Do you dress your baby girls in blue & green?

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DC1 was a boy, I dressed him in gorgeous funky prints, reds, greens, orange yellow and of course the boy staple blue. I generally only avoided black and wasn't so keen on grey, but I did have it.

DC2 is a girl and I finding so many multipacks have what I would consider as dull boy colours in them. So M&S or next a pack of bodysuits has one blue one or green leggings in a set. Am I being U to not want to dress choose these for my DD? Obviously when she's older (like DS ) she can pick, but I want her to look like a girl as a baby. I don't do hair bands and ott dresses, I want normal everyday clothes but in like pink, dusky pinks, white, peach, yellow, Liliac. Am I totally on my own here ?

don’t be ridiculous @hireaskipandclearout any colour is fine

If anything I was against DS being dressed in blue and I can’t stand the idea of DD wearing baby pink. I might have to take a gander at those multipacks!

Jeez yeh you need to make sure you dress her in pink if you dress her in blue she might grow a willy

Dd wore a lot of navy blue and bright red, she suits strong bright primary colours. As she’s got older (5 now) she has gone mad about pastels and glitter 🙄

Ds is still a baby but he wears a lot of his sisters hand me downs of bright primary colours and a few things that would probably be described as girly (pink floral sleepsuits etc). I’ll let him choose his own style as he gets older.

My approach is to go for bright fun comfy clothes then let them choose when they get to the age of wanting to.

@hireaskipandclearout

DC1 was a boy, I dressed him in gorgeous funky prints, reds, greens, orange yellow and of course the boy staple blue. I generally only avoided black and wasn't so keen on grey, but I did have it.

DC2 is a girl and I finding so many multipacks have what I would consider as dull boy colours in them. So M&S or next a pack of bodysuits has one blue one or green leggings in a set. Am I being U to not want to dress choose these for my DD? Obviously when she's older (like DS ) she can pick, but I want her to look like a girl as a baby. I don't do hair bands and ott dresses, I want normal everyday clothes but in like pink, dusky pinks, white, peach, yellow, Liliac. Am I totally on my own here ?

My DDs looked lovely in blue. And red. And pink. Green sometimes, rarely yellow.

I went for colours that suited them, not colours 'for girls'

I must admit though, there wasn't much around in pink for my DS.

Colour doesn't matter go with whatever you like. But avoid daft girly clothes that limit mobility. Make sure she can crawl and explore with clothes that inhibit movement.

That don't inhibit mobility

Jesus Christ

Are you a 12 year old girl yourself, as that's the only way your post is acceptable

Who TF only dresses their baby girls in pink

I don't think wearing pink as a baby affects your earning potential

It’s not the colour. It’s what it symbolises. Not hard to find a lot of data/research on the subject.

You could start with the BBC documentary “No More Girls and Boys” if you want to see the impact of the first 7 years of it.

I don't have a girl but if I did I would dress them in whatever colours suited them.

I find it doesn't actually make any difference anyway. I took DS1 out dressed in head to toe blue when he was about 2 weeks old. People asked 'her' name.
I often had people assume DS2 was a girl because he had so much hair. One woman seemed offended that he was a boy with so much hair and quite stroppily told me I should get it cut. He was about 1 month old and I had far more important things to do than cut his hair. (I wonder what she'd make of him now. He's 13, has almost waist length hair and a moustache )

Both DS' wore a purple baby grow with eeyore on. I bought it when I was pregnant with DS1 (didn't know the sex) and loved it!

You should tie a bow with a flower on it around her head. That's a good way of people knowing she's a girl

My DD wears blue and green and bright colours all the time, usually her big brother's hand-me-downs. Dressing her in pastel pink and peach doesn't really suit her colouring and I don't like it much myself either.
DS has a fair few pink and purple t-shirts and looks awesome in them. He also just chose a yellow and pink water bottle for school. I don't think his penis is going to fall off.
They're just colours! As per a PP, the 'No more boys and girls' documentary is eye-opening, worth a watch.

I often dressed my daughters in blue or green when they were babies. Usually mint green. I have a few blue bows to match which I guess made the outfits look more feminine (I know people seem to hate baby bows on MN but it's never bothered any of my babies and I like them.) I've also dressed them in their brothers hand me downs. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I really don't see why a baby girl can't wear blue but if you really don't want her to, maybe just use them as spare / back up outfits or donate them and keep the ones you like.

My son looks particularly lovely in pink, his sister looks spectacular in green and blue. They are just colours

I dressed my daughter in a lot of pink, because I love pink. And we both have the coloring that suits pink. But I also dressed her in other colors, including blue. Not green, because I hate green.

My daughter looks lovely in navy, and as she's crawling I have only been able to find dungarees in grey, navy and yellow.
That been said my now 4 yr old dd only suited lighter shades so wore lots of pastel shades and mint. They both have a slightly different complexions and I find different colours are available depending on the season

I think babies, like grown ups, have their suited 'colours' and you soon learn what those are. One of my boys looked lovely in red but his little brother didn't and we bought lots of extra blue clothes, which suited him better. So you don't necessarily have to dress a girl in pink and purple, unless those particularly suits her. Try lots of different colours to see what suit her best.

I can't believe any one bits a baby boy in a pink bodysuit to flip this.

I did. I got tons of hand-me-downs, a lot of which was pastels, flowery and the odd bit of pink. I was fine to dress my boy in it because it was free, comfortable, he outgrew it so fast and he looked cute in everything. I really didn't care whether strangers thought he looked like a girl or not. He probably didn't start wearing more "boys" stuff until the hand me downs ran out after 18m.

Blue and green are my favourite colours so I will yes definitely, and predominantly so.

Dd wore every color in the rainbow in an assortment of pastel, medium, and bright shades. She also wore black. I never worried about her clothing except that it was comfortable and practical. Most of her infant clothes were hand-me-downs from a male cousin.

Both of our DDs were dressed in blues and greens, as well as pinks and yellows. They were always pastels though (usually something with stripes, bunnies or - shock horror - a floral pattern), as I'm not keen on bright colours and loud patterns on babies, male or female. I always thought the M&S babygrows were garish, I usually bought mine from John Lewis or Next.

Anyway, please dress your baby in whatever you please. Soon they'll be demanding hideous t-shirts adorned with Disney characters and superheroes and you'll yearn for the days you could dress them in whatever you liked and they couldn't complain about it!

What's the issue with people thinking your baby girl is a boy? My eldest DD often was mistaken for a "handsome boy!" no matter what colour she was wearing; it didn't bother me one bit and I can't imagine why it would. I think you need to examine your thoughts and feelings about this more closely: what is it you're so scared of?

Yes, she really suits blue

I don’t have a girl but my boys have all wore pink clothes as babies. They looked gorgeous in bright pink, I didn’t give a toss if someone thought they looked like a girl. It’s a colour!

My children dressed exclusively in very pale, muted greys and whites, because I don’t like having to carefully separate laundry. Not because I wanted to conceal their sex...

No such thing as ‘boy’ things and ‘girl’ things.