what to dress a newborn in if you don't like 'clothes'?

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Sleepsuits look a little slattern and rompers aren't my cup of tea (as in the traditinal one that look like this.

I don't really want to dress my baby in jeans, but do I have any alternatives?!

Thanks.

H&M has a great baby range. I picked up lots of soft separates for DD here, soft trousers, tops etc. highly recommend them.

www.hm.com/gb/baby-mix-match

Gah. No idea how to do links on phone

Long and short sleeved vests, little sweatpants with cuffs at the ankles, cardigans or sweatshirts on top, little socks?

Mine wore babygros with a pramsuit over them.

Babies are not judged by adult sartorial standards.

They poop and pee and burp and dribble and people smile at them.

Worrying about what the baby wears, and looking in an assortment of shops for the perfect combination is an issue that applies to your first kid.

Second kid, you are pleased if the clothes you bought in the supermarket are not covered in puke.

Third kid, you are chuffed the boy's not wearing his sister's hand-me-downs when MIL pops in unannounced.

Fourth kid is in rags. Cosy rags, but rags none-the-less.

It doesn't matter. The issues are - is baby warm? Have you had a cup of tea? Worrying about formal wear for babies will make you go mental. Have a cup of tea, and wash everything together until it is a satisfying shade of grey

Happy to help.

The desire to 'keep up appearances' with regards to your newborn's attire is the same desire that leads to putting those gruesome shoes on non walking babies. And using lots of fake tan, probably.

I like sleep suits as I carry my children in an ergo all day and it's more comfy for them not to get all rucked up. Otherwise it's Bonpoint handmedowns

I second H&M.

I dressed up my firstborn (her clothes were always ironed, too). The second one spent her first six or nine months in three sleepsuits 24/7.

I just had a look at H&M online and they don't seem to have much online?? I might pop into the stores and just get a few soft sleepsuit things.

DS2 has a couple of smart quite non-pyjama babygros that he wears during the day still, and he is almost 1! I put a tank top or something over them if we are going out, but they are comfy and warm and it neatly avoids the issue of lost socks!

Oh God. Please buy YOURSELF a new set of pyjamas and wear them for a month after the baby is born. Don't struggle into tights and a short skirt (like I did) when they're a week old and start hawking them round the baby groups to 'prove' that you are 'coping'.

Try to avoid the following phrases for the first six weeks: 'get back to normal' 'only slatterns don't get dressed by noon' 'must do...' 'rod for my own back' 'if i don't get into a routine now, I never will...' 'let's have sex [because I want to prove that I'm not like those Other Women who won't have sex for months, not because I want to].'

Start early training to stop giving a shit about what other people think. If you and your baby like babygros (mine did, he screamed whenever I took his clothes off for a long time), go with it. They are lovely, soft, washable and altogether great. Just avoid the occasional weird ones that do up the back (apparently designed by someone who hasn't noticed that tiny babies LIVE on their backs and don't want to lie on a row of poppers.

babygrows and a cardigan.
www.nappyhead.co.uk/Stripy_Rompers.html

"Have a cup of tea, and wash everything together until it is a satisfying shade of grey"

I am nominating this for Quote Of The Week

DON'T put the baby in proper clothes.

They are called sleepsuits for a reason - babies sleep very frequently. I would not like to sleep in jeans. Little cotton or velveteen trousers are lovely, especially if they have attached feet. But no jeans.

joanofarchitrave oh don't worry about me, I am a lazy cow and wont be doing anything for weeks! Panic not colditz I am going with babygrows.

Surely it's 'slatternly'....

Anyway.

Buy multipacks of white baby gros and some pretty cardigans. I guarantee you won't give a hairy rat's arse about any of this when the baby arrives, you'll be more worried about things like how to get mustard coloured poo stains off the living room carpet and whether your utuerus is going to fall out when you cough.

*uterus

NOT WHITE due to mustard poo issue.....

beige is an excellent colour for children's clothes, as is orange, and brown.

I might get grey then I don't have to worry about washing them grey

The problem started when they stopped calling them babygro's and started calling them sleepsuits

Sleepsuits for the first few weeks, when the baby sleeps almost all the time. But from 2-3 months, when you want to encourage the baby to start thinking in terms of night and day :), I kept sleepsuits for bedtime and used clothes in the day so putting the sleepsuit on was part of the bedtime routine.

We just used little soft, jersey leggings and tops, sometimes leggings and a dress for DD, but all soft and comfortable. Warm cardie on top for going out. Short-sleeved popper bodysuit thing underneath in the cold. Sainsbury's, Mothercare, H&M etc are all good for these.

I can understand the slattern thing actually - I liked the feeling of getting my baby dressed for the day.

Lady you can do that anyway, new babygro in the morning.

bronze I was thinking about whether this is a cynical marketing ploy to make people buy more stuff for the baby?

TheSurgeonsMate I think you might be on to something there. Not enough money in just buying a batch of babygros - we have to make sure there is a revolving wardrobe of outfits for babies now.

Oh yes, pretty convinced it is. I call them babygro's as a matter of principle.

I had sleepsuits for night, and posher sleepsuits for the day, next do some lovely day sleepsuits :)

I only call them sleepsuits because I can never remember whether it should be babygros or babygrows.