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We kept the nursery very gender neutral and didn't share the gender before our baby shower. Our nursery was teal, gray and cream with pops of color as accents.

For the clothes I buy, I peruse both the girls and boys sections every time. My DD loves Thomas the Train, but the only shirt I found was dark gray in the boys section at Old Navy. So I've become good at looking beyond the pink and searching out pieces that work for either gender or are girly, but without a ton of pink. She has some pink in her wardrobe, but often as an accent color or an occasional outfit.

For clothes we got as gifts, I did a couple things. If the gift was a one off from a friend/co-worker/family member, she would wear it at least once and then if I hated it, it would get sent off to the consignment shop so I could use the credit for items that better fit my style. I made it clear to family members that DD can wear all the colors of the rainbow, not just pink. But for my MIL, I had to change my plans because…. she bought ALL the clothes she could find before and immediately after DD was born. Often from consignment (which I don't mind, but not huge bags of them). Most were very girly and pink and not my thing. So I picked through them, found the items I wanted and sold the rest. I stopped feeling guilty because there was no way my DD could wear everything she bought, and she was the one who paid no attention to my nursery colors, or request for less pink.

We bought everything else gender neutral, especially as we planned to reuse the big items and our cloth diapers for future kids.

I can't wait for my DD's preferences to come out - if she loves pink girly stuff, I'll embrace it because SHE wants it. But until then, she will continue to look like a boy somedays!

@luckypenny: Where are those prints from in the foreground? I love them!

I'm also expecting my first, a girl, in January. I registered VERY carefully--with very little pink. I did it because I know I will definitely get lots of very pink things from family members, but I still wanted to show that my preference is toward the more neutral. Good luck!!

@luckypenny: Thanks, lady!

I had a lot of luck just communicating with my family, and they all really understood. I'm also really against the girly lame versions of toys, so my daughter has none of those. I am, however, a big fan of pink aesthetically, so the both of us end up wearing it sometimes. At this point (3 years) she doesn't care about her clothing - when she does, she can choose her colors.

Our girls nurseries were/are very gender neutral, little hints of girl but not with pink. We registered for all gender neutral stuff and when we bought things we bought it in the neutral version even if there was a "girl" version available. People did end up buying girly things but since the bulk of their larger items were gender neutral it wasn't a big deal.

I just made sure that most of what I bought was not pink so that the pink stuff bought by others would be balanced out. I am more bothered by the cartoon pictures and cheesy sayings on baby clothes. What I buy is mostly solids and patterns like dots and stripes. There's no Minnie and Pooh and Tinkerbelle and very little animals etc.

We live pink but actually mostly by gender neutral. So much I guess that most people think baby is a boy But atleast we will have hand me downs for all gendwrs!