Preparing for Team Green

suprsuz

Hey everyone.  Just relocated from August 16 to July 16   I currently have a 15 month old daughter and this time we are team green. For all of you who have been team green before, how did you prepare for new born stuff?  I plan to have nb pics done in the hospital and I guess I will need to have a girl outfit and a boy outfit for pictures...  seems overkill, but I don't want nb pics done in neutral clothes... 

LDSJM123

That's my plan! To have a few gender specific outfits and headbands ready for pictures/hospital/meeting their big sister. But the bulk will be gender neutral. I really want the baby to have a "I'm the little ( )" shirt, so I'm buying one of each. Overkill? Maybe. But I know I can sell it in my local moms buy/sell page .

PhoebeJune1984

This is my second time being Team Green. 

I always heard the comments "be prepared for a lot of yellow and green!" and "There is nothing cute in the gender neutral area, especially in newborn...." When it came to clothing, we bought a girl outfit and a boy outfit for when the baby came home. My DD will be in the newborn pictures with baby, but we don't do the hospital ones (we are hiring someone, same person that did DD's baby pictures), and I don't want to be shopping for something after having a c-section. So I got DD a lace vintage looking dress off of Etsy, and then I am getting a ruffle romper for if baby is a girl, and a little shorts set if baby is a boy. Clothing in general, has changed for me. With DD, I bought a lot of things with ducks or animals, bought hoodies in colors like orange/red/dark gray. I think I went overboard, because I was shopping up to 9mo, and really, I only needed about a weeks worth of outfits and then I would (obviously) know what the sex was and bought the rest later. This baby, my taste in clothing has changed, and we actually aren't getting a gender specific outfit for coming home. DD and I went on the Lou Lou and Company website and I let her help me pick out a more boyish blanket, and a girly blanket. The only outfit we are bringing, is the white Baby Gap footed sleeper. When we announce baby is here, he/she will be in the Baby Gap footies, and just wrapped in the gender specific blanket. But like I said....we aren't doing hospital pictures, since we are having them done outside the hospital. 

MotherOfDucks

LDSJM123 said:

That's my plan! To have a few gender specific outfits and headbands ready for pictures/hospital/meeting their big sister. But the bulk will be gender neutral. I really want the baby to have a "I'm the little ( )" shirt, so I'm buying one of each. Overkill? Maybe. But I know I can sell it in my local moms buy/sell page .

I'm getting one of each for that as well.

For the most part, @PhoebeJune1984 is totally spot on. You only need about a week's worth of GN clothing. It's easy to keep other baby stuff GN. A crib, some blankets etc. It doesn't all need to be yellow or green either. Gray. Aquamarine. Some stuff that isn't "defined" as girl or boy. Anything pastel is "baby colored."

Last time, DH found out and I didn't. So he picked up (and hid) boy stuff.

ETA: Planning a home birth. So no hospital pictures or going home outfit needed. I am going to get some cute home birth themed onesies, though.

PhoebeJune1984

Also, I don't know if this happened for any other Team Green people, but when I had DD, the people that came into the hospital to see her....all brought outfits (even people that had gotten us a gift at the shower). Its like they were so excited, they couldn't help themselves at that point. HAHA! So we ended up coming home with a handful of outfits as well, which was awesome because my DD was over 9 pounds, so she fit in newborn size for like a day. Once she was born, they all knew how big she was, when they stopped at the store before coming to the hospital. 

xc1148

I just bought neutral clothing. I have no desire to spend time specially dressing a two week old lol. When we went to the hospital I brought one boy pj set and one girl. 

After that, I didn't have to buy anything because people bought tons of clothes for pretty much the first 9 months. Probably more so because we were team green! 

noelietrex

We are preparing for newborn stuff that's gender neutral. We're planning to be team green forever until our child can decide what they want to wear themselves. Our baby will be wearing a lot of white, grey, and lime green. Hopefully no one buys us gendered clothes after they're born... Guess we should probably mention it.

pourmeanothermocktail

I don't need gendered clothing either. Like purples and greens and browns. My only request is even if it's a girl, no frilly stuff even afterward.

DobbysSock

We were team green with DD. I just bought neutral clothes up to 3 months (I had heard some babies don't fit newborn). I bought enough to last a week or two without doing laundry. All bedding and big items were neutral anyways because I knew we'd have more than one kid and didn't want to have to buy new things. I didn't really care much about a going home outfit but I did get a fuzzy brown bear onesie for her to go home in (January baby), which would have worked for either. 

If I was doing newborn photos in hospital, I would have bought an outfit for each sex, and then either returned, sold, or gifted the unneeded outfit after the baby was born.

It was hard to find a ton of neutral clothing, but I didn't really care if my newborn daughter wore a blue shirt with sharks on it or newborn son had a little white bow on his pajamas. This time around, if we have a boy, I don't care if he uses DD's purple blanket or wears a sleeper with a butterfly on it when the neutral ones are dirty, so I'm not stressing at all about preparing for a potential boy. If we have a boy I'll go buy some stuff once I'm feeling up to it. 

whataboutscience

I personally am not a big fan of gender neutral clothing. We had a girl first and I did not want people saying what a cute boy. We bought a few outfits for each gender and people gave us a few neutral things that we used (mostly just around the house), but I was excited to go shopping for cute girl clothes when she was a few days old. We had enough that we could have waited, but I didn't want to. We also had a lot of people buy outfits after DD was born which helped a lot.

Btw @suprsuz , I have a 16 month old so our kids are spread out almost the same. 2u2 club here we come.

suprsuz

@whataboutscience yay for being crazy! Lol. Thanks everyone for your feedback!

Taymiller

noelietrex said:

We are preparing for newborn stuff that's gender neutral. We're planning to be team green forever until our child can decide what they want to wear themselves. Our baby will be wearing a lot of white, grey, and lime green. Hopefully no one buys us gendered clothes after they're born... Guess we should probably mention it.

Becareful with too much white, it gets gross fast!

TiffRox81

Team green here too! We found a super cute onesie at old navy that says I've Arrived. It is blue but I figure we can buy some purple or pink leggings to have on hand. The old navy clothes were 2/$12 that day so we bought some coordinating blue pants to go with it. We have quite a few neutral outfits already from my mom and friends that were also team green. I'm sure it won't take me long to buy the pink or blue after the birth!

thebigoaktree

I was actually surprised at the gender neutral clothes I found a baby r us today.

kayham12

I buy stuff from the Old Navy "boys" section for DD all the time.

Nerdchild

noelietrex said:

We are preparing for newborn stuff that's gender neutral. We're planning to be team green forever until our child can decide what they want to wear themselves. Our baby will be wearing a lot of white, grey, and lime green. Hopefully no one buys us gendered clothes after they're born... Guess we should probably mention it.

Pretty much this with one caveat: Batman. My husband is a huge fanatic, his whole man cave is Bat-art and framed comics. I bought two onesies, one with the classic black and yellow Bat symbol, another that says 'Batman is my hero, I'm his biggest fan'. I know people associate super heroes with boys, but I imagine our child, boy or girl, will just love the bonding experience of nerding out with their dad.

....unless I can betray my husband and convert them to Team Ironman.....

Eta: Also ducks, stars, crabs, and octopodes. My dad and I bonded most over our mutual fascination with space and I want to honor his memory with that. Ducks are my favorite animal, crabs and octopodes just make me go 'squeeee'.

rakel88

H&M has some super cute neutral stuff, btw! If you've got one nearby. Look at this cute thing! The ears!!

I've also gotten some other basic stuff that my mom bought (white and beige stripe). As at as other "stuff" I feel will be easy to prepare for.

My grandmother in Iceland is knitting up a storm apparently, but hasn't shown me anything. I'm dying to see it!

rlopezlavalle

I love neutral stuff! It doesn't have to be limited to green and yellow... Kids like all colors! Girls like more than just pink and boys like more than just blue until we (society) conditions them toward that.