Was I so rude???

You have every right to take your child to the shops

You do have every right to take your child to the shops but you have absolutely no right whatsoever to expect other shoppers to be quiet because your baby's asleep.

OP, I appreciate that some people are annoying, but asking strangers in a public place to keep the noise down so your baby doesn't wake up is, indeed, rude and entitled. Your world naturally revolves around your baby. That doesn't mean everyone else's has to revolve around it too.

I get that you're tired but I suspect that in years to come when you'll probably have a couple more children and will no longer be a new mum to your first baby, you will look back on this and laugh about this as a PFB moment.

Could you order online

@Magnastorm
"if people are being complete twats in a shop or on a bus or whatever other people have every right to call them out on it."

But what definies "complete twats"? OP is naturally very sensitive to noise at the moment in case it wakes the baby. Been there, done that! But you can't tell complete strangers in a public place to stop having a giggle or a bit of a mess around because of your baby. The only way I'd do that is with potentially dangerous anti-social behaviour, then only if I thought it was safe to do so.

No you weren't being rude. It's pretty bad etiquette to be loud out in public anyway so I take a dim view of them. I'd probably make a complaint about the cashier joining in bashing you. Totally unprofessional.

There are few things more frustrating than someone waking your sleeping baby unnecessarily.

Agreed. I'm sure that if these 'ladies' had been on their phones or playing music, all the people who say that the OP is BU would be on her side.

Why not? What happened to not behaving like a total yahoo in public? It's a shop, not a pub or club.

I saw Gloria Hunniford in Home Bargains.

Should have told her off as its not her demographic

Wow.

So it’s ok to be loud ( and annoying) because you’re out in public? What about the many threads about people watching/ listening on speakers on their phones being inconsiderate? It’s just as inconsiderate as these two people who sound really annoying. I hope you’re ok op. X

Shrieking women are awful, I agree.

However, you were in a public space and they weren't nasty shouting, just shrieking and laughing so the sensible thing to do would be to leave the queue and take your pram away from the noise.

@Magnastorm would you like to come shopping with me😁

No you weren't being unreasonable. It's not something most people would have said but still not unreasonable.

They were though, people with the lack of social awareness to be quite happy making a tit of themselves and holding up a queue. I hate people who are loud in public it's so performative.

If it happened as you describe, then they were incredibly rude. However, you can't expect to police noise levels in a public place; for that YABVU.

Nah.

If you are out in public being a loud arsehole, you can't expect everyone to just put up with it. There are limits.

Maybe OP was a bit on edge because of the situation but still, if people are being complete twats in a shop or on a bus or whatever other people have every right to call them out on it.

Gosh, how unreasonable of them not to realise that the whole world revolves around your baby?

Seriously, it was quite an unreasonable ask. If you want peace and quiet for your baby to sleep (not actually something I'd advise - but your baby, your choice), then the onus is on YOU to take the baby to a quiet place, not to go to a place that is naturally noisy and try to tell everyone to be quiet.

Hahahah course 🙄🙄😂😂😂

I think you were out of order tbh.

I also think that if it had been a time when you were fully recharged and didn't have a little baby you would have just rolled your eyes at this situation. It's just that when you are so tired and weary everything seems amplified.
Let it go and get as much rest as possible.

I'm laughing at the sneery posts about the Home Bargain's demographic. Just before Christmas I bumped into our director ( local authority) there with his wife. They were buying stocking fillers for the grandchildren. As the wife said, 'you've got to love a bargain!'
HB has been a revelation to me since we had one built in our town!

What happens when the Bing Bong goes over the microphone with the inevitable loud announcement about sprouts being reduced to 60p or 25% off clothing?

Shops are noisy places, can't be precious about noise. But no excuse for their snarkyness.

I would expect people to have a bit of decorum but obviously that is too much to ask of some.

It’s a bit unreasonable to be asking strangers to kept quiet because you’ve got a baby.🤷‍♀️. No one else cares. 🙄

I shudder to think what they would have done for a free biro.

This.

It is rude to ask random people to be quiet in a shop. Sounds like their response to it was much ruder though..

I feel for you op. Those first few months are fucking hellish, and it sounds like you just ran into a bunch of inconsiderate cunts.

Don't take it to heart.

The world doesn't revolve around you