I like them when the babes are small! Sometimes you can change a diaper at night without disturbing them too much by unzipping them all the way up! With the snaps you can just do the bottom! With the zipper you have to pull all the way down and manipulate the leg a little lol but both were mostly fine!

I do love the gowns too! I have a handful of them too. They are my favorite early on.

It's all I use - they're great!

I used them until baby started rolling over.. then it's hard to keep baby still while u snap his pjs but I don't see what the big deal is we're all moms who signed up for this what's a few more seconds of snapping buttons? I personally tend to buy outfits that are cute and comfortable looking for baby whether they are the snap up kind or zipper kind

And I'm sure this one will be polar opposite haha. Thank God for Once Upon a Child and Ebay!

Look I refuse to have super frilly crap and bows on my daughter, I understand where you are coming from haha.

If it helps, my bestie's littles refused to wear the gowns because they would kick so hard causing the gowns to ride up and annoy them. So it's not a perfect solution but what we found worked for us. You will be amazed and how much reality changes once it comes down to it haha. 90% of the stuff we got for my daughter we got after the fact in response to a frustration or convenience where we just KNEW there had to be a better way.

Lol all of mine are snaps! I've never had a zipper onesie but I can see how it may be useful.

Haha who knows, maybe I will change my mind about gowns! I'm stubborn though so I don't know. But if I thought it was better for him, like one mama said her son had sensory issues so he couldn't have the footies on... then that would be a different story.

Those gowns are life savers! I was given some with my second son and omg it makes it so much easier to change at night. I actually like em when I thought I wouldn't.

I have one snap up because I couldn't resist. It was too cute. He probably won't sleep in it though, maybe just wear around the house. The rest are zip up and I guess I will just stick with those! He has one gown that my mom bought but I just don't think I can. Maybe I'm silly or ridiculous about it, but I can spend the extra few minutes on a zip up sleeper.

^ yep! Lol

You don't realize until you do that 2am diaper change half asleep, and you have to line all the snaps up how annoying they are! Lol. I still got a couple this time, but for convenience zippers are the way to go!

I don't think I would like the gowns on baby girls either. They just look funny to me. My opinion and maybe I'll have a harder time, but I think I'll make do with the sleepers (zip up). To each their own.

Zippers are way easier but I feel like they get "wavy" if the sleeper is too big. The snaps seem to lay flatter. Just personal preference. We have both

Oh I had a son first... we had some Cookie Monster & other "boyish" gowns. They were seriously the best.

Like pp said, out of the house we wore other outfits but gowns are really wear it's at for at home & to bed!

I have zero problems with gowns on my baby boy. My mom told me what a life saver they were when I was a baby and how much time they saved. Obviously if you are going out, put the little man in a cute outfit, but at home...who cares ? The print on them still has dinosaurs and boy stuff, so I really don't feel weird about it. My sanity is worth more than what I think an infant should be in.

I agree...all of the cutest ones are snaps! With my first, I had some of the zip ups and some snaps. I quickly fell in love with the zip ups! I'm horrible at trying to match the snaps...let alone trying to do it on a wiggly baby! This time around, my little one only has the zip up sleepers.

By the way, I noticed the gowns were mentioned earlier. I felt the same way about putting my little man in a gown. I think I only had one at first, but after I realized how convenient it was, I ended up buying more! Little man was born in the fall...so it wasn't long before the cold weather struck. I couldn't keep blankets on him and they were so easy when I had to change his diaper. I used the gowns more than I did the sleepers! He always seemed to get one leg out of the sleeper leg hole and end up in a mad, tangled mess. The gowns solved all of our problems!

I hate them. No, I loathe them. When your kid is trying to fight you, flipping over, kicking, squirming and screaming, trying to snap those things up is impossible. Then, you realize, you miss-snapped and have to do it all over. Ughhhh.

Snaps just take a bit more time but whatever I buy snap up sleepers/clothes.

I'm not a gown person cause they always seem to ride up on my babies. I love the snugly sleepers especially for the teeny newborns lol

I don't think snaps are a big deal at all:)

I've used them for all my 6 kids and bought a bunch today for this babe :)

I guess I've got lots of practice in cause snaps no matter the time of day or upset the baby don't really bother me lol It takes a few extra seconds. I'm surprised they're such a big deal to some,were talking about buttons snaps right? ;P

I hate snaps, I don't care how cute the sleeper is I won't buy it. Especially when the baby is just screaming his/her head off...you will regret it.

I'm for gowns. Hate sleepers until they're a little older & then prefer zipper.

Haha I get it, I totally do. Maybe find a couple at the second hand store to try out for middle of the night sanity?

One downside was when they were in the swing bc they woke up and won't go back to sleep even though you want them to very much....you can't buckle over that gown. I see quite a few coming home outfits on Etsy like that and scoff, how are you going to carseat them??

I know gowns would be convenient, but I just can't bring myself to put my baby boy in a gown lol. Silly, I know. But I'm not a fan.

Best solution: sleep gowns with the elastic around the bottom. You don't have to completely undress baby to change their diaper and it's quick to put on and take off.

Otherwise I say snaps are awful bc most of them don't snap up and down the leg so you still have to take one leg out, totally defeating the purpose.

They're ok at first, but as baby grows your disdain for them will also grow lol. My husband hated them and asked me to please never buy snap ups for our second. I agree they are way cuter, but the zippers in the middle of the night, and then later on when babies get really wiggly are much easier and faster.

They're not so bad, with my first I would just unsnap the bottom half. But it was winter so they were NEEDED. Since it'll be summer time, I got more onsies than anything.

At 2am they are the devil's clothes

Snap-ups are just a little more time consuming, especially when the babies get to the age they start moving around alot

They aren't bad to me, but a lot of people complain about them. I have a mixture of snaps and zippers.

I think I have mix of 50/50. When I was a nanny I actually preferred the snap ones when he was tiny. For some reason I felt more comfortable with baby being in the snap ones.

But like pp mentioned. I think it depends. I am the person who wakes up 100% at the tiniest noise and for me snaps won't be issue. If hubby will be changing diapers I can see him struggling even with the zipper - it takes him a while to wake up lol.

At 2 am when your eyes only work half way and you are trying to change a diaper quickly so baby doesn't wake up all the way, they suck! Hahaha

Snap up sleepers suck! Do yourself a favor and just use zippers.