Did you or will you do an "hospital outfit"?

[enchantedlife]

Except it won't be a hospital outfit, of course. I know that when we had DS in the hospital, we had a cute first-time outfit for him picked out. Just wondering if home birthing mamas have this tradition or not. I am not sure if we'll do that this time, especially since we are not finding out the sex. Or maybe we will for those first pictures!

[alegna]

Not really. I had several cute bright shirts... picked one of those with a diaper.

-Angela

[balancedmama]

No, in fact I was really sad to put clothes on her for the first time. I kept her naked in a diaper and blankets for quite a while. We didn't know gender either so her first onesie was brown I think. She looked really cute in it though.

[srlpenny]

This being my first HB, 5th baby, we are doing this. Everyone else has their one special first outfit that is in their "baby box" and he will too. I'll just call it his 1st outfit instead of his "coming home" outfit.
I was just as anal in picking it out this time too .... ;-)
I was actually thinking about it the other night that he'll be the first to not have bracelets in his box. But I think I might include a copy of the business of Being Born...since that what really opened my eyes ;-)

[doularosemary]

I have the little dress that I wore home from the hospital almost 42 years ago. My sister wore it home from the hospital too, as well as her two daughters. When my dd was born in 2003 we used it as her first "church" outfit. If this one's a girl we'll keep the tradition alive. I also have the little sailor outfit my 16 ds wore home from the hospital, so if it's a boy he'll wear that for his debut.

[NatureMama3]

I have a cute outfit for when I should first put clothes on him.

[~Kristina~]

We did because initially we were having a hospital birth. So I had one already. I used it for his 1 month photo's instead.

[spamama]

My friend made a unisex outfit for me, so we did put it on after a long while, right before the MW and birth assistant left. Here's a pic of it. It's hard to tell, but it was khaki with a little animal print on it. It was lovingly made for our baby, so it felt right to make it his "first outfit."

[Patchfire]

We had a "first outfit" but it wasn't the first thing he wore, you know? Like "coming home" outfits aren't what the baby wears when s/he is still at the hospital. So it was his "visitors" outfit on the second or third day.

[EarthsSpiral]

I will have a few outfits picked out and in "the basket" that I'm preparing for our HB that is full of supplies. I'm also packing a small small small bag JIC we need to go to the hosp and will pick something equally cute for that bag.

[Shell_Ell]

We actually didn't put clothes on him until I think the third day, and then it was a onesie. He was almost always skin to skin with us, and he would have been too hot with clothes on. We just had a recieving blanket or two to wrap him up in if he got chilly.

He was born June 12 if that matters.

[Xenopus]

DD1 and I are making a little tie-dye shirt for the new baby, as a welcome gift. But that is more about DD.

[Belleweather]

I saved the first outfit for both of my boys, even though neither of them "came home". I love the idea of them growing up to be big adult men and still being able to hold their little tiny first sleepers to remember how little they once were. Plus, there's something mystical about the first clothes that they ever wore that I really love.

[threadbey]

wow. it never occurred to me to pick out the first outfit. i think the midwives and dh just grabbed a onesie from the pile. maybe i'll go back and figure out from the pictures which one it was and set it aside for him, i kind of like that idea of my grown son being able to hold his first tiny outfit.

one thing i did do was the list required three infant caps to keep baby warm (it was a cold time of year) and i sewed those for him from organic cotton. i made up the pattern with no access to a baby or a baby hat, though, so they looked a little funny.

[Kendra_]

I'm not quite sure if i'll pick something out for the boys.. it will probably just been a gown or t-shirt and a diaper

[Treeof3]

I get all antsy once I get through the first trimester and feel the need to get something for the baby. I search alllllll over for some adorable gender neutral outfit (bc as you know those are impossible to find!) and then that is the special outfit I use for the baby. The first round of pictures in the few days following the birth or when visitors are coming.... AND fwiw, I usually buy a preemie size bc it actually FITS them - even my 8 pounder wore preemie size for 2 weeks for visitors bc she looked cute with clothes that fit instead of the baggy 0-3 size stuff.

So - this time I have a cute little kimono shirt with matching pants from baby gap in white with the little topknot hat. My other kids helped me pick it out this time too and they may be more obsessed than me about it lol!! They want to take it out and look at it once a week. Hilarious.

[lyndamom]

We were skin-to-skin the first few days, too. After we decided for sure on his name we put on a onsie type. Making the tie dye shirt sounds like a nice idea for the sib.
-L

[lc81002]

I picked out a cute neutral outfit to put on the baby the first time we dressed him/her (we didn't find out) but I ended up having a teeny baby, and it was a 3 month size outfit, so it was HUGE on him and looked ridiculous. Next time I think I may buy a preemie outfit instead. I'm not sure if I will buy one for a boy and one for a girl and just return whichever one I don't end up using, or if I will buy something neutral, but we don't plan to find out the sex next time either. I am a bit of a baby clothes nut and a shopaholic though, so any excuse for me to buy cute little clothes is great.

[rmzbm]

Of course! I've had 4 hospital births so have those portraits lined up on the wall, need one for this babe too...it'll just be taken HERE instead.

[~*~MamaJava~*~]

i probably won't have anything exciting for the first outfit...but for the next day, you betcha.