When did you start putting your baby in outfits?

[Perfectpeony]

As in not wearing sleepsuits all day.

I have some lovely 3-6 month outfits, little trousers and tops. Tights and dresses etc. but I still don’t think she seems that comfortable in it. I sometimes put them on for when we go to babygroups and then change her when we get home.

We’re starting to think about buying 6-9 month clothes and so far I have only bought sleepsuits as I don’t want to waste money on lovely clothes she probably won’t wear. She has been quite a colicky baby but I think we are starting to see an improvement now.

Just wondering what everyone else did?

Soft and easy clothes right from the off. It's always been important to me-the baby obviously couldn't care less- but having a sense of night and day was helpful when everything else was up in the air.

Those adorable leggings/baby tights and a soft top initially- then probably a bit more adventurous from 3 months- dungarees/outfits they'd been bought etc. It was all part of the 'fun' side of parenting for me. (And there is soo much of the 'not fun'!)

I had ds in vest, leggings and cardigan from 8 weeks because he is very tall so babygrows long enough drowned him in width. I also hated all the poppers.

It's whatever you want her in. If you prefer her in baby grows have her in babygrows.
I had my DS in outfits pretty much a week after leaving hospital unless we were having a duvet day, it was a personal thing, it felt like I would be taking him out in pyjamas and that's not what I wanted so I did get up, breakfast, dressed to go out, when I returned home from my day I would change into "loungey" clothes, then sleep-suit on at bed time, but I was happy with that, lots of people may not be.

Unfortunately which ever you decide, someone out there will prefer the other outfit, you can't please everybody, But you can please yourself, so whatever works for you .....do that !

With all 3 I put them in outfits (just soft vests/rompers/trousers and jumper/ cotton dungarees etc) from birth and sleepsuits only at night.

Actually, thinking about it, with DS2, he lived in playsuits the short sleeved/legged ones when he was born in a very hot August, then he was back in them in October when we had a heatwave.

Like this:

Baby grows til they could walk. My almost 2 year old still only wears joggers leggings and jumpers. Partly because comfort is important and partly because his chunky thighs will most definitely not fit in normal pants

I don’t really understand what is meant by “outfits” - doesn’t a babygro count or do people see them as like pyjamas? My 5.5mo is mostly in babygros though with jumpers/cardigans on top now it is colder, or dungarees with longsleeved vests and jumpers. I expect once he crawls then dungarees will be most practical until the weather is warmer. He wore light rompers or shortsleeved vests in the hot summer. I can’t get on with leggings - I find them hard to put on a wriggly baby, and babies don’t have waists so trousers seem to cut them in half a bit. However I can see that separates last a bit longer in terms of harder to grow out of, and easier to change if eg only the top gets vommed on

Something different from sleepsuits or playsuits HerSymphony. Tops and trousers/skirts/dresses.

I should add that my son was (and sometimes still is) a prolific happy vomiter - he and I used to get drenched several times a day - so aside from the warm weather when he was small meaning he really needed very few clothes, no “outfit” would ever last very long anyway

I’m a sucker for dungarees, and like them as they don’t put any pressure on tummies. Both my boys wore them quite often from 3 months and I had a couple in smaller sizes. Now I’ve had a little girl loads of people have bought lovely girl outfits but they’ve all got waistbands (either tights or leggings) and all I can think of is that this is only going to exacerbate the puke issue...

DS was in sleepsuits only until he was about 6/7 weeks old. At that point he moved up to size 3-6m clothes (chunky baby ) but it also coincided with this summer's heatwave so he literally wore either a vest and nappy, or even just the nappy, for the whole of 3-6 and 6-9 (lots of gifts got returned - every present we were given was in 3-6).
He's now 7 months and just growing out of 9-12. He wears sleepsuits for bed, and we have some 'posher' ones which are for daytime. I'd say half the time he's in a sleepsuit; otherwise he wears a long-sleeved vest, stretchy joggers/leggings, and a cardi. He's never worn jeans, a shirt, or any type of shoe.
I worry that he'll end up in 'proper' clothes sooner than I would ideally like just because he's so big - the rate he's going, he's likely to be in 18-24 by his first birthday.
Interestingly, the nursery we want to send him to when DW returns to work has a dress code. It specifically requests no jeans, skirts, dresses, or dungarees for any children (boy or girl). The suggested nursery outfit is: leggings/joggers/shorts, with cotton layers on the top so that temperature can be easily adjusted etc. I appreciate that lots of parents wouldn't like nursery telling them what their DC can and can't wear, but because it tallied with our own feelings about how DS should be dressed it was a positive for us. The emphasis is on all children being properly equipped for a lot of practical and messy activities.

I think DS was mainly in outfits for 6-9 months - just leggings, vests and longsleeved tops.
He was sitting up at 5.5 months and crawling at 7 so they were much easier to put on than getting him to lie down to put on a babygrow. I did have some, but with the buttons just on the legs were easier than the buttons down the front.

Straight away. Mum had popped to boots and bought several outfits on her way to pick me up when I discharged myself (dh was overseas and dd was 2lbs lighter than they estimated so we needed "tiny baby" size. They didn't have any decent food at the hospital so I went home!)

Never seemed uncomfortable, even flew at 7 weeks long haul and bought a new outfit for arriving there.

That's interesting about the nursery...I always put jeans on DS for nursery as I find you are less likely to get grazed knees with jeans than with joggers. He's older though (2.5)

Before ds was born I thought I'd have him in babygrows until 6 months but actually it only lasted a month. Mostly he wears vests that popper under the bum with soft joggers or dungarees, all the same material as babygrows so no less comfy. But he has really long legs and a short torso so is in different sizes for tops and bottoms so babygrows don't work well, so we keep them for nighttime. I do like his tops to popper under the bum, otherwise they ride up and I think that can be uncomfortable

Agree with pp, people will disagree with you whatever you choose so just do what works for you

I’ve never had anyone comment on or disagree with what my babies were wearing. Not to my face anyway! Not sure why they’d be bothered.

Probably from about 3 months - but when you say outfits it wasn't like a dress or anything it was a cosy long sleeved top, cardigan and legging type pants. Nothing matched or was colour coordinated in anyway, a lot of the time it was baby sweatpants she wore. It was more so she could have her feet free to help her move as she was slipping and sliding all over the floor in the feeted sleepsuits. House is warm enough that we don't worry about socks. We also put her in footless sleepsuits/jumpsuit types during the day. For bookbug and bounce n rhyme classes I'm more inclined to put her in sleepsuit as it will slow her down from escaping.

Miri wtf a dress code for a nursery?!

Dress code for nursery will probably be for toilet training. Now DS is able to go himself he struggles with things like jeans as he can’t undo the button as easily by himself.

Pretty much straight away. Sleepsuits for nightime and outfits for day. They were comfy not restrictive or fancy outfits. Completely personal preference

It's probably easier for a girl, and for summer borns, but I put DD's into cotton dresses very early on, just so lovely cool and pretty. When it got to Autumn, they went into tunics and leggings, only put babygros on for bed.

Sleepsuits lose their appeal once your baby becomes mobile. At that point easy to pull up leggings or tights (I like tights in winter for warmth and because there’s no sock hassle) become your friend! Nothing worse than trying to wrestle a roller/crawler into a babygrow and pin them down whilst you faff with poppers.

6-9 months onwards. I still used babygrows until they were two for bed but confess they looked a bit silly at that point .

From day one all three of mine wore outfits in the day and sleep suits at night. I just found the routine of it worked well for us. The outfits have always been comfortable but look nice too, I especially love boots clothes for both look and feel. I'd think absolutely nothing of seeing a young baby in a sleep suit during the day though, I just wouldn't. I do think once they're over age 1 though its a bit lazy not to dress them properly in the day. I'm well aware that's judgy but hey, we all judge.