When you bought your going home outfit did you buy two of the same outfit but different sizes?? (newborn and 0-3m) everyone tells me not to get too many newborn outfits because some babies come out already too big for them. How do you know what size to get for that first outfit?
Re: going home outfit ?question?
I brought two different sizes with me. Olivia was 8.1 pounds, 19 inches when she was born and 7.3 or 7.4 when we were discharged from the hospital (initial weight loss is totally normal, she was back at her birth weight within a week).
I agree with the statement about newborn clothes. Get the second hand if you can, I'd rather buy DD's clothes a little too big than waste money on stuff she grows out of in a month.
Started fertility treatments 11/2010
Ovarian dysfunction, LPD, male factor
6 failed medicated IUI's
Pregnant 5/2011 - Miscarriage at 6 weeks due to triploidy
Decided to adopt - 6/2012
SURPRISE! Pregnant without intervention - 7/2012
Sweet Baby James Born 3/2013
Decided to be "One and Done"
....OR NOT.
Pregnant 12/2018 despite birth control pills
Here we go again...
Due 8/26/19!
Based off of what others had said I only brought a 0-3 outfit.
Thankfully my mother and father were incredibly excited to run out and go shopping for girls clothes (we didn't find out the sex) because there's no way she could have worn that 0-3 outfit. In fact, she was nearly 3 months old before she fit into most 0-3 clothing.
This time I'll only be buying newborn.
DD2 8.22.13
MMC 1.4.17 at 16w
Expecting #3, EDD 1.29.18
ITA. Gerber fits a size smaller. So their NB is more like a premie size.
I've always found Carters to be massive.
ON and Gap have always been pretty true to size for us.
DD2 8.22.13
MMC 1.4.17 at 16w
Expecting #3, EDD 1.29.18
My daughter was 5 lbs 3 oz and 18 inches. My Mom had to run out and buy preemie, the newborns swallowed her. My son was in newborn for several weeks, he was born at 6 lbs 14 oz.
This is what I did.
My previous babies were 10lb 4oz and 10lb 15 oz and BOTH came home in NB sized clothes. Sure, weight-wise they were in the 0-3 month size, but newborn babies are so scrunched up that 0-3m was way too big (and newborns lose up to 10% of their weight so they each lost like a pound by the time we left the hospital-c-section, so 3 days).
I wouldn't have many NB sized things otherwise, though. For this baby all the NB stuff was handed down (6 short sleeve and 6 long sleeve onesies, 4 pants, a few sleepers) and I was really glad I didn't have to buy it because she will likely grow out of it quick and won't be going out and needing to look fancy.
Cooper Edward
9.25.12