Is it safe to decorate the nursery gender-specific colour?

[Cosmogirl]

Is it safe to decorate the baby's room based on what you were told at 20 week scan? We were told girl and I think I would like to do a nepolitan theme of brown, pink and cream.....

Is it better to wait until after the birth to be sure? Don't know if we'll have time for painting once lo gets here though

A baby won't care a monkeys what colour the room is. Most people find it easier to have the baby in the same room as them in the early weeks. It makes night feeds far less work.

If I was you I would keep the baby in your room for the first 6 months and decorate the room to suit either a pre school boy or a pre school girl.

Or if you really want the nursery decorated pick something netural that both boys and girls like for example, "Tweenies", "Numberjacks", "Winnie the Pooh" or if you don't want cartoon characters pain the room yellow and then put up posters to suit the child's age.

i wouldn't. but only because I know a couple of people whose 20 week scans have been wrong lol

you'll prob want to have your baby in with you for the first few months, so I would wait and decorate once baby is here and you know for definite.

or, do the cream and brown and then add in either blue or pink after? lol

i know how hard it is to wait though

My 20-week scan girl is in Year 3 at an all-boys school. And my sonographer didn't hint that she could be wrong.

Hi Cosmo
Dont really have a view but hurray for nursery decorating! enjoy!

My sonographer said he was "as absolutely certain as I can be" and told us we were having a DS. Then he treated us to a full frontal. We did have a DS, but his room is pale green!

Wall stickers are a brilliant way of adding pattern to a plain wall with little effort or artistic talent.

Something like this

DS has these on his pale green background
tree

They really are harmless, we have the thinnest skim of plaster and they peel off easily and leave no marks.

And my 20 and 28 week scan little boy isn't a little boy at all!

I'd stick with neutral (fortunately I did apart from a few cute boy clothes ... she wore them anyway and looks at pic's now asking who that baby boy is)

I decorated my DDs room pink when I was pregnant with her. Wouldn't do it again. She has now moved into the bigger room as found the small room really cramped. Her new room is cream, with all pink accessories, pink sheet, rug etc and it looks much better. We do have some pink wall stickers too which just add to the pink of it all. I prefer the cream room to the pink one, altough I never thought I would say it. I just found out she was a girl and went pink pink pink!!

Ok, now I'm worried the sonographer has got it wrong! No decorating for me....We did see the three white lines if that makes it any more exact. Would a boy have three white lines?

GYo - hi! Thought I should try and start to think about getting organised soon, but with the sickness I am so unmotivated I prob won't get around to actually doing anything before the birth!

No rush, my DD is 20 months and we are nearly ready to decorate her room for the first time and only because baby no 2 is arrving in approx 3 weeks...must have missed the pfb thing here lol.

Just paint the room white, buy some basic neutral furniture (moses basket with white sheets, Baby Bjorn bouncy chair, a little white wooden clothes rail with hangers) and wait until your baby is here. Your feelings about decorations will change a lot once your baby is with you. And she should be sleeping in your room for the first six months anyway.

I did...

But one of the first questions I asked in the delivery room was 'It is a girl, isn't it?' I even found myself watching the scan on my DVD player, obsessing over those three lines!

I was very nervous, having done it. I think it is quite unlikely for them to be wrong, but if you prefer to err on the side of caution, just do the cream and brown, and add pink or blue when lo arrives.

hi cosmo

could you decorate the room green that would suit either dds room is green colour paint called peapod.
or as pinkj suggets u couild do the cream and brown gr8 idea would suit either

all baby needs is safe loving environment.if you are chomping to complete - neutral colour

but yes complete any tasks now,you wont want to when baby arrives

we have neutral colours.not gender specific.

congratulations

lovely that you want to decorate your nursery...we were told that ds1 was a boy and we painted in nice farrow and ball colours...apple green, hessian and cream and it was all very calm and lovely, bought an old rocking chair to breast feed the baby in and had lovely floaty voile curtains. stripped wooden floors and a lovely old victorian fireplace......

later on we realised we need blackout curtains, i found it really difficult to get out the chair with baby and actually he spent the first 4 months in our bedroom and during the day had his naps in moses basket around the house....

Just to be controversial - why does it have to be a particular colour scheme anyway? The neapolitan thing sounds lovely - would it really scar a boy for life if they were wrong?

We spend most of our lives having gender expectations thrust upon us, and being pushed into roles/clothes/attitudes etc...can't we let them just be loved babes for a few months first?? I am having a girl but have told no-one as I can't bear the thought of everyone going all pink on me!

Just some thoughts!

PS wider your room did sound lovely, though!