Neutral or Gender Specific hospital clothes for newborn? What are you doing?

[vinobaroness]

Hi,
Hubby & I are finding out the sex of babs at 20 weeks but keeping it top secret just for the 2 of us! My dilemma is whether to get gender specific clothes or neutral for first pictures etc? I love when you see new baby pics & baby in white/cream & all angelic looking:) However I don't know how I'm going to resist all the gorgeous little boy or girl newborn togs.... What have you done in the past or are planning to do?
Its my first baby so please excuse my excitement!!

neutral, they can still get it wrong on scans sometimes! all 5 of mine wore the same few babygrows which is lovely actually as the clothes have some 'history' and i then gave them to my sister who used them for her little boy :)

dd did have a few girly bits i didnt put her in them until we were home, in hospital it was all cream or unisex colours. (4 boys and then a girl)

if you want bright unisex stuff next have a nice range of rainbow stripes in their newborn range :)

Ah 5 madthings thats a lovely tradition:) Yes I agree its more practical to just have neutral & also as we are finding out but want to keep the sherade going to friends & family that we didn't know!! Tbh I love the newly presented baby in its white/cream & I'm sure that its probably the only time you feel like dressing them in white as there will be so many amazing outfits to dress them in after:)

We think we're having a girl but haven't told anyone. A friend has lent us all their newborn clothes, and they had a boy so some of it is blue and/or has cars and trains on, but I don't care. (And it will annoy my MIL - good.) I don't much like all the "traditional" girly stuff anyway; I've just bought a few neutral outfits so DC has something we chose as well.

I found out I'm having a boy and have gone down the boy theme! Though I have got tons of white baby sleep suits too.

We found out we're having a boy but haven't told anyone we know. Even though we already have plenty of both neutral and gender-specific clothes (previously worn by DS1 and DNieces), we decided that the day of our 20wk scan we would go straight out and buy a very gender-specific newborn outfit and just hide it away somewhere til the baby's here (to celebrate our little secret so to speak). We got a few lovely blue sleepsuits so I think I'll be packing them in my hospital bag along with a few of the white ones we already have, then just decide on the day what we feel like putting on him.

Certain members of my family (i.e. DM) will be right miffed when they find out we've known the sex for so long and not told (not in a serious way, but I know she'll joke-huff for a while) so I thought it'd be funny to reveal we already knew by dressing him in a boy-specific outfit as soon as he's born . Anyway, I digress, I would recommend having a mix of whites/creams and gender-specific clothes, then you can just see how you feel at the time

We found out we're having a girl and told everyone! However, I'm not really into the pink frilly girly stuff so we've bough bright and colourful unisex stuff, other however have gone down the more traditional route. I'm very grateful for kind gifts but there are a few that might not get too much wear :)
We always have in the back of our heads that she might arrive and actually be a he too :)

I took gender obvious clothes for both of mine as I knew the sex, but I did also pack a few plain white ones just in case, and kept the tags on anything pink/blue until after the baby arrived. It was sort of shutting the door after the horse had bolted though, as both nurseries were def. not neutral! Thankfully the us was right both times.