Hmm...
So we decided not to find out Peter's sex before he was born and kept it for a surprise at his birth (and a surprise it was as I was convinced he was a girl throughout!) We have stocked up on lots of white and cream baby clothes, as well as things in navy, brick red and green, including his white wooly pram suit with ears - much needed, given the current weather.
Anyway, today we went for a walk to the post office and to pick up a toy box and a few other errands, including stops at the supermarket and the card shop. Because it is a bit chilly, Peter was wearing his pram suit and was wrapped in a white knitted shawl with a lacy edge. Along the way Peter was well and truly admired (only to be expected with such a gorgeous baby ). And not once but twice people said, 'Oh, it's a girl, isn't it?'! And when I said, 'No, he's a boy' they replied, 'Oh, I just assumed because of what he is wearing.'
Now I am paranoid that I am going to completely screw with my poor son's gender identity by dressing him in all the knitwear I have made for him. There is even a small outfit trimmed in a peach tone that might be taken for pink! But since when did white and fluffy come to be associated with girls rather than small, cuddly babies of either sex? ?
[Modified by: TheHistoryGirl on 12 March 2009 17:24:41 ]
Anyway, today we went for a walk to the post office and to pick up a toy box and a few other errands, including stops at the supermarket and the card shop. Because it is a bit chilly, Peter was wearing his pram suit and was wrapped in a white knitted shawl with a lacy edge. Along the way Peter was well and truly admired (only to be expected with such a gorgeous baby ). And not once but twice people said, 'Oh, it's a girl, isn't it?'! And when I said, 'No, he's a boy' they replied, 'Oh, I just assumed because of what he is wearing.'
Now I am paranoid that I am going to completely screw with my poor son's gender identity by dressing him in all the knitwear I have made for him. There is even a small outfit trimmed in a peach tone that might be taken for pink! But since when did white and fluffy come to be associated with girls rather than small, cuddly babies of either sex? ?
[Modified by: TheHistoryGirl on 12 March 2009 17:24:41 ]
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Even when she's dressed head to toe in pink people come up and say "isn't he lovely". I just look at them bemused until they put two and two together!
cameron used to have a white pram suit in the shape of a bear hun, he's still very much a mucky, boisterous little boy!
xx
Listef, Peter is certainly boisterous! But he was asleep at the time which can be rather misleading...
On saying that on one occasion he was head to toe in blue with a top saying "mummy's new man" on it and was told I had such a beautiful girl!!
Jaimi-Lee was dressed head to toe in pink one day (as everyday lol) and a stupid lady asked if she was a boy or a girl, duh!!! :x
Sharon x
I dressed him in the whites and blues obviously but several times when my mum had looked after him i went round to cllect him only to find him a pink cardie(he was cold,so my mum said,and it was the only cardie in the house lol)
I hold my hands up to putting tights on him in winter and his fave ITNG character is Daisy and he has a doll of her he carries everywhere and takes to bed(hes 19mths now ha)
If they're wearing little pink frilly clothes or dungarees with diggers on, though, you'd have thought people would be able to put two and two together....
Gabe is 10 months old hun and he still wears white things on a regular basis ... I just like them! The other day he was in a cream jacket and had a white dummy. He was getting his picture took & the photographer said "How old is she?" lol.
He also has a white snowsuit with ears that he wore till very recently!
PS Zackys got a white snowsuit as well. It was either the white (mothercare) limited edition one with the cute paw prints on the feet, or the black Baby K one (those were the only 2 i could find at short notice). The black 1 looked like a more girly style to me so didnt have it LOL.