it better be a girl....(small rant)

[seekermage]

Ok sooo as much as I would love to have a boy I really hope this one is a girl! Im n the process of making a while bunch of diapers and pretty much all the fabric I have is very girly! I have the cutest fleece pocket/cover Im making and its pink with snowflakes...soo not gonna work for a boy! I also have a ton of pink microfleece to line a slew of fitteds and pockets with...again not gonna work for a boy! I soo wish I could find out what this kid is otherwise Im up a creek without a paddle! I guess Ill just hae to try and sell what is to girly if it is a boy right?

[coco4cloth]

I would use whatever. I'm not much into the gender thing as in pink for girls blue for boys! Pink is all the rage now for boys :lol

[seekermage]

yeah well tell that to DH who was insisting if we had all boys he wouldnt let them have dolls, or a kitchen, or other "girly" things. Sheesh MEN!

[mimid]

I'm sure we could work something out if it's a boy, Kathryn!!

:fingersx: for a girl for you!!

[coco4cloth]

yeah well tell that to DH who was insisting if we had all boys he wouldnt let them have dolls, or a kitchen, or other "girly" things. Sheesh MEN!
:( Your dh wouldn't like me then. I let my ds paint his toenails if he wants to.

[Caroline248]

Ha..my son is playing with his kitchen set right now!!

I told my husband a while ago that HE cooks, cleans, and takes care of babies...why would he expect his sons not to think that was normal??? Luckily, he saw my point.....

~C~

[afishwithabike]

I wouldn't worry if DS had to wear pink dipes.

[lillake]

:lol

My DH tried to insist that we wouldn't use pink on ds, but now that he's a toddler ds actually prefers pink and purple to any other color. And, well, there's no stopping a toddler when his mind is made up. :wink

[Mearaina]

I don't have any sons (yet - I suppose the babe could be a boy) but my dh wears pink and purple dress shirts all of the time. They are actually very good colors for him, and the girls love it when they all match.

[*guest]

Heh, I'd use it anyway, it sounds adorable. Husbands! Mine wears pink shirts or ties, so he would get no say in the matter without being a total hypocrite. Our girl is getting her share of blue diapers. But I'm sure you could sell it too. I am very jealous of all the ladies who can sew.

[mcimom]

:lol My friend with 6 kids totally puts girl-colored diapers on her boys. Not all the time, but sometimes at our house she'd have to borrow a CD from me and it's all girl here! I mean especially if it's covered up with something, pink fleece isn't that big of a deal...

And I'm all for gender equality and boys wearing "girl" colors and all that - but there's a line to it. I mean, I'm not going to put a dress on my boy or some pink flowery outfit even though as a newborn he's not going to care...yk? But a diaper? If no ones going to see it and I'm in a pinch, on goes the pink!

And if he wants to paint his nails with his big sisters or play dress up with all our girls clothes I'm fine with that, but they'll be no cross-dressing outside of my home as long as I can help it :wink Play with a kitchen or dolls, fine by me, but I'm fully anticipating cars and guns and all that "boy" stuff too this time.

I love and think we should celebrate our gender differences - but I'm all about "made in the image and likeness of God" so I probably assign more importance to gender than some folks would.

All that said :blah :blah :blah a light pink diaper on a boy wouldn't phase me, but maybe you could trade your fabric for more GN patterns if it's going to bother you? Or yeah, like you said, sell it - but I think it would be so great to have diapers that you made on your baby - so I'd probably try to swap the girly fabric for something more GN if I could.

[Amys1st]

I would not read much into it. My friend's two boys love coming over to our house becuase they love to play in our play kitchen dh made last year. Its stocked full of play food etc. Since when do boys not eat? So I cannot understand why their dad will not let them have one just like it. They also love our dollhouse stuff and playing.
I remember in dd's preschool class the first day a father directing his son away from the doll house (which was as girly as the cars next to it) to the tool area. He was quite uptight about it like most things and we can see why his kid is also so uptight.

But as my dh says- both sexes need to know how to love and care for a baby and eat- he can rival me in the kitchen anyday which is why he usually cooks at least 2-3 times weekly.

I'm sure the dipes are adorable and if you end up going the y chromosome route, I would be happy to help you unload the girlie dipes.