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to put hair clips in ds2 1.4 hair?

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kickmewhenimdown · 03/04/2012 16:37

Ds2 has baby hair and I am trying to grow it long enough so it will keep behind his ears. However it is not quite long enough to do this yet but long enough to be flopping down in his eyes. Dp wants him to get a hair cut, but (a) i dont want ds to have a fringe and (b) if i cut it then it will never grow long enough to tuck behind his ears. At the moment I have used my nieces pink snap clips to keep his hair in place. Dp is not impressed. Is this really unreasonable. I will try and get black ones but dp still wont be happy. Any body got any other suggestions to keep ds hair out of his face?

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WorraLiberty · 03/04/2012 16:39

I don't like hair clips on babies.

How about a tiny bit of baby oil?

AgentZigzag · 03/04/2012 16:40

Any particular reason you don't want him to have a fringe? I would have though this is why most babies have them, because there's not a lot else you can do with their hair.

Is he likely to whip the clip out and either pull loads of his hair out at the same time, or get it in his mouth? That's what I'd be most worried about.

ShatnersBassoon · 03/04/2012 16:41

It would look a little odd on a baby girl that young I think.

MrsTerryPratchett · 03/04/2012 16:45

I use clips on DD's hair never thought I'd be that mother because she has really long hair that grows quickly and I was scared to take scissors to it. She spent many a happy hour trying to take them out and eat them. Most clips are a PITA and don't work. I did use baby hair detangling spray for a while which worked like hairspray. If your DH can be brave enough to cut it, that might work instead and forget about putting it behind his ears. DD's hair should be long enough to do that but it doesn't stay there.

SparkyMcSparrow · 03/04/2012 16:45

I think hair clips on any baby is quite hazardous tbh.

If a baby that age was holding one, then it would get taken straight off them so why put one in their hair where they can pull it and their hair out?

Yabu

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kickmewhenimdown · 03/04/2012 16:47

Nah, ds isnt bothered by them, tbh i dont think he notices/cares. I have tried a little bit of hair gel to keep his hair swept to the side but it always just comes forward. Ds has weird growing hair in that it all seems to be growing from the back front and i think trying to cut a fringe in it would end up hideous going by dp's baby pics who also has the same funny forward growing hair im hoping by growing it a bit longer it will stay in a side parting if tucked behind his ears.

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MrsCarriePooter · 03/04/2012 16:48

Hair clips don't sound very sensible, and I'm not sure what you've got against a fringe - or why you want him to have it long enough to tuck behind his ears. What does your DP say about that anyway? You should agree!

AgentZigzag · 03/04/2012 16:51

All babies hair looks gorgeous so I wouldn't worry about what it looks like, just whether it's annoying him.

DD2 has very 'volumous' curly hair and I have to get her at fairly regular intervals to cut it when she's asleep Grin

WorraLiberty · 03/04/2012 16:51

Nah, ds isnt bothered by them, tbh i dont think he notices/cares

Not right now, but why take the risk? It wouldn't take a second for him to whip it out and choke on it.

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kickmewhenimdown · 03/04/2012 16:52

Dp doesn't like the clips because they are for girls. Which I guess they maybe are, but isn't that a bit like saying only pink dolls stuff is for girls and blue cars for boys? Ds has had these clips in all day albeit in the house only, and hasn't once touched them.

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WorraLiberty · 03/04/2012 16:56

Are you asking a serious question or trying to start a debate about gender stereotypes?

Regardless of the colour of the clips, they are a choking hazard for a 1yr old baby and should not be used.

Either cut his hair (if it gets on his nerves) or gel it.

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kickmewhenimdown · 03/04/2012 17:17

im asking both. He has had these clips in his hair all day and not touched them. He is under close supervision so if he does decide to take them out then they will be taken off him. The problem is i dont want to cut his hair and need an interim suggestion to keep his hair out of his face until it is long enough to go behind his ears. Gel doesnt work.

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WorraLiberty · 03/04/2012 17:18

Well it gel doesn't work, nothing will.

However, YABVU to risk a baby with hair clips

No matter how closely supervised he is, you can't watch him every single minute.

You wouldn't give him a handful of coins to play with, would you?

SparkyMcSparrow · 03/04/2012 17:21

I'm with worra

Of course gel works! Fecking Jedward can do headstands on their hair and it springs back! Just buy some better stuff and ditch the hair clips for safety issues!
I bet you are not watching him every second, what happens when you go to make a cup of tea and come back and hes got a clip halfway down his throat?

ObiWan · 03/04/2012 17:22

My DS wears a hairband, like a thin sort of alice band.

He does pull it off, but if he needs his hair out of his eyes, he knows to keep it on.

Admittedly he's 3 now, but we first bought them when he was about 18 months old.

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kickmewhenimdown · 03/04/2012 17:23

No, but im not giving him hair clips to play with neither.

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pinktrees · 03/04/2012 17:24

I think you should cut his hair, sorry.

NatashaBee · 03/04/2012 17:24

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SparkyMcSparrow · 03/04/2012 17:25

What happens when you ds is old enough and says 'Mummy can I have my hair cut short?'

Just cut it!

RosemaryandThyme · 03/04/2012 17:25

Ummmmm - sounds a bit odd, very hard to picture this growing forwards hair - maybe take him to the hairdressers just for advice, might be worth checking if he has developed a bit of a flat head on one side, there are some helmets you can get to straighten him out.

Sootie · 03/04/2012 17:27

My friend used to use a hair tie to tie up the front part of her DS's fringe when he was about 1. He used to have a cute puff of hair in the middle of his head! But he was a very quiet little boy and never pulled or tugged at it, I don't know how your baby would like something in his hair - my DD hated it and I wouldn't want the hassle with DS when his hair grows out. Better to just cut it.

RosemaryandThyme · 03/04/2012 17:28

Not the bandanna idea, - just makes people think lukemia.

WorraLiberty · 03/04/2012 17:28

No, but im not giving him hair clips to play with neither

I see, so babies can only choke on things they're given to actually play with?

Better contact Rospa and let them know....

amothersplaceisinthewrong · 03/04/2012 17:29

Get him a hair cut not hair clips.

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kickmewhenimdown · 03/04/2012 17:32

will try a bandana later, i think there should be one kicking about the house. He's not that great with hats but i will try. Will also try an alice band too. Actually have just realised that ds is 16 months not 14 months Blush

When he is old enough and wants it cut then he can have it cut. But his brother was happy to have long hair till he was 9. Typically within a week another boy joined his class a few weeks later with long hair and ds1 was sick!

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