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My little baby girl is always being mistaken as a boy....
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Anonymous
| Do some babies look more like their gender appropriate? I am distressed that my 6 month old daughter is constantly being asked if she is a boy. Even when I dress her in pink outfits. |
Anonymous
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My son used to be always mistaken for a girl. It went on until he was about 4! I think it is because he had rather delicate features and bangs.
Tell them she is in fact a girl and watch them squirm 
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Anonymous
| Yes, it does happen. My DS was constantly mistaken for a girl until he was about 22 months old - he just had very pretty features. We just shrugged it off, because really, what else can you do? |
Anonymous
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It's pretty common to happen. Strangers often speak without thinking or looking for that matter.
At 6 months, I have to say, it's nothing to get "distressed" about. |
Anonymous
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Ive been told my son is
"to pretty to be a boy" my son can be in obvious boy cothes and at 2 he gets called a girl ( he has long lashes and curly hair) my friends girl is being called a boy and she has a bow in her hair and girlie dresses on some people arent bright and some are used to saying him or her or he or she. Im sure your child is a normal baby most babies are gender nuetral IMO (If we dressed them all in the ame white sleepers Im guessing we couldnt know boys from girls in MOST cases |
Anonymous
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DD has pierced ears and wears pink and people still say "he" bc she has short hair.
People are stupid. |
Anonymous
| My boy is always mistaken for a girl, even if he's wearing unmistakeably "boy" clothes, including sports jersey-type things. He's 9 months old and it still happens... |
Anonymous
| My DD was always mistaken for a boy! If she wore anything in blue...and I even mean a dress or blue bows in her hair people thought she was a boy. Babies can look very gender nuetral. Let it roll off you back. |
Anonymous
Is "distressed" really word you mean to use? God help you. |
Anonymous
| My DD was always mistaken for a boy - even if she had on pink. Even today (18 mo) I sometimes get questions asking how old is "he". It used to bother me - now I really don't care. She just has so little hair - I think that's what throws people off. |
Anonymous
| Who cares? Really. If she goes to college and people think she's a boy, then get distressed. |
Anonymous
| I had my son dressed in all blue, wrapped in a blue blanket and some older woman asked how old she was. I was polite, "He's 12 weeks old." Her response, "OW he looks more like a she." Really old woman? Go get your eyes checked! Some people... |
Anonymous
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"Im sure your child is a normal baby most babies are gender nuetral IMO (If we dressed them all in the ame white sleepers Im guessing we couldnt know boys from girls in MOST cases"
I'd say all, up until at least one year. Personally, I find the gender stereotyping in terms of clothing of babies to be pretty over the top. I am *always* wanting to say 'my, what a cute BOY you have' to the people who have glued a pink bow onto their infant's bald head. But I never do, since I figure those people are stressed out enough as it is to be doing that to their baby. I am sure those same parents are the ones who are going to have their 8 year olds at dance recitals in bikinis shaking their non-existent stuff to some raunchy song. |
Anonymous
| Eh, so what? What's gendered about an infant, anyway? |
Anonymous
| This always happened to my dd, unless I dressed her in pink. I had always assumed that it was because people are socialized to consider "male" the default -- so if it's not clear what gender a baby is, it must be male. But given some of the stories the pps have about their sons maybe there's more to it than that. |