to not know whether to laugh or despair at this level of ignorance in a mum to be

[SebbysMum]

In Mothercare this morning a young couple were bickering about the newborn clothes to buy for the bump. The mother was insistant that the clothes had to be pink and that there should be NO blue for her child. From what I could gather she was also wary of the neutral stuff. Her reasoning - "You wouldn't put a girl in blue would you, she could end up being gay".

I cannot imagine that being gay is an easy route to take in life so from that position alone I'm rather hoping things might be as straight forward as possible for my children, pun intended.

You don't think she might have been JOKING ?
I think people tend to conorm to the stereotypes with young babies because it saves embarassment when people comment on their baby boy which is actually a girl.

As an aside , after reading the ballet thread Want to know why mumsnetters have such a downer on pink ?And want to discourage their DDs from wearing pink and friily outfits if its what their DDs love ??

My feminist d-i-l refused to let her 2 yr old dd have a toy kitchen because she didnt believe in gender stereotyping!Two years later she had a ds and bought him some toy plastic pans-guess which child played with them......actually they both did!

This kind of thing drives me nuts. I've always hated wearing dresses, i LOATHE pink, was a complete tomboy growing up etc. I am not lesbian. your taste in clothes and colours does not dictate your other choices FFS.
Although I was a bit when I was chatting with a gay friend and said DS (10 months) is all about the boobie and his reply was 'at least you know he's straight' i wouldn't have exptected that from him at all.

I was talking to a friend about this the other day, about how the pink/blue divide really depressed me and how I wasn't telling many people the sex of my baby in case they bought me gender-specific clothes.

She said that growing up, her mother had been very careful to dress her in unisex colours, kept her hair short and didn't let her play with dolls.

She did in fact grow up to be a lesbian: a lesbian who loves pink, long hair, high heels, frills, makeup and dresses.

I am sure the young lady must have been joking.