long thin babies

[sparky]

Who's babygrows fit best?

Babies clothes sizing varies as much as ladies clothing from store to store. Isla is little miss average when it comes to height but smaller than average weight, so baby grows are either to short for her or fit on the leg before she can fill them out! Sick of her baggy and saggy look.

Just want to know which shops are better...next and tescos are much shorter than some of the others

 

[Hazel]

I've got exactly the same problem. Posted earlier about it in clothes sizing. At night I've started putting her into a long sleeved vest and then sticking her into her sleeping bag so her legs are more free, she seems a lot happier like this.

 

[CoreysMummy]

I found M&S and Sainsburys are longer than say mothercare/wolworths.

I have never tried asda or tesco so I dont know about those, I found next quite long too.

 

[daftscotslass]

I found Tesco and Next reeeeeally different. On Becky all the Tesco sizes come up tiny - she is in 6-9 month for their stuff just now. Next stuff she is still in 3-6 months as I've found it comes up bigger (including length) than anything else. M&S is fairly good length-wise too.

 

[Hazel]

Anyone tried Peacocks stuff???

 

[sparky]

I've got exactly the same problem. Posted earlier about it in clothes sizing. At night I've started putting her into a long sleeved vest and then sticking her into her sleeping bag so her legs are more free, she seems a lot happier like this.

ha ha didnt see your thread...how weird eh us bothing thinking about that today!

 

[Sherlock]

I've got exactly the same problem. Posted earlier about it in clothes sizing. At night I've started putting her into a long sleeved vest and then sticking her into her sleeping bag so her legs are more free, she seems a lot happier like this.

When it gets colder you could try pyjamas - long sleeved body suit and bottoms (no feet). Or just go for a footless sleepsuit even. We have some of these from TobyTiger

http://www.tobytiger.co.uk/sleepsuits-hats.html

And yes, you can buy other makes cheaper. Just a matter of shopping around.

 

[CoreysMummy]

. . . OR, chop the feet off the sleep suits - can always put socks on to sleep.

My mum was telling me gran used to do that with all her kids clothes...!!

 

[BabyMagic]

From my experience Monsoon sizes are pretty small, so are Petit Bateau but the latter is FAB for slimmer babies! Gap and Mamas and Papas sizes are bigger.

 

[LisaJ1986]

Peacocks stuff isn't too bad. I've only had a couple of bits from there but they seem to be a nice fit. Although it was mostly summer stuff so not sure on the leg length.
Wilko stuff is too small. I bought sleepsuits in 3-6 months, washed them once and they are now too small. I find Asda sizes a bit larger. I love Asda clothes.

 

[sparky]

thanks ladies...i love the asda clothes too- those and H&M are more to my taste, bit sick of the pink overload she's been in...but thats the pressies she was bought, shes got some lush 0-3 month stuff cant wait for her to fit in it!

 

[Hazel]

thanks ladies...i love the asda clothes too- those and H&M are more to my taste, bit sick of the pink overload she's been in...but thats the pressies she was bought, shes got some lush 0-3 month stuff cant wait for her to fit in it!

I like H&M. Know what you mean about pink, I'm trying to find something in a nice green .

 

[laracomps]

I posted the same thing a few months ago

To be honest we've pretty much ditched sleepsuits for footless pjs and socks now! Next are prob the best for us but can't afford to buy them all from there, plus they are quite baggy.

In terms of long skinny ones, actually primark are great! They are £4.50 for 3 sleepsuits! Bargain. Their pj's are also great, but only start at 6-9 months... However, they fit Phoebe round the waist now because they are small but really stretchy They are a good 2 inches too long, so should fit her for ages, she look so cute hehe.

I struggled to find footless pj's in smaller sizes tho. So if you decide to go down that route, Mothercare do them, but expensive. Or Asda And their sleepsuits are pretty good too.

Tesco I found came up really small, as did peacocks. Mothercares sleepsuit's were huge, but not just in length, all over! M&S are quite good also, but we only have 1 of those.

Has anyone tried Sainsbury's ones? They had some lovely ones in there yesterday, but I didn't know how they came up on size.

 

[poppy160]

Same thing - Average height, under average weight but have always used Next babygrows and had no problem. Sleepsuits she always grows out of length ways quite quickly, we've tried Mothercare, M&S and Woolworths and have always had the same problem.