Dirty Looks on public transport

[thirdeyemagic]

Hello,
I travel a lot and tend to use a baby carrier with my little 9 month year old daughter.
It's so fun exploring with her (I am 22 and haven't slowed down with the travelling).

The only issue is that my child tends to chat a lot and sing on trains/buses.
That's not the issue. She looks so happy.
The issue is the immature fellow passengers that turn around and blatantly give us dirty looks.

She never cries or sleeps. Really energetic so I can't exactly cover her mouth and restrain her??

I almost started a fight with one man that kept turning around today.

What do other mums do?

PS
I understand children after a certain age should be taught manners. But still I hate societies attitude.

Babies are human beings too. With wants and desires. She's not going to sit there like a doll.
People act like my child is some annoying parasite. I hate it.

Not sure how to handle this.

what you call "social chatting and singing" is in fact a just 9 month baby loudly screeching and babbling. The rest of the world won't think your baby's noise is quite as adorable as you do I'm afraid.

You are either performance parenting or paranoid

You're definitely the problem because I can assure you that those people on public transport don't give a shit about you or your PFB

I am starting to understand why you think people are giving you evils.

It's because they are.

I'm so dubious about this

That GIF is awesome!

If people get tetchy when you are out with young children, laughing or cooing or even crying. Ignore them . They are the ones with the problem. Mum's are keeping the world populated after all. Mum's do a great job and it's not easy.

It is noise - doesn't matter who is doing it, it is noise. Most of us manage to put up with it for long enough to get through our journey - don't tell me I have to look bloody happy about it too.

If you are going to travel like that with your baby then you really must make more effort to stop annoying other passengers.

I agree with the " have sling will travel "and that babies can pretty much go anywhere. However it can be quite exhausting trying to keep their noises both low & infrequent enough to not cause a nuisance.

What you call singing & chatting is just noise. As a pp suggested - whispering in their ear can help for a while as can looking small quiet toys providing you engage with them too.

Also any disparaging looks are obviously to express displeasure to you. Likely people feel you are not doing enough to deter your child from making loud noises.

Oh I opened this thread, saw what a pure delight this OP was, read through with glee, was about to comment, then saw I already had - six months ago

How did this zombie thread get resurrected?

Does the use of a sling have any impact on the AIBU? Do you think that because you baby wear, that makes it something unique/special? The constant babble of a 9 month old baby- if loud could be irritating, but also meh, that’s kids. Not sure about the travel curtailing either. You mean that as your not working you go out in public transport, much like many parents do? I think a lot of this is probably in your own mind- unless your child is particularly screechy and constant- most people probably couldn’t really give a fig for you and your child.