Is the going home outfit really such a fuss?

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What's everyone's thoughts on this?

I'm due next month and I'm on Facebook groups with others due.

I feel like there's so much pressure around a 'going home' outfit with everyone sharing their pictures of the outfit they have ready for coming home.

I'm generally just curious - did you make a big deal of a going home outfit? Or did it not matter too much?

Never heard of that in my life

I don't have a going home outfit for my baby, and nobody else in my social circle has done this either (to my knowledge). As a PP said upthread, you don't know how big / small they'll be so surely you take a selection of outfits and they wear whatever fits!

I bought a beautiful sleepsuit for coming home, unfortunately, he was too big to fit in it. At the time I wasn't arsed as I was so excited to be going home and to have a healthy baby, and I still cherish the photos now of course, but it would have been nice to have photos of him in it. Again, just as the cherry on the top of an already amazing cake; not essential at all, and it doesn't really matter. But it is nice if it's something you want to do.

With my second I gave birth at 11.30 and was sat on my sofa by 4.15 so his going home outfit was his first baby grow.

Cannot remember what my first wore but her brother wore a sleepsuit stating Born in 2019 and I’ve kept it. We put it on 5 minutes before leaving hospital as the likelihood is they’ll be sick on it anyway!

I had two baby grows to choose from as a going home outfit 🤷🏼‍♀️

Also, I sensibly bought mostly second hand (but excellent condition) white sleepsuits for my newborn but 3 or so days post partum I had a mad moment and bought loads of stupid pink frilly outfits online. She hardly wore them and I gave them away. I blame the hormones 😁

We had a very cute going home outfit , was the only time she really wore anything other than hand me down sleepsuits!

We had a pack of 2 babygros with dogs on that looked a bit like our dog - so my twins went home in them - was special to me and their dad but just a babygro rather than a faffy outfit so the babies were comfortable and there was no hassle!

Keep your baby warm and safe. In reality, nothing else matters on the way home.

It’s a baby, not a social media prop.

My DC are nearly 20 and 17
They were mentioned in Mother&Baby magazines .

My DD came home in her older brothers sleepsuit ( Tigger from Winnie the Pooh) which he wore to come home in.

DD has kept it for her DC

I had a photo op outfit for both DC. They got put in it. Had cute photos taken. Then were changed out of it and put into something much more practical and comfortable before they ruined it with sick.

This thread reminds me of how much I dislike the word 'outfit'.

It will have originated (like CMOTDibbler says) in the showing off the baby to the village/street/community for the first time, won't it? And now that village/street/community is on SM.

We didnt bother (my three were in sleepsuits for the best part of a year and the closest they got to an 'outfit' was at their baptisms), but among modern parenting practices it's harmless enough.

Babygro. We were in for three days. Packed a pack of three: one lemon, one green, one patterened. Didnt know the sex. Not a sicky baby so at that stage one lasted 24 hours. DD came home in one of those too. Oh and a hat and blanket. Can't remember fussing about new baby outfits. Babygros all the way until they were about 4/5 months.

I'm old, my Dc are 16 and 21
I liked them in just little white babygrows for the first month
So comfy for them and you can just chuck them in on at white wash all together after they been sick on them ( looking at you Dd!!)

And the going home outfit, or the school run outfit or the whatever.

At the end of the day, it's just something you wear from A - B. Is doesn't need a specific name.
I know we still have maybe a 'Sunday best' this made sense back then. People were poor and clothes extremely expensive. Made sense to keep something 'good' for going to church, weddings, funeral etc.

Now we have moved on from then and clothes are just well that. Those that chose to go out and get something specific does. And those that don't want to buy something 'special' don't have to.

At the end of the day, as long as you are happy with what you wear. Its weather suitable for your child, who really cares what Simon and Melissa think.

Lmao @Bluewavescrashing we have all been there I bet! I bought loads of fiddly and impracticable clothes in 3-6 months, he didn't wear any of them! A nice new bundle of clothes though to the women's shelter so hopefully someone enjoyed them.

I made sure they were warm and comfy. I got a few fancy rompers but didn't bother with outfits.

This fad is for the social media age

It's really not.

The coming home outfit stretches back many generations.

And someone mentioned things like shawls used and being passed down.
Heartless bitch I am, I wouldn't use it if it was a warm day, regardless of tradition.
Yes, some are nice, but others shouldn't just be done because of expectations/tradition. Circumstances change and these things have to adapt.
Would hate to do some of the traditional stuff our ancestors did. Thankfully people stopped doing them.

I'm sure it's been said (haven't RTTT) but baby will be wrapped in so many blankets in December no one will have a clue what they're wearing.

My son was born on Halloween so he came home as a pumpkin

No. Because puke/ poo/ weather changes etc. I packed a range of clothes and hoped for the best!

I bought a gorgeous sleep suit from The White Company.

My baby was born smaller than expected so it didn't fit until he was over a month old.

My mum actually had to rush out and buy him tiny baby outfits so he went home in one of those (in reality, his too big outfits weren't a big deal but in my hormonal state it really upset me!)

My baby is almost 8 weeks and we didn’t bother. I put her in my favourite sleepsuit when she was first born for the photo we sent to announce her arrival, but there was no going home outfit. Completely daft IMO.