Duh, wouldn't you think with all the pink?

I have two daughters and no matter what I dressed them in people were always asking if they were boys. I tried everything and it never seemed to help and finally I just went along with whatever they were saying about my kids instead of stopping and correcting them on their gender. I have never asked anyone even if you couldn't tell since I know how frustrating it can be.

I try to deduce by what they are wearing, but sometimes that doesn't work. They are wearing white or green or some other color.

I only ask if it isn't obvious. My personal favorite is when my twins are little, boy and girl, and people used to ask me if they were 'real' twins. I think they meant 'identical', who knows, but if they were in the same womb together of course they're 'real' twins. sheesh...

Sounds to me as if you gave every indication that she's a girl!!! To explain why some people ask anyway...A few years back I saw the cutest child with long blonde curly hair, wearing a pink sweater, jeans & pink tennis shoes. So I walk up feeling safe in my comment OMG what a cute little girl. She has the prettiest blue eyes!!! The mother spun around screaming He's a boy...can't you tell??? I apologized to her & commented that the long hair & pink clothes had lead me to believe that her child was a girl. Once again she screamed Boys can wear pink if they want to!!! I apologized to her again & told her what a cute child she had & I was sorry for the misunderstanding & sorry if I upset her. Once again she barked He's a pure boy from head to toe. I wished her a Merry Christmas & headed off to my car. Her husband ran out after me to apologize for her behavior. He commented that she refuses to cut his hair (it was below his shoulders) & she insists on dressing him in pink to make him a "real male". He said he had tried explaining to her that with the long hair, long eyelashes & pink clothes, it was normal for people to assume he was a girl. He said she just refused to listen. Since then I always ask & don't just assume!!! I know one nut should not set the standard for ALL but it has never left my memory!!!

i've had that happen to me plenty of times. it is very annoying. i have a little boy now and i dress him in blue and red. people still call him a girl. i have five girls too and it happened to them too. pink=girl. blue=boy. geez how hard is that. lol.

I think it was pretty obvious with all that pink. But people keep asking because you can never be sure actually. I saw a baby dressed in blue and it was a girl. It's a bit harder to see a baby boy dressed in pink, but today people dress their kids in everything, sometimes just it's their favorite color. I usually assume the gender by what they wear, but sometimes it's better to ask just to make sure!

Oh people are just trying to make conversation with you i bet, they wanna see the cute baby, so they just blurt out something stupid to get closer. lol It happens to us too. . and our girls are very girly.. always have them dressed in pink from birth lol. I just hate those people who try to touch your baby. . Or those little old ladies that tell you about back in their day.. I had my first daughter out when she was two weeks old.. in the middle of the summer, and a lady told me OH we never took our babies out in public in my time.. not untill they were at least 6 months old. OMG how did you SURVIVE never getting out of the house ?! lol. Crazy people!

I always look at the baby and not the clothes. Most of the time I can tell because of the look and shape of baby's head. The hardest can be the newborns and the youngest ones but I've rarely been wrong.

With what is happening to these children I don't blame these persons to asked. I say a little boy (naturally I didn't know he was a he) his hair is as long as a girl in a pink shirt. I assumed that he was a she but to my amazement he was a he. So you see these young mothers are putting on clothes on their children that would have never happen if they know what colors signify.

I don't ask if it's obvious, like with your daughter's outfit, and sometimes I just assume if the baby is wearing a neutral color but appears to be a boy or a girl. I've been wrong a couple of times.......but no one's hit me over the head with her purse.

WOW. Some people are slow. Poor boy if his parents dressed him in all pink!

This happened to my sister when she was about 13. We were at the barber with my dad and while I was getting my hair cut the barber asked, "are both your sons getting a haircut or just the one?" My dad replied with, "My other son is not with us", the barber looks over at my sister waiting in the chair and dad says, "That's my daughter." She had recently had a perm.

Too funny! I used to be able to dress my oldest girl in jeans and flannels and she was still unmistakably all girl. My two oldest boys were solidly boy and I could have dressed them in pink without fooling anyone (or getting sympathetic looks about the boyish little girls, maybe!). But my younger daughter and youngest son - oi! I got so tired of people mistaking her for a boy that I had her ears pierced when she was still a baby. The really funny part is that she and her youngest brother look so much alike that you can't tell their pictures at the same age apart - but... whereas everyone mistook HER for a boy - everyone mistook HIM for a girl! go figure!

lol. I once was told that my son was a beautiful little girl even though he was dressed in all blue. Not only that, but my son is a huge monster of all boy. There is no doubt about it, unless you are completely insane.

I had that happen to me with my daughter a few times. She was also wearing ALL pink at the time. I always assume based on the clothes that they are wearing. If they are wearing gender neutral clothes I just say "what a cute baby."

Yeah i use to dress my son in blue all the time. Even with other colors you could tell he was a boy. People always mistaked him for a girl. I would point it out sometimes. I have only had it happen once recently. Everyother time was when he was young.

That used to happen to me when my kids were babies. I dressed my boys in all blue....all of their accessories were blue, and people would still ask! My response was always "Yes, I know he is beautiful enough to be a girl but he's a boy."

OMG, some people are so weird. If they couldn't tell by all the pink, they should have just kept theirm mouth shut! LOL If I feel need to comment to a stranger on their baby, and I cannot tell the gender by the clothes, I keep my comments very general, like "how cute!" or "what a pretty baby".... Guess some people are proud of the fact that they aren't the brightest crayons in the box! ;)