A little experiment, can you identify the sex of a baby when they're wearing neutral clothes?

[memoo]

This is something that fasinates me! I have a 7 month old and I really think without wearing gender typical clothing you would have no idea of my babys sex.

I have put a picture of my baby of my profile, can you guess the sex?

Would be interesting to see others DC too!

Ha, I was so confident on that one as well rb!

Thanks helly I don't mind whether people can't tell (and often dress her in gender neutral stuff), though I think that (adoring, soppy) DH was slightly miffed!

that kid looks exactly like the other one. But older. I'll go with girl for that one. But could be either

Looks like the same child to me too! I am going girl again though suspect it's the older child from the previous photo.

Nope, 3 seperate children in the 2 photos!

all BOYS!

I love going to town with my 8 mo daughter dressed in gender neutral colours- you can see people really straining to work it out. I think she looks unmistakably like a girl, but people seem to need the visual cue of the pastel pink to help them, and seem genuinely uncomfortable if they can't easily work it out. I really think it shouldn't matter in the slightest, that people should interact with babies in the same way regardless of their gender.

My DS has quite delicate features and longish hair so can at times be taken for a girl. Used to happen more often when he was very tiny and dressed often in gender neutral clothing. Now he is in toddler clothes, which tend to be more gendered, it's rarer but still happens - at soft play today, when he was wearing a blue t-shirt and grey dungarees, a nearby mum referred to 'the little girl'. Now I have no problem with this - I don't like gender stereotypes and try to pick a decent range of colours etc and try to avoid dressing him in all blue, skulls etc just as I would avoid head to toe pink if I had a DD. But what's interesting for me is how uncomfortable it makes people if they a) can't tell, and b) get it wrong. If I've been asked 'How old is she?' and reply 'He's...' the person usually gets really bothered and apologetic. It is an interesting indication of how much our response to anyone - even a tiny baby to whom gender means nothing - is gender conditioned and what a social stumbling block it is to be unsure about that.

I think it's best to guess girl if you're not sure.

That way, if you're wrong you can follow it up with the comment 'oh, he's very good looking then' and his parents will be flattered.

Much better than mistaking a baby girl for a boy and having someone thinking their little girl looks butch!

I made the same mistake with an adult once when I followed a man into the toilets .

I was at a Pink concert in Brighton. Pink has a big lesbian following, especially in Brighton and I thought the man was just a masculine-looking woman. I discovered otherwise when I saw the row of urinals and lots of men glaring at me!!

I had one that nobody could ever tell, so people used to go by her clothes (and always said "he" if they were gender neutral) and another that even when he had long blond curls and gender neutral clothes nobody ever thought he was a girl ever.

My mother is an artist, and she says (we've talked about this ) that there's often something about the mouth, specifically the upper lip, that's a good indicator of gender.

Somebody once told me that people tend to say "he" if they aren't sure because parents are generally more offended if you mistake their boy for a girl than the other way round. A depressing thought!

I've changed name and added a pic of my pfb.

Anybody still want to play?

S/he's 3 days old in the picture so really just a potato. But is s/he a gendered potato?

I love this game! Humanatleast, I think (gorgeous) girl potato?

I'd say girl potato as well.

Ok, have stuck a pic on of my baby, have a guess..

Human, I think a girl!

Lanismum, Tricky one but think I'll go with a girl.

You all have very beautiful children regardless of their sex

Seeker, do you live on a boat!?

I have deliberately put on a photo where s/he is an a girly pram, wearing a blue bandana, people very often mix up the sex of this baby, any other guesses?

Yes I do, memoo! I think I've only got one child photo on my profile at the moment - and that is so obviously a girl in so many ways!

lanismum - I would say boy (but gorgeous either way!)

Human potato is indeed a girl. Clever people.

My baby is a boy

Am searching through pics of my aunt's twins...will report back, should be interesting to see if them being twins influences anyone's guesses!

Check mine now!! Twins!!

Twin one boy, Twin two girl.

Any other guesses?