{"id":1347,"date":"2013-08-26T15:17:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T19:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2014-05-20T15:58:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T19:58:23","slug":"sizing-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/26\/sizing-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Sizing It Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SONYWe have been very fortunate to have such wonderful, giving friends and family.\u00a0 Since Doodle was born, I\u2019ve had to buy him hardly any clothes.\u00a0 We\u2019ve received a large amount of gifts and also a ton of hand-me-downs (including 5 FULL trash bags from one of hubby\u2019s co-workers).<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve spent the past\u00a0two days washing and sorting through everything in anticipation of the growth spurt I see coming (the suddenly very chunky monkey thighs are a dead give away!).\u00a0 I had sorted everything before but realized I didn\u2019t pre-wash the new stuff and baby clothes are notorious for shrinking so I washed and re-sorted.<\/span><\/p>\n

While waiting for Honeybun’s\u00a0arrival, I did the same.\u00a0 I washed everything I received at my baby shower and began sorting by size.\u00a0 I realized something very quickly in this sorting process though:\u00a0 baby clothes sizes mean NOTHING!\u00a0 The actual size of clothes varies widely by brand (and sometimes even style!) despite what the tag may say.\u00a0 And don\u2019t let the weight\/length labels fool you either, Carter\u2019s brand newborn size which says \u201c5-8 lb\u201d and \u201cup to 21.5 inches\u201d still fits my 13 \u00bd lb, 25 inch, 3 month old easily.<\/p>\n

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\"SONY\"SONY(6 different brands of 3 months onesies, notice the extreme difference in both length and width!)<\/p>\n

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\"SONYSo now I sort by actual size, completely disregarding what the tag says (unless I want a good laugh about my 3 year old wearing 12 month clothes).\u00a0 For all-in-ones (such as onesies, sleep-n-plays and footie jamas), I sort by torso length\u2014shoulders to crotch.\u00a0 Pants\/shorts\/skirts I sort by waistband width and t-shirts I usually sort by width though sometimes really short and wide ones I\u2019ll put with smaller sizes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"SONYWhenever my kids outgrow a set of clothes, I put them in 2 gallon size zip bags and mark it with their name and age.\u00a0 With everything washed and sorted by actual size, whenever a kid grows and needs bigger clothes I can just go grab the next side pile or bag which makes it super easy and I don\u2019t have to worry about them missing out on wearing something because the label was off and they outgrew it without me knowing.\u00a0 (Now if only I could find a way to get Sugarplum into all the long sleeves I have from when Honeybun\u00a0was the same size in Dublin!)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have been very fortunate to have such wonderful, giving friends and family.\u00a0 Since Doodle was born, I\u2019ve had to buy him hardly any clothes.\u00a0 We\u2019ve received a large amount of gifts and also a ton of hand-me-downs (including 5 FULL trash bags from one of hubby\u2019s co-workers). I\u2019ve spent the past\u00a0two days washing and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4510,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/4510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}