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 did buy a going home outfit and it was lush.

But

I dont remember anyone making a particular fuss about it. I just showed it to my family and they said it was cute and that was it.

I have kept that set and whenever it comes out I gaze at it fondly and remember DS actually was that tiny at one point. It's a lovely keepsake. But I didnt post any photos of it and I'm not really pro-SM so it didnt become a big thing.

It was a 7 piece set and the nurses put him in a vest and a baby gro. He didnt really need it as it was the hottest day of the year and he only wore it the one I think. Ah lovely memories.

DS wore whichever Babygro he had on with a little hat and lovely rainbow blanket.

I took my eldest home in a sleepsuit.

I took my other two home in the same one.

The sight of it warms my heart.

Just get a nice sleep suit- JoJoMamanBebe do attractive but practical ones.

Take the photo straight away you have it on the baby, before it gets covered with vomit or anything else!

DS1 had a specific first outfit and going home outfit. But I didn’t buy them specifically for this purpose, it was a case of out of all the clothes that’d been bought this and this are the cutest, so this is the first outfit and this a going home outfit, no more thought to it than that really.

DS2 had a first outfit, which was the first item DP and DS1 bought for him when we found out I was pregnant. We’d gone to Asda to do a food shop, and the pair had disappeared off and half way round to shop reappeared with this Winnie the Pooh outfit, and they were so pleased with themselves and so soppy about it, it just melted my heart, so that’s why that was chosen. I couldn’t for the life of me tell you what he came home in though.

Personally I think that brand new babies look ridiculous in anything other than comfy baby grid. I bought nice, new baby gros for leaving hospital for my dd's but I'm not sure I even thought to change them into them for the journey when it came to it!

What climate change? You know the "going home outfit" can just be perfectly normal clothes (I count a babygro as clothes...) which can be worn again? I think mine was even second hand.

Just because somebody makes an effort to choose something they are excited about, it doesn't mean it is some impractical designer thing that will never see the light of day again

My first wore a little cream sleep suit (Part of a pack of three, nothing special) to come home in, I did keep it and then used it for my other two to wear when leaving the hospital also wore it to come home in. It was nice that they all wore the same thing, but luckily mine were all a similar size!

DD had a little Cath Kidston baby grow and a cute cardi. Nothing especially nice just a bit pretty.

DS I can't remember for the life of me!

From photo evidence it might have been a white baby grow with a little lion on the front.

I didn't know this was a thing. My two came home in a cheapish babygrow from a supermarket multi-pack.

Oh Lord. I'm having my second on Wednesday - is this another "thing"? I was hoping for 2 nights in hospital and to dodge the Bounty photographer....

Well OP, I was planning on going home in what I arrived in, but when I changed into the paper pants and bikini top (summer time and I was in a warm tub) my clothes got left in the other room and next morning was told they’d gone!!
Same here - except I just went gone in a hospital gown and paper knickers. And baby in a hospital smock type thing and nappy. Had been planning a home birth, baby came a bit early, plan had been to pop to hospital for iv antibiotics then return home...

It’s not “such a fuss” no. And it’s nothing to do with social media either. 12 1/2 years ago my MIL bought a special (completely weather in-appropriate) outfit and wanted it to be DS1’s coming home outfit. I didn’t see the harm and it was obviously a ‘thing’ for her. With DS2 10 years ago I picked out something nice more to my taste.

Do it or don’t, up to you. But I would suggest that if a Facebook group you’re in is actually making you feel “pressure” about something so minor, it’s not a healthy group to be in.

”Unless your baby is a status symbol there is no need to join in this revolting chavvy trend.”

Going through life being so unpleasant must be so stressful for you.

Crisp white baby grow for us, and even that was too big haha.
Each to their own on this one. Personally I think if you're not too fussed right now, you won't be fussed in what baby is coming home in later.

A brown snow suit with ears,he looked like a baby bear

I picked out a few of my favourite babygros for going home because I knew we'd be taking lots of photos.

As it happened we were in hospital for a week and used them all up. DH went home several times to get them washed and picked up some clean ones. On going home day, I found he'd chosen the most ghastly set we'd received as a gift, and also a couple of sizes too big. So DS looks pretty funny in all his photos. Poor DS!

I didnt have a special outfit but nust as well because everything went out the window anyway as we had to stay in hospital (in ICU) for a few days anyway so we used all outfits and more early on.