Does everyone buy newborn clothes for a baby shower?

Question

I am just starting to put together a registry list for my baby. I was at a baby shower a month ago and it seemed EVERYONE bought tiny outfits that weren't on her registry. She had way too many clothes. If you have had a baby or shower did this happen to you?

Answer 1

Yes, it happened at my shower. I had a registrywith everything I actually NEEDED and got hardly any of it, and got mostly only clothes. I had already had tons of clothes thatfriends had given me, and had no need for more and my son STILL has not even worn half of the clothes he got and grew out of them with the tags still on. You can maybe word it politely on the invitations that you don't need clothes. My cousin (who was just inviting family, it may be different with friends and family-maybe considered rude) had something like this on herinvite:
"Although it is not required, if you would like to purchase a gift for the mommy-to-be please check her registry located at: Traget, Toys-r-us, etc (you get the idea)- for the items she is need for and would like your help in getting. Also of much need is gift cards for future needs of the baby. "

Hope that helped, good luck!

Answer 2

Actually, at my baby shower the one thing we didn't get a lot of was clothes. Which, I didn't mind because everyone got the expensive things out of the way for us - and we got to shop for the clothes which was fun.

But, I have heard of people getting lots of newborn clothes, so many that the child didn't even get to wear everything.

My advice is to buy enough Newborn stuff,....but also get a head start on 0-3 months because they will be in that size before you know it. And, if you can by the stretchy onesies in the packages you know? I have found that the gerber ones lasted my son about 5 months and he is big and grows rapidly. This mainly applies to boys - Boys seem to grow physically a little faster. Although some girls are the same size as boys, I've noticed baby girls stay little and dainty longer. If you are having a girl, I would think it would be safe to buy a little more newborn stuff.

Answer 3

People love buying baby clothes...they're little and cute and just generally irresistible. I didn't register for any and still ended up with a ton, especially smaller ones. The good news is, babies can go through clothes so quickly (sometimes 4-5 outfits in a day), so you might actually need them. Also, personally, I would skip the "newborn" size altogether and go straight to 0-3 months--my daughter has "newborn" clothes that she was too big for from day one. Some stores, including BabiesRUs, Wal-Mart, and Target, will let you exchange things without a receipt if the store carries that item. This could be something to try with common brands of clothes like Carter's.

Answer 4

What you could do as i did is go to certain people and make a personalized list for them like what you think that you will like for the baby when the baby is a little bit older 3-6 months or even a year so that you are planning for the future. I did that with my mom aunt and grandmother and i am so happy i did it takes off the financial burden in upcoming clothes purchase. Certain registries do allow you to return things if people bought outfits that werent on your registry at their store and you dont like it.

Answer 5

Yes, at my baby shower my son ended up with 100, 0-3mos. outfits, no kidding. He never even wore most of it. Not to mention I had no drawer space for all that! I always buy people something like 6-9 mos. or something the baby will grow into. Or me and someone else will go together on a big gift on the registry.

Answer 6

Yep, most of the gifts were the small item and then a cute little outfit...unfortunately my daughter wore NB clothes for about a DAY! kidding but she had pretty much grown out of NB by the time she was 2 weeks and I was left with an @ssload of clothes to take back but no receipt...Most of them from Target...and if you've ever tried to take anything back to target w/o a receipt then you know how it feels to be treated like a common criminal. I explained my situation, but I still only got a quarter of what the price was on the actual item, even though I had my gift registry there. Needless to say I don't shop there anymore. But people love to pick out their own outfits, no matter if you register for actual clothes, they are still going to buy what they think is cute.

Answer 7

Hopefully, some of the people who attend will have the sense to buy some things for six months down the road. Most parents really don't take their tiny infants out a lot at first, so a lot of those cute little outfits go to waste. I'm a big believer in buying something in a six-month size that's appropriate to the weather that the baby will be living in six months after the birth.

Answer 8

for my baby shower i received different size clothes thank god! i didnt have to buy clothes until my baby was about 6 months. since i had gotten her clothes and on my baby shower she received so much clothes also. so next time on your registry put clothes size 6-9 and 9-12 b/c the newborn clothes you only use about 5 times each set before they grow out of it

Answer 9

My sister had a baby recently and I helped put together her baby registry, I uncluded all sizes! The truth is that most mother's already have tones of new born stuff so we put bigger sized 3-6 months, 9-12 months, ect. Also include bottles, bibs, dippers, Towel, high chair, ect.

Answer 10

this is what i do when i go to baby showers.....2 outfits for newborn...2 for 3-6 months , and 2 outfits for 6-9 months..people always get all newborn sizes which makes no sense because i swear they only last the first month...