Cross dressing baby

[Anonymous]

Another troll. At least this one is funny!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still chortle at the memory of the African American ladies of our daycare telling my Asian husband, who was responsible for pick-up and drop-off, that they didn't want my 6 months old son dressed in pink girly outfits.

The back story is that at the second trimester ultrasound, we were told he was a girl. Then he was born premature (no other ultrasound), but my aunt had already sent us pink outfits, and we'd already bought a pink stroller. So he went to daycare with a variety of different boy and girl outfits. As if we cared! And he certainly didn't!

People are weird. You laugh. It's fine.

We did abandon this daycare shortly thereafter, because they weren't very good, and the clothes issue was the just the tip of the iceberg.

That is so weird of them but also I’ve never heard of a gender reveal being incorrect. The reason I didn’t find out the sex of my baby before she was born was that I didn’t want my great aunts send super frilly dresses!

I've heard of it plenty of times when they determine gender via ultrasound (usually they just can't see). It's usually a presumed girl who turns out to be a boy.

It's never wrong if it's NIPT.

[Anonymous]

Whoever cares about this needs therapy.

My MIL gets her panties in a bunch whenever my 7 month old is in “boy” footie pajamas. They are hand me downs from various friends and family. She has deemed fire trucks, police cars, Cookie Monster, Mickey Mouse, outer space, bears, foxes, dinosaurs, and anything green or blue to be for boys only.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still chortle at the memory of the African American ladies of our daycare telling my Asian husband, who was responsible for pick-up and drop-off, that they didn't want my 6 months old son dressed in pink girly outfits.

The back story is that at the second trimester ultrasound, we were told he was a girl. Then he was born premature (no other ultrasound), but my aunt had already sent us pink outfits, and we'd already bought a pink stroller. So he went to daycare with a variety of different boy and girl outfits. As if we cared! And he certainly didn't!

People are weird. You laugh. It's fine.

We did abandon this daycare shortly thereafter, because they weren't very good, and the clothes issue was the just the tip of the iceberg.

That is so weird of them but also I’ve never heard of a gender reveal being incorrect. The reason I didn’t find out the sex of my baby before she was born was that I didn’t want my great aunts send super frilly dresses!

I've heard of it plenty of times when they determine gender via ultrasound (usually they just can't see). It's usually a presumed girl who turns out to be a boy.

It's never wrong if it's NIPT.

I had a friend who was told she was having a boy but actually had a girl. Reading sex from ultrasound isn’t perfect and is probably harder depending on the baby’s position, etc.

[Anonymous]

Huh. I thought maybe they were putting dresses on their boy baby daily. In which case, I'd think it was odd. Putting a SIX month old in a cute Halloween costume for a day because there a baby and it's just cute and why buy something new....this is not a problem, or strange.

[Anonymous]

No. Ffs.

[Anonymous]

My kids first Halloween they were a few days old. I put him in a cow costume. 13 years later, this has not turned him into a cow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I still chortle at the memory of the African American ladies of our daycare telling my Asian husband, who was responsible for pick-up and drop-off, that they didn't want my 6 months old son dressed in pink girly outfits.

The back story is that at the second trimester ultrasound, we were told he was a girl. Then he was born premature (no other ultrasound), but my aunt had already sent us pink outfits, and we'd already bought a pink stroller. So he went to daycare with a variety of different boy and girl outfits. As if we cared! And he certainly didn't!

People are weird. You laugh. It's fine.

We did abandon this daycare shortly thereafter, because they weren't very good, and the clothes issue was the just the tip of the iceberg.

I don't understand what race has to do with this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still chortle at the memory of the African American ladies of our daycare telling my Asian husband, who was responsible for pick-up and drop-off, that they didn't want my 6 months old son dressed in pink girly outfits.

The back story is that at the second trimester ultrasound, we were told he was a girl. Then he was born premature (no other ultrasound), but my aunt had already sent us pink outfits, and we'd already bought a pink stroller. So he went to daycare with a variety of different boy and girl outfits. As if we cared! And he certainly didn't!

People are weird. You laugh. It's fine.

We did abandon this daycare shortly thereafter, because they weren't very good, and the clothes issue was the just the tip of the iceberg.

I don't understand what race has to do with this?

+1. Please explain PP. Genuinely curious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still chortle at the memory of the African American ladies of our daycare telling my Asian husband, who was responsible for pick-up and drop-off, that they didn't want my 6 months old son dressed in pink girly outfits.

The back story is that at the second trimester ultrasound, we were told he was a girl. Then he was born premature (no other ultrasound), but my aunt had already sent us pink outfits, and we'd already bought a pink stroller. So he went to daycare with a variety of different boy and girl outfits. As if we cared! And he certainly didn't!

People are weird. You laugh. It's fine.

We did abandon this daycare shortly thereafter, because they weren't very good, and the clothes issue was the just the tip of the iceberg.

I don't understand what race has to do with this?

PP you replied to. Because we are not American, and I noticed that these African-Americans ladies were a little more socially conservative than the Caucasian-Americans we met in our Montgomery County, MD, neighborhood. When our kids went to preschool, there was also a group of African-American and South American teachers who seemed much more intent on perpetuating gender stereotypes than their Caucasian-American counterparts.

We are non-US Asian. Our families back home are VERY conservative, but we expect it from them. Not from people from the US east coast, so much.

So it was kind of funny!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would it possibly bother me?

I don't know. I'm the person who lent them the costume, a hand me down from my own kids, so I'm clearly not bothered.

I was surprised because this is grandchild number 9 in the family, and no one has batted an eye at little boys wearing their sister's dress ups, or putting a baby girl in an outfit with trucks on it, or anything like that. So, I was kind of surprised when people were like "No, I wouldn't do that" about this. I thought I'd ask.

Sounds like grandparents don't want to have to explain to all of their Boomer friends when they post cute grandkid pics on Facebook. That's a them problem. Just ignore.

[Anonymous]

On a similar note, I've seen so many boy Blueys and Bingos this year that it gives me hope that we're not raising boys to think "ewww that's for girls" about having favorites/heroes. This is not an issue, OP. The people who are bothered by it need to get real problems.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn’t dress my boy in an obvious girl costume…

Like Wonder Woman or a princess. Fight me. …i don’t care i just wouldn’t do that to my baby boy. Those animal characters are pretty gender neutral.

[Anonymous]

My #2 DD wore #1 DS baby clothes all the time. I would add some pink for specal occasions but for day to day onsies...anything goes. I am now paying college tuition and have NO regrets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My #2 DD wore #1 DS baby clothes all the time. I would add some pink for specal occasions but for day to day onsies...anything goes. I am now paying college tuition and have NO regrets.

If it was the other way around, would you dress your son in tutus? Probably not. It's easier to dress girls in boy clothes.