If I buy a blue travel system, will I get fed up of everyone assuming my baby is a boy?

[AprilAl]

OK I appreciate this may seem very trivial, but I'm wondering if with a high enough frequency it could end up having a kind of water torture effect...

We've found the travel system that we want and are now just deciding on specifics, colour being one of them. Both DH and me have independantly decided that the blue is the nicest colour, really vibrant and bright and just lovely. I can't really get excited about any of the other colours.

We don't know what gender our baby is yet. If it turns out to be a girl are we going to get fed up with people asking what our little boy is called etc? Is this a real phenomenon? will it drive us mad, to the point that we'll wish we'd chosen a different colour?

People will assume all sorts about your baby anyway. Both of mine were regularly referred to as the opposite sex by old ladies who peered into their pram. Even when dressed in requisite pink or blue. We have a blue pram waiting for ds2, but would have used it for a girl too. Pink prams are another matter entirely

Even when DD was in a pink dress people called her a boy (mainly cheeck pinchers in supermarkets )
If you like it buy it. Which one is it?

Babystyle Oyster in ocean blue

Yep people will get the gender wrong whatever you do. Some people always thought DD was a boy even when dressed in pink dresses.

Oh,that one IS a nice blue,and not v boyish IMO

good pushchair too,occasional problems with front wheels going down curbs,but honestly one of the best in its price range- excellent choice buggy addict

Go for it,if it gets really annoying,you could buy a foot muff in a girly print/colour, something like this would go well I reckon....
but The Cheek Pinchers will no doubt do it anyway

We don't dress our twins in pink so people are always asking if they are boys. I don't particularly mind. The kind of people who have an issue with the gender of their child being instantly visible would have them both in pink, but I don't think it's relevant. I do, however, find it interesting that they can be in any colour of the rainbow and be assumed to be boys. So girls get pink and boys get all the other colours? Crazy.

Oo that cosy toes is lovely and will deffo distract away the boy comments. I wouldn't worry tho it's a great pushchair - I have it in the orange colour- easy to spot dp out shopping!

OP it's more of a turquoise blue than a boyish blue anyway so I think it'll be fine :)

Nice colour and IMO the nicest one.

Oh! This s a bit of a bargain here

I think you can get any coulor,you could call tem....and I've bought from them before,they're nice.

ooh cheap on Amazon too

yup. but a pink buggy won't help either
dd2 has the pinkest buggy, with a floral footmuff (it was an utter steal from ebay). many times, when I've been wheeling her along, dressed in a cute little frock, we've been greeted by "ahhh - isn't he sweet!"

DD had a blue summer outfit covered in batik pink and flowers and a leaf green get up with frills. If she wore either she was a boy

We got a dark brown travel system with bright turquoise blue trim for DD (Bebeconfort Mila in case anyone's interested...!) and I don't think anyone mistook her for a boy. Mind you, we were in Spain when she was tiny and after initial cooing, the first thing anyone would ask us was "Nino o nina?" - but they didn't tend to assume.

I wouldn't sweat it in any case. Might make an intriguing social experiment to see how people react to your LO if they think s/he is the opposite sex. Amazingly, even at newborn stage people will respond differently depending on if they believe the child is a boy or a girl.

And if you think it's essential cheek-pinchers know the difference, just smile sweetly and say, "Yes, we think she's adorable too." or something if you need to!

We have the Oyster in Ocean Blue :)

DD is frequently referred to as a boy in and out of the pushchair, even when dressed in pink. I think it's more to do with the fact she has no hair and I refuse to put hair bands or clips in the little hair she does have to make sure the silly old ladies can get it right.

People will always get it wrong, but ignore them, it's not as if the misconception of a stranger really matters. I once had someone assume DS was a girl because my change bag is red polka dot. I explained that the bag was mine, not the baby's

We have a black pushchair and people frequently thought my DD was a boy anyway!

Even when she's been dressed in pink it still happened. I've had one woman pointing at her pink, flowery clarks t-bars and saying "ooh look at his lovely shoooes!!!"

I would go for a blue pushchair for a girl any day, it's a pretty unisex colour imo

At the end of the day ALL colours are unisex - it's our culture that's decided (for some peculiar reason) that pink = girl and blue = boy. When you think about it, the whole thing's a nonsense.

Couldn't agree more Immaculada, but I figure it doesn't matter how much of a nonsense I think it is, there will always be people who subscribe to the pink/blue stereotypes. To be honest I assumed it couldn't be as prevelant as people made out it was since most people I speak to aren't blue/pink people. Then I started shopping for baby things. I've been surprised (and disappointed) by the sea of blue and pink in every shop I've gone into. I suppose the reason the puschair thing was bothering me was because we've decided not to fall into the blue/pink trap and kept everything neutral up to now, but you're right, it could end up being an interesting social experiment.

As many of you have said, it doesn't matter what strangers think and I think the ocean is by far the best colour so we ordered it yesterday

Loved the footmuff you linked to FriggFRIGG (loved the name too!). Have bookmarked that link for later, thanks