r/babywearing • u/Emergency-Scheme-624 • 4h ago

Discuss Do your babies wear dresses?

Hi everyone,
I have a little girl and 2-3 dresses that I would love to put her in. They were all gifts and I cannot help it, I love them so much. But then when I think about it I feel weird putting her in a dress and then in my wrap for her nap. Do your babies actually wear dresses even in wraps/carriers?

Maybe a weird question but I am genuinely so curious lol. Thanks!

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u/Pulchrasum BW Educator—Toronto 🇨🇦 4h ago

Why ever would you not? I’m confused

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u/Emergency-Scheme-624 4h ago

Because the dress gets bunched but with the fabric and plus my SIL made a comment that I should not put my baby in a dress and wrap her in a carrier because it’s weird.. so I thought okay maybe it is weird?

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u/Amberzum_ 3h ago

Nope, I think she’s being weird 😂

I put my baby in dresses from time to time up until she could crawl because they got in the way (which is what I thought this post would be about until I saw the sub!), then put her in them again when she started walking. No issues babywearing at all from tiny baby to toddler!

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u/StuffonBookshelfs 3h ago

I can’t even begin to understand what would be weird?

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u/NeitherSimple6784 4h ago

My baby doesn’t wear dresses but there’s no reason they can’t wear a dress in a carrier. If it’s a long dress you may need to fold/bunch it up to allow their legs to sit properly in the seat.

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u/RemarkableAd9140 3h ago

I just pull the dress down when I lay baby on the wrap to Superman her up. It usually stays pretty flat. For me, the hardest part of wrapping in a dress is that we do cloth diapers and making a seat is impossible if baby is in one of the plasticky covers because the wrap just slides off. So I put her in wool covers to wrap with dresses. 

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u/ShadowlessKat 3m ago

My daughter wears dresses for church. I prefer to wear her in the carrier when she has pants, but if she's wearing a dress and I need to wear her, then I do it with her dress on. It just bunches up. I think it would be uncomfortable but it doesn't bother her.

There is nothing weird or bad about it.