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How soon should you start shopping for baby clothes? Many parents start shopping as soon as they become aware of the pregnancy. While this is great, and ensures plenty of clothes, it does present problems if you cannot resist the urge to buy gender specific clothes.

The best advice for upcoming parents is stick to the basic and essentials in gender neutral colors. Obviously, pink is a good color to avoid. Many parents are so excited by the idea of a baby that they go rushing around the store buying all of the baby clothes they can get their hands on.

While this can be a fun shopping trip, it should be avoided until the gender of your baby is determined for sure. Instead, while you are fighting the urge to gender shop start picking up some great basics and essentials in gender neutral colors. Items like diapers, socks, t-shirts, onsies, and hats are all needed regardless of gender.

This saves some time and effort later when you do know the gender so you can purchase the additional items you need. If you give into the temptation to gender shop early in the pregnancy you could end up with a closet full of clothes will be not be used. This can be a very costly mistake to correct.

Once parents decide if they want to know the gender of the baby, it is generally around 20 weeks in the pregnancy that the doctor can tell based upon an ultrasound. While a doctor gives a good educated guess, you should not start shopping unless your doctor has given you a for sure, or very high probability of a specific gender.

Those couples who wish to wait until delivery to find the gender of their child can still go shopping. Simply avoid purchasing the clothes that are gender specific. Stick to colors such as green, red, yellow, orange, and similar colors. Look for tiny blue jeans and other items that do not matter the gender.

Newborn diapers are easy, they tend to be very gender neutral until your baby is older so this saves that hassle while baby clothes shopping. As you can see with some work and careful planning, you can start shopping for the perfect baby wear almost immediately after finding out your going to have a baby. Try not to worry over colors so much, and instead focus on enjoying looking around and picking out good sensible pieces you like.