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@Bao: Green is my favorite color, and I'd like to think it's gender neutral! Or black and white! Brown! Hmmm... orange!
This is really cute, it's under girls, but I still think it's not "girly" http://www.target.com/p/Kee-Ka-Organic-Newborn-Long-Sleeve-Kimono-Vanilla-Chocolate/-/A-13327420
I have NO patience and I love to decorate, so I found out with all 3 of mine. You could go for an all white nursery, or I have also seen farm nurseries that were pretty nuetral.
My daughter inadvertently ended up wearing a lot of gender neutral clothing because I'm really not into the whole all pink all the time thing. She wore a lot of greens, browns, turquoise, deep red (like rust colored), actually orange and turquoise was a favorite color combo, or any bright color with brown. She had lots of navy blue, and stuff like corduroy, dinosaurs and lizards, and I even learned how to make some stuff too!
I had better luck finding cute gender neutral things at the boutique stores, not so much the places like Target and Wal Mart.
Oh and her nursery was lavender, spring green and white. Her sheets and everything were sage green with animal prints.
Green, browns, and yellows! I've had some friends who kept it a secret and it was SOOOO hard baby shower shopping for them. There are a lot of zoo animal, frog, and bee themes too that are pretty neutral.
This is one of the reasons why we found out the sex of our baby due to that reason there is not a lot of general neutral things out there! I wasn't a fan of duckies either but somehow my son has ended up with a lot of duckie clothes. And I admit they have grown on me.
I have always stuck to the idea that I'll find out the sex of my future baby, but in any case I have always loved gender neutral decor. I've always envisioned a neutral palette of taupe, white, brown wood, and any pastel color (could be peach, green, light blue or even blush if combined with other colors).
This goes for nursery,clothes, toys, etc.
Good luck!!
We are team green and have done gender neutral and while it's a pain for certain things, I recommend it if you guys want it to be a surprise. Our nursery is currently painted in gray and white strips, with a white chair rail, and bright teal on the bottom. We are waiting to do some of the finishing touches and decorations (like curtains, wall hangings) until we know the gender. If it is a boy, we'll bring in apple green or navy, and if it's a girl, we'll bring in purple or bright pink. As for clothes, we didn't get many at the shower, which was nice because we got a lot of stuff we needed that we registered for instead. We did get our share of rubber ducky clothes, but most of it went back. Our kiddo is not going to have a very big wardrobe when s/he pops out, but my mom has happily accepted the task of going out shopping immediately upon finding out if it is a boy or girl, and how big s/he is, and she will buy us a bunch of newborn and/or 3-6 months clothing items in gender specific colors. I'm currently debating about the going home outfit.. I think I'll just buy one of each.
I didn't really want to be on team green, it was my husband's idea, and I wanted to be able to plan, I was too curious, etc. I'm actually loving it now and really recommend it. It adds such a fun element of surprise to the big day. As it gets closer, we literally cannot WAIT to find out if our little one is a he or a she!!
@Bao: When that times come I would want the sex of the baby to be a surprse too. I like the idea of doing everything in green and white. After the baby comes I would add pink or blue to the decor. My sorority colors are pink and green and I love it! Also, green and blue is very nice as well.
I am team green, and I will try to remember to bombard you with adorable gender neutral baby stuff later, because as of right now, I am only awake because I woke up starving again! UGH! Finishing my egg sammy then back to bed!
Try looking for greens, yellows, browns, creams - maybe even reds and oranges could be gender neutral!
We are having a girl but stil arent going with pink. You can use a combo of colors that dont include pink or blue such as beige, brown, green, yellow, red. If you google gender neutral nursery you should get lots of ideas
Keep it a surprise. With our next we are keeping the gender the surprise (not pregnant yet but hopefully soon). I am going to do the nursery in a Dr. Seuss theme I have found it to be super gender neutral. As far as clothing goes its hard to find anything just buy a few basics and wait to get the cute stuff until after baby is born. Also when you do have your baby people will bring you gifts in the hospital more then likely you will get gender specific clothing as gifts at that point. I have found some good green carseats at Target and Babies R Us as well as highchairs and strollers.
I loved being gender neutral. As for finding things, it was pretty easy, but Wombat does wear a lot of blue even though she's a girl. As for the nursery, we have a green crib and jungle stuff.
We're not team green but I'm determined not to have gear that is too gender specific that way we can reuse for other babies down the line. It's harder definitely but they are out there and not just in yellow and duckies either! Don't get discouraged! :)
Red! I have seen quite a few red strollers and always think that the parents had foresight to not get something that is gender specific so it can be used with future children as well.
There are lots of cute gender neutral things out there. I think PP are right about looking outside of Target and Babies R Us though.
I so wish we would have waited to find out.. just for the simple fact that when you have a baby shower you'll get things you need, not cute clothes and also for the suprise factor. We bought a gender neutral stroller.. its tan, black and white. Also sage green and brown bedding.
For clothes i would just wait to buy. Newborns don't really need much, just a few onesies and some sleepers so you could just get the basics. Go get more cute gender specific clothes when your in desperate need to get out of the house after baby arrives..
I'm not even pregnant yet, but I've started planning our nursery theme and making blankets for it. Yes, it does have a lot of blue in it (but hey, I never, ever liked the color pink anyway and neither did my sister!). I'm also going for some light teals, greys, and yellows, like this pallet:
It might LOOK like it is more meant for a little boy, but if I end up with a little girl who is anything like me or her dad, she'll be ok with no pinks!! And I'm hoping the penguins, whales, and seals make up some of the cuteness factor!
Not pregnant yet but I don't want to find out before the (future) baby is born either. Like others said, a nice side effect is you have things you can use for a second baby even if it is the opposite sex, and you get more things you need and fewer cute but maybe less useful clothes. Plus, you have the rest of the baby's life to get gender specific things!
I imagine a lot of animal/jungle/rain forest stuff for my future children. Gender neutral, and I'll be getting lots of hand me downs from my sister anyway!
I will start by posting my 2 gender neutral inspiration boards for the nursery, we have decided on the yellow, grey and white one (no duckies or cartoony characters here):
There are tons more that you can search for:
All Modern Baby - I didn't notice any ducks or anything cheesy like that in these selections!
Lay Baby Lay - Tons of different inspiration boards, I have linked to the gender neutral offerings!
Beba Bean - Here are some very cute unisex clothes!
This is just a start, I am trying to go through my bookmarks for more, also try searching pinterest for neutral baby stuff, and you will find tons! I am actually way more excited about buying neutral stuff than I think I would be about boyish/girlish stuff. I can also take pictures of my exisiting cloth diaper stash, and my minimal clothing and blanket stash. There is very little green yellow (all yellow clothes were bought by someone other than me). I have a ton of brown, grey, black, and denim for now, that I can accessorize to make more gender specific if I want later!
There is seriously a TON of cute gender neutral stuff if you just look around a bit! I'm Team Green and I already have the first month of the baby's wardrobe pretty much set - my mom has agreed to go shopping for more gender specific outfits once the baby is born but we're set for the first several weeks. We do have a couple of onesies with ducks on them, but most of the stuff is white or tan with super cute embroidery on it - mainly animals or fun little patterns. We also have a lot of stuff with the white, aqua, and lime green colour combo, which I LOVE.
DH and I definitely want the surprise, but added to that, I hate too much pink or blue, and knowing his family, we'd have pink or blue coming out of our ears if we knew the gender.
I've had the best luck shopping for gender neutral at Kohl's and Macy's.
ETA: For nursery themes, I think gender neutral is a lot nicer looking and is much more versatile. We'll be doing tan walls with white trim and a Peter Rabbit theme with ours.
I was Team Green and I loved it! Nothing more fun than annoying people by making them worry "WHY aren't you finding out??"
Baby Bear's room is green, yellow, pale green and gray. I'll eventually change it to a cupcake theme, her current theme in clothes.LOL
It was fun to find out in the delivery room, 15hrs and i finally found out!LOL I was SO happy. I liek to say it's like having a real Magic Nursery Doll. LMBO. Remeber those? Loved them.LOL
@mrs_pugetsound: SO CUTE! love the colors and penguins - ahhh!
OP- if you have always wanted to wait - then DO IT! Many people will still give you hand me downs or clothes gifts after the birth. I always did for my friends :)
Plus, like MANY pp's said, there are so many great gender neutral combos. I love gray myself, and you can accent it with any other color. Or do like Avantlalettre did, and do a combo of 2 neutral colors, and add in the accent color after the baby is born. That way you can decorate mostly, but have something to look forward to.
I think green is another great gender neutral color, because you could later pair it with pink/purple or blue/navy/black/brown.
Yeah, I as well don't care for the duckies, but as other PP's said, one advantage to team green is that you won't be bombarded with a ton of baby clothes and not the stuff you actually needed on your registry. Baby clothes are SO easy to come by, I have nearly 5 friends offering me their hand me downs, and shopping sales and at secondhand stores saves a lot, so don't let that be a factor.
Good luck!
ugh! i know what you mean. i hate how "gender specific" most baby clothes are. and i really hate that it's so blatently obvious that, say, a purple onesie is supposed to be for a little girl when i see no issue with a little boy wearing purple!!!
most of my son's clothes are fairly gender neutral cause i knew they outgrow them fast and am all for hand-me-downs for our future babies. aside from yellow, green, orange, red, black, white, and beige are all pretty neutral. good luck!
Just don't buy any clothes before the baby is born. Sure, you will get some stuff with ducks on it at your shower, but all you really need before the baby is born are some staples. White and gray are always good.
I don't know if it helps, but what I did is just buy some gender neutral basics during pregnancy, and then I splurged on girl clothes after she was born. I also received a ton of girl clothes after she was born from friends and family as "welcome, baby" gifts. Also, some boys clothes (especially basics like sleepers, onesies, cloth pants) can really go either way. We also bought everything in shades of green (I don't like yellow much) and it has made preparing for baby #2 sooooooooooo much easier! I think we have a list of maybe 20 items we need to buy for baby #2; at the most we'll only have to spend a hundred bucks or so, so it's much cheaper, too.
I loved the surprised of finding out we had a daughter in the delivery room, but if it starts causing you anxiety, maybe you should revisit the subject with your husband. You have a lot of time to make this decision, though, so try not to get too stressed out just yet. :)
Sorry I have not been on for a few days, but thank you all SO much for your responses, wow it has made me feel a lot better :) I go back and forth everyday about finding out or not finding out. DH really doesnt want to find out so we most likely will not. He thinks its a good idea to go to some stores where we would register, and some stores where we would purchase baby clothes and see if in fact it will be easy for us to get everything we want before the baby is born, or if its just too hard and stresses us out, we may find out. I am such a big planner/organizer this may be a little more difficult for me. I am bound and determined to try though :)
My brother and sister in law was team green. They pained their room brown and cream. Right when my niece was born my sister in laws mother went out to Babies r us and bought the bedding. She picked a girl and a boy one. The crib was ready while she was still in the hospital.
She was bombarded with so many clothes. So that shouldn't be too much of a worry for you.
Let me tell you though. It was such an amazing moment when my brother in law came in the waiting room crying "She's beautiful"
It was so awesome. When DH and I have a baby, we will definitely be team green.
FIND OUT!!!!!!
I know that's not the advice you're looking for, but we found out that we are having a girl and now planning is a breeze. I am way too impatient/picky to deal with the surprise.
Initially I thought I wouldn't want to find out, but now that my friends are having babies I see how difficult it is to be gender neutral. Now I think I would want to find out. I think it helps guys bond with the baby too.
Having said that, I would buy all major items gender neutral anyway, so you can use them for another baby. It's mainly clothes that are the issue.
We're doing gender neutral so that it can be reused/recycled for our next baby! We've decided on a theme of zoo animas (DH is a vet). There are lots of great primary color options and bright colors that are perfect for either a boy or a girl!
I was stressed at first too... especially b/c I already have a son and baby will be sharing a room with him for the first year or so. Even if baby is a boy DS has still outgrown the "all blue" phase so I needed something more gender neutral regardless.
I've decided to go with Grey, White, and Red, with a pop of yellow (to match DS's love of superheros)... if baby is a girl I can easily add Red girlie touches and still keep DS's little masculinity. =)
I'm REALLY glad that I don't have to worry about getting a slew of baby clothes I won't use at the shower & now that I have a nursery color scheme I like I'm back to being happy about being team green =)
Here's my mini inspiration board (some things I already have ie. marvel poster for DS & a dresser that I'm painting yellow for accent) & then I've found some other nurseries that were white, grey, & red =)
And some other rooms I've found that would be great for just a nursery!
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I just recently found out I am pregnant and DH and I have always said we wanted the baby's sex to be a surprise. As I am looking through things online, or at the store, everything I see is either pink or blue...or else its yellow ducks and I am not a fan of that either. We really wanted gender neutral gear, nursery etc...but its REALLY hard to find things that are not specific towards one gender or another. I also don't want my baby to have to wear all yellow...can anyone give any tips on this subject? Are we better off just finding out to make life easier? Anything at all would be helpful, thanks!