AIBU to think this is a bit weird behaviour

[fishandlilacs]

Apologies for double posting I have also put this thread in chat-didn't mean to meant to put it here.

I went to a friends small house warming do the other night and took 9 wk old ds with me, he's breastfed and wont a take a bottle so if I want to go to anything like that it's just easier to go with him that without. i was only there for less than 2 hours. It was made up of 20 or so women of which 14 or so i know well the rest were strangers to me, but friends of friends as it were.

There was a woman there who I had never met before was totally gaga over my baby. She followed me round until I let her hold him and totally crowded others when they were holding him. She told me at least 4 times she used to work at a nursery in the baby room and really missed babies. Parents used to ask for her by name and she said she could "speak baby" DS was gurning and smiling at her massively in the way of 2 month old babies. I thought she was a bit full on and clearly a bit loopy but I didn't really mind, I thought it was quite sweet. Anyway, when I was getting my stuff together to go home she offered to hold him again while I went to the loo.

I came back from the loo to find her in the kitchen, rubbing her nose on his cheek to make him root and suckle her nose and showing this off to one of her friends (who was a bit disgusted and walked off when I came back in saying ugh don't do that it's gross and you're teasing him)

Also earlier on in the party I had left him in the lounge because he was asleep and there was no one in there only to go check on him to find she was in there in her own and had picked him up saying he had woken-i'd only been in the dining room next door and hadn't heard him at all.

At the time I just packed up and went home but it's been playing on my mind a bit that this is weird behaviour to do on a baby of someone you only met 2 hours before.

[MooncupandPizza]

It's a bit odd and OTT, I guess but I wouldn't worry - sounds like the poor woman is massively broody!

[ImperialBlether]

She got him to suckle her NOSE? Oh god, that is so disgusting. I would have screamed at her.

[ladyfirenze]

it is a bit weird, but watcha gonna do eh? Just chalk it up, and maybe don't leave the bairn sleeping in the garden for a while

[SmethwickBelle]

I'd say it is a bit cheeky but no harm done, she was probably trying to be helpful. But I won't say YABU as it probably would have rattled me a bit.

[fishandlilacs]

Indeed firenze I didn't really mind at the time but it has been playing on my mind a bit. At the time I thought "aw, isn't she good with him look hows he smiling at her"

The more I think about the more I realise she was either actually quite pissed and being very full on in which case I probably should have been more astute and not left my baby in the hands of a drunk woman, being sober myself and having never met her before or she was just full on. She even walked me back to my car, saying she was helping me with my bags, but then asked to have an extra cuddle with him. He is totally gorgeous of course :) so maybe she just couldn't help herself.

[TheSockPuppet]

Strange behaviour, yanbu, it would get a bit annoying for me too, although as I was reading your op at first I thought he was suckling on her tit, at least her nose isnt as bad as the alternative, even though having him suck on her nose is pretty minging.

[TheBigJessie]

Very odd.

The good news is my twins used to latch onto each other's noses, so it shouldn't be too bad in itself .