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Dim question about socks
Do I really need to buy baby socks??
I just sort of imagined that whilst baby's small s/he will more-or-less permanently be in a babygro so I won't need any. What about when baby is just in a vest - do you find your little ones need their feet keeping warm in socks, or not?
Obviously when baby starts wearing "proper" clothes I'll put socks on him/her.
Thanks for your advice.
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I just sort of imagined that whilst baby's small s/he will more-or-less permanently be in a babygro so I won't need any. What about when baby is just in a vest - do you find your little ones need their feet keeping warm in socks, or not?
Obviously when baby starts wearing "proper" clothes I'll put socks on him/her.
Thanks for your advice.
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I have a weird thing about hating my feet to be hot (they always feel cold to the touch even if to me they feel the perfect temperature) so perhaps I need to be careful I don't let baby freeze his/her little toes off before I admit they're cold!
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It is normal for newborn babys hands and feet to feel cold so dont panic if your baby has cold feet even with socks on.
as for on the feet - tbh, i didnt like my lo being in a babygrow in the day (i dont have a problem with it, just thought it was like staying in pj's all day - plus had millions of outfits for them to wear!!), i liked that they were dressed, so did have sox!
(With the exception that Kelsie, 13 months, hasn't pulled them off his feet and is using them as a teething toy!!)
So I can see how it goes! Thanks again.
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PS Some of my babygros have little foldy-over bits on the arms which I recently realised are attachable scratch-mitts - genius!
Oh and I second the make sure they are very elasticy at the top as socks fall off babies!
Gabe was a May baby so for the first few months of his life we had a heatwave and he very rarely wore socks - he had his lil newborn feet dangling out free - I turned my back for a second once when I was in a lift in town, and a womans toddler in the next buggy was grabbing his feet!!! sooo funny.
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OVer summer he just went bare foot most of the time unless it was a bit chilly then he had socks and soft shoes outside - he loved having his bare feet up in the buggy feeling the breeze!
Now he has socks and slippers on in the house - the slippers are to keep the socks on mostly!
Definately worth having a few socks ready - i liked the little white towelling ones cause they stayed up quite well. We did end up getting tons of pairs of socks and scratch mits bought for us - probably a good job as we only had 2 pairs of socks!! Scratch mitts were rubbish though - cole kept pulling them off! He still doesn't like mittons!
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Primark also sell the fleece babygrows for 3 quid each which imo are much better than grow bags for night times, lo goes in their normal baby grow then the fleece baby grow & if the blankets get kicked off they dont get cold. Sonny still sleeps in 2 babygrows even now