My realization about baby boy clothes

stepgirl21 · August 2010

There are so many baby boy outfits that include stretchy knit pants. Im sure they are comfy for baby but I just think it is kind of funny. At what age would you no longer dress your son in stretch pants. I like my son to look like a little man and since I dont see too many men around wearing stretch pants, I think I will put him in real pants/jeans most of the time.

hannah&ben · August 2010

Henry has 1 pair of jeans and 1 pair of khaki cargo pants (why do babies need that many pockets? :P

Anyway... He wears those occasionally for when we go out to dinner or something but generally I still put the stretchy pants on him. I cannot imagine that the jeans and stuff are comfortable. I also wouldn't make him wear them for naps and I don't really want to mess with changing his clothes twice a day for naps so stretchy pants it is

I'm also on of those who wants her baby to look like a baby for a while (I have a 5 year old and a 12 year old, I know how fast time really flies and am in no hurry to make him look grown up!!!!

Hannah

JGirl2005 · August 2010

a lot on here don't like babies in jeans...I don't know why as I DO!

That said, DS still wears kinda stretchy pants, but not too often. I think we stopped around 1 year. He wears shorts for summer now.

I feel that boys look like little men more than babies too early, but maybe that is me.

duke'sgirl · August 2010

I felt the same way! I loved putting him in jeans/khakis/linen pants with polos and thought he looked so cute, but the stretchy pants started to be more and more a staple. He was always sleeping, cuddling, laying around, and the cotton pants seemed so much more comfortable (and fleece was so warm during the winter!). I like to be in something comfortable to sleep, so he should be too. Summer was different b/c they have many more outfit options (still made of soft cotten) & cute, comfy shorts, but it doesn't look like he's in sweat pants all the time!

Dress him however you want!! He'll be adorable in anything!

cjsbdl · August 2010

I loved the stretchy pants! They seemed so comfy. And I'm like Hannah...I have wanted to keep Henry in "baby-ish" clothes as long as possible...I don't want him to look like a little man. Honestly, he never wore pants with buttons and zippers until the last month or so.

That said, I've recently started to have to buy him more "big boy" clothes like jeans and shorts, because he's currently in size 24M and they just don't make baby clothes any bigger.

I have been really bummed about it.

Different strokes for different folks.

emiannie · August 2010

Miles was born at the end of June. He wore just onesies for most of his first few months. But when it started getting cool out, I put him in jeans. I got the fleece lined ones though so they'd be soft and cozy. He rarely wore jeans that weren't fleece lined. I always dressed him like a little man and I'll admit, I miss the baby stage, but I think he looked so much cuter in those jeans than stretchy pants. :-)

He wore a lot of stuff from Children's Place...so he looked like a little man. He did a lot of sweat pants and wind pants too if I wanted him to be more comfy than in the jeans.

sasa625 · August 2010

I have a girl, but I wanted to add that while adorable, sometimes the jeans/khakis can be hard for the LOs to move around in at first. I would rather put DD in jeans/khakis, but she can't crawl in these and gets very frustrated. It's easier in the summer when they are shorts, but until she can walk (and at this rate that will be when she's 2!!) we have to settle for the stretch pants. I just don't want to take the time to have to match clothes, and everything goes with jeans

Germanwife2b · August 2010

When babies start scooching and crawling all over the floor, you kind of want them in stretchy cotton (whenever I put jeans or khakis on him, he had a hard time getting around and I ended up changing him). I think I am also in the camp of wanting to keep my baby looking a baby as long as possible. Once he was up and walking and really proficient, he started wearing more big kid clothes...but in the winter, when we are just hanging around the house, I still dress him for comfort- so stretchy cotton pants it is. Going out, he wears the cute pants and nice shirts!

Dochas · August 2010

We just found newborn stretchy pants. At night my DH and I like to get into comfy pants (fleece in winter, cotton in summer) and call them our "lounging clothes". We were so thrilled to find lounging pants for the baby. lol. I don't know when we'll get tired of them though. I think I'm going to be crazy for rompers!

That's so funny about the pockets. My DH is obsessed with them. He said "what's the pocket for - his giant keys won't fit in there".

kristinem17 · August 2010

Nikolas rarely wears the cargo pants or jeans that I are in his closet. In fact, he mostly, like 90% of the time is in a onesie. When we have an occasion or are out and about for the day I dress him in an outfit, but because most of the time we are at home or strolling in the neighborhood, and it's HOT here year 'round, a onesie is the way to go. And of course because he is a shortie, most of the jeans/cargo pants etc are long on him anyway.

somethingchangd · August 2010

We pretty much never did stretchy pants, so you definitely don't have to! Ollie wore footies pretty much all the time for the first month or 2, then moved into mostly Zutano-esque rompers. But once Fall hit (and he was 6 months or so) he was in jeans or corduroys and the like. This summer every pair of shorts he wears have buttons/zippers, I think. I take his pants off for naps (and put a sleep sack over his diaper/shirt) and he seems perfectly comfortable in them during the day. I'm like you - I just don't like how he looks in stretchy pants. ::shrug::

nicolita14w · August 2010

Another big fan of the stretchy pants here, and another mommy who wants to keep her little ones looking like babies as long as possible.

DH has started to say "Mommy's having some trouble with the transition to toddlerhood" at some of the outfits I put DS#1 in. He says they are too babyish. Sigh, I just don't want him to grow up too fast!

BizEB · August 2010

We only do stretchy stuff for the first 3 months, then they are all in outfits. I'm in the "dress them like little adults" camp so my boys will be in khakis and sweater vests and my girl will be in dresses or an outfit.

crystalgirl · August 2010

DS happens to be wearing stretchy pants right now! He only wears them at home at this point, though. (I think we probably stopped wearing them out around the time he started walking??) Whenever he goes anywhere, he wears jeans or something like that. So, this morning he was in jeans because we were out, but at naptime I changed him to comfy pants. He's stayed in them for the rest of the day.

I love babies in jeans, but I really don't think they're very comfortable when they're tiny.

kimarino13 · August 2010

My girls aren't comfortable in jeans around the house. We love stretchy pants. They're so much more practical on so many levels!

gramos1128 · August 2010

I agree that they are more comfy and easy to move in. DS just started crawling but its summer so he is mostly in onesies or pj's at all times unless we go out he is in cargo shorts or athletic shorts so he can move around. I love dressing him little a little man once in a while but I also think its cute for him to look liike a baby until he starts walking. I love having him in onesies most of the time. I always though he looked funny in little man outfits so little because they are so big and bulky on them!

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