Well, it's not like there's much in the way of androgynous baby clothes to be found.
Another girl would definitely be easier on the pocketbook, at least in the short term.
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Susan W. - Mar 03, 2005 9:22:42 am PST #4258 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Aims - Mar 03, 2005 9:25:10 am PST #4259 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Yeah there was PINK IM A GIRL and BLUE IM A BOY. Even the green or yellow stuff was boyish or girly.
Susan W. - Mar 03, 2005 9:27:22 am PST #4260 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Yep. One of the fun parts about Annabel getting older is having an easier time finding bright and dark colors for her, but it's still a choice of GIRL GIRL GIRL or baby drag 90% of the time.
juliana - Mar 03, 2005 9:30:10 am PST #4261 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Best of luck to Robin's fam.
Well, it's not like there's much in the way of androgynous baby clothes to be found.
I remember someone saying they just bought all white and dyed as they saw fit. It sounds like a reasonable thing to do, but I may be a little over-invested in my "no pastels" edict.
Um, not that I am pregnant or planning to be within the next year-plus. IJS.
Lyra Jane - Mar 03, 2005 9:30:21 am PST #4262 of 10001
Up with the sun
Aimee, good on you for giving blood. I too hope you do not throw up.
Susan, the laundry-pen marker seems sound. And I hate the idea that when/if I have a kid, my choice is likely to be GIRL GIRL GIRL or BOY BOY BOY -- it just seems kind of overkillish.
Betsy HP - Mar 03, 2005 9:32:06 am PST #4263 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I may be a little over-invested in my "no pastels" edict.
Back in the '90s, you could buy nice brilliant primary colors... on the boy's side. Our daughter wore lots of "boy's" OshKosh overalls in red and yellow and blue.
beth b - Mar 03, 2005 9:33:00 am PST #4264 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
yay for Utah and Amyparker!
glad to here your niece is checked in. may her road to recovery be hard enough so that she never goes back , but not so hard that it hurts the rest of the family.
juliana - Mar 03, 2005 9:35:11 am PST #4265 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I can't believe I forgot - YAY AMYPARKER!!! (I miss her.)
Our daughter wore lots of "boy's" OshKosh overalls in red and yellow and blue.
This is a positively brilliant plan.
Susan W. - Mar 03, 2005 9:35:21 am PST #4266 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I remember someone saying they just bought all white and dyed as they saw fit. It sounds like a reasonable thing to do, but I may be a little over-invested in my "no pastels" edict.
It's reasonable if you're not me, the world's least domestic woman. To me, dying baby clothes is right up there with making my own baby food as "nice ideal, but if I expected myself to do it, I wouldn't, and it's not worth the guilt."
Topic!Cindy - Mar 03, 2005 9:38:19 am PST #4267 of 10001
What is even happening?
Robin, what beth said.
I just thought this was the normal way to do it, since my neighbor has always marked the stuff she's loaned us, and every time Annabel outgrows a size, I go through the old stuff before I box it away so I can give it back.I think your way is the normal way. I think I am the oddball. I didn't want to feel obligated to get stuff back to people, and assumed everyone else felt the same way. For the most part, except when Ben was a newborn, our babies came during good financial times. And even though it was a little harder when Ben was new, because we'd just given up my salary, he was our first child, and my parents' first grandchild, so it seemed we didn't have to buy much for him on our own.