, a lovely green striped sleep suit with a badger (also JL) , a cute pair of dungarees, this was before I knew I was having a boy, when I found out SIL said I must've had a gut feeling because I'd already bought 'boy clothes' I would've happily dressed a girl in them. She prefers pink and sparkly and giant flowers/bows strapped to her bald baby girl's head. Each to their own I guess.

Tell her half of all zoo animals are girls...

My twins girls had all the hand me down vests and babygros from their boy cousin! Saved us a fortune.

@viques someone has already done that survey...

www.blod-design.co.uk/single-post/2018/01/09/Wild-things-Animals-and-gender-coding-on-childrens-clothes

Zoo animals are unisex. My DD is 4 now, but she wore loads of boys clothes when little, mainly because I don't like pink and never have, pink is one of her favourite colours now, even then, she got lots of girls clothes for Christmas, all pink and unicorns and she wasn't that bothered, got her a couple of boys tops the other day and she was jumping with joy.
My DD was confused as a boy many times, once when she was wearing a blue dress and blue tights, the person just saw the colour not the actually clothing, another time she had a girls top and blue jeans with pink on .

That’s ridiculous

All baby clothes can be worn by either sex, whatever they have printed on them. But zoo animals are especially unisex.

Why are some people so determined to narrow what children are “allowed” based on their sex?

Oh and DD wants to be a zookeeper

Neutral. We didn’t know what we were having (we were hoping for a baby but didn’t want to get ahead of ourselves!).
I bought baby clothes in newborn and 0-3, all were white, yellow or grey, lots of cream, zoo animals were my favourite.
I can’t stand seeing baby girls in pink/ boys in blue all the time - so boring!

My DD wears all manner of clothing, currently in blue Dino leggings and a white panda top, we just buy what we like and she wears it. Also bearing in mind she is our first and we may well have a boy next so want to be able to have some nice things to reuse... it’s a bit harder with pink unicorns to justify it!

I don't mean to sound mean, but your mum and sister are acting like a pair of twerps over this!

I'm dreading to think what they are going to buy her to wear. I certainly won't be using headbands. Those are dangerous!

Warm, comfortable and clean that's all that really matters! My ds wore is sisters pink and flowery body suits because I don't see the point of replacing them and nobody seen them was commented on though.

YANBU. Baby clothes are mostly all unisex imo. My DS wears some things from the ‘girls’ section and looks awesome in them.

My son loves his new pjs - blue unicorns, dinosaurs and pink stars (£3 for two pairs from Tesco!).

His most prized possession are his pink and frilly Moana socks.

I just let him get on with it.

You should insist on only ever buying pink clothes for your mum and sister. If you see them in blue ask them why they're wearing "men's clothes" Do it every time you see them. Make them realise how silly this pink for girls blue for boys nonsense is.

I think everyone should do it whenever anyone says it.

YANBU, of course!

On an early visit from the health visitor she wrote in her notes in DS’s red book: ‘baby dressed in clean clothes appropriate for age, weather and gender‘ I was

All baby clothes are unisex. They are the same thing but with different colours and patterns.

Ive just bought this for my newborn DD because my toddler DD is obsessed with giraffes so i thought she would like it

Before I had my daughter my mum bought a couple of newborn outfits to come home from hospital etc in. I didn’t find out what I was having so together we chose a baby gro with Peter Rabbit on and a white baby gro with green elephants on. Luckily my mum is very sensible and as she pointed out, in the early 80s when my brother and I were little, the clothes were much less ‘gendered’ anyway. Lots of primary colours and stripes that were seen as suitable for boys and girls. As it was, my baby was a month early and too small for the normal newborn size. So she came home in blue dungarees from a bag of stuff my friend gave me off when her son was tiny. I cared not a jot and at 19 months it doesn’t seem to have scarred her!

I’ve bought a few things from the ‘boys’ section of shops for her since then. She looked lovely at a year in a pair of red M&S dungarees. And in the summer she had a lovely blue romper with a beach scene on from Debenhams. I’ve kept all her clothes as I’m hoping for another baby and I dare say whatever it is (if I’m lucky enough to have one) will be wearing lots of those clothes!

The only people who need to know the sex of a baby are the ones doing the nappy changes (and then it's pretty bloody obvious).

This 'girls must wear pink and frills and everything else is for boys' is ridiculous and I would have been delighted to buy something that wasn't like that (partly because animals are way nicer than boring pink things and partly because pink and mauve are possibly the two ugliest colours in the world).

I'd tell them to jog on.

This is the sort of thing (from your family) that contributes to girls thinking they can't grow up to be whatever they want to be. Buy her the zoo stuff, and also blue things with cars and trains on!