How to Buy Onesies For a Baby Shower?

Answer 1

You’re at the store, holding 5 cute onesies, all in different sizes. The baby who will be wearing them won’t be here for another 5 months. What size should you buy? Short sleeve, long sleeve, layette? This is hardly cause for a headache. However, when the question comes, it’s a lot easier to make the decision armed with a few simple guidelines, rather than simply grabbing the first cute little scrap of cloth that must be seen on that darling little new baby. Especially if it’s on sale now!

- An obvious starting place would be finding out the dute date. While the baby is new, there is a lot of flexibility in climate suitable clothing, because a newborn has to always be bundled up in more clothes than adults, or even older children. Even if it’s hot outside, many homes will have air conditioning set to a much colder temperature than a new baby is ready to handle. Short sleeves can go under other clothing, and a long sleeve layette may do a nice job of coddling baby to sleep. However, a few months down the road, and baby may be too hot in long sleeves on a warm spring evening.

- Once you’ve adjusted for seasons, it’s important to think about the size of the baby. If you can feel confident the baby will be slightly larger than average, based on, for instance, a pattern set already by older siblings from this mom, then you may want to buy bigger sizes for the early months, because the 0-3 won’t last more than a couple of weeks. If there are indications the baby may be small, or if you know you’re buying for a preemie, then you can adjust accordingly. Keep in mind that many people like to buy a new parent lots of clothes and items for the baby in the first months, and then around the 9-12 month mark, momma has to go shopping. You can help out by having some older clothing sets in place.

- Then, it’s time to think about style, color and overall cute factor. Knowing the gender of the baby can help you in the blue and pink department. However, there are plenty of neutral options out there. Besides the traditional yellow and green, there are many unique online boutiques that specialize in baby clothing, and can sell items that go from tie dyed to garden prints to iconic symbols. Knowing the gender can help in buying something feminine or masculine, but knowing mom’s taste may be even more important, because chances are, if the momma hates the biker baby look, baby’s not wearing the skull and crossbones onesie!

Buying for a baby should always be fun, especially for babies of close friends and family, because you will always know them intimately. Usually, a mom will be so thankful for the thoughtfulness of the gifts that she will find a way to make it work, and as anyone who has been around a baby knows, the messes are frequent and usually unexpected, which means loads and loads of laundry. Any gift you choose will be perfect, just because it came from you!