Quick Poll - Is a light blue pram/buggy OK for a girl?

[Spice17]

Sorry about this, my sensible brain says of course and my pregnant irrational one says people will say 'what a lovely little boy' or similar and give the poor little thing a complex!

TIA

Of course it is!

Probably much nicer than the grey one I had for mine!

It wouldn't bother me. Everyone assumes my sons are girls and most of the time I don't bother to correct them as they get so flustered!

It must be because I can't be arsed to cut their hair very often they are so astonishingly beautiful, as the pram is a perfectly macho machine

Of course! To be honest, people will get the sex wrong even if she is head to toe in pink anyway. They don't seem to look at babies before saying he/she. My DS had lots of hair and I was continually correcting people who described him as 'she'.

I had a grey pram too

Most definitely!!

Thanks, will go for it I think :)

Could you just add a pink cozytoes/blanket ?

For my DD, I had a navy blue one that had green and yellow square patterns on them. I suppose it looked like a boy's pram, but it didn't really bother me!

Yes, definitely!

We dont know if we're having a boy or a girl but have bough a light grey pram which we think would suit either.
As Sproglet says above, you can always add accesories (toys, blankets, etc.) in more girly colours if you want!

Yes dd had one. The baby neither knows nor cares !

Yes dd had one. The baby neither knows nor cares !

dd had a lovely light blue checked pram, people did call her a boy sometimes, but normally she was dressed in pink so i was a bit to them anyway!

Yes, go for it. You will be drowning in pink in a bit anyway, so it will make a nice change for your eyes, to have another colour to look at.

(disclaimer: I only have a son, but the experiences of friends and relatives have educated me about the Unstoppable Tide of Pink).

I have a blue and yellow (bought from eBay) foot muff and liner for our DD (11mo) - everyone always stumbles on the he/she.

I don't mind, and neither does she - we like to keep 'em guessing

I agree, it doesn't matter how they're dressed, prammed or labelled, you'll get people getting it wrong.

she really isn't going to care. they don't start getting stroppy about colour coding till they're just out of buggies.

Yes!

And it won't look as dirty as quickly.

Nobody will care apart from you (the baby certainly won't).

And very classy as well.

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yes, it's fine.

dd gets called a boy on a regular basis.
because she's a baby and has no hair.

it makes not one jot of difference whether she's wearing boys' clothes or not.

a pram is a pram is a pram.

if you go down the pink for girls route, you may as well throw any your iown blue clothes away, jut in case.

You can't tell what gender a baby is until they are at least a few months old (3 months, 4 months?). So the only we we know, in our society, is by the colours we dress them up in. It seems to me that it's only important to adults that our babies are publicly 'labelled' as a boy or a girl by the colours we dress them in, and I don't really understand why that is important.

Hmm... that's my philosophical musing of the day

Sorry, iphone... so the only WAY we know...

are you serious?

i really despair sometimes over how much we use colours to stereotype genders.

you know until very recently all babies would have had a navy/brown/grey pram?

that's what I think yesterday - in fact, I sometimes deliberately make DD look like a boy. Because I'm trying to get away from the genderization of children.

I particularly loathe the way that primary colours are now seen as being for boys and girls are left with pink and other pastels. It's grim.

I have the odd bit of pink clothing myself but don't understand why every single bit of clothing, equipment or toy for girls seems to be pink or have pink bits on.

exactly!

it's bad for the eyes too - how can a child learn to differentiate colours if all she sees is pink, darker pink and purple?

It is fine.
DD inherited dark blue pram from DS - I wasn't going to get a new pram just because my second born was a girl!
When DS was a baby (in his blue pram and dressed in blue clothes), I often got asked whether he was a girl because of his long thick hair and long eyelashes...

The hormones have broken your brain. Go and get yourself a dark chocolate Magnum and the madness will pass.
If you must, then buy a tiny little floral headband for your DD to wear, but do not spend any more on it than you spent on the Magnum.