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 ?

We have always dressed DD in a full range or colours and she looks great, most of her stuff is from Jojo or John Lewis who tend not to stick to colour stereotypes. We had quite a bit from Next too and a few supermarket items.

My DD wears a lot of colour. Navy suits her best thanks to her colouring and she had a lovely yellow raincoat this winter (yes, she did get mistaken for a boy a few times as she was only one and didn't have much hair either!) but it wouldn't put me off. We seem to have more pink toys than clothes 😩

DS1 was constantly mistaken for a girl, unless he was in blue. I chose reds, greens, yellows etc, because I liked them. Poor child probably looked like a garden gnome. When anyone (a stranger) said 'Aw, she's gorgeous', I said thanks and got on with my day. Sometimes it was quite amusing to watch people trying to decide what he was based on his clothes! I certainly wasn't offended if they asked.

It doesn't matter if your baby girl is mistaken for a boy by people you will never see again. But she's your baby. Dress her in whatever you like. If you're worried that the blue/green option in the multipack will cause confusion, just keep them for the house.

Incidentally, DS2 wore the same baby clothes as his brother and yet he was never mistaken for a girl. I don't know why.

Oh trying to remember all of dd's baby outfits... She definitely had some blue and green things and also grey. I think most things we were given were pink though. Not our choice, but definitely think most people wanted to buy pink things for her. My favourite outfits when she was a baby were mainly white though for some reason. Before she became a toddler and destroyed everything she wore. Nothing stays white for long now!

I think maybe fashions have changed a bit since she was a baby and maybe more girl baby clothes are brighter. I think wanting only pastels for baby girls is a bit passe maybe?

As the Mum of a boy, I loathe this whole 'girl colours/boy colours' mentality. My son's favourite colours are yellow and orange so it's bloody depressing to walk into the boys dept and see rows of navy, grey and khaki green. I get equally frustrated by Mums who constantly dress their girls in Barbie colours. It's SO refreshing to go to the park and see a little girl in green and blue!

You're raising a child not a doll. Teach them that being a girl is more than just wearing a pink frilly dress.

I honestly can’t get my head around why it matters what sex a stranger things your child is. They are a stranger! You can either correct them or carry on with your day.

DS wears a lot of Frugi prints - a mixture of ‘boyish’ blue style things and more ambiguous prints with flowers, rainbows and elements of pink. He also has a head full of curls. Even dressed in blue he gets mistaken for a girl quite often - but it hasn’t in anyway confused him. He will proudly correctly them and say ‘no, I’m a boy’. Absolutely no harm done.

There are no girl colours/boy colours. There are just colours. Primary colours are red, yellow & blue. Mixed together in different equations, they make up a vast spectrum of colours. But none of the colours are boy/girl colours.
I am an adult female. I wear a lot of blue, navy, black, green etc. Because I like it. It doesn't make me feel or look like a male. They are just colours.

Of course!

The sex stereotypes that result in the disempowerment and oppression of women begin very early in life - the toys we give them, how we dress them, how others interact with them, what we expect from them. Is that something you want to inadvertently contribute to with your daughter?

My DS wore hand me downs from my friends, one girl one boy, so had quite a mixture. Most of his clothes then went to DD a few years later so she’s dressed in a variety of colours, nothing off limits, it just doesn’t matter.

Blue and green aren't dull colours for anyone.

And your baby will be dressed like a girl whatever you put her in BECAUSE SHE IS A GIRL.

HTH.

What exactly is wrong with dressing baby girls in pink? OP buy and dress your dd how you like

Omg babies are babies - who fucking cares whether people think she’s a boy, or think you want a boy - why so much about what other people think?

I saw a leopard print top in the baby girls section the other day😳

I can't believe any one bits a baby boy in a pink bodysuit to flip this. If it wasn't outing if send the photo. We got given loads of babygros etc for the twins. Boys. Inc a cute pink one with circles on and a flowery one. Both twins wore both because why wouldn't I?
I've also got a pink shirt, boys, that they look lonely in. It's just a colour, not lifestyle choice

Feminist10101

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

I know it was a funeral but why would you feel you had to dress a 6 month old in black? She's a baby no-one is going to judge her for not dressing appropriately!

Yep. Grey/blue/green were my fave

We went on a trip to Sicily when DD was about 4 months old. She got a lot of attention when we carried her in a Baby Bjorn, but a lot of people assumed she was a boy despite her wearing a pink hat with flowers on it. They also looked unbelieving when we said she was a girl. We think it might be because she didn't have pierced ears and that seemed to be the local expectation for baby girls.

It would be great if so many multipacks weren't obviously gendered. More with pink, purple, red, blue, yellow, green together.

I just bought clothes I thought were cute and practical. That generally meant DD wore rompers with spaceships and dinosaurs on them.

As soon as she expressed an opinion she was given a say in her clothes (which are now probably 80% pink, and feature unicorns quite heavily, she knows what she likes, I'll give her that).

Yes, I love cheerful colours and dress my daughter in lots of my sons hand me downs - bright green dungarees, red, blue, yellow. As well as pink/purple etc. I couldn't give 2 hoots if people think she is a boy lol, shes 1!

I wear all those colours myself as a woman, their father has more than once nice pink shirt, so they know colours are for any sex.

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

We didnt have much pink flowery stuff for either as I dont love it but DS wore things with ducks and bunnies and cats on, has several sequin tshirts now and he quite likes pink

What exactly is wrong with dressing baby girls in pink

Nothing but its rather odd to stick to a very limited palate of only pink/peach/lilac/lemon purely due to the sex of the baby

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It would be great if so many multipacks weren't obviously gendered. More with pink, purple, red, blue, yellow, green together.

When one of my DC was new, Tesco did a lovely 7-pack of bodysuits, one for each colour of the rainbow.

I got them in several successive sizes as they were so nice

I literally buy my daughters boys clothes sometimes because I like the style more or it looks comfier, it’s never bothered me and definitely doesn’t bother them at all! My eldest favourite cardigan was sold as boys!