Your own baby clothes on newborn in hospital

[Anonymous]

When did you put baby's own clothes on baby?
Previously I only did his on the day to go home, but this time I want to before that.
But my concern is if the nurses are with baby for some reason, and clothes get dirty, will they return the clothes to me?
Would nurses object to our own clothes for any reason? (I would assume should be something like a kimono shirt or something easy for access.)

[Anonymous]

Why would you want to put clothes on before you go home? I don't see any reason, and didn't.

[Anonymous]

When going home. Why bring your own and create potential issues?

[Anonymous]

You are WAY overthinking things and being a control freak. I think hospitals are gross and disgusting. I wouldn't want to put my brand new beautiful clothes on a baby that's only lived in the hospital for its whole life. Just use what they provide until you're going home and cant anymore.

[Anonymous]

I'm curious why you would want to do this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious why you would want to do this?

Not OP, but we did because it was easier to change diapers with just a few snaps of a real outfit vs the super big and oddly constructed newborn "outfits" the hospital provided.
And to the PP referring to the "brand new beautiful clothes" that would be put on a baby that's only lived in a "disgusting hospital", you do realize that makes you sound a little ridiculous, right? Are you planning on not touching your baby because he/she must also be "disgusting"? Hope your child isn't wearing those beautiful clothes the first time he/she spits up or has a poop explosion!

[Anonymous]

We were at the hospital for 4 days post CS and by day 2 I dressed DD in some cute onesies. The kimono they provided was really flimsy and hard for DH to keep on her. Not a big deal at all. Everything gets washed as it would if it got dirty at home. And cute outfits make for cuter pictures.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We were at the hospital for 4 days post CS and by day 2 I dressed DD in some cute onesies. The kimono they provided was really flimsy and hard for DH to keep on her. Not a big deal at all. Everything gets washed as it would if it got dirty at home. And cute outfits make for cuter pictures.

same for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We were at the hospital for 4 days post CS and by day 2 I dressed DD in some cute onesies. The kimono they provided was really flimsy and hard for DH to keep on her. Not a big deal at all. Everything gets washed as it would if it got dirty at home. And cute outfits make for cuter pictures.

+1. Also, fwiw, unless there's a problem there should be no reason for the nurses to take your child from you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We were at the hospital for 4 days post CS and by day 2 I dressed DD in some cute onesies. The kimono they provided was really flimsy and hard for DH to keep on her. Not a big deal at all. Everything gets washed as it would if it got dirty at home. And cute outfits make for cuter pictures.

+1. Also, fwiw, unless there's a problem there should be no reason for the nurses to take your child from you.

Ha ha.
Do you have only one child?
This will be a third c-section for me (two kids at home), and you can bet the nurses will be taking my baby from me. Hopefully I can get more than one hour of sleep each night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are WAY overthinking things and being a control freak. I think hospitals are gross and disgusting. I wouldn't want to put my brand new beautiful clothes on a baby that's only lived in the hospital for its whole life. Just use what they provide until you're going home and cant anymore.

le tme get this straight, it's OP who's the overthinky control freak here, not you, who thinks hospitals make babies too dirty for clothes somehow?

[Anonymous]

I brought clothes for our second baby - our first was swimming in the one sized tshirts at the hospital. Didn't bring anything fancy, just little cotton footed jammies. It wasn't about thinking the hospital things were gross, just remembered how big they were on our daughter and also figured since I was bringing pajamas from home for myself the second time around I'd bring them for baby too.

[Anonymous]

Don't bring anything you wouldn't want to disappear. If the baby has a blowout, massive puke-fest or whatever, those clothes go off and go into the general hospital laundry bin. You also never know now why your kid might wind up in the nursery. If you're having trouble putting on and taking off the hospital clothes, have the nurse help you do it.

I was thrilled to use all their stuff and not worry about mine.

[Anonymous]

I didn't ever put clothes on him. Just swaddled until we went home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn't ever put clothes on him. Just swaddled until we went home.

NP, and new mommy, this is a great idea! Adding a pretty Swaddle blanket to my hospital bag. I'll still have a take home outfit for the car seat.

Personally I don't see anything wrong with bringing outfits for baby if you want... It's your choice, I think it would make for cute pictures too. And they are only in newborn clothes a shirt time anyway. Plus it's their birthday <3