Moms of toddler girls

slukd79 · June 2011

What type of swimsuit does your little girl wear?

I put DD in a 2 piece rashguard suit for more coverage, both from a sun safety standpoint and from a modesty standpoint. (I know I can be more conservative than most.)

But I just wondered what others do. One piece, bikini? If they are not in a bikini now, when do you plan to introduce/let them try?

megann831 · June 2011

she has a tankini, bikini that comes with a rash guard, and 2 one pieces. I really don't think much about it. The tankini was the only one I bought anyway, all the others were gifts

Melly Mel · June 2011

I use a swim shirt and a swim diaper. DD is very fair and I don't want her to burn. We only swim in my dad's pool so it really doesn't matter how cute it is lol. I am really not into baby bikinis.

Mrs.Cford · June 2011

She has a few different suits but none of them are bikini style; I am quite modest in that way. The little swim suits and tankini's are adorable but for protection I love the little swim shirts with bottoms or the one piece little 'surfer' type suits - short sleeves and pants (I'm not that modest)!

katie.i.do · June 2011

she has one pieces.

sucrets4 · June 2011

1 pieces and swim shirts w/ bottoms. I don't dig baby bikinis, although I love baby bellies. I never wore bikinis growing up (until MS when I asked for one, then my mom let me wear it in our backyard only) and am no worse for the wear.

And, ftr, I think that baby bikinis with triangle tops or other things that imitate adult suits are awful.

meg1974 · June 2011

She has a two-piece that isn't a bikini. It provides as much coverage as a one piece, but it's easier to get it on. I don't even know what a rashguard is LOL.

jjoli · June 2011

DD has a two piece, not a bikini, but a tankini and skirt set. Also she has a rashguard (blue and white) and boy shorts, and then also another rashguard that is pink and white. She also can wear her cloth diapers without the inserts as bottoms, that is why we have two rashguard shirts.

gingerfamily · June 2011

i think bikinis are adorbs but for my fair skinned baby I have one pieces and rash guard suits.

LoriJ11 · June 2011

I am not opposed to bikini's but my DD is very fair skinned. It depends on how much sun or what we are doing as to which suit I put on her. I have 1 pieces, rash guards with shorts or 2 pieces. Sometimes I put a 1 piece on and a rash guard over it since the bottoms kind of fall off with 2 pieces.

MrsSR · June 2011

She wears a one piece.

I will not let her wear a two piece as it isn't very modest.

LightBlue · June 2011

My DDs wear tankinis. I like the full coverage since they look like a full piece but it makes diaper changes so much easier! I don't know when I will let them wear bikinis, I think I started in Jr High so maybe then. I've never really thought about it.

mbgreenwalt · June 2011

DD has all one piece suits. I'm not a fan of baby bikinis.

jdouglas84 · June 2011

DD has a one piece bathing suits. Just my personal preference, not sure when I would let her wear a bikini. I would be okay with a two piece bathing suit that covers her midsection. My DD is super fair skinned too, so of course I want something that is more covering for sun protection.

lite-bright · June 2011

Both. Either. I prefer the easiness of two-pieces for dealing with swim diapers and/or taking my preschooler to the bathroom mid-swim. DD2 has a couple of one-pieces, and a two-piece she inherited from DD1 that is a long-sleeve rash-guard with little shorts.

DD1 does swim lessons and she's either in a tankini, a short-sleeve rash-guard with shorts, or a one-piece.

saturdaynightdoubletree · June 2011

We have 2 short sleeve rashguards with matching bottoms, a long sleeve rash guard with bermuda short style swim shorts, and a regular one piece. I'm very fair and freckly and very over protective when it comes to sun. We'll wait on the bikini.

PrncesWife · June 2011

Last year she had a tankini set and a two piece rash guard set. This year she is a different size on top than she is on bottom so she has a one piece.

bergs720 · June 2011

We have the rashguard suit for coverage too. i think a bikini on a toddlers is silly. I have no idea when I will deal with the bikini thing, but if her dad has anything to say about, she will never wear a bikini!!

jnk062602 · June 2011

DD wears a rash guard and swim diaper mostly due to being super pale and it is easier to apply sunscreen on a smaller area. If we are indoors swimming or it is not too sunny, then she wears a 1 piece.

I do not like baby/toddler/girl bikinis, so she does not have any.

diana.filipi · June 2011

DD wears a one piece bathing suit. We have several of them as we go swimming a lot. She won't wear a 2 piece 'till she's potty trained and needs to be able to take down her pants probably. She won't wear a bikini for a long time, perhaps 'till she has boobs to hold the top in place ;-)

Abinormal · June 2011

Almost all of Tegan's suits this year are hand me downs and she has about 8 different suits, lol! One of them is a rash guard short sleeve top and "diaper cover" type bottom. If we're going to be in the sun all day, this is the one she wears, since it covers the most skin. However, we've only spend one full day in the sun this year and we'll probably only have 1-2 more full days in the sun.

All of the other suits are one-piece, except for one bikini. She's worn all of the suits, except for the bikini. I'm just not a fan of the bikini... don't really have a reason, except that there is more skin exposed.

I actually think that I'll be more strict about bikinis, the older she gets. It's one thing for an 8 year old to be wearing a bikini, but an entirely different matter for a developing teenager to be wearing a skimpy bikini.

MsNessa · June 2011

sucrets4:
1 pieces and swim shirts w/ bottoms.

This is DD too.

She has a 1 piece that she's just about grown out of, and two shirt/bottom sets (one has a skirt-type bottom and the other has shorts).

I don't like how most bikinis look on babies/toddlers/kids and they aren't practical for us.

PrincessShay80 · June 2011

DD always wear one pieces- no rash guard for her, sorry I don't think they are cute- I make sure DD wears lots of suncreen- it helps that she just doesn't burn. Even in Mexico she didn't burn.

She had a bikini, but I don't like it, because the top is always riding up and I have to keep pulling it down. I would let her start wearing one around 11 or 12.

ANJ410 · June 2011

DD has several of each kind....one pieces, regular bikinis and tankinis. Personally, I see nothing wrong with babies in bikinis. I think its adorable. The only time I think I will not let her wear a binkini is maybe between ages 7-12/13 when they could be interpreted by some pervert as sexy instead of cute.

rubiafaerie25 · June 2011

DD actually has 5 suits. Some were presents though. 3 are one pieces and two are bikinis. She's a baby. I love seeing baby pudge. I was swimming in just underwear till I was about 4 or 5 when I was little so the ideao f "modesty" for a baby just IMHO, to me personally, seems silly. I mean obviously I'm not going to dress her in mini hooker style clothes or anything or have her run around naked at a public pool, but as for bikinis, etc, I'm fine with them. I think cute lil bikinis work till they're about 3 or 4. After that though, I will still probably get a bkikini if I like it for her but not ones that look adult, like string bikinis, etc. (I do have one for her that I got from old navy that is a string bikini style for the 4th of july, etc, it's white with red and blue ruffles. Once she's out of that baby/toddler stage in my mind though, those won't happen again till she's much much older. And while she's living in my house she can have bikinis but not the string type ones, or brazilian type or whatever they're called. I don't know if I'm explaining myself right but in my head I picture very different styles of bikinis and which ones would be ok and which ones would not be.

shortstuff15 · June 2011

She has one suit and it's a one piece. I'm not against tankini's, but she won't be wearing those for quite some time. My first tankini was when I was 15 or something like that, and I see no problem in making her wear a one piece until around that age. Bikini's will not be in my household as long as they are still in high school. If they decide to live at home during college then they can buy a bikini if they want, but no bikini's while they are under my roof and while I am paying for school.

BelleIsa · June 2011

This:

UV protection is important for me because DH is really fair and tons of sun damage from when he was a child. I want DD covered up!

Adriamichelle83 · June 2011

She has bikini's and one pieces from ON & Gap. Aveeno face bar is AMAZING, never has had a burn.

Monsieur_et_Madame_Ha · June 2011

I'm all about the one-piece. I don't think *I* wore a bikini until I was 20 though, so I know I way more modest than others!

pink.dutch.tulips · June 2011

one piece and a TON of sunscreen ... no bikinis for my kiddo until she's out of the house !

groovygrl · June 2011

she has a two piece that is bikini bottom w/ a shirt/rash guard top and a one piece that I put a rash guard over that happens to match it well even though they didn't come together.

it's for sun not modesty. I think some 2 piece suits can be cute on little girls, as long as theyre not mini versions of what an adult woman would wear. MH is neurotic about them getting sun- seriously, our kids are the only non-babies at the beach or pool wearing hats & he won't let them go in without hats even with sunscreen slathered all over. LOL.

ETA the diaper changing & getting htem out of the suit is a million times easier in the 2 piece so I do really prefer 2 pieces. When they have splash day at DC I always send her in her 2 piece one to make it easier for the teachers to change her.

glasgow_girl · June 2011

We have used a regular swimsuit style suit, and when we were at the beach, we used the surfer style, it was just a one-piece, but we have 2-piece surfer style suits too.

I'm more concerned with coverage than modesty at the moment, but having said that, never plan on putting her in a bikini.

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