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

[newmomma]

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!

MMM I think you are right about a minimum with such a quick escape

With ds1 OTOH I was admitted, induced and then kept under obs for 5 days afterwards. In fact his going home outfit was unwashed as he was far smaller than we expected (5lbs) and it was December so DH had to run by Mothercare and get whatever was handy in prem size (not so much when he was born in 1999 as when I was buying for 2 year old ds4).

He then ran directly over to fetch us as we ahd expoected to be in that unit for another few days but hadm managed to grab a transfer to a MLU near home, but that meant Dh driving us there.

I bought yellow with DD1 as I didn't know the sex. She was jaundiced and looked utterly horrible in yellow, poor little thing. Stick to brights and neutrals whatever the sex IMO.

Newborn babies shold always be dressed in white anyway. It's the law.

Apart for the wonderful black velour suit both of mine came home in, that is!

Seriously, it doesn't really matter APART from teh fact that my very boy-y little boy would not have believed that the baby photos were really him if he had been wearing pink. And all your relations will comment on it in the photos. And you will have to say "It's a boy, actually" 947 times between getting him dressed and arriving home.

I would have loved to have only taken 3 outfits in for baby. DS2 threw up over that many in one evening. I remember ringing ex-H at 3am and begging him to come up with more sleepsuits and blankets as he'd upchucked over his 5th set of the night and I had no more left. I blame the fad of not suctioning sectioned babies out - both mine were so mucusy they chucked up milk and phlem over everything they could on a scarily regular basis.

My newborn photos have them both in the hospital's clothes - the midwives never asked me for their clothes (I was such a wreck they probably assumed I was incapable of answering) and just shoved them in whatever they had to hand, and so I only changed them when we were on the way out of the door.

What nickytwotimes said. Why gender stereotype your child? My three girls have only ever worn either gender neutral or blue clothing because I am so SICK of it. We did get lots of pibk stuff which mainly got re-gifted.

As everyone else has said, get a neutral colour. Babies look nicest in white, that's what I brought my son home in. We were in hospital for eight days though, and his most popular outfit was a purple and white tie-die sleepsuit, the head nurse of the High Dependency Unit took him around all the other nurses to show him off in that one.

Another one who likes teeny tiny newborns in white

And about the amount to pack... my DS wore one sleepsuit for about 2 hours when he was first born (we stayed for about 36 hours after he was born), and was then just in a vest until we left to go home as the ward was roasting.

Jaundiced babies are a bit startling in white though.

ds was jaundiced and I thought he looked lovely in white, goingspare

Please do come back and let us know the sex newmomma. I'm so curious now to what you're carrying!

I'm all in favour of boys in pink and girls in blue. I mean, men wear pink shirts, so why wouldn't boys wear pink babygros? That won't make them less cute. A baby is cute in everything.

Do you know what?
I don't think the baby will care.

OMG, does anyone seriously still dress up newborns in pink for girls and blue for boys?

I refused to put my son in blue on the basis that it's a mood suppressant (and because I'm an awkward bugger). He looked fabulous in his pink hat and white cardis.

As for 'turning him gay', WTF???

I put DS in pink babygros left over from his older sister - I wasn't going to waste them!

He hasn't complained yet and is not showing any particular tendencies towards a liking for Barbara Streisand.

Well, gives him something to tell his analyst

(also it really p*ed my MIL off so that was worth it on its own

They couldn't tell what sex my first dd was when I had a scan. I was convinced she was a boy, although did only buy white and yellow stuff to be on the safe side. I had a girl. My sis went out and bought a tonne of pink stuff on the day she was born. So I never even used any of the white stuff I bought.

She is a complete tomboy though and absolutely refuses to wear anything pink now. Probably overdosed on the stuff as a baby.

chiccadee I think the poster who said it would "turn him gay" was being tongue-in-cheek. At least I really, really hope so.

LittleSilver - I think I've got SOH failure tonight.

Time for bed. Where are those pink pyjamas?

Felling very under prepared I've had to go out and buy another packet of white sleepsuits tonight and a blue hat, I hope you're pleased with yourselves

Well... have finished washing/ironing and packing last of baby clothes.

Not going to pack anything neutral as they're all in the loft and I couldn't fit through the loft-hatch IF I WANTED TO!

So - pink/purple/red all the way - not really bothered about peoples comments on the way home - how many people can possibly stop me on the way out of the hospital? And if they ask me what 'her' name is - it won't matter as we won't have decided by then anyway!!