to find this woman annoying?????

[cornonthecob]

soft play this morning she was bouncing walking around the entire area of the sitting area of softplay with her 2 month old or so baby on her shoulder, speaking loudly about what they were going to do today... "we're going to go home, get you some milk, change your nappy, have a nap, daddy is going to do this and that, so and so is coming over later blah blah blah...."

i found her very annoying!! why do people (reminds me of people who like to talk about themselves as the third person) feel they have to be so vocal about their lives especially to a little baby???

maybe as i get older my tolerance levels are wearing sooo thin! waahhhh

probably first time mum, wanting everyone to notice and admire her.

Perhaps she likes talking to her baby. Babies love to hear their mothers voice. YABU.

YABU - I talk to my baby ALL the time - they seem to like it - she is exceptionally alert and an early communicator.

I'll await a 'AIBU to wonder why some po faced misery gritted her teeth while I happily chatted to my child?' thread

YABU. It's essential for the normal development of a baby's brain that s/he is held, talked to and so on; it might as well be a list of upcoming events as meaningless gibberish.

But if she was loud about it, that could be irritating, so maybe YANBU about that.

I think chatting away to your baby is a good thing. I always talked to mine. The morning after ds2 was born I was getting him dressed and chatting away to him, telling him what socks were for

Himself used to prop them up on his knee and chat to them. He'd have whole conversations with them, pausing for them to 'reply' and then answering. It was sooooooo sweet

However, talking AT your child for the sole purpose of - showing off? impressing? other people makes me cringe. Saying stuff loudly while looking around to see who's watching you makes my toes curl. Because that's not about interacting with your child, it's about getting attention.

YANBU to feel annoyed, if she was annoying you that's your prerogative. But YAprobablyBU for letting her annoy you!
Perhaps she was trying to keep it awake?

I would have done that. Hell I talk to my cats

I think YAB a little u in that she probably was not doing it for attention. Anyway, it is better than the alternative - not talking to your baby!

ok point taken lol! her other child in the soft play area with dad so not first timer...

she didn't annoy me as i said i found her annoying as she was soooo loud, baby on her shoulder so no need to speak so loudly! i understand you talk to your babies (i have 2 who i talk to all the time) but no need for EVERYONE to hear and as per HQW her looking around to see who was watching (as in me) did get my attention as I noticed!!! ah well....

She was 'loud' parenting

I had a bloke in the supermarket yesterday tell me that he was putting his children in for the cute competition after one of them walloped me in the back whilst I was waiting in the queue. Why did he think I would be interested?

Well if she was just doing it for attention, then YANBU. That is just annoying! :)

I think YABU - like a previous poster said she was probably a first-time mum just enjoying talking to her baby. I also remember that all the books I read when pregnant suggested that using a running commentary type manner with a young baby was the best way of getting them to learn and develop their understanding of the world

I always chattered away about rubbish when DD was a baby, just not loudly. Now DD has the option of walking away to avoid me, I chat to the pets instead.

BTW YANBU to find it annoying

Woman in talking to her baby shocker

I'm all for talking to your children, but I agree that some people do take it a tad too far, speaking in smug loud voices (usually the sort of voice you hear over tannoys in shops). I think it's usually done for attention with those types of people, so that people look at them and comment on their child.

My friend is a little bit like that. She thinks her 17 month old DS is very advanced and always makes out he's saying words when he isn't. So we'll be at soft play and X will say "badoboodabeebaboo" and she'll say "Oooooh yes X, that's right, that ball is green isn't it?".

If she was really loud I can see why that may be annoying.
I talk to my DD all the time, round the supermarket about what daddy would like for dinner etc.
Actually I get sick of the sound of my own voice sometimes!

also she might have a hearing problem; I know 2 people with a hearing loss and they talk VERY LOUDLY so that they can hear what they are saying

just a thought

i think that the sooner you start to speak to your children the better,my eldest gs was spoken to the minute he was born as where the following three boys they where are all speaking properly by 18mths and where a
credit to my daughter,we sang all the old nursery rhymns to them and they where all very placid children not by any means angels
but very balanced the eldest two are now at uni doing law so they are now putting their conversation skills to the test,maybe this lady was in a round about way looking for some interaction from the ladies at softplay
maybe she is not as confident as she seems
to be,give her a break and next time maybe
have a chat with her (quietly)

YABU.

It's lovely to talk to your baby. If I go shopping without my DDs I find myself wandering around the supermarket aisles speaking gibberish (out loud) as that's what I normally do when they're with me. Obviously I look like a total mad woman, but who cares?!

Why are women so quick to call each other names? And how exactly does one talk to a baby in smug tone of voice?
Please tell me so i can start doing it, purely to piss off the type of people who clearly have way way too little to occupy their minds.

thanks ladies i get it as a mum all i do is talk to my children, have done since birth and do it everywhere all the time, so understand all that, please don't get me wrong... but what i don't do is speak so loudly to make sure everyone hears, baby's ear was next to her mouth for goodness sake! have to add her baby was dressed very cute when I looked up from my newspaper!! (before I'm judged for reading a sunday paper, dh and i take turns in the softplay area with the dc)!

glammanana she seemed very confident to me and honestly i couldn't find the inclination or energy to comment as she had already filled me in with her plans for the day!!

anyway, maybe she has hearing problems!

I get like that I even talk to myself on the rare occasions both the children are with their dad. I'm so use to herding my todler verbally "yes its a lovely stick but if you don't stop hitting your brother we wont have time to go to the playground, would you like to play on the swings or the slide first? we can ony play for a little while as we need to go home for lunch" etc etc etc that I forget to stop or talk quieter when he is not listening.

So yes I think YABU

sixpercenttruejedi, oh dear, that sounds so familiar! :o