Do these look cute on babies?

[HelloDenise]

These are from online catalogues. The kids look swamped in these!

I hate any kind of baby decor like this!

No. Can't stand them.

How else will people know they're girls?

To me they look gift-wrapped, but as long as they're not dangerous I don't really care. Most babies would look cute with a cowpat balanced on their head (and the ones that aren't cute are beyond the help of bows )

I really loathe the baby headbands.

I think they look awful.

they make their parents happy, what not to like. Would you prefer sackcloth and ashes

They scream “we had a baby girl! Not a boy, a girl!”

I think they look ridiculous.

Utterly grim

Hideous. Certain types of parents where I am put these on their babies, it does them no favours.

No

I've met people who believe their babies don't look like girls without a headband similar to these... despite obviously feminine outfits.

Personally, they're not to my taste and I do think they look a bit over the top. I'm also surprised they stay on (given that my two boys constantly took their hats off)! I'm currently expecting a baby girl and won't be dressing her in anything like this...

No. I think they're utterly hideous!

No they're awful and I've never understood why anybody would do that. Just stop it. Same for baby ear piercing.

Never known a baby to keep one on for more than 0.5 seconds

I put these in the same bracket as stiff designer denim on baby boys, designer trainers on babies who can’t even walk, and designer clothes with logos on them. Just awful.

Hideous... poor kids having that forced upon them.

The four letter word beginning with C.

Also includes an H, A and V.

My children we both blessed with an abundance of hair from birth so their heads were adorned enough for me. Funnily enough people presumed they were both girls even though I had one of each because of the presence of hair.i wonder is there a 'thing' people use to signify that hairy boys are in fact boys like the bow is used to signify bald girls are girls?

Dreadful

I think they are cute as long as it's not taking over their head lol. My daughter never liked them so I never bothered too much.

Horrible.

It's a matter of taste whether anything looks cute or not.

Quite a lot of people see accessories on babies as a class signifier. That's because any attempt to signal through material objects that this baby is loved and provided for is less important to people who are more secure financially. So some may reject these headbands to preserve their own social status, or as a reaction to the fact that people like them or around them don't use them.

Some people don't like gendered clothes or accessories on small children.

Some use headbands to flatten children's ears.

You'll probably get more people disliking them on Mumsnet then liking them. I have no kids to put them on. But I do think they're cute. I even have a rationale. We are evolutionarily driven to protect small big-headed big-eyed things like babies. Stick a giant bow on them and they look even cuter (for evolutionary purposes).

So I find them cute, but tastes differ.

Dangerous imo. The band can end up around the baby’s face or neck. It’s a pretty stupid thing to put on a baby. Fashion over safety.