DH clothing choice for baby

[sillyme563]

DH came downstairs ready to take baby to nursery. He's dressed her in a jumper and a pair of tights.

Argues that the tights are fine stop fussing.

Aibu?

Pick your battles. He's trying.

YABU.

DD has two parents, not one. Her first lesson about the society she's going to live in, is that everybody is different. Starting from her parents.

A father is not a second-class mother. He's a separate autonomous adult with his own ways of parenting; different from yours. That variety is good for your children. Cherish it and foster it.

DD is going to have a unique relationship with her father which is different from her relationship with you. You'll very soon find that she's well aware of the differences and enjoy making the most of them.

This is the kind of thing where I think… I wouldn’t dress the baby like that. But if I want my DH to co-parent equally I have to give up some control and let him do it his own way. So I hold back for stuff like that.

I’d have thought it was far too hot for those items, especially in a nursery- they’re always boiling.

Tights and a jumper would be fine in winter absolutely. A baby doesn’t need a skirt or dress - if they’re crawling they positively shouldn’t wear these as it makes crawling harder

Oh, poor man! Men just don't understand things like baby care and bathroom cleaning and washing up pots. He tried,OP-you've got a keeper there!!

YANBU

Your husband is an idiot.

He's trying

Lol

He performed a basic task so badly that his chances of being asked to get the baby ready for nursery in the future are slim to none. This is called strategic incompetence.

Either that or he simply doesn't know where the laundry fairy puts the clothes after she's washed them so he grabbed the first thing that came to hand from the top drawer. I'm also suggesting here that he couldn't be arsed to look for something more suitable.

It's forecast to be a max of 62F (16.6C) on Saturday in this part of Dorset!

@mathanxiety *
Lol

He performed a basic task so badly that his chances of being asked to get the baby ready for nursery in the future are slim to none*

Not really though, it's literally a non issue if the baby goes to nursery like this. There is no need for the other parent to step in, take over and do the task in future.

Ha, DH would so do this. He wouldn't mind being corrected though

Tights are brilliant for babies in winter. I put my DS in tights underneath trousers and dungarees so that he'd keep warm and wouldn't lose his socks. It was a game changer and my only regret is not doing it with my first baby (also a boy).

My old nursery would dress the child in more appropriate clothing and tell you all about it publicly when you came to collect I've see it happen parent persistent in bringing toddling child in a babygrow they changed the child into their clothing daily when this didn't have the desired effect they had strong words 🤷‍♀️

Your nursery sounds batshit. My toddling baby frequently wears babygrows all day.

They said because it goes baggy during use it was causing the child to trip and it was getting caught up when they tried to crawl 🤷‍♂️ idk I didn't have any issues with them