For only dressing my baby in ‘pyjamas’?

[KellyJellyfish]

DD is 15 weeks old and small for her age (premature, still wearing 0-3months). Yesterday we attended a mums and baby music class and during the pre-class chat we got a couple of comments about how cute my DDs pyjamas were.

I dress her pretty much exclusively in babygrows and bibs, firstly because she has reflux and can write off at least one outfit a day (our record is 4 in 15 minutes!), secondly because most of our stuff is either secondhand, gifted, or cheap multipacks, thirdly because she still very much needs scratch mitts and she cannot stand cold feet or legs (socks fall off, trousers ride up). But most of all, because she’s a baby? Yeah I could waste money on little jeans and hoodies or dresses, but what’s the point? It’s expensive, wasteful, and makes life harder for both of us when it comes to changing and laundry. I’ve never really viewed babygrows as PJs before, just something babies wear.

AIBU?

DS wore almost exclusively either baby grows or vests with leggings for the first few months. Even now he's almost two, he's in leggings/joggers most of the time, although we've ditched the tops with poppers for 'normal' T-shirts now.

babies in designer outfits look like miniature drug dealers. Don’t get me started on those fucking ridiculous bows on the 3 hairs on their head, chavtastic.

babygrows are the most comfortable outfit for them, ignore these people

YANBU at all

Wow. Can you be any more judgemental? What a nasty and unnecessary comment.

I laughed out loud at same comment. I think it was meant light heartedly?

Don't worry about it. Babygros aren't pyjamas, they're baby clothes.

I did exactly the same.
Comfortable for DC, who are not mobile at her age
Easy for changing and if it'was cooler I just put a cardigan/ jacket over
I never spent money on little outfits thinking about their comfort.
Don't give other parents comments another thought

Some people choose to dress their kids up a bit, some choose to leave them in Babygro’s.

Nothing wrong with either, and babies don’t care.

Do what you want to.🙂

All 4 of mine was in babygrows until 6 months old. I couldn't be bothered with all the little outfits to much faffing around.

My poor DD (second child) was almost 1 before she wore anything but a baby grow. Much easier than the faff of actual clothes.

There is a reason why onesies became popular. It's because everybody wants to where baby grows. It's fine.

Soft footed dungarees have been minimal faff for me since baby became big enough for sleeping bags. She only has a long sleeved vest on in the bag, so the dungarees just go over that. She basically always wears babygrows or footed dungarees or sometimes leggings over the vest. Babygrows are perfectly normal daytime wear in my view!

I hate the stupid bows people put on their daughters! They are babies let them be comfortable.

My DC is 4.5 months and I dress him out in exactly this- grow&bib occasionally. Way less hassle, no lost socks and more comfortable. They have their whole life to start wearing proper clothes

This thread made me laugh because when I dressed dd in a gifted outfit I sent a pic to the gifter saying "she looks so cute in the pink pyjamas you gave her"! And the giver was massively offended because I'd called the outfit pyjamas.

I don't see it as a negative description.

I loved batteries on my boys. I tended to use the ones with bright colours of we were going out somewhere and the pastel colours/white for when we were at home or at night. I felt like bright coloured baby grows were less pyjama like although I have no idea why!

Argh, babygrows not batteries, stupid autocorrect.

This! I fell into the trap of "proper clothes" for DC1. Babygros and rompers for DC2 as long as I get away with it

Mine was also in babygrows quite a lot when very young, not so much from about two months because it was hot weather and feet needed to be out.

There are plenty of mums in classes who dress their babies in babygrows. They are so cute but some do look like pyjamas, I must say. I don’t think it’s a bad thing though! They look comfortable and snuggly. As long as it’s weather/season appropriate. It was a heatwave when my baby was young ish (but not just born) and babygrows would have been inappropriate as they were just in their nappy a lot of the time at home!

I had my prem baby in baby grows for the first 8ish weeks, but only started putting her into her clothes as she got a lot of newborn gifts and I didn't want her to grow out of them without her wearing them. My baby is now 10 months and I still occasionally take her out in her baby grow that she wore overnight if it's still clean. Nothing wrong with it at all but also don't take comments to heart. It sounded like a compliment. To some baby grows are just PJ's and for others they are baby grows, nothing wrong with that :)

Somebody sensible in my eyes

After a couple of months, I got into the habit of getting DS dressed for the day into little outfits, only long sleeved tops, vests, soft joggers, little dungarees etc. I actually found them much easier to change etc than babygrows with all those poppers (I have dodgy joints!) and just preferred to do that generally anyway but I don’t think there’s any issue with putting them in babygrows.
That being said, there’s nothing cuter than a little chunky baby in a babygrow!

You sound very sensible, I absolutely agree re baby grows.

I never dressed in mine in anything other than them as it was waaaay too much of a faff to change them from head to toe everytime they had a poonamy or spilt whatever down them, and even without any disasters it took me so, so long to get out of the house. Plus yes, unnecessarily wasteful.

Keep going as you are!!!!

I did exactly the same as you OP when mine was a baby. I started taking mine to groups around the time she was two months, and she wore sleep suits with a cardigan. By the time she was three or four months, pyjamas type trousers and a long sleeve vest and/or top and cardigan. All my mum friends did the same. You, and your baby, need practicality and comfort at that stage!

Both my babies, 1 boy, 1 girl, spent pretty much their entire 1st year in baby grows or vests with soft material dungarees. I very occasionally put them in outfits that were gifted- boy jeans or girl dresses, but they were so impractical and usually uncomfortable looking.