Big bow headbands on baby girls

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They are hideous and dangerous as a few babies have died as the band slipped down their face, covering up their nose and/or mouth.

I bet majority of girls that wore these look back at photos of them as a baby would cringe and think "what were you thinking"

They are awful.

But I also feel the same way about big, frilly dresses, or jeans etc on babies.

so uncomfortable looking. Babies just want to be in pjs or a baby grow or something.

I got loads of “outfits” as gifts when mine were babies. People meant well (and I probably bought similar for people before I had kids myself) but they just went straight to the charity shop.

This feels like a very 2014 conversation

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/big-bow-headband-babies-safe-14455301

They look really chavvy and are dangerous.

DS spent quite a few of his early months after some poor explosion in pink floral babygros a friend handed on. Amusingly, he got ‘Isn’t she a sweet, pretty little thing?’ from strangers in his florals, and ‘What a fine, strong baby he is!’ if in blue.

I mean I don’t like them but I don’t care if other people put them on their kids.

As for looking back and saying “what were you thinking”…my own mother used to put me in some god awful leggings in the 90s and I think that. I’m willing to bet loads of people think they were dressed in a stupid way as babies!!

I saw one today, in a shop. The band had slipped down to her neck. Luckily the dad noticed and put it back up. I hate them.

There is no sign this happened at all, the only information comes from
Leanne Wilson’s Facebook post claiming her friends baby was suffocated by her hairband. Not one news story about this actual situation, just news story reporting on the claims in the Facebook post. Don’t believe it

So the statistics are based on a anonymous Facebook post?. Of course anything left where a baby can pull it over their face could be a risk. That doesn't make headbands inherently dangerous.

I don’t like them but I don’t generally care what others put their babies in, but these are dangerous. I can’t believe anyone would actually put them on their child.

its not even a statistic its an alleged one case ever of it happening

They are no more dangerous than a hat or a bib. I think the dislike is more snobby and they are seen as 'chavy'. Of course we can all have an opinion but to dress it up as a safety concern is disingenuous.

But until the early 20thC, it was the other way round, boys in pink and girls in blue- more of a navy or cobalt blue, than baby blue.

Don't like them, but I don't think many babies have died, so that's scaremongering. If you remove it if they're going to sleep then I suspect you mitigate that risk.

A quick google brings up one from 2018, but none others, so plenty things riskier, including getting in a car, for example.

I can see the benefit to the baby of going somewhere in a car, but what is the benefit of wearing one of these?

They are for women who think the baby is a doll to dress up and play with. The same women usually have 'teacup' dog that is also horrendously made to wear frou frou crap and be paraded around as if they were a stuffed toy!

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1465790603/texas-messy-double-stack-fluffy-bows-o?gpla=1&gao=1&&utmsource=google&utmmmedium=cpc&utmcampaign=shoppinggukenngbc-accessories&utmmcustom1=kkCj0KCQjwqcOBhDaARIsACz62vM7gKQXDcr3nZPGym4ssUxubTIZymAg2rKPlIey2zyEYSV9jpPYjLMaAow9EALwwcBBk&utmmcontent=go2181846041991694528708567175646330299pla-294930372950m1465790603engbb102858184&utmcustom2=21818460419&gaddsource=1&gbraid=0AAAAADutTMcwX-lZ68BceARcvJdHPjzl&gclid=Cj0KCQjwqcOOBhDaARIsACz62vM7gKQXDcr3nZPGym4sUxubTIZymAg2rKPlIey2zyEYSV9jpPYjLMaAow9EALwwwcB

My baby is a bow wearer! I used to hate them but then someone bought us one as a present and I put it on her and she looked so cute I got more 😂

I will add though, the bows she wears are about two inches long and are attached to a thin band. They are removed for car journeys, pram journeys and nap times (basically any time I can’t see her).

Absolutely chavtastic.

I don't like them, but having said that a young relative of mine insisted on putting them on her baby daughter all the time, and despite my inner cringe,I still loved her and the baby so all was well. Thankfully, she stopped short of those horrible overly fussy nylon-y dresses that look like christening dresses, that people who like big baby headbands also seem to favour.

Like those dummies on beads? Choking hazard yet so many use them.

@hostleg I think it must really annoy the poor babies! I have alopecia so I have to wear a hat but the minute I get in the door that hat is thrown to the side!!

Always on bald babies and they look ridiculous. I was once in a supermarket and a woman was pushing a pushchair with a girl of about 9 months-1 year old. The child was thrashing her head from side to side because the band had fallen over her eyes and the little mite couldn't see. Mum was oblivious so I pointed it out to her.

I hate them.