Sleep suit fit... Is my baby just a weird shape!?

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This is a pretty light-hearted thread as I recognise this is not a critical issue, but it is a bit annoying and had left me scratching my head!

DD is 3.5 months old, 2 months corrected age if you account for prematurity. She mostly just wears vests and sleep suits / onesies / baby-grows rather than anything more sophisticated as she seems comfiest that way, but it seems like in every sleep suit is either too short in the leg or two long in the arm. It's always been this way, but somehow it seems to get worse each time she goes up a size; I've recently started putting her in the "up to 3 month" size and while her toes already reach the tip of foot portion, there's a good inch or so of extra material on the sleeves. This is true across several brands and styles.

So what's going on?? Are sleep suits universally badly designed or is DD just oddly proportioned? 😁 I guess she must have long legs, sort arms, or both. I'm tempted to think it's not that she has long legs as the torso portion of sleep suits is generally quite big on her...

Anyone else have this problem? Do you have a solution? I've been tempted to snip the feet off the suits and put socks on her instead, but I'm sure she'd just kick them off :/

Babygrows are a pain in the arse! They spent about 3 weeks flapping around at the feet and being too long, fit for 3 perfect days then become too tight on the toes overnight 😬 The arms on DS2’s babygrows are all too long - can’t work out if he has long legs or short arms 🤣 Not to mention all those dang poppers in the middle of the night.

There’s a reason I’d pretty much ditched baby grows and moved exclusively to two piece outfits before 6 months with DS1.

Try long sleeved vests with leggings or joggers.

Mine was born at 38+4 and we have the same problem with arms and legs. I just figured that she was tall, me being dutch and also above average height, but now that I read your post I'm not so sure. Mone is 3 months and wears size 3-6 months and has done for the past weeks actually.

Oh and mine doesn’t kick socks off but you can buy Sock Ons if you’re having an issue. Or try knee high socks or tights.

Hello fellow sufferers!

The trouble with two pieces is DD has quite a severe umbilical hernia that gets in the way of putting anything with elastic around her middle. Put the elastic under the hernia and it irritates the skin, put it above and she seems uncomfy :/

I have thought of perhaps using long sleeve vests and dungarees, assuming I can get her to keep socks on!

Yes my DS was the same - you need footless onesies!! They are a game changer!

If you pull socks up over their trouser legs they stay on better. Not perfectly, but a lot better. (They do look like tiny little granddads off to the allotment, but that's another story.)

Dungarees could work really well!