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Original poster

To want to punch people who talk loudly near my pram

60 replies

pleasethanks · 17/02/2011 19:22

It takes me ages to get my DD to nap and I often have to go out walking for a LOOOOOONG time so she sleeps. So often some loud person shouts after their child/dog just as I have managed to get her sleep. It gets on my nerves, it really does!

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Bumperlicious · 17/02/2011 19:58

I hear you! And it's not being pfb, it's called having a sleep fighter! Dd2 is a crap napper. I take her out in the sling desperate to get her to sleep and get irrationally upset when a van or lorry drives past or very rationally pissed of by twat on their stupid noisy mopeds bombing down the street Hmm

Bogeyface · 17/02/2011 19:58

It is hard to see when something like this is a joke because there are so many women that would post this in all seriousness! There are so many PFB posts that are perfectly genuine in their annoyance that I assumed this was too!

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pleasethanks · 17/02/2011 20:00

Thank you Bumper. Aye, when having spent an hour and half battling to try and get her to nap and yet again I HAVE to go out walking to get her to sleep I am allowed to be a little irrational.

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pleasethanks · 17/02/2011 20:01

Oh, I am annoyed, but realise I am being irrational about it!

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madcatlaydee · 17/02/2011 20:01

i used to actively avoid people i knew when out with dd1 in the pram so that they didn't wake her up when they started to talk to me...i remember one old lady shouting into the pram 'awww is she asleep?' err no not now!
feel your pain OP

jonicomelately · 17/02/2011 20:01

So you were serious pleasethanks?

mamasmissionimpossible · 17/02/2011 20:02

YANBU - My dd would not sleep anywhere apart from her pushchair. It was a bloody nightmare, as I had to walk her around for hours. If someone woke her up during her nap, after I had spent ages getting her to sleep, I wanted to throttle them. Parents with dc's who sleep through a bomb going off are very lucky IME.

enimod · 17/02/2011 20:13

he he..this could have been written by me. i have two ds- the first would not sleep in his pushchair the second i have had to train to sleep in it- pushing him around and avoiding people. the first time he fell asleep i was so so happy- i felt so smug and then i heard (honestly this is true) RAG N BONE...RAG N BONE!! Honestly this happened less than 6 months ago- i didnt even know they still had rag and bone collections!
i could have bleeding throttled the rag and bone man!

smokingnuns · 17/02/2011 20:30

YADNBU! I definitely would have posted this in all seriousness when my kids were little pleasethanks. Don't listen to the horrid posters who have no idea what it is like. If someone made a huge noise and woke my kids, the anger I felt - well, volcanic. Perhaps we should devise something that sheers the skin off noisy people's shins as a punishment. Though the screaming might wake baby totally - hard choice.

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pleasethanks · 17/02/2011 20:38

enimod Hahahahahhaha. Sorry, but the rag n bone made me laugh out loud. You really cannot make this crap up can you?

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mindtheagegap · 17/02/2011 20:39

YANBU - Pleasethanks I was you! My DD would only sleep in the sling to begin with (on the move) and then the pram. I would walk with her for 2 hours so that she had a good nap. Absolutely would not sleep in the cot in the day until she was over 6 months, so i would walk her so that she got some sleep and wasn't an overtired nightmare. I got really paranoid and would avoid the town centre - cos there was always a toddler yelling, or a car backfiring just as she was dropping off. i would send 'don't come near me vibes' out and must have seemed a right moody stroppy cow - but that's what having a baby who fights sleep is like! Happy to say it does get better (although DD does still have white noise on for her day time naps - but at least they're in the cot). Mind you - the weight has piled on since I stopped the twice a day marathons!

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pleasethanks · 17/02/2011 20:43

Thank you smoking and mind. I am out 3 times a day at the moment and my legs are fecking killing me! I am getting savy and try to avoid certain place at certain times. Got caught out by a school group doing cross country running in the park yesterday. I just tell myself I am doing this to be a good mum so she gets her sleep despite her best efforts not to sleep.

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BusyMissIzzy · 17/02/2011 20:43

YANBU. You know you would be unreasonable to actually punch them though, right? Grin

porcamiseria · 17/02/2011 21:27

PFB!!!! sorry but YABU

mumeeee · 17/02/2011 21:30

YABU. You can/t expect people to be quite when they are outside in a public place. Babies will learn to sleep through noise.

midori1999 · 17/02/2011 21:31

You know YABU.

This reminds me of my PIL visiting (and staying with) my BIL and his wife with their PFB. Everyone had to sit in silence all evening whilst the baby slept in the next room, lest they wake him up. Hmm

LBsBongers · 17/02/2011 21:34

YANBU I never realised how noisy the world was till pushing my non sleeping sleeping son around in pram, bloody big mouths, alarms, reversing lorries, beeping bleedin cars everywhere oh and ambulances what a nuisance they are.

beware of rustling plastic bags.......

Bumperlicious · 17/02/2011 21:42

I don't think the op really thinks she is being reasonable. But it seems perfectly rational when it's 5pm and your baby hasn't slept all day!

Bumperlicious · 17/02/2011 21:43

For me it's feeding now too, if I dare to talk or someone else makes a noise while dd2 is feeding she pops off and glares at me or them!

shakey1500 · 17/02/2011 22:31

Yes YABU but I sooooo understand where you're coming from!

Ds would NEVER nap at home, I used to walk miles and miles, up and down and round and round in a complete sleep deprived daze to try and get him to sleep. Always, at the crucial moment some well meaning individual, juuussst when he was on the cusp of dropping off would address him/me. Arrrgghhh! If looks could kill my town would have been littered with corpses.

VERY precious and, I can "laugh" about it now but still remember how unreasonably infuriated I would feel.

FunnysInTheGarden · 17/02/2011 22:35

put her in her cot and wait for her to go to sleep on her own. She may cry for a bit at first, but after a day or so she will have got the message and then you won't have to walk endlessly around while chavs yawp within spitting distance of the pushchair.

Bumperlicious · 17/02/2011 22:59

Yes, or they will scream for over an hour, sweating through their clothes & shaking when you eventually pick them up. Actually I've never left dd for an hour but that happens after 15 mins :(

outnumbered2to1 · 17/02/2011 23:40

ha ha ha ha your post has just made me think of the time my DS1 was about 3months old and fell asleep in my mum's living room in his pram - as the rest of the family members (about ten of us) were cheering on the horses in the Grand National.

Grin

oh and he slept through it all.....

igetmorelovefromthecat · 17/02/2011 23:45

All babies are different.

DD1 would sleep anywhere, any through ANYTHING. You could have literally marched a brass band into her room and she wouldn't have stirred.

DD2, who is now 6 months, is a different story - I swear she sleeps with one eye open. The other day I crept into my room to get my phone and as I was creeping back out my knee joint clicked - and the little sod woke up!!

But YABU. The world is a noisy place.

narmada · 19/02/2011 16:12

YANBU pleasethanks even if you were only half serious. My really-annoying-thing is the arsing squawky parakeets in the park, a flock of which inevitably flies past after I've just been walking my son around for an hour on 4 hours broken sleep myself.