Silly question: will first baby clothes get stained at the hospital?

[Marghe87]

I mean the very first things you put on them, like the hat and a body etc... will they get stained given (as far as I understand) babies don’t get washed after birth? How does it work?
Sorry for the silly question but I am just thinking about what to pack and don’t want to use “nice” things in case they get permanently stained with blood and other fluids :)

When I had my first baby, he was dressed in a hospital nappy (terry) and a hospital gown that tied at the back and wrapped in a blanket.

Everything got boiled in the hospital wash so it was a bit faded but I just put the nice clothes on to go home in.

It is the only time I used terry nappies. We had to be shown how to put the pin in, so as not to put it through the baby

It was as hot as hades when ds was born and the hospital didn’t have any air con. He was just in a nappy.

@jessstan2

Does it matter if they are? When you have a baby they go through more than one set of clothes in a day, the washing machine is always on.

Times must have changed. When I had mine they wore a j-cloth type top and a nappy in hospital until discharge the next day when I put 'own' clothes on.

I only stayed in 6 hours after birth with all three of mine so they basically got rubbed down, skin to skin and breastfeeding for however long the baby wanted then dressed into the stuff I’d taken in just before we went home.

You will look at those first photos of your baby on the day they were born for the rest of your life. I'd put them in something you really like. It's not a waste.

@AnnaSW1

You will look at those first photos of your baby on the day they were born for the rest of your life. I'd put them in something you really like. It's not a waste.

this seems a bit odd to me... the photos of the day your baby is born aren’t any more special due to the outfit they’re wearing! Mine were all in plain white babygros... I can’t imagine finding the pictures any more or less special depending on what they were wearing!

In fact DS is wearing a hideous green knitted hat in his first pictures (the midwife put it on him), and that doesn’t make them any less special. I was so tired I couldn’t be bothered to change it for one of the hats we’d taken in. I’ve saved the hat as I grew fond of it

@Drivingdownthe101 you miss my point.

No I don’t.

I don't remember anh of the clothes staining, even hats and vests, although I would use plain ones if those just in case. They usually just put them in a vest first then the sleepsuit goes on later. I took the same sleepsuit for DC2 that DC1 wore. Not stained at all and I've kept it even though they're now 10 and 8 and I'm definitely not having any more.

@Drivingdownthe101 alright then love

Her first hat got dirty but was fine after a wash!

She wasn't dressed in any clothes for several hours. She was left swaddled in what the nurses had swaddled her in straight after her birth. So the clothes she then wore were fine....

You will look at those first photos of your baby on the day they were born for the rest of your life. I'd put them in something you really like. It's not a waste.
DD came out about three times the size we were expecting and got crammed into a random, cheap, ugly sleep suit I hadn't even known I'd packed.

I do get your point about not a waste to put them in something special, but ultimately whatever they wear first becomes special; and fancy clothes really don't matter. Warm and fits them and "easy to wrestle on/off when bleary-eyed" matters.

Especially poo-stained, in DD's case. She had an exquisite talent for simultaneous up the back, down the legs poos that stained everything a vivid turmeric. Thank goodness for solids.