to be a bit upset when my friend thinks my baby is being naughty and says so?

[lucymr]

My baby is almost 10 months old and gets very excited when she sees other babies. I think it's lovely. What she does is this - crawls over to the other baby and slaps the ground in an excited seal type of way and makes excited little shreaks. The last couple of times we've seen this particular friend and her baby, my baby has slapped the other baby's legs when she's been flayling her arms around in excitement and only because she was so close to the other baby, not because she tried to hit her. My friend's baby didn't care and just smiled at my baby, but my friend has taken to moving her baby away and saying things like "we have to forgive the baby as she's younger than you and doesn't understand". Last time, she put her changing bag between the 2 babies to stop mine going near hers as if my baby was awful or something :-(
I fully understand that this is probably something I have to get used to - havign kids comes with all this sort of angst and will probably only get worse as she gets older, but my baby was being so lovely and excited to see her "friend" that it upset me that she was being labelled as naughty. I know I'm biased but my baby is surely too young to be naughty and I really like her enthusiasm for her baby friends.
Am I being over-sensitive and need to toughen up and get over it? It's my first baby so I'm new to all this.

Who cares? It's a 10 month old. Move it, don't move it, say no, don't bother, laugh, don't laugh. I couldn't give a rat's arse.

However, if SIL your four year old lobs a large wooden bus at my 11 month old and all you say is "oh that's nice you are trying to share with your cousin!", be prepared to feel the full force of my slightly frowning but furious Evil Death Stare.

I don't know how the op translates her friend saying 'we have to forgive x because she's younger than you and doesn't understand', as twattish as it sounds, to her saying that her baby is naughty?! It reads the absolute opposite to me. That she realises that the babies hitting isn't naughty and she is trying to explain that to her toddler.

It's the epitome of pfbism on speed imo. The friend's baby is 14 months old and she addresses her thus -- 'we have to forgive X because she's younger than you and doesn't understand'. That baby is going to throw poo at someone one day and I'd like to see her face when that happens. hardeharharharharhar

PMSL.

Though it is a mistake to expect everyone else will think everything your baby does is lovely, you are right if you suspect that this friend of yours is due for a large dose of karma.

Is the other baby not walking or crawling then? Can it not get away from your baby by itself?