To find these comments from new mum friend intensely irritating

But she doesn’t have to hang around with her. She says she’s a ‘new friend’, she can’t just throw her back, as either any acquaintance we are irritated by.

I don't think I said she couldn't.

Of course its irritating but it won't be forever either.

I'd have found it irritating too. But the OP's posts suggest this is more than just her being irritated by it.

It reminds me of the episode in Motherland when Amanda says to Julia, that she doesn't understand how Julia can work full time, as there's no way she could do it because she just loves her kids "too much"!

I do remember wondering if anyone else could love their baby, or find their baby as fascinating as I found my PFB, though I never said it out loud.

IBlimey, so talking about what you love is now deemed uninteresting?
Well I'm suddenly worried about attending social gatherings and would love some hints about stuff to discuss which won't bore. Stamp collecting? Choosing paint? Describing the floor? The shipping news?

You sound a bit defensive. You’re allowed to not be brimming with the joys of motherhood, you know.

This sounds to me like insecurity.

My answer would probably be 'yes I think we all felt like that in the early days. As they get older it's actually quite nice to leave them for a few hours and then come back and give them a big cuddle! Probably just as well or they'd have 30 mums sitting there in Reception!'

Seriously, don't worry about it.

I can guarantee that not a single person has given any thought whatsoever to how much you love your baby!

Mine are both adults now, so these days are far behind me, but I remember just the feelings of conplete awe that I had made this human inside my body and look at everything they could do! When, in reality, they were doing exactly what every other baby does and has ever done. I was also a bit amazed by how much I loved them. But I didn't go on about it

I have a fb friend, an old colleague, who had her first 2 years ago. She bombards the Internet with daily updates and photos of just how amazing her daughter is.

I can see how, if mine were a similar age, I'd would definitely have found it irksome because she definitely talks about her daughter like she's the first baby/toddler tp have ever walked the earth and she's the first women to have truly loved her child, but a quarter of a century on from having my first, I actually just think it's lovely and a reminder of the sheer wonder of that time.

My second was my (ex) husband's first. She was born early and in SCBU for a couple of weeks when her feeding, weight and poo was carefully monitored. My husband would phone me every day for the update from work. He laughed once and said he had no idea he'd ever feel this invested in someone else's bowel movements. But that's just it isn't it? Everyone's baby is a miracle to then.

Be silently irritated by it.
Silently smile to yourself when she starts complaining.
But it's not important.

I have never yet met a person who hasn't occasionally said something that is 'uninteresting'. Every one of my friends, every colleague, everyone I have known at all.

This reminds me of an old saying. There's only one perfect baby and every mothers got it! She sounds a bit OTT but it will wear off.

Personally I don't see she's implying anything, or a "subtext", which someone else has dramatised this into 🙄.
All she's expressed is that she's thrilled, but because she expresses it more than you express stuff about yours, she's a threat?
This sounds like hard work for you, maybe you are imposing your own fears on this. It is possible to have the mind set that anyone who talks about what they have and love is putting you down for not having the same. Maybe you have this level of intolerance about people who talk about themselves.
Although of course you are free to like and dislike who you choose.

But nobody wants to hear it. It's pretty uninteresting.

She’s saying how she is, not how you are not.

It'll pass. Soon she'll be desperate to get her hair cut and will be running on 2 hours sleep and will burst in to tears and say she can't cope.

Just ignore it.

This says more about her as a person than it does about you. Just rise above it!

Irritating-but give her a break. Pretty sure most of us don’t actually remember what we were like in the early days. Except me. I remember only too well. I have very tolerant friends.

She is a dose!
Just ignore her she will make a rod for her own back!! You continue to have a lovely baby/life balance and tell her as little as possible so she can’t compare.
You won’t be the only one thinking this either but finding it harder to shake off. Some of our inner critics are more triggered because of life experiences.

The hormonal flood is strong. I look back at photos of my baby and at the time thought she was the most amazing beautiful baby ever but with some time now its like yeah its a baby. Just like every other one.
your friend is just being biological and in a bubble. Could be worse if she was struggling to bond.
its all a big rollercoaster, just smile. Its all a learning curve and adapting to being a mother.
i now will give any new a mum a pass as i probably said some unhinged things myself.

Can't stand gushy parents I think airhead n change the subject

So she's touched a nerve in you. It's good you can see it. Focus on you and your baby, the whole of parenting can feel like a competition - but only if you choose to let it.