AIBU to think this women had not dressed her children correctly for the weather

[Mrbojangles1]

Today was at the bus stop with my baby saw a lady with two children take in consideration it's very cold and vert wet weather

She had what seemed like a toddler and a baby around 1 in a Parm

Baby in Parm had no rain cover was wearing just a top with trousers no shoes or socks and no COAT not even a blanket

Little girl had on jumper with a denim jack and tights with shoes yes people no skirt nothing just tight no not leggings just tights

The chidren looked very cold I myself had baby in two blankets always hbring one spare plus she had snow suit and Rain cover I wanted to offer women my spare blanket for the baby friend said I shouldn't so I didn't now I feel really bad and have just been thinking how cold the kids must be

OP, I've been freezing too this week, I'm in yorkshire. My heating has been on more this week than in February. I've brought my winter coat back out, and scarf. It's the wind more than anything, I think, was out yesterday and I had earche by the time I got home, it was that cold.

A very pregnant woman came into the place that I work with a baby of about 18 months old in pushchair. He had no socks or shoes on and it was freezing.

She asked to use the phone and it became clear she was trying to find someone to collect her.

I asked if she was okay and she said she had been visiting family, ended up arguing with them and they had thrown her out without letting her get the baby's shoes and socks or her bag.

I had some welly socks that I'd just bought for DS with me so I gave her some of them to put on the baby and made her a coffee while she waited for her friend.

I always wonder now, when I see people who seem poorly dressed for the weather, what might have happened prior to them being out like that.

Should've known it would be you mrbojangles and yes your baby was way overdressed.

People just have different ideas of what is appropiate clothing, for themselves and their babies. I am in the South and many people are still wearing their winter coats, while other people [a few] are out and about in short sleeved t-shirts. I am in the middle -ie wearing a jacket and so are my kids. To be fair though, if they were very little I would be dressing them warmer, though definitely not in snowsuits.
In any case, no one is going to really suffer from being cold in the current temperatures, though they may feel a little bit chilly and uncomfortable.

We are in Yorkshire. Yesterday was about 8/9c in day dropping to about 4/5c in evening where we are. Dd has still gone to school in summer uniform and socks. It's chilly but not that cold.

Mind I never owned a snowsuit for dd ever. She's ever been one to feel the cold.

Cold children will shiver and complain. Any sign of that?

Overheated ones stay placid whilst their temperature rises. It's the more dangerous extreme.

I'm in Yorkshire and by teatime yesterday it was bitterly cold and windy and rained all day

I live in the very north of Scotland - yesterday it snowed on and off all day. It didn't lie but it was VERY cold despite the lovely sunshine between snow showers.

I get much more distressed about seeing babies over dressed in the heat.

babies encased in a plastic rain cover in searing heat really freaks me out - the poor kid will be cooking alive in there.

My son's a geordie and regularly refuses jumpers/coats etc. My MIL lives in France and makes him wear vests in 20C temperatures. Everyone's different.

They were at a bus stop so unlikely to be cold for long in any case.

Unless you saw the woman dress the children, you do not know that she did. As another poster said, they could have been her mindees. They could have just been returned to her from an access visit with their father. She might have been taking a friend's children out.

Could we please try to stop judging other women in this way? Based on a pack of assumptions you are now criticising this women as a mother, without even knowing if she is one, on the internet.

Babies who are too warm are in much more danger.

Beware of putting plastic rain covers over babies, mine had a febrile convulsion in his pushchair as he had overheated. The paediatrician said he wished he could ban them.

As a cm I often have children turn up in all sorts of clothes but tbf In This country we can have a years weather in one day so iits difficult to judge.

Also some families actually don't feel the cold as much as others.

I have some mindees needing hats and gloves and others tearing them off as feel too hot.

cash DD's offending GAP hoodie was a present from a Great Aunt! bet it was only a quid

I used to love the raincover on the pushchair. DS would only sleep in the pushchair if it was on. Ah those were the days. Now I drag a grumpy five and a half year old around the shops.

When DS1 was approximately 22 hours old, I took him and DD to the swing park. I took a change of clothes for her, but not for him, because how messy could such a tiny baby get?

One meconium explosion later, and NB DS1 had to go home dressed in an 18-24m frilly pink sundress...

Sometimes stuff happens.