I feel like I'm at a total loss on how to dress a girl after having 2 boys. I have quite a few dresses that people have given me in size 3 months and 6 months. They just seem so impractical at that age.
DD is 6 weeks now and in size 3 month clothes (pretty much has been since the beginning, almost 9lbs and birth). And it just seems like they would ride up and be in the way considering most of her day is spend nursing, getting diapers changed and she's swaddled for naps.
Also, I have yet to put a headband or any of the cute little shoes people have given us. She just lives in onesies and pants for the most part.
DD was a fall baby so I started putting her in dresses when it warmed up in the spring. She wore headbands occasionally but almost never wore shoes before she could stand.
She's 4 and we just got to a place where we care about dresses...lol. It was hot when she was born. Then it was cold. Then she had strong opinions on clothes for awhile.
We did casual dresses leggings when she could walk but we both preferred other things. Now at PreK she likes them and it's a uniform.
The pretty frilly/grilly dresses still don't happen here real often.
Even for major holidays (half of which are freezing here) I picked something other than a dress.
The first week. It was August and hot so I'd put her in a little dress and socks. We were gifted mostly sleepers and dresses. I think just onesies without pants are odd but I'm a weirdo.
DD was a summer baby, so she was in lots of dresses until she was 8-9 months (crawling) and then I put her in dresses again when she preferred walking (14 months).
Oh, and I love the way sweater dresses look and feel with tights. I figured I'd better put dresses on now because once she is crawling I don't see myself putting her in dresses.
Post by zeewifeandmama on Oct 11, 2015 10:07:55 GMT -5
As a newborn, just if we were going somewhere special or for pics. As she got older I mostly gravitated toward skirts and she just became pretty obsessed with them at 6.
Post by thatgirl2478 on Oct 11, 2015 10:09:48 GMT -5
For babies I like the one piece rompers that incorporate the diaper cover/shorts with the dress.
They both wore a few when they were younger, but not a whole lot. Usually during the summer when it didn't matter if they rode up a bit. Same goes for regular shirts/pants.
DD1 LOVES dresses and wears them about 4 times a week. However, that didn't really start until she was maybe 3. DD2 gets put in a dress occasionally, but they are hard because crawling is still her fastest mode of transportation.
As a newborn, just if we were going somewhere special or for pics. As she got older I mostly gravitated toward skirts and she just became pretty obsessed with them at 6.
I have so many brand new baby dresses that were worn once if at all. By 9 months, it was summer and I put her in short dresses/long tops with shorts or pants. Then when she turned 2 and had a mind of her own, it was all dresses.
As for shoes, she wore zero shoes except 3 events until age 1. All those shoes -never worn. But I was home with her. Maybe if she went to daycare?
She wore a dress home from the hospital and has worn one at least once a week since birth. She's just now crawling so maybe they'll become a nuisance but so far I've had zero problems with her wearing dresses.
Post by redpenmama on Oct 11, 2015 10:26:28 GMT -5
I received many infant-sized dresses as gifts, but she only wore them for special occasions and pictures. Like you said, they felt impractical when she was spitting up and pooping all over the place and we were just hanging out around the house.
By the summer she turned 1 and was walking, I started putting her in casual sundresses, and we have kept dresses in the wardrobe lineup ever since.
Post by jeaniebueller on Oct 11, 2015 11:04:45 GMT -5
I sometimes put dd in a dress with leggings now (16 months). I rarely did it before she walked. It was too much of a pain. And I hear you, after being a boy mom for 5 1/2 years, all of the girls stuff is still brand-new to me.
Right away, but she was a summer baby, so I didn't have to worry about tights or cardigans. I loved those one-piece Carters dresses with the attached bloomers when DD was tiny.
I'm glad more people came in saying right away. I couldn't figure out what I was missing. It never crossed my mind not to put her in dresses.
DD was born in January and it rained the day we took her home. Maybe the cold weather is the reason we didn't put her in dresses. That summer she was crawling, which is also bad for dresses. So she wore them the following summer when she was a walker.