H&M sizing...

[MiracleBaby2022]

Help! I've got myself into a pickle. What, in H&M sizing, would you consider the 'newborn' size?

Their sizing is

Not bought clothes at either store for babies, but, IIRC, 50th centile for a girl at term is ~7lb 5/6oz (3.3+ kg), with boys being slightly bigger. I also assume the size given is the max weight of baby likely to fit in those clothes. So H&M size small, while JL is more reasonable. I'd say h&m 1-2 (unless baby is small) is probably what you want.

@Dyra thank you! I thought the same, but then JL m's newborn goes up to 4.1kg and H&M's 1-2 up to 5kg so I'm thinking the H&M vests/suits will all be sort of in between the more common UK sizes. Which isn't a bad thing, but makes it a lot more complicated in my head 😆

I've always found the h&m clothes extremely generous in size. My dd was 2.9kg when born and didn't start wearing h&m 1-2 months until she was close to 3 months old. She was still in 2-4 month sleepsuits at 8 months. They were just huge

I'm having the same issue with sizes currently as preparing hospital bag for baby #3 (you'd think I'd remember all this from the other two). I've found best thing to do is physically compare the clothes to each other to guage size. I've just ironed a load of sleepsuits where a tiny baby sleepsuit from John Lewis was bigger than a first size sleepsuit from George, even though according to weight that shouldn't be the case.

Sorry of this isn't very helpful, unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any consistency between sizes just like with adult clothes

@stormelf thank you, that is very helpful actually because it confirms what I thought when I compared the sizing. Phew - I can relax a little then I think because I was worried I had bought far too many in the 0-1m size! 🙏

A newborn at 4.1kg would be quite big to be fair, I think H&Ms is more reasonable,

H&M is always huge on my DS, from day one.

Thank you both!

To make matters worse I've now ordered some stuff from La Redoute too, and the French sizing is meant to be on the small size. I'm making my life very complicated aren't I 😆

John Lewis comes up massively big in my experience.

@Elbie79 yes I've read the same. Do you think their Tiny Baby will do as the Newborn size? Having measured their Tiny Baby sleepsuits they kind of look more like the size of some Newborn vests I have...

My DD was 2.5kg and was in JL tiny baby for aaaages. But, I've found it massively shrinks in the dryer. So although it's big, it doesn't last quite as long as i was expecting. M&S is really big as well and doesn't shrink as much in my view. I think as long as you have a few of each, you should be fine. Anyone who bought us clothes as gifts when baby arrived tended to buy 0-3 so you might end up with lots in that size anyway.

@GuidingSpirit good to know! I don't have a dryer so luckily don't have to worry about that. Don't have many friends here either, so I'm free to shop to my heart's content 😂