How in the blazes do you keep baby socks on?

[LuckyMum1989]

With DD (now 5) she wore lots of dresses and tights and we never really had to deal with the worst item of all clothing.... flipping socks!!!

Now I have a 5 week old boy. Cute little t-shirts and trousers and the sweetest little dungarees. Gorgeous, right?! Wrong. I have been introduced to the world of socks. The horror!

How does anyone keep the slippery little suckers on?!?

Sock ons:

https://sockons.co.uk possibly cheaper on amazon/ebay etc.

And avoid socks altogether whenever its warm enough!!!!!

Baby grows with feet.

The socks that Tesco does are the only ones I’ve found that stay on my daughters feet! Have you tried them?

For cooler temperatures, tights, yes for baby boys too.
In warm weather, socks aren't needed.

Hate sock ons! I don't think DD wore much apart from baby grows until she was a little older than your DS, so socks weren't such an issue!

Sock ones.

Baby Gro at 5 weeks. Cute can wait.

Yep, sock-ons. I used to get them on Amazon in different colours.

Duck tape.

Honestly I gave up and stuck to tights, baby grows or bare feet.

Felt like every time I looked at DDs feet at least one sock had fallen off, i was constantly putting the bloody things back on or searching for where one had fallen off. Their little feet are too floppy and unstructured to hold on to a sock properly, accept it and move on to other clothing options.

Just bare feet for a summer baby. Or babygros or tights. Socks still don't work on my 15 month old.

I think you just accept that they come off?

I don't mean to sound too libertarian and generally insane here, but I guess kicking their socks off if their feet are hot is one of the very few things a baby can do to demonstrate bodily-autonomy.....

For that reason I hated sock-ons. Brutal baby foot-prisons.

(Light-hearted!!!!)

And if it's a situation where you have a compelling need to keep their feet overed, opt for a onesie. Or some other form of pre-footed garment.

Thanks all - I might buy a pack of sock-ons and see if they work. When the weather is consistently warm, i'll be ready to embrace bare feetedness for sure! But days like today, I think would have been too chilly.

He's such a big baby that 0-3 month onesies are starting to not fit any more (😭😭) and we were given so many lovely clothes in the 3-6 month age range, it would be so sad to just buy loads of baby grows (they were great for the first 4 weeks then the last few days we've been having to hunt out the clothes currently in his drawers that still fit!) - if there's a cheaper way of using what we have, i'll give it a shot!

Thanks all 🙂

If he doesn't need gloves he doesn't need socks. Socks are for either heat or to stop shoes rubbing.

Baby feet are the cutest wee things.

I can't say I ever had this problem

Mine only ever wore socks with shoes

Or very soft leather shoes before they could walk

I can't see why they would wear socks on their own.

Or yes onesies / baby gros with feet.

Mine had those

Babygrows

Another vote for baby grows at that age! However: what we found worked surprisingly well was to have the socks on the outside of leggings - so with the leggings tucked in and the socks pulled up over the outside, they didn’t really move and stayed on. And still looks cute on a baby!

Sock Ons, but at that age, sleep suits. No five week old baby needs to be in dungarees and cute outfits, there is plenty of time for these when they're older. They need to be nice and comfortable to sleep.

baby trousers with feet @LuckyMum1989?

https://www.laredoute.co.uk/ppdp/prod-350222787

Congratulations 👶🌻

I don't think in all these years we've been having children we have ever really solved all these problems of having come home from the shops of finding missing socks without some outlandish garment , which we all forget to take out anyway .
The same way as way as come home from the shops to find the beautiful sun hat we bought at the shops is missing too .

Dungarees and a bodysuit underneath are just as comfortable as babygrows and far easier to put on. I hated all the fiddly poppers on babygrows. Mine were in dungarees by about 5 weeks.

Mine was mostly sock-less. I once got tutted at by an older lady, I wasn't having a very good day and quite crossly asked her how exactly she got them to stay on, because I am clearly a bad mother and failing. She looked alarmed and walked off 🙄

At this time of year I don't think socks are essential (although mine was in babygrows at five weeks, perhaps newborns do need more foot coverage). I used to do the socks over trousers trick, it does help but only when they're little and can't get the socks off themselves. Or you could just use a blanket?

Baby gros all the way. I think mine were in them until they were 6 months. If you want feet covered.

This is why female relatives used to knit / crochet booties.

Just use tights if it is cold.

Depends on the dungarees. I've seen babies in nice soft ones with a buttons on the front, but I've also seen very small babies in thick corduroy and denim ones with buttons on the back. They weren't the stretchy kind either. Would you like to sleep in those materials with buttons on your back?