Does it bother you if people think your LO is the wrong gender?
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No, not really. Babies are very androgynous in their features.
It does puzzle me when people call a baby in a pink stroller, wearing a pink outfits and a huge pink bow a boy though. lol
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It hasn't happened to me but it would be embarrassing.
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People have done that all the time, when she is wearing a pink outfit with a pink blanket...really? Come on now.
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Nope. Not in the slightest.
It is usually old people who call her a he. -
@zippylef: Right? My BFF had this issue all the time. Pink flowery stroller, all pink head-to-toe + hair accessories and they'd still call her a "he"! I think it annoyed her for sure.
I don't think I would be offended, but I would be annoyed if she were clearly decked out completely girly (or vice versa).
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Only because when they do call LO a "he," they're more than likely being a selfish communicator. LO very rarely wears gender neutral outfits, and rarely in public. Her clothes are very girly. When people call her a "he," it says to me that they just want to talk but don't want to make any observations necessary to have an actual conversation. Maybe they're trying to be nice, but there's nothing saying that the random person in Target has to say anything at all... yet they do. Basically what @zippylef: and @shopaholic: said
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Meh, I'm sort of over it now. She's a baldie so people just assume, and I don't plan to pierce her ears until she is old enough to ask so it is what it is. She has a massive collection of bows, clips and headbands so that helps.
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Nah. She just looks like a baby! And she doesn't wear a lot of pink, so folks don't have much to go on.
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Nah. He's too young to be gendered. What bugs me is after I say he's a boy and then people say, "Really, but he has girl's eyes." Erm... thanks?
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sometimes i dress LO in "boy" colors and people get irritated at me for that, they claim I make it too confusing for them to tell that she is a girl.. But I dont think it matters at this age
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People never mistake M, but they did all the time with Lala.
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I have had people call my DS a girl, and it really hasn't bothered me, even though he looks nothing like a girl!
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@Mrsbells: i hate that too! I dont always want to dress her in pink. Yeesh! But in general, i dont care if they think she is a boy...
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Meh not really, I just calmly correct them.
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Nope. If it did, I would go nutty, because people think LO is a girl constantly, even when he's dressed in something that is definitely not gender-neutral. He's been called a girl in head-to-toe blue airplanes. It's the hair. Whatever.
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He is mistaken for a girl nearly every time we go out (daily!). I feel like I dress him like a boy...or at least in clothing I wouldn't choose for a baby girl. It confuses me but it doesn't bother me nor do I find it embarrassing.
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It has happened a few times because LO doesn't have hair yet and her name is gender neutral. It doesn't bother me in the slightest, but I feel bad because the people that have mistaken her gender get so embarrassed.
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No but I find it funny sometimes! Getting annoyed by little things is too exhausting for me.
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Personally it's only happened to us once because she looks so much like a girl (it was an elderly lawyer at my firm's Christmas party that thought she was a boy)and when it did I wasn't too bothered but DH was MAD! He didn't say anything to the lawyer (Thank God as he's a senior partner) but he was fuming about how anyone could think "his beautiful girl" was a boy as soon as he walked away. Go figure!
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I get kind of annoyed, just because DD has a wardrobe of predominantly pink (thanks to my mother in law- not my choice), and she has very feminine features... yet people always think she's a boy b/c she is rather bald.
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No, not at all. It happens all the time, even if LO is wearing pink from head to toe. Probably because she has so little hair, but it doesn't bother me at all.
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Sometimes. She doesn't have much hair so I understand the mix up. But when she's wearing pink I kinda have to wonder.
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A little. Only because I dress her up in such girly clothes and I think "all that work for nothing?!" How could a baby decked out in pink possibly pass for a boy?! But I usually let it go and don't say anything.
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I'm relieved to hear this happens to other people when their little girls are decked out in head to toe pink as well. I've kind of accepted it as a cultural thing since I live in a country where locals still seem to prefer boys to girls and are maybe hoping that every baby they see is a boy. Occassionally when I correct someone They try to backpedal and say "that's ok, girls are ok too". Eek. I did ask someone once if they would dress their little boy like this (pink sweater with heart buttons, jeans with ruffles, hairbow, and sparkly Mary Janes)...and they first told me yes, why not...then reconsidered and said maybe not the shoes.
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Nope. I used to correct people when they called DD a boy, but eventually I justs stopped caring. Now I just take the compliment about about my beautiful little girl (DS) and move on.
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