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?

I assume the ‘thing’ about a coming home outfit is a nervous mum trying to look/plan ahead and beyond the worrying birthing bit?

If it brings a little comfort to spend time and effort on an outfit, what’s the harm? It’s quite sweet to look ahead and fuss over your baby-to-be, before the drudgery of endless baby laundry kicks in!

I only dress newborns in sleepsuits so I tend to buy nice ones so all of mine have just worn one of those to come home in. As pp have said newborns tend to look silly and uncomfortable in outfits as they're so scrunched up!

Mine all went home in a babygrow, babies don't need special outfits. Then again, I don't really care what others do- doesn't harm anyone.

Didn't even though this was a thing! My DS ended up in a yellow babygrow. I hate yellow but it was the only thing that fit his tiny five week early frame. I couldn't have cared less, after three days in hospital I just wanted to get home

Mine was a waste of time she was far too small for it and someone had to go out and buy her a load of new things before I went home anyway, so I just went for something that actually fit!

My DM was scandalised when I said I didn’t have a coming home outfit for DD 3 days before my induction. Cue a weekend of constant suggestions and pictures. She even offered to drive 200+ miles and arrive early so DD could were the same outfit as I came home in. Told her it was completely unnecessary as DD would be coming home in a snow suit that would cover any outfit anyways.

The coming home outfit stretches back many generations.

I'm very old and I've never heard of such a thing.

Mil insisted on a pink frilly dress for DD to go home in, soon as she got home she peed all over it and I changed her into a comfy babygro instead

My daughter went home in a snowsuit, with nothing but a borrowed nappy and a muslin under it, having shat all up her own back while I took the bags to the car and brought it from the multistorey! Plan if it makes you happy to plan, but accept the baby may have plans of their own!!

Both DDs are grown now but DH enjoyed picking out an outfit for them to come home in. They weren't anything fancy, just cute baby grows that were more special than the multipack ones that they lived in for the first few months. It was his idea and his thing that he sorted for them.

Both mine just came home in baby grows 🤷‍♀️

DD1 puked all over cute outfit I had picked out before I could get a pic, so her going home pic is wearing a stained hand me down sleep suit and a bonnet that DH has put on back to front and inside out. Don’t care love the pic cos of the memories. DC2 didn’t bother with an outfit as knew it wasn’t what was important and I love all of his newborn pics too.

Never made a deal out of this at all and I've had 3.
I've absolutely no recollection of what any of mine came home in. My middle boy never came home till a year old so I honestly never gave a shit, I was just glad to be home!

Never heard of such a thing. Is there nothing some people won’t compete over on Facebook? So glad I haven’t logged into it for over year. A load of competitive, exaggeration and bollocks.

Anyway it will be December so nobody will see the outfit anyway because it will be under several layers of blankets, a woolly hat, gloves and a snowsuit. The car seat and ensuring the heatings cranked up before you get home are the only things you need to worry about.

I didn’t plan a going home outfit for ds1 but I did take a few nice babygrows that I thought would be cute to go home in. He puked on all of them and went through about 8 outfits in 1 day and 1 night. Dh had to go out to Sainsbury’s and got a cheap pack of plain babygrows so that’s what ds1 came home in.

Ds2 came home in a random babygrow from the changing bag. I just didn’t think having a special outfit was that big a deal but can see why some people like the idea of it.

I have five dc! No special going home outfits but i have kept the first sleep suit each of them wore

Kind of but more for a practical reason than to be extra fancy. My two mostly lived in nightgowns/bundlers until they were about three months as I'm not a fan of having to deal with babygrow legs for changes, so we did get a few romper outfits with divided legs for use in the car seat and made sure we had the smallest one available for the first trip home in the car, not easy as both were exploding at each end quite frequently. The second one came home at nearly two in the morning anyway so the last thing on our mind was making him look glamorous!

I can think of nothing worse than trying to wrestle a newborn into a bloody outfit. With DS I took a few nice sleepsuits in hospital bag and just picked whichever took my fancy on the day.
Then with DD I packed the same sleepsuit and she came home in it too, which I thought was a nice thing to do without being OTT.

Our baby girl was an average 7lb 8 and the cute little going home Peter Rabbit baby grow and hat were massive

I think this thread sums up what the Climate Change people are all about. The totally bollocks that taints actually important events.

There is literally no time that “looks” have absolutely no part to play,than coming home from giving birth.
It’s enough of a life experience that the key players know they’ve been there.

Nothing else required.

My MIL gave me the sleepsuit my DH and his siblings all went home in. She asked if i would like it first. The idea of a going home outfit didn't bother me but this sleepsuit was cute and easy to out on so made sense to continue the tradition.

The only two of my four children who had going home outfits are the ones who spent 4 weeks (eldest) and 11days (youngest) in hospital. Just because they had such a fight to get home that we had to celebrate it a little!! 😁

We took in 0-3 size gros 😂 DH had to go and buy tiny baby size from asda cheap plain lovely. Few photos no social media good luck 🍀

Whatever the fuck he was wearing that day. I was so desperate to escape hospital and get home that anything clean and warm would do.

I didn’t buy any going home outfits. My two just wore whatever babygrow they were wearing at the time. Seems a bit pointless to me they were just coming home with me and my husband no one else was going to see it and I think newborns are comfiest in a baby grow