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My baby girl gets mistaken for a boy like 90% of the time by strangers. I don’t dress her in bright pink or bows or anything too girly bc I personally don’t like that, but why assume boy? She has short hair but she doesn’t look like a boy at all. Also a lot of people make comments “oh you have to have another baby and have a boy” or something like that as if she’s not good enough and boys are preferable. It’s extremely annoying. Our grandparents even accidentally call her a he sometimes in conversation. Does this happen to other parents?

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Hello! In my opinion, at this age, it's not yet possible to distinguish children physically if they're male or female, which is why people are used to thinking that if they're dressed in pink or lighter colors, the baby is a girl, or if the baby has earrings, the opposite if is a boy. One day, someone mistook my daughter for wearing something blue and white, lol.

@Daniela agreed. You really can’t tell or take it personally it’s happened to me before but I don’t care, I know what gender my baby is and I will kindly let them know or if I don’t even know them well I don’t even correct them because why make them feel bad about it they are usually being nice saying your baby is beautiful

Haha my boy be like that too

In the past, pink was considered a masculine color and even associated with boys, while blue was seen more feminine.

I always say most babies look like boys...thats what the bows are for, lol, so I don't get offended. Im same, not into pink, but even when she had a leopard print onesie and we went into the restroom. a woman was trying to be friendly and jokingly asked her what she was doing in the woman's bathroom ...ummmm, okay 😂 Don't let it bother you, your bebe is perfect. I think a lot of times people are also just used to referencing whatever gender baby they're used to being around in their own lives. I'm that way with dogs 🤷‍♀️😂😂😂