What Did Your Baby Wear in the Hospital?

The onsie/blankets the hospital provided until we went home for all three of my darling kiddos!

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R., I think we're in the minority here! ;) Mine only wore the hosptial garb too. I didn't even change them for the picture. It was easier for me to just leave them in it and not worry about it. I know a lot of people who take clothes for them to wear, but to me, not worth it!

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We were only in the hospital for 2 days with each kid and we just left the boys in the t-shirt and diaper the whole time until it was time to go home...the girl was another story...we (whole family, both sides) were so excited to finally be buying pink, everyone brought a special outfit and we put her in it for their visit...so consequently, she went thru several outfit changes while at the hospital...and we have ALL the pics to prove it too! :)

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My daughter stayed in hospital T-shirt and blanket. She looked to perfect to pollute with clothes!! (until we took her home).

My son was in the NICU for a month and was in diaper only for weeks. The first time he wore clothes, it was a onesie. I kept him in onesies or diaper only while he was in the isolette.

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I left the boys in the hospital t-shirt and swaddled them in the hospital blankets. It never even crossed my mind to bring outfits for them to wear while in the hospital. They went through so many of those t-shirts getting all of that nasty sticky black poop out!! I'm glad I didn't get my outfits covered in that!

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Hospital garb until day 2 when pix were done & we left.

Since I went early and my bag was not packed yet...I asked my husband to bring the outfit I had laundered, folded & ready in the crib for his pictures. Is that what he brought? NO. SOMEWHERE he found a too-big blue terry sleeper so THAT was his going-home outfit. Men!

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I gave birth with a midwife in a birth center, and came home the same day...but my daughter stayed in night gowns for weeks. Partly because she was much smaller than expected and partly because I love them on babies. They have easy access to diapers and sweet little baby feet.

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the hospital stuff
And nothing because both of mine had to be under the bili lights

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Hospital garb. For the picture too..it was only a head shot, why bother with a real outfit.

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A hospital provided onesie that was printed on the BACK

"If you can read this sign, flip me over."

And on the FRONT

"Back to sleep."

Loved that onsie, it cracked me up in my hormonal state faaaaar more than it was worth.

Mine, too, skipped the newborn clothes at over 10lbs and 23" long and was wearing 2-3mo clothes on day 2. The hospital has onesies printed in sizes from 3lbs to 15lbs. So we ALL got them.

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With my oldest, it never occurred to me to bring clothes for him except the going-home outfit. So with my 2nd baby, I packed a cute outfit for each day, but they wouldn't let me change her. I was told that for liability reasons, all the babies have to be in the hospital issued shirts until the day they go home. Then I couldn't even change her clothes the day we left until after the pediatrician had signed her release forms! I was so disappointed!

new babies are too hard to dress to bother with it because they are so floppy and they sleep so much...this changes in even 1 weeks time tho...I guess if you wanted a bounch of photos or something, but otherweise I just let them sleep :)

I think since the baby is yours you should be able to let it wear what you want. Our hospital wouldn't let me put "our clothes" on my dd for fear of germs. I thought that was odd since we kept her in my room most of the time.

The first night he wore the hospital outfit but after that he was in the cute clothes I brought for him.. :0)

our babies stayed in the t shirts but we are just laid back, easy people. If I had the energy or the care, it might be cute to dress them everyday and take pics. :o)

Well with my first I went into premature labor (I didn't have my bag packed) and my daughter wore nothing but a diaper because she was hooked up to so many devices. My husband went shopping and bought preemie pjs that she wore once she had improved enough to be unhooked from most of the devices. With my second daughter I brought along fleece pjs for her to wear home. She wore the t-shirt during her stay. We had a freak 80 degree day when she went home (beginning of April) plus the pjs were too big for her (we though she would be bigger but she was so short...18 inches) so she wore a preemie onesie that my husband dug out of storage.

Hospital garb until we were getting ready to leave, then a romper. It didn't occur to me to bring outfits for while we were there!

Mine wore the hospital tshirt and gown. I put them in an outfit for the hospital photographer and when we went home.

mine stayed in hospital attire till we left... I had to put him in a special outfit G. bought and use her receiving blanket.... for the kodak moment :)

I bought my son a cute outfit with a hat.. He wore that i wanted to dress him in something nice for the 1st time. To have special memories they don't stay tiny forever i still have the outfit he 1st wore.. He's now 6 years old :) I miss the baby stay

W/ our first she wore a little t-shirt and nothing while in the billi light incubator. :(
W/ our 2nd we were in a birth center w/in the hospital and he stayed w/ us the entire time-did not leave the room till we left the hospital (so nice!).
I was fine w/ him being in a little t-shirt the whole time...but the nurses encouraged me to put him in the sleeper we had brought him (about 12 hrs. after birth).
It seemed kinda weird at the time. I have always visited babies in diapers and t-shirts at the hospital. Lol.
But he hated to be cold so it was probably a good thing. :)

I had cute little outfits so she looked adorable, and some nightgowns for nighttime. My mother bought her some fantastic "diva" hats with a big flower on the side that she wore too. We were there for 3 days and she was dressed every day.

Both my sons were the hospital garb! I learned with my first son that he spit up too much for me to keep changing any elaborate/cute outfits. It was easier for all to keep them in the hospital shirts and diapers.

I just brought a few gowns & some socks for my little ones. They were the same gowns I wore as a baby so they weren't "super cute" but they were serviceable and cozy, which is what matters. I did buy a special outfit for each of my little ones to go home in, though. :) I had also brought my own cloth dipes, even with my girls when I had to stay extra days because of the section. I didn't see the point in dressing them up, but I did want them comfortable.

My son also wore hospital garb during our stay (4 days) and we only changed him to one of our outfits that we brought when we left. In retrospect, we should have put some of our own baby outfits on while he was there. Why not?

In our "class" for my first they said using the hospital clothing saved you time and effort on laundry. I was all for making my experience as smooth as possible so my sone wore hospital clothes but had a special outfit to come home in. With my daughter she wore comfy things I brought with me. I guess I was feeling confident that I could handle the "extra" laundry!

All of my babies (3 and expecting another one in 10 weeks) wore those little sleep sacks....those sleep shirts that have a draw string at the bottom. Nothing fancy at all. Newborns sleep. I cannot imagine "dressing" an infant up in anything but a sleeper.

I used nightgowns with hand covers with all three of mine. Easy access for diaper changes and oh so cute.

my daughter was born 10 weeks early, so we were in the hospital for 39 days. so for hte first few weeks of her life she only wore a diaper because she was in an incubator. then once she got to a certain weight (which happened to be on christmas) she got to get dressed. her very first outfit was the hospitals. but after that it was the clothes that my parents bought her for christmas. i loved changing her clothes every day. it was very special time for me, since i got very little time to hold her and bond with her like most parents get.

Hospital garb. With my first I actually forgot in one of my moments of unpacking and repacking my hospital bag to put any clothes in for him (other than a bodysuit) and he was born in December. He came home in a bodysuit with my mother-in-law's fleece vest tucked around him in the carseat. (Rather embarrassing, actually, but funny looking back!)

I also never bought anything for me for the hospital, just wore the gown the first time, but did bring a nursing cami and yoga pants for my second, but still nothing special there. I figured it was less laundry and less staining the less I brought from home. =)

I didn't get my baby dressed until it was time to take her pictures and leave. I brought the tiniest outfit I had and cried when it was too big for her. She only weighed 5 pounds.
I just put a cute little outfit on my son when it was time to check out.
I figured there was plenty of time to play dress up when I got them home.

That was just me, though. Lots of people put cute little jammies and things on the babies in the hospital. It's a personal decision.

I changed my daughter into a little gown once I got her in my room with me. I have c-sections so I knew I would be there for a couple days so I wanted her to be in a nice, soft warm gown with the mittens to cover her hands. She looked super cute and comfy the whole time we were there and even the nurses said her gown was super cute :)