My DS was born in Sept. We did kimonos with pants for the first six weeks then switched to footed sleep-n-play outfits. I pay extra for the Gap ones that zip vs snap when I can. I know a lot of moms enjoy dolling up their little ones, but DS won't leave socks on so the footed outfits are more practical. I also feel like they give him a lot more freedom of movement than some of the more fashionable outfits. I just hope the other 6 month olds aren't judging him

Anonymous wrote:When your DS gets old enough to discover his penis, he'll get really mad if you put him in a onesie, as I found out last night.

If I let my son sleep with free access he would pull it out and wee all over himself. Every. Night.

Onsie until about 9 months. It drove me crazy if my son wore a t-shirt and it would ride up ever time i picked him up. So he usually wore a onsie and cotton plants. T-shirts and pants were the norm once he could walk.

In the fall, when it gets cooler and your baby is still a baby-in-arms, you will find you want a onesie because there is a tendency for a shirt and jacket to ride up when you are carrying him and expose the tummy/back. A onesie stays obviously tucked into pants so you don't have to worry about "cold belly." This is especially true if you are kind of lugging your baby under one arm like a football and you are carrying some groceries from the car with the other arm -- you look down and realize baby's tummy is all exposed in 50 degree weather, yikes! Okay, I'm probably just free associating here.

Onesies are useful for small babies. Its a pain to have shirts riding up, and in warmer weather you can dress them in just a onesie around the house. But its too hot to have a onesie and a shirt in warmer weather.

winter baby - we did sleep & plays layered with side-snap t-shirts at night, long-sleeve onesies with elastic pants during the day. when it warmed up, we dropped the layered shirt, and he wore short-sleeved onesies with a hoodie, and in the summer onesies with shorts or lighter cotton pants. i agree about keeping the poop blowouts contained, and when they're mostly laying down or even crawling around, the t-shirts ride up and they don't stay covered and warm.

this winter he was more mobile (13 months now), so we did a lot of pants with a short-sleeve onesies and a long-sleeve t shirt over it. once he starts walking, we'll probably do less onesies. it's very hard to get him to lay down for the snapping part now.

I didn't like the tshirts because they tended to bunch up on my kids. But my best friend prefered tshirts to onsies because she didn't like undoing the snaps for each diaper change. It's a personal preference thing.

We never did onesies...

We always did sleepers until DC started walking and we upgraded to pants and T-shirts.

Personally, I hated one peice rompers. The sleep-n-plays with all the snaps. I found it a pita to snap/unsnap. I much preferred a three snap onesie and elastic waist pants. Even now at 20 months DS is almost always I'm a onesie under his clothes for layering. Love them. However he sleeps in two peice sets from ON/Gap and has since around 10-11 months.

It's really hard to predict what you will end up loving.

When your DS gets old enough to discover his penis, he'll get really mad if you put him in a onesie, as I found out last night.

It really depends on you and the kid. We moved to shirts/pants from onsies/sleepers at about 8 or 9 months because my son was such a wiggly guy that it was impossible to get him into the one pieces. Some kids hate to have their feet covered. Some kids always have cold feet. Basically, don't buy too much in advance -- it's impossible to predict what will work for you until you get there.

I, too, prefer onesies (and pants during the day, sleepers at night) on my 10 month old to prevent belly exposure. When he was a newborn, I liked the kimono shirts, both for the umbilical cord reason and also b/c it's fewer snaps to deal with when you have all those diaper changes. Plus, newborns (at least mine) was swaddled so often that his legs were covered regardless.

newborns wear t-shirts (not ones that pull over the head) so that they do not rub agains the umbilical stump.

After that, I prefered onsies or sleepers to tshirts because they don't ride up and if there's a poop explosion, there is at least some hope that it is contained in the uniform. My DS was a winter baby, so I also layered onsies and t-shirts.

do you mean very early on? sometimes before the umbilical cord falls off, anything other than kimono shirts can irritate it.

my son is 10 months and wears either pants with a long-sleeved onesie (sometimes with a tshirt over it) or a one piece romper (no feet - he does wear ones with feet for sleeping). he has a belly and t-shirts don't stay down over it so he always wears onesies. as far as the sleepers vs "clothes" thing it's an individual choice. i don't bring him to daycare etc in footed onesies.

FTM due in April

am reading Baby Bargain book about clothes. is there a reason (other than possible allergy to snaps) for having tshirts instead of Onesies?

and when do babies start wearing pants instead of sleepers and Onesies?