Today in Gap, the poncey sales assistant came over, told me she was a "baby specialist" and instructed me to raise the pushchair raincover so that my baby didn't get too hot as it was "bad for her ears".
I only wanted a pair of socks.
The week before some woman in the cafe across the road told me off for leaving my baby in her pushchair outside the cubicle while I had a very quick pee. "That's dangerous you know!"
(Yes I know it is, but with my pelvic floor I can't always wait madam).
And lo and behold, some old bat on the District line at the weekend leans over, gets out her passport to show me that she is a doctor, and offers the advice that my baby has a misshapen skull and DH and I need to hold her differently so it evens out.
I have also had: "I think he's hot!" from someone on the Piccadilly line when DD was crying after her feed was late, and another young woman coming up to tell me that DD "really needs a sunhat in this weather" (she had just thrown it on the floor of the train and I didn't notice until we got off).
Do other people get this or do I have a tattoo on my forehead saying please give me your opinion on my baby?
And what do you say?
ARRRRRRRRGH rant over
AIBU?
to wish that people would sod off with their unsolicited childrearing advice?
domesticslattern · 23/09/2008 18:41
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