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...to bring a boy home from the hospital dressed in pink - if all my scan said it was a girl??

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newmomma · 15/04/2010 10:10

I'm sure baby is actually a boy - and my MIL thinks I'm being ridiculous not going out and buying/packing some blue stuff to bring baby home in.

I've done my hospital bag and just think that if it does turn out to be a boy - its not the end of the world to bring him home in pink - it won't be forever!

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hocuspontas · 15/04/2010 10:12

I think it's sensible to buy only white or yellow until the baby comes out!

Nyx · 15/04/2010 10:13

If you're not entirely sure if your baby will be a boy or a girl, white is good...or green, or anything really. Although pink won't scar a boy for life, I'm sure. Good luck with your new baby when he or she arrives!

paisleyleaf · 15/04/2010 10:13

I didn't know if I was having a boy or a girl and took white babygrows.
Of course it's not so bad to put a boy in pink, but why wouldn't you just have white until you know?

singsinthebath · 15/04/2010 10:13

Can't you just buy something in a neutral colour. Blue's OK for a girl but pink would look a bit wierd in the photo album for a boy.

Miggsie · 15/04/2010 10:13

oh just wrap him in a hospital towel. I did, DD had poohed everything else.

MiladyDeWinter · 15/04/2010 10:14

YANBU - why not?

Again · 15/04/2010 10:15

I dressed my ds in blue and people still thought he was a girl!

nickytwotimes · 15/04/2010 10:16

Yes, don't buy pink or blue - your child will end up in gender-stereotyped clothes soon enough. Keep it neutral and/or bright and cheerful. I bought mainly white, beige, yellow or green for as long as it was available.

jobhuntersrus · 15/04/2010 10:16

Even though I had seen quite positively on the scan mine were boys I took white to hospital. It just seemed the right thing to do just incase. And anyway baby girls don't have to be dressed in pink all the time and neither boys in blue, just go neutral.

ellasmum1 · 15/04/2010 10:17

Both times i knew what i was having from scan but put in a white vest/babygrow as well as pink/blue stuff just in case!
Obviouslyv though it isn't going to bother your baby!

nickschick · 15/04/2010 10:20

I knew 2/3 of my births were boys-so was the 1/3 but i hadnt found out.....each time I took a 'boy' outfit and the same frilly pink affair -just in case it turned out to be a girl - pinky the teddy wears the dress now.

Poledra · 15/04/2010 10:21

I used white too, even though I knew all of mine were girls.

We got DD2 all dressed to come home in a lovely white sleepsuit, put her on DD1's lap for a photograph, and she promptly spat up mucus and milk all over herself and DD1! Thankfully, my super-organised mum had brought a spare sleepsuit just in case.

violethill · 15/04/2010 10:23

In ye olden days when we didn't used to find out the sex of the baby beforehand, I brought ds home in clothes his sister had worn as I hadn't gone out and bought anything new. Can't remember what colour it was.I do find it a bit odd though that someone would only have pink for a girl and blue for a boy - talk about stereotyping!!

Goingspare · 15/04/2010 10:23

Well the baby won't care. Both my girls came home in our favourite 'red devil' (thanks DH) suit. Never really went for pink anyway, though we had both pink and blue hand-me-downs.

greensnail · 15/04/2010 10:24

We brought DD home from the hospital dressed in blue. Doesn't seem to have done her any lasting damage so far.

ApplesinmyPocket · 15/04/2010 10:28

A baby couldn't care less, obviously. The only thing is, since we live in this century and not the next when colour-genderisings will probably have been eradicated, you will most likely get 'Oooh a little girl, how lovely' comments on your way out which might annoy you, or might not bother you at all.

bruffin · 15/04/2010 10:30

I had an amnio so new for definite dd was a girl but i still wouldn't go out an buy her any girly clothes just in case she was one of tiny percent they did get wrong.
For DS I was in hospital from 32 weeks and didn't get any chance to buy anything for a hospital bag. Had to rely on DH shopping and someone donating a huge pile of clothes

soapboxqueen · 15/04/2010 10:31

Pink was a boy's colour until the victorian era. I would be inclined to put them in pink if it's a boy and blue if it's a girl. Just to annoy the MIL.

Tell her to be glad that the most she has to worry about is the colour of a babies going home clothes. My ds was dressed as a frog when we took him home

tethersend · 15/04/2010 10:31

When my brother was born, my dad took my doll's clothes to the hospital by mistake and he came home in them. No lasting damage. Well, not much.

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SoLongAsItsHealthy · 15/04/2010 10:35

White, white, white - I love seeing babies in white. My DS is now 9 weeks and is still in his white sleepsuits. He looks so pure and angelic. I fear putting him in blue will make him suddenly seem too grown-up!

whomovedmychocolate · 15/04/2010 10:36

Who cares what colour you dress a baby in. It's a baby. It will vomit and poo on everything within five minutes anyway.

bellissima · 15/04/2010 10:52

Another vote for white. Although following that I prefer pale blue to pink or yellow, whether boy or girl. My mother knitted a lovely blue cardi for DD1, and just put slightly decorative white buttons on when she came out a girl.

PeedOffWithNits · 15/04/2010 11:00

I bought all cream,lemon and white - all with little animals etc on when I was pg - we then got heaps and heaps of pink as presents, I dont think I ever bought much in pink for either DD.

the unisex colours were then lovingly reused for DS, along with all the blue we were given.

I think its lovely that all of our Dc wore the same baby clothes, it bought back lots of memories

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newmomma · 15/04/2010 11:00

I didn't think it was that ridiculous!

I've had 4 scans - the 1st was 98% sure it was a girl (at 20 weeks) and then three since - all of whom were unsure and said they couldn't confirm either way.

So I had bought pink (I'm not a weirdo that feels girls should be in pink and boys in blue, but when buying small babygro's they only seem to come in white, pink or blue (or yellow))...

The nearer it gets to my due date I just don't feel the 'girl' vibes and reckon its gonna pop out a boy.

However, hospital bag has been packed a while and is full of said pink stuff.

I already have a son so if 'she' is a 'he' I have boys clothes for after the 'hospital part', but just can't be fagged to re-pack my hospital bag.

That's all!!

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