Do you dress your baby girls in blue & green?

[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 ?

@hireaskipandclearout next do multipacks of pinks and lilacs in romper suits, which I find easier for DD to move about in.

We also have this blue floral multipack of rompers, which are more "girlie" than plain rompers

[quote chubbyhotchoc]@Feminist10101 I don't see an issue with those toys. Maybe the child's room is pink so you buy pink toys to go in it if you want to. My child has a cat shaped money box with a unicorn horn and a rainbow tail. There's no such thing but it looks cute in her room and she likes it. [/quote]
The problem is that the 'boy' toy is educational and the 'girl' toy is decorative. Also I've seen a pink handbag and a multicoloured tool bag (same except for the colour and use). The 'girl' version is always less useful and more decorative, just like sexism tells us women should be.

Why is green for boys? Who gets orange? Is it just soft gentle orange for girls and bright orange for boys?
Currently my uncoordinated twin boys are wearing green, red, grey and white. They have a cute babygro with smiling fruit on which I'd say is girlie in a two pack with a blue one, just to see with ops mind

@HungryForSnacks

Yes my DD wears blue and green.

Her T-shirt yesterday even had a TRUCK on it.

My DD favour toys are cars.

Fine until you step on the damn things....

@chubbyhotchoc
I don't see an issue with those toys. Maybe the child's room is pink so you buy pink toys to go in it if you want to. So little Hermione and Fabian want to learn about the world. He gets one properly coloured because you know Earth, it exists and is blue and green as a generalisation. Hermes gets pink because it has to look nice in her room?
What if she wants to play with the ride on in the living room which is green?

Yes, and I think the colours blue and green look lovely on her. I especially love blue on girls and pink for boys. My older dd loves blue too. She has pink bows, dresses, cardigans etc. My baby dd also has a lot of blue. But they also have loads of pink and purple.

@RedRumTheHorse golly I do hope you buy her pink ones so she and others know she's a girl!!

[quote SleepingStandingUp]@RedRumTheHorse golly I do hope you buy her pink ones so she and others know she's a girl!![/quote]
Absolutely.

Plus pink Duplo and pink zebras.

My daughter is red haired so really suits blues and greens and looks awful in pinks and reds...

Nothing wrong with pink clothes for baby girls but nothing wrong with other colours either! My DD has lots of pink things because I think they're cute but she has lots of other stuff too. Today she had on an adorable pair of blue jeans with dinosaurs on and a man in the doctor's waiting room assumed she was a boy I mean, she could not look less like a boy but hey ho!

Why would you even consider dressing your girl in such a masculine colour???
Pink and purple and maybe blue but green!?!?! I feel bad for your child you should consider teaching her the word of god.

You should never dress girls in blue and green !! Only feminine colours !! If not they'll get all up in their pathetic liberal ideals!! If we don't teach them their sex at a young age, the boys'll become girls and the girls will become boys. Teach your children the holy way !!

My DDs both wore lots of blue when they were babies, as they still do (they're secondary-aged now). Neither of them had much hair for the first couple of years and it seemed as though it didn't matter if they were in a blue dress, pink one or t-shirt saying 'I'm the little sister', randomers would come and talk to me about my little boy.

DD2 decided she wanted short hair when she was about 8. Once again, even in the most frilly of dresses, strangers decided she was a boy. Very odd. Especially when they insisted even after she'd told them.

My baby nephew is regularly dressed in pink and other pastel colours.

@texasmom48

Why would you even consider dressing your girl in such a masculine colour??? Pink and purple and maybe blue but green!?!?! I feel bad for your child you should consider teaching her the word of god.

God made most of the cool world green, God definitely thinks it's unisex. It's orange that's bad. Good doesn't like girls in orange

@PopcornAndWine

Nothing wrong with pink clothes for baby girls but nothing wrong with other colours either! My DD has lots of pink things because I think they're cute but she has lots of other stuff too. Today she had on an adorable pair of blue jeans with dinosaurs on and a man in the doctor's waiting room assumed she was a boy I mean, she could not look less like a boy but hey ho!

DS was dressed in blue sticks, blue sandals, blue shirts and a blue t-shirt. Someone still said girl because he has pretty long hair

I have b/g DT’s. Up until there were about nine months they lived in babygros. They worn whichever one I picked up first regardless of the colour. Sometimes DS went to nursery dressed in blue, other days in peach. DD would have worn pink one day and brown the next. It never mattered to me what colour they wore.

Colours are colours are colours. My DD was dressed in all sorts of colours when she was a baby. My DS looks gorgeous in pink so he actually wears a lot of it as his colouring suits dusky pink colours. He also has a fair amount of floral liberty print 🤷🏻‍♀️

It’s funny I have a friend who has a daughter the same age as my son and she complains that she struggles to find things that aren’t pink, lilac or flowery. Or that don’t say ‘princess’.

Why would you even consider dressing your girl in such a masculine colour???
Pink and purple and maybe blue but green!?!?! I feel bad for your child you should consider teaching her the word of god

Not sure if you’re joking or not?

I consciously dress my children in 'opposing' colours.
Recently however, my beautiful daughter is being mistaken for a boy a lot and it's starting to grate lol. By a lot I mean every time we go out. I confess I've ordered her some beautiful dresses

Do you want to swap out the bits you don't like from multipacks? I seem to spend my life finding nice outfits for my DD that aren't rediculously frilly and uncomfortable for her, or covered in pink unicorns etc. I often go to the boys section to get plain vests/pj's etc because the girls ones have to have glitter or cute slogans etc. It's rediculous.

The days where she's dressed most girly is when she tends to be mixed for a boy, but it doesn't bother me. Sort of like with dogs, you can't tell so people tend to go with what they have or know, no offence meant or taken.

I did keep DS' bright clothes, but they don't suit DD and they are born in opposite seasons. DD is a bald headed baby, and I prefer to dress her differently to how I dressed DS. I like happy colours not dull stuff. She does wear his old sleepsuits at night if weather appropriate, but they are mostly white with say yellow or orange, not grey.

Here are a couple of examples attached. I was looking for leggings this set from M&S .. to me grey is meh and the green is like it got ruined in the wash. Or putting dark green in a pink set again M&S. Then the green leggings in the girl set on Next. Last one is a terrible photo, but vibrant yellow flower print M&S bodysuits ( I assume most boys don't wear flowers ?!) but blue plain others in pack. Obviously it seems on Mumsnet all boys do wear flowers

Putting a toddler girl in denim or blue or green no issues, I was asking more about babies. It's not that it matters what a stranger thinks, it matters to me but only me it seems. So fair enough IABU

Weird comments about Penis' falling off, very strange.

Last one

DD had a lovely navy blue sailor suit , handed down from her brother , and looked gorgeous in a navy flowered dress with navy tights ( DMum said she had legs like a spider ) with a navy head band to match

Yes to blue as it's my favourite colour and I guess I just chose what I liked, no to green as not a fan in general (not a conscious decision, just thinking about it she didn't have many green clothes as a baby). Plus a lot of hand me downs from DS. Didnt really think too much about it.