Lady in the street thought my DD was a boy :-(

[SAHmummy]

I was gutted! I felt like doing a Rachel from friends and taping a bow to her head!!!

she is only 5 months but I thought I dressed her pretty girlie.

stupid old lady!!!!!

(just thought I would rant)

The silly thing is I was so embarrassed I just smiled and didn't correct her!

DD1 was called a lovely smart boy (she loved to chat and gurgle with me when we went out shopping, DD1 all dressed in pink usually) and DS was called a gorgeous girl many times, dressed in blue clothes festooned with trains, cars, puppies - it was the long eyelashes and the way he used to bat them that confused them. Although sometimes it was my fault as I dressed him in the pink snowsuit we had for his older sister.

Nice of them to venture a compliment though. So many people are quick with the dirty looks when mums are out shopping with babies and small children and they behave according to nature..

I know how you feel! according to my mum someone asked if i was a boy or a girl when i was a baby and they had no excuse coz i was all in pink lol! also someone asked me if my son was a girl or boy even though he was walking round in boy clothes! i think some people need to get their eyes tested dont they lol!

DD was always mistaken for a boy until she was about 18 months old. Didn't bother me - she was a baby and I dressed her neutrally so how would anyone know? There's no mistaking now she's 3 though...

Really don't worry DS1 had same problem but soon resolved as he got older - plain insensitive of people - if you can't tell I always just coo and say 'ooh beautiful!' but the truth is it happens to the best of us and really means absolutely nothing!

both my boys have been called girls on occassion too, i wouldn't worry it's not meant maliciously sometimes people are just a bit unobservant

People frequently think my DS is a girl, even when we dress him head to toe in blue because he has lovely wavy brown locks. Just think people are very dumb sometimes.

A man came into my work today...I called him sir....turned out to be a woman!!

reminds me of my son when he was a baby all the old ladies use to stop me cooing over his blond curly hair thinking he was a girl.

Not worth dressing her in lots of pink TBH. DD used to wear lots of pink cos she had little hair and was always mistaken for a boy. Still used to be asked how old 'he' was! So dress her in whatever you want, and just smile sweetly and correct them. It'll happen often.

Dd is 3.5 and she still gets called 'he'.

Grow hair, grow!

|Dont worry. DD once at swimming, in pink swim costume, got how old is he?

OP, you may not know this but not many girls do look like girls until they're about 18 mths.....

my friend and I always marvel how much my DD (12 weeks) looks like a girl even with barely any hair. Her DS (22 weeks) looks like such a "boy" too.

We were extremely bored thed other day and swapped their clothes... After all our previous wittering on, we realised.... babies jst look like babies. he was instantly a gorgeous little girl and she was a strapping handsome lad.

My DD gets constantly confused for a boy. Totally my fault as I refuse to succumb to the omnipresent assumption that girls wear pink and boys wear blue. Pink is fine in itself but I do hate the ideological stance behind it. So DD wears lovely blues and yellows and browns and beiges and creams. They bring her eyes out anyway. Why do you have to dress her in pink just because random strangers get confused about the sex of your baby ? Next thing you'll be putting on her nice frilly pink knickers (courtesy of flipping Mothercare - beggars belief).

Oh dear!

DD2 is 13 and we have been going to a local curry house around once every six weeks for about the last five years - they STILL think she's a boy! :)

My mum had this problem with me as a baby. Her solution? She got my ears pierced!
No way am I suggesting you do this :)
Old people seem to have trouble telling the difference between male and female most of the time. That's how you know when you're getting old.

Gender confusion was rife with both DD's ... until i twigged people were taking their cue from the slight turquoise trim on the pushchair

Does it matter? Honestly? Don't most babies look pretty unisex?

I remember being at a theme park with DS when he was about 3 yrs old and a lady offering to take a picture of us and our 'adorable little girl' .

When I was about 5 yrs old I remember a bus conductor calling me 'sonny'

I have a theory on this. My aunty (61) thinks I am odd because I dress my DS "like a man, not a baby". I dress him like his peers and in highstreet clothes, apparently in her day babies were dressed gender neutral... Always... (?)

My DD would be dressed head to toe in pink with clips in her hair and because she was in a blue buggy, people would ask how old 'he' was. I got fed up with correcting them.

There's 18 months between my DC so they were in a double buggy for a wee while. My DS had lovely wavy blond hair but both children would be dressed in gender specific colours. Still people commented on my 2 girls. Why on earth would I dress one girl differently from her sister? Used to make me laugh.

It seems it happens the country over, so don't be worrying.

RedHeels - I totally agree. DS is still often dressed neutrally at 14 mo and if the next one is a DD, she will be dressed in her brother's old clothes, so no-one will be able to tell then either. I really can't say it bothers me at all if people call him a girl, by the time it matters to his self esteem, he'll probably look more like a boy, but now he has no concept of gender, so it doesn't matter at all.
I don't correct people, just smile sweetly and nod, they are only being friendly. The only time it got embarrassing was if they then asked his name and looked at me strangely for giving a girl the name Noah

wow is this still going?

Well, DS aged, 3 and a half almost got called a little girl twice when on holiday at the beginning of the week He was dressed like a boy, with a boys hair cut (though he did have his hood up - must be too pretty