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Anonymous wrote:I don't consider it an outfit. To each their own but I have never and would never do that. My rule of thumb is, would I wear that? Babies are people too. From birth I have fully dressed my son, especially when leaving the house, in a full outfit (tops bottoms, socks shoes bib) that match.

I find this unfathomable. You put your newborn in full outfits and shoes? Didn't he have to be changed every hour or so? I can't imagine dressing the baby up and then stripping him down and doing it all over again all day long. And everything matching too!

At first he just wore shoes when we went out, then as he got older every day. I had to change his diaper very often (for the first three months he couldn't tolerate a wet diaper even for a second.) I rarely had to change his clothes because of a blowout. Maybe only two or three times thus far. I didn't find it annoying at all. It really didn't take me a lot of effort. It isn't like you have to completely undress a baby to change a diaper. Actually very A few of his outfits were a onesie with pants that needed to be pulled up. Most were overall/rompers or one piece polo shirts that had snaps under the crotch .

Anonymous wrote:I don't consider it an outfit. To each their own but I have never and would never do that. My rule of thumb is, would I wear that? Babies are people too. From birth I have fully dressed my son, especially when leaving the house, in a full outfit (tops bottoms, socks shoes bib) that match.

I find this unfathomable. You put your newborn in full outfits and shoes? Didn't he have to be changed every hour or so? I can't imagine dressing the baby up and then stripping him down and doing it all over again all day long. And everything matching too!

totally fine! they're babies for crying out loud. i often put shorts or pants on the babes when i took them out and about, but that was primarily for a little extra protection for the car seat/stroller. and onesie only was fine during the peak of summer. and when it was chilly out, the babies rarely got out of their pajamas.
i think our "oh god, i have to start dressing the baby in clothes everyday" point was actually around the time they started walking - which was about 10 months for each of my kids. which is not to say they ever go around "dressed" like adults even now. my 3yo pretty much picks out her own clothes at this point; so her clothes rarely match, for example. And I'm a big fan of the romper for the toddler.

i know people who refuse to leave the house without their babies "fully dressed". i fear we have little in common.

To me, a onesie is sorta like an undershirt. I paid extra for rompers (it killed me to do so though because I didn't understand why one romper was the cost of 2-4 onesies depending on the brand, when it wasn't even that much added fabric/snaps)

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Anonymous wrote:Oh, well, I'll sit over with the lazy, disgusting moms. We didn't do onesies and rarely pants because we did EC (although they would be just as big a pain for diaper changes). My kid was literally in her underwear for most of the time until over a year. Granted they were really cute cloth (colored/patterned) diapers that sorta looked like shorts, and her legs were covered with baby legwarmers, but still. If it was cold, snuggly play suit on top. If it was something where I cared, dress. Otherwise, oh, well.

You sound like a mental case.

Lazy, I could see. A mental case, that's a stretch.

If there's one thing that EC isn't, it's lazy.

I think it's weird if I see parents taking their kids out and about in just a onesie and no pants. Onesies are like shirts - it's like you are taking your kid out without pants on! Now in your home, you can have a diaper only baby if you want, who cares?