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 ?

My DD is currently wearing blue and white leggings with a blue Hey Duggee T-shirt that was her brothers.

She is blonde with super blue eyes and really suite blue

Blue suits my DD, I don't like black tops and beige makes her look ill but other than that anything goes. Grey really suits her too. We didn't know what sex we were having til she arrived so she had lots of different colours in her early babygrows etc.

I've got plenty of blue items that I wouldn't put on a future DS too- it's the style, not the colour, that would put me off. Although that said there aren't many of her pink things that would go across for similar reasons.

YES! and DS in pink. On our last shopping trip for PJs, DS (5) chose from thr ‘girl’ range and DD (7) from the boys. Why? ‘Cos they like the prints. Does it matter?

yes, why not. We got a lot of hand me downs from friends who all had boys. I only had girls. Didn't bother me as they grow so fast in the first year. people often assumed they were boys. didn't bother me at all.

Fair enough you having a preference for pink, but to say you can't understand why anyone would dress their baby girls in green or blue is ridiculous tbh. It's just a colour for crying out loud.

Yes, and sometimes I buy boys clothes for her if they have pictures of things she likes like dinosaurs or dogs.

I’ve been gifted so much stuff for this baby (DD) and I’m very grateful but mildly horrified at how pink it all is. I’m even considering cracking out some Dylon! I have nothing against pink per se but I hate the pink is for girls, blue is for boys nonsense.

Odd, I'm struggling to find non-pink for my daughter!!

My daughter wore lots of blue and emerald shade of green. It didn't make her grow a penis.

I finding so many multipacks have what I would consider as dull boy colours in them

You perhaps need to accept that you are a bit of an outlier, and that colours are not intrinsically 'dull' nor are they naturally limited by sex.

My daughter didn’t wear pink at all really. It didn’t suit her colouring at all. That and I really hate pastel pink. 🤮 She wore a lot of blues and looked gorgeous.

My DS has a pink top and multicolour striped leggings, he doesn't wear jogging bottoms and has few blue items and nothing camo or covered in cars. His favourite thing to play with at nursery is a baby doll and pram. I'm sure you're absolutely appalled by that.
YABU

You're really overthinking it, sorry.

A lot of "boy" clothes are in boring grey, snot green, navy etc and I could see why you'd want to avoid them. Dull and unattractive on kids of either sex. Babies and little kids go for high contrast, bright colours etc.

But the unreasonable bit is caring what anyone else thinks or that certain colours are for boys or girls. You're putting regressive stereotypes onto a child who doesn't even have a concept of male/female yet!

Yes of course.

You're in the minority. All mums of girls I know complain that girls clothes are all pink, mint and purple and would welcome primary colours.

Did you not keep the brights from your ds? Dd can wear those.

My daughter wears lots of blue, she suits blue - she also wears pink, has 2 dresses with dinosaurs on and her bedding is truck/digger patterned. Baby grows when she was tiny were largely ‘boy’ ones which were handed down from her brother, plus whichever flowery or pink ones people got her as gifts. The only colour she doesn’t wear is purple, because I really don’t like purple.

Today she’s wearing blue dungarees (which were her brother’s, I love dungarees so she has lots) with a yellow and green vest and pink socks.

It never bothered me if strangers thought she was a boy, I didn’t roll eyes or correct them - babies all look the same, so who cares if the old lady in Sainsbury’s thinks your daughter is a boy?

gorgeous Viking colouring of blue eyes and corn blonde hair looks beautiful in blue.

Old ladies always think babies are the opposite sex no matter what they are wearing...I think they do it to be annoying.

My baby girl probably wears more from the ‘boy’ section than the ‘girls’ section, though she definitely wears her fair share of pink and dresses, more so now she’s walking because dresses are annoying for pre-walkers, particularly crawlers.
(side note the whole baby clothes gender separation in shops makes me rage every time I online shop anyway as I have to go through the whole process twice - why don’t they just have a ‘baby clothes’ section).

Anyway she was bald and spent a lot of time in blue and I was surprised at how many people still assumed/knew that she was a girl. Equally I couldn’t care less if people thought she was a boy, if I was just chatting to someone in passing I wouldn’t correct them (don’t with my dog either who, conversely, is male but everyone thinks is female) because, shock horror, there’s no intrinsic difference or worth in a baby being a boy or a girl.

I can remember being delighted when a friend bought DD a blue baby grow, it was such a lovely shade on her.
The only colour I generally steered clear of was black as I figure that adults wear too much black and childhood is the perfect time to embrace colour.

I was asked the other day if DS was a boy or girl. He was wearing a red t shirt, navy joggers and navy trainers with a little dino backpack on. I quite liked that the asker didn't make any assumptions to be honest!

I dressed both my children (one of each) in lots of purple and green. The only time I used to be asked if my daughter was a boy was when she wore a frilly white blouse under a red embroidered smock. Go figure!

I don’t know what I’m having so have been buying neutral baby clothes and there is lots of blue in there. I don’t really like to be too prescriptive about gender and colours, but in any case I see blue as just as much for girls as for boys.

That said, you can pick what you like for your own baby, and it’s annoying if you can’t find what you’re after. I’ve struggled to find things in yellow. It’s my favourite colour, but the powers that be have clearly decided that yellow is now a girls colour and every onesie / vest / pair of leggings I find is covered in daft frills or peplums. Nice, neutral yellow baby clothes are nowhere to be found!

I had to take DD, then 6 months, to a funeral and couldn’t find black baby clothes anywhere!

She ended up in a gorgeous deep purple with bright yellow flowers. Felt much more appropriate to “celebrate life” than mourning. My MIL said I had overthought it.