Are you gendering your baby?

I’m not really thinking about gender when i’m buying my clothes for my little one as I don’t really agree with clothes having a gender as such? I’ve brought her some cute pink sleep suits and a sweet christmas dress for next year which were in the girls section of the shop, but also a beautiful knitted dinosaur jumper that was in the boys section. I’ve also brought a load of neutrals from the unisex baby section. I really don’t think it matters - just buy whatever you think is cute and want to see your baby in ❤️

Bit of both? I buy my LO girly things mainly, but she also has neutral things too. She wears some of my nephew's old clothes too sometimes. I just buy what I think she will look nice in. And in terms of toys she has cuddly toys, and trains and cars, whatever she's interested in! I wouldn't put pressure on yourself to just do one or the other, see what you feel when your baby arrives 🙂 you do you though 😀

Bit of both. He's definitely been in some girly stuff just because I had prepared both

Kind of both? I don’t push specific colors or interests onto my boys. If they like trucks and blue? Cool. If they like pink and unicorns too? Also fine with me.

We’ve been buying gender neutral clothing since before lil dude came out of me! We went the entire pregnancy without knowing the gender and he looks fantastic in browns, greens, oranges & yellows! Lolol

Both for us too. I bought fairly gender specific clothes but my boy had a doll and pushchair and my girl plays with cars etc.

Yes pretty much. Im raising my son to be masculine like his father and my daughters to be feminine. I don’t dress my son in dresses and heels and I purchase a lot of pink for my daughters / dresses especially. As far as activities and professions are concerned I will nurture whatever they’re into as they age so if my daughter for example decides at a later time in her life that she’d like to be a firefighter and takes to baseball that wouldn’t be a negative for me. But generally speaking they won’t be raised thinking that they are non binary and that their sex is not relevant or has little to no place in their life or life in general.

I mean he wears blues/greens etc (boy colours) but he also wears a lot of cream, beige, navy etc so a lot of neutrals just because I prefer it to colour.

Both 🤷🏼‍♀️ mostly neutral/green clothes at the moment (I hate “girly” colours, and she’s too young to choose) and toys, I buy what she gravitates towards; she has dolls & cars. When she’s older she can choose whatever she likes. Wants to be a ballerina great 👍🏻 wants to be a boxer great. They’re going to be independent adults one day, not your pets to mould into what you’d like them to be

@Donna I couldn't have said this better if I tried to!

My son and daughter have both been gendered into blue/greens and pinks/purples. They are 2 and 6 months. Not old to enough to know their colors fully let alone gender. And if one day they decide something for themselves, so be it. But for now mom picks out the clothes and I choose pinks and purples for my daughter and blue and green for my son. If you’d like to go the way of gender neutral it’s really about picking the colors and styles you like. If you see something pink you want him to wear go for it or sticks to tans, browns, reds, yellows colors that are on both sides of the store. But if you do by from the girls side for you son maybe go up a size or two because weirdly enough the cuts are gonna be different so it might not fit how you intend

Neither on purpose. My 4 month old daughter has lots of stuff from the girls section (its fun to buy) but she also wears lots of clothes I saved from my almost 3 year old. I buy most of the kids clothes from a local consignment shop which care about quality and is cheaper and avoid anything that specifically mentions gender. The boys section seems to be better to shop in for that for both fit and better range of colours in clothing items without bows.

My kids are older but I stick to their gender when I shop for clothes. What I want is Roblox/minecraft clothes for girls or paw patrol or pink dinosaur tops. I guess I like certain colours and my daughter likes to copy me or her classmates. My son id try and buy bright colours which is difficult in itself as most of it looks so dull.

My lo (boy) has a mixed wardrobe just full of funky and fun colors (teal,pink,sage,red,purples,yellow)as well as neutrals.

I love pink so I do buy a lot of pink stuff and will probably buy my boys pink stuff too but I do mostly gender neutral clothing. We have girly toys like purses and make up and if we have a boy I don’t care if they play with that stuff. I also like a lot of gender neutral names

I bought what I thought was cute. I don’t care what aisle it came from. Now that my children are a bit older, they tend to pick what they personally like. That said, my son and daughter both play with dolls, trucks, dinosaurs and their kitchen set. Clothes are clothes, and toys are just toys.

Obsessed with everything pink for my little girl. She also loves cars and trucks. Her nursery is travel theme. Her name is gender neutral. Whatever you and your baby are into is what I recommend. You and your baby will naturally gravitate towards certain things and have certain preferences. Dont try too hard.

Pink is the colour I buy for my daughter for most stuff, because pink is just pretty for anyone really. But if I want to go gender neutral I’ll choose grey or white

I just buy my baby whatever i like and think is cute 😅😅 she has a lot of boy clothes especially footsies but as long as you do their hair real cute it adds that “girly” affect

They will be who they will be. It doesn’t matter if u buy them all the girly or boy things if they end up gay or lesbian then that’s who they r and it doesn’t matter what u buy them. They will be who they r meant to be. Don’t stress too much

Kind of both? I don’t want to limit my son to just boy stuff because I read baby dolls are really good play for both genders (finding their autonomy, etc) + I get a lot of different colors for him to explore & play with. He loves his monster trucks & dinosaurs but he also loves to play w his aunts old pony’s & unicorns lol. I’m cool with whatever for now 🩵

We shop in the boy clothes section for our son if that's what you're asking. Girl clothes are super tight and he likes trucks and such.

I had all boy clothes when my son was born and I'm teaching my son to be masculine .

The amount of people on here that think that the clothes you dress your toddlers in and toys they place with will affect their sexuality is alarming..

About the colors as he is my 1st baby we tried to choose most neutral because then it the next baby is a girl it would be a waste 🤭 just a practical thing I would let them play with what they want and do the activities they want and support them, however I strongly disagree with the « you can choose your gender » movement. Yes you can be a boy and like pink and danse AND it doesn’t make you a girl at all ! My brother was convinced he was a rabbit when he was a kid, he was even trying to make his ear growing 😂😂 so a kid can’t chose his gender and has to know who he is and that his activities and tastes don’t determine his gender

I did both

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I buy my son boy clothes and toys that are considered boys things but he still plays with my daughters dolls and pink toys and vice versa. I don’t stop them but I buy them things that are tailored towards the sex they were born. I have gender neutral clothes from my son that I have saved for my daughter.

Agree with @Ellie-May I have a friend who was always "told" she was a girl and dressed very girly by her very religious parents and guess what - they're transgender now, removed their breasts etc and very happy in themselves. And their parents absolutely refuse to accept them. It's just sad. I will be teaching my son that he can be whatever he wants, even though now I dress him mostly like a boy because that's his assigned sex (not necessarily gender!). If he later on decided to cross dress or transition he will have my full support and love.

Also you can't teach a kid to be feminine or masculine. They either are gay or straight, or non binary or whatever it is, and nothing you do will change that. It's GENETIC.

We bought things from every section. I had a child who owns a uterus after 2 boys. They wore boy hand me downs as well as girl stuff. My next child was a boy. He wore girl hand me downs and boy stuff.