It’s Your Age, Not Your Clothes’ Size

My kids wear their age for about the first six months of that age and then move up a size. They are pretty predictable in size so I buy everything a year ahead for the right season. It has been nice and budget-friendly.

I dont think my son has ever worn his “age” size clothing.. well ok i lied maybe the first week he was born

My son is a week short of six months, and has been in mostly 9-12 or 12-18 clothes for about two weeks now. My MIL buys him Small Wonders clothes from Kmart, and he can still wear his 3-6 stuff there. He grew out of Gerber 3-6 at six weeks old. It really just depends on the brand.

I can understand the weirdness with the babysitter, though. My babysitter is obsessed about my son’s temperature. He’s been teething, and I’ve confirmed with my pediatrician that a fever of 100.3 is okay while teething as long as it breaks when he’s given tylenol. I’ve had my ped even write out a note, but she still calls freaking out about his ‘high fever’ of 100.4 without tylenol while he’s actively cutting a tooth. I’ve started to look for another provider, but I can’t afford to spend much for daycare, and other than her weird fever obsession, she’s great.

My daughter will be 4 next month and is just now fitting into 3Ts, depending in the brand she can still wear 2Ts. My mother in law insit on this clothes equal age thing also. She always gets mad when the clothes she buys hang up in the closet for a year or more, then insist that we are not feeding her enough. For the record my my daughter eats just fine, but I am barely 5 feet tall and her father is 5′6″. If our daughter where wearing her age she would end up being taller than both of us by the growth charts (man would I have some explaning to do).

My kids pretty much wore their age until they hit 4T. Now they are in sizes 6 and 8–about a size bigger than their ages. The oldest wears a 32 pant and he’s almost 20.

There are so many differences in brands’ sizes its not even funny. The age-size relationship probably creates the biggest confusion, though, for new parents…and baby sitters…that may not yet realize that the label doesn’t matter.
Stormy, SizeTracker Blog

My son was in the 95% for his age. I found that he fit in clothes that were twice his age, so at 1 year he was wearing 2T, at 3 years he was into a size 6. Depending on the brand, this was pretty consistent unless an item was 100% cotton (in which case I’d go for a size larger expecting shrinkage). For a babysitter to complain about the size a child was supposed to be in, sounds like he/she got this “tip” from a parent of another kid he/she was also babysitting and took it as the gospel truth.

My son is 2 and he wears 12-18 month shorts (the same ones from last year!) and 18-24 month tops. He’s always been behind in size (he was able to wear preemie clothes at birth even though he was full term and 6 1/2 lbs). I buy only brands where I can find the height and weight recommendations by size and then buy the appropriate size. That has been effective at least 90% of the time. Like the other Jen, I have not been able to take him to the store to try things on but that has been the most effective for me.

ummm…the stupid Lowe’s and Sprint ads make it impossible to read this article! I keep trying to close them but no dice!

thats funny because my mom was telling me that kids clothes are not actually labeled right and they will always be wearing a siz or two bigger than the age it says. I had bought my daughter a little purple sweat suit to wear home from the hospital and it was in the 3 month range. my fiance’s step mother told me that it would never fit her. So I ended up taking something else that she would hopefully fit into. And wasnt she surprised when big ol’ 9 pounder came home and just barely made it into the outfit. Luckily they lose a little weight at first so we were still able to use it a few times.
As for now, my 20 month old is in 24 month or 2T. She is very tall and i would say she is pretty skinny. though i believe she is in the 75th for both height and weight (or somewhere right around there). She just graduated from 18 months when i put a shirt on and it looked like a little belly shirt!
My cousin’s daughter who is only 6 weeks older is in a 3T, but she was telling me today that her legs are so short when she buys the pants tpo fit her waist she has to roll them up about 4 times so she doesnt step on them.

My lil man is near the bottom of the growth chart, but he has always fit into stuff that is his age size. BUT no bigger or they fall/hang off of him, so no buying the next size up to save $, I have to hit it dead on.