To think that babygros are fine for a six month old to wear

[GothAnneGeddes]

According to my mum, dressing your 6 month old in a babygro of a daytime looks common.

Considering we're weaning now and she's a pukey baby anyway, babygros are far easier to change in and out of several times a day.

Plus, she's my baby, what's wrong with dressing her like a baby?

AIBU, or just lazy?

Another vote for babygrows, people who dress up babies have too much time on their hands and need to come and help me

BertieBotts... 'Babygro' was a brand, so I think they were all collectively called that,sleepsuit being another name for them. I still have two very soft terry towelling Babygro's from 1986. One of the differences in having DS1 and DS2 is back then you wpoukld always dress a baby in a baygrow with a knitted cardi. Girls would sometimes where a dress. Mini adult clothes and especially jeans were not worn till much older

DS 2 still wears sleepsuits at night as he is very little and still wearing 18-24month

Morloth I favour the pink camo too, but I can't get it for us because I bought a pink camo one for my younger sister for her 15th birthday.

I always (unreasonably) wanted footie pyjamas when I was 15 and older sisters exist to buy you all those unreasonable, impractical things that are a total waste of money

DS was in babygros until he was 6 or 7 months, with a very few dungarees thrown in. We put him in an 'outfit' for a post-baby antenatal group do at about 6 weeks and he just looked uncomfortable and a bit silly.

I think that generic babygros started to be retermed 'sleepsuits' by the clothing manufacturers in order to instill in parents the idea that they were improper clothes for daywear, TBH. Sad, really. They're so practical and DS's were lovely colours and extremely cute.

BonsoirAnna - liberty-print tops and cashmere cardis? Go on, admit it, your DD was always in Bonpoint, wasn't she? I love that stuff but you could never say it was practical or remotely affordable.

definitely NBU. I had a thing with all of mine that until they were sitting up properly I didn't like the idea of waistbands digging into their little backs and spines. And I can never work out why clothes manufacturers produce so many hooded tops for babies. Can you imagine a 3-month old lying down with a squashed hood underneath him. Makes me shudder. Rant Rant Rant.

I actually found all the poppers on babygros a bit annoying. I dressed mine in soft little jogging bottoms and long sleeve tops over their little poppered vest. Did do babygros at night though as they looked so cute.

Completely agree that hoods for babies are the most annoying and pointless clothing development ever. Unless it is cold and you actually need to put the hood up, in which case they are fine.

Am very firmly in the babygro camp here (especially liberty print babygros ) but I lurrrved hoods. A hat they can't take off = genius.

I love babies in nice babygros, I think its only 'common' if they're grubby, sticky and slurping on a bottle of coke/tea/orange squash etc. DD is nearly one, she spends most of her time in brightly coloured cottony stuff, often romper suits ie baby gros without feet as she is starting to think she can walk (she can't) so has little soft leather soleless shoes!

As an aside I recently posted about if I should take up a place at Cambridge or not, well I can confirm through my interview and subsequent visits to discuss my situation and friends already there and at similar top 10 universities with a high % of 'posh' ex-public school types that the very poshest people there do in fact wear pyjamas all day. They do change into a clean pair each morning though. Often they are from Jack Wills

YANBU - babygros are brilliant for little babies - and not so little ones. Warm, practical, snuggly. I'd love one to chill out in!

My big question about baby outfits - particularly those from baby gap - is WHY on earth do they stick so many little pockets on the outfits?? What do they expect babies to want to put in their pockets? All that spare change they carry around? I once counted 6 pockets on a single outfit (jacket and dungarees with t shirt) bought for DS1 by my parents

I am nodding in agreement about the superflous pockets thing. And belt loops - on baby dungarees and trousers. Why???

And another thing... why is it that it's ok to decorate boys clothes with dogs, but never with cats? Why has the cat become a female only animal? DS1 loves cats, but I can never find any cute clothes for him with cats on. Dogs, oh yes plenty of them. And tigers and lions. But no nice little domestic cats. Bah

Tbh if I saw a 6 month old out in a babygrow I would think it was a bit lazy (not common) cos to me they are their jammies. I mainly dress ds (6 months next week) in joggers and t shirts/ones with poppers in the day and he wears a babygrow at night. I honestly don't see how it would be easier to change a babygrow than to change a t shirt - all those bloody poppers!?!! And we have started weaning now too but the bib always takes the mess and his clothes are fine.

problem solved. I dare her to call this common.

I dressed DC3 in babygro (barring high days and holidays) up until about 4/5 months. She is nearly 7 months now so most days I do change her into "proper" clothes. Main reasons being I think, yes, babygro at this age maybe looks a little like they are in their jim jams - but also just because even being the second DD she was bought a ton of lovely clothes and it would be mean not to use them. Plus she has all her sisters stuff which is largely pristine.

TBH though I wouldn't say a 6 month old in a babygro looked "common", in fact the opposite, a 6 month old in full Burberry dress, earrings, hairband, etc etc looks a heck of a lot more "common" imo.

My cut off of about 4 months is totally arbitrary anyway...but I must confess to actually liking "dressing up" my baby (sad but true)

Babygro's were a lifesaver for the first 6 months for me. When I wanted my ds's to look a bit smarter I just put trousers/jumper over the top. It also meant they couldn't pull their 'socks' off - genius!

I think the pressure to 'dress' babies from birth is 100% retailer driven. One outfit costs a lot more than one babygro.

I think babygros look nice. They are very practical too and make babies look like babies not small adults.

YANBU - I love babygros and the designs they come in. I also like the fact that there are more "unisex" ones than there are with outfit clothes, and agree with northerngirl (I'm another northerner in exile in London) about it being a retail gimmick.

DS1 wore babygros most of the time except on very hot days (May baby but a rubbish summer) until he grew out of 3-6 month clothes at 4.5 months. DS2 is still wearing those babygros at 5.5 months on cooler days - on warm days I put him in a nice poppered vest - we have some with really fun designs and put on a pair of shorts when we go out - that's partly to have another layer if his nappy leaks. He will have more clothes when he goes into the next size because he's inherited all ds1's plus he has some of his own.

I've noticed the cat thing - ds2 does have this one cat vest, quite expensive for a vest but we use it like a tshirt quite a bit, and it's fair trade and comes from a company set up by a family friend.

www.gossypium.co.uk/catalog/baby-collection/farm-c-40_76/baby-short-sleeve-vest-p-279/

They also have a couple of lovely babygro designs in sizes up to 1 year old. The vests go up to 18-24 months.

The other thing with babygros is that you can get them in big packs of fun unisex patterns, so especially if you have more than one child it is much much cheaper. ds was an incredibly wriggly baby, we just learnt how to dress him on the go babygrows certainly didn't stop him commando crawling from about 7 months. Once proper crawling is established I think something slightly thicker on the knees is a good idea though.

I do think it's easier to get comfortable baby clothes for boys. Girls stuff always looks so frilly and uncomfortable.

By fruitstick Thu 23-Jul-09 22:33:30 Add a message | Report post | Contact poster
problem solved. I dare her to call this common.

Damn you fruitstick theres some lovely things here and I want them!!!!!

PS Baby Grows are fab and they should make them for adults too

YANBU - I always kept my baby in a babygro but felt a pressure by the snippy comments at baby groups from the fully-outfitted-baby mothers... I think head to toe outfits for babies are part of this trend to get them to grow up too fast and it always looked a lot of hard work (more things to wash/change/lose/grow out of).

What I really dislike is to see tiny babies in jeans.Babygros,especially footless ones are lovely and not at all restrictive.

I think its absolutly fine for babies to wear babygros for as long as whatever...

But I love dressing my kids up. Its fun and one of the main reasons I keep having children

Are there really two warring camps of babygro 'ers and dressing up mothers?

Do we all really stand around ing at each other?

Doubt it, most mums I know with new babies are totally engrossed in their own kids and hardly give others a glance. Have you been to clinics and playgroups

I used to love my DC in white terry babygros with handknit cardis - soooo cute. But they have all had a full wardrobe including jeans and trainers. I wouldnt put my children in anything that hurt them or was uncomfortable, what on earth would be the point in that?

Must tell you though - when DS2 first came to live with us at 8 weeks he was having very very frequent contact with his birth mother. I used to get up at 6 and make sure he had a fully packed bag with all he needed for the day, he was dressed appropriatly etc. He would be out of the house all day and was so tiny.

She would loose and break things, insist on changing his clothes on every visit even if she didnt need to. She was a pain in the arse and very ungreatful (she is my neice btw).

She sent message back with the social worker that 'she only wanted DS coming to contacts in clothes from Next or Mothercare. Nothing else would do and I had to dress him in clothes that she chose' Please bear in mind I was paying for everything.

So I dug out a whole load of DC's old babygros and knitted cardis (all clean and comfy but definately used) and sent him in them! That shut the stupid bint up for a while!

Oooooh babygrows, I love 'um. I always think young babies look uncomfortable in jeans and shoes, urgh and socks. Why, when they are such a faff and fall off all the time and you could dress them is something with feet?. I've alway's kept mine in babygrows as long as is practical although I've had a couple of comments about them being out in their pyjamma's or not having changed them. Not that it's ever bothered me, tiddle to them, stick to your guns.

after reading this, I'm tempted to take one-year old DS out for the day in a babygro and see if anyone says anything! Unfortunately he's been walking for 6 weeks so it could be a bit slippy/unsafe if he got out of the buggy.

It scarcely occurred to me to put him in proper clothes until he was around 3 months and I noticed the other ones at baby group were all in jeans and tops. seems a bit silly really - why make them grow up any faster than they already do? it's like little girls in teenaged clothes ... there is plenty of time later to think it's cool to look slutty, no need to start at 6.