Is gender-neutral baby gear “out”?
I’ve always thought I’d like to wait until birth to find out the gender of my baby, and just buy lots of white and green baby clothes, bedding, etc.
However, on all the baby shows I watch people go all-out pink or blue, and on this forum people suggest buying all the stuff you need after you find out the baby’s gender at 20 weeks.
So if your second child is a different gender, do you spend tons of money on all-new baby gear of a new color?
What did you/ will you do with your baby?
It would make sense to buy cheap things, like clothes, in either pink or blue after the baby is born. I’m just confused about why you’d spend several hundred dollars on an all pink (or all blue) nursery, car seat, stroller, etc. 
You can just buy clothes in either pink or blue, babies don’t care about fashion.
My experience has been that after the baby is born, people will overload you with gifts regardless of whether you had a shower or not. That’s when I got a lot of outfits. In the first month or so, you really don’t need much more than sleepers and onesies anyway.
No I like it on babies. White, green, tan, and yellows. It doesn’t confine baby clothes as to being a color for a certain sex. Gender neutral colors are always in and look classic without conforming to trends.
My first is a boy and my second I think is a girl lol. I will probably use gender neutral nursery but I will go thru my sons clothes to see what I can use again.
I bought whites, yellows, greens, blues, tans…
I had two boys. I knew the sex before they were born.
It doesn’t matter, the pink/blue thing is useless.
I know of someone that dressed their baby girl in pink and people approached her to say “oh, what a cute boy!”.
It is silly to me to do ALL blue or ALL pink.
Useless and a waste of energy.
I think your best sticking to your original idea. Stick with pale pastel colors. Like green and yellow. You should try and definatley avoid pink and blue, as that does usually resemble boy/girl theme. You also might want to consider that white clothes and baby food stains don’t go too well. So if you bought white, you’d probably be bleaching those white clothes for many years! From the beginning I would probably buy one or two yellow outfits, then once the baby’s been born go out and buy some more clothes. As for bedding, you could probably go for a white quilt with a design of stars or something. Anything that resembles neutral items. Personally, I hate surprises, so I wouldn’t be doing any guessing. But if I was in your shoes, that’s probably what I would do.
Gender neutral clothes are definitely “out”. All babies are bald and unless you want everyone wondering what your “it” baby is a boy or a girl, then dress them appropriately.
Yes, once you find out at the sonogram, buy away but save the tags and receipts (just in case). Also, have a baby shower!
And regarding the second child, yes, buy new clothes. As a second child, I HATED the hand me downs. Plus, especially unless you plan on getting pregnant with another child right away the style will be out.
Just my advice but don’t go out and spend a ton of money on clothing. Walmart and Target are just fine to buy baby clothes when they will only wear them a few months. They grow out of them SOOOO fast. Plus, they spit up and the stain them too, so dont spend a ton. Have that one designer outfit and call it a day. And you save a ton and no one will ever know. A rule of thumb when you are buying while you are pregnant:
Buy the clearance for the upcoming seasons…. ie if you are having a summer baby and you find out the sex of your baby in March, then buy up all the winter wear that is now on clearance. Size=twice their monthly age (usually, typically, generally) For example, if they are 6 months old, they will wear 12 month clothes and so on…..
of course not people will get those famous colors soon as you find out the little ones gender…KEEP IT SIMPLE..until you see what you dont have…and what you need
The baby doesn’t care initially but you as a parent will. If you go out in public and some keeps calling your little girl a boy and vice-versa it will annoy the heck out of you. If you really cant afford to buy a whole new set of baby gear, pick out the neutral colors that you have and buy a little of the rest. If you have a washer at home don’t buy a lot when they are really young anyway because they outgrow it so quickly that its not worth the hassle.
You can still find lots of gender neutral clothing, if you look around. I found tons of very cute beige, light blue (very cute on little girls too), dark earthy greens, etc. for my son. I then used most of his old baby clothes for my daughter when she came along.
The best thing you can do when you’re preparing for a new baby is read lots of books and never, ever watch trendy baby television programs. They’re just trends, and while a few people follow the wave of rampant consumerism, most people in the real world just do what works.
i’m 29 weeks and waiting to find out. i figured that when the next one comes we’ll have clothes for it to. and i absolutly love not knowing. some people are frustrated with me about the decision .
I personally think it’s silly to make babies only wear certain colours. I mean come on, they’re babies! They don’t care, and how do you know your baby girl won’t grow up to have blue be her favourite colour? I believe in making the nursery as stimulating as possible, and this means exposing them to all the colours and the brighter the better (I don’t like pastels :p)!
I find a lot of people on here say they want to know the sex because white, beige and green gets old. I think that’s silly! Even if you do want to avoid pink and blue, there’s a whole spectrum of colours out there! Honestly I wouldn’t even avoid blue, I just wouldn’t get EVERYTHING in it (now that would get old!).
I don’t really consider gender neutral as being out. However, since the doc is pretty certain I’m having a boy, I find myself leaning towards buying more blue clothing than I initially intended. Thankfully, the clothing is neutral enough style wise to where a little girl could wear it too. A girl can get away with wearing blue, a boy can’t get away with wearing pink. (My favorite color as a kid was blue, I didn’t usually care for pink)
Most of our gear is neutral, and my baby’s room is green. Just his clothes are blue. I would hate to have a pink or baby blue carseat, stroller, etc.
I knew the sex of my baby simply because I had to have an amnio…I still have gender neutral stuff. The bedroom is in cute little zoo pattern with red and beige walls. The swing and those type of accessories are in the black on beige “french” pattern…Car Seats Grey. A lot of those car seats and stuff have different colored covers that can be replaced for less money than the whole thing but still…I agree with you!
OH… I have a cousin that brought her little girl home to a blue room decorated in baseballs because the sonogram was wrong!!!
I bought a good bit of green and white stuff (green is my favorite color anyway). After I found out I was having a little boy I got a few blue items.
The whole “blue or pink” thing wasn’t a big issue for me since this is the only baby I’m having, so i don’t have to worry about whether it’ll work for the second baby.
If you’re planning to have more than one I’d go with neutral colors and then supplement with a few pink or blue pieces after birth.