To think that Hollyoaks' Bobby is the easiest/most convenient baby ever?

[monkeymamma]

Just in case I'm not the only mnetter who watches this soap (blushes furiously).

But seriously, his mum and dad seem involved in endless intrigues, love affairs, village scandal etc, are always wearing glamorous outfits seemingly free of sick-up, blueberry puree etc. Both his mum and Mitzeee-with-three-eees have immaculate blow-dries and his dad finds time to be a premiership footballer. By far the most unrealistic scene of this year (and bear in mind this is the soap where people gaily go clubbing in broad daylight) has been the one featuring Riley and Reese playing FIFA on Reese's PS3 while Bobby contentedly burbles away in the background (PS3 gaming has become a thing of the past for my DH let alone getting the laaads round to play it with him). Many a scene has featured both his parents on separate nights out with other characters (where is Bobby while all this is going on???!!!) and he's spent enough time in the Dog on the Pond to have earned a full-time bar staff role by the time he's of age. His parents even have time/energy to have sex (I told you it was unbelievable)!!

Now whenever any of the characters who seem to be his principal carers are involved in any high-octane storylines I can't concentrate on who's stabbed who/who is sleeping with whom (sp?)/who is stalking who's girlfriend etc because I'm too busy thinking WHERE'S BOBBY while all this is going on???

He's the perfect baby, all you ever hear is happy gurgling and chuckling coming from the corner of the room. Never clingy at all, can be babysat by anyone and always happy to have a nap. Now if only my DD would take note...

the same with Threasa's baby!

All soap babies seem to be perfect, don't they, unless the soap mum has PND in which case the baby will cry all the time and she'll look stressed and unwashed until a week later when the baby starts sleeping all the time.
There was a scene in neighbours a few years back (I'm that sad I remember) when Steph said to her son, who was about 2 'Go get into your PJ's and wash your teeth, and get in bed and wait for me.' and then proceeded to have a large conversation while he just did it (not on screen) - Imagine if bedtime with a toddler was that simple!

I had baby envy a few years ago when my brother was telling me about a baby on a flight to the US. baby was a year or so old so they thought shit, he'll be howling next to us for the next ten hours.

Babies face was like this --> the whole frickin time, not a peep out of him, just contentedly sat on his dads knee. His parents said he'd always been like that.

I don't watch Holllyoaks but I would like To submit baby Emma from Friends for this title. At least there was one episode where they found her a nanny - but the nanny and Emma were barely seen again!

Also - her grandma voluntarily took her on a transatlantic flight, Rachel was following on separately (what...?) but got off the plane! And Ross seemed remarkably unconcerned about his daughter heading off several thousand miles away too.

Grr.

My babies like that

I like to think i leave the house with nice hair looking stylish. I never have baby food or sick all over me.

So times, i leave the house with no make-up on wrapped up in my big parka. I will admit.

Poor Charlie - he's, what, 8? And has never been taken to or collected from school despite appearing to attend. No one ever feeds him, baths him or reads him a bedtime story yet despite all the tragedy in his young life he's polite and well behaved watches out for off-rails Charlie story line in next few months

Dp did laugh at me when i hoicked my judgy pants at the amount of time Bobby spends in that car seat

Does anyone remember the one who gave birth to prem twins (Darren's?) in the spa? The babies were clearly focusing and holding up their heads, as well as smiling beautifully for the camera! She vanished back to Spain about 3 days post partum

Kathleen Angel and Bobby are clearly being trained by Silas to be his minions in world domination...

I watch Hollyoaks too...

I find it the most realistic of all the soaps [guffaws]

I know what you mean though.

Roxy's daughter Amy in 'Stenders.

I used to think the award went to Summer, who was Dawn's baby, but at least the writers made you aware Dawn had left the baby with her unwashed father, or teenage brother, or any other random who she could dupe into holding the baby while she went and necked a few Bacardi Breezers in the Vic.

But then along came Amy. Ah bless her. Amy who seems content to play with a doll somewhere, while wearing her amazing cloak of invisibility, leaving her mum free to go out clubbing, work loads of shifts at the pub, have relationship crisis after relationship crisis, attend her sister's baby kidnap trial, fritter aways millions......the day Ben and Jay almost drowned Amy was ironically the first evidence we'd had in months that she was still alive.

ALL babies/children in Hollyoaks are little angels who seem to grow and develop advanced skills overnight...

DD born before Amy & Ste's Lucas and yet somehow he is streets ahead without a tantrums or whinge in sight! How do they do it as bloody Leah (sp) is also a silent child - i'd be getting them both referred! And imagine not taking your children to New York... Chance of a lifetime (but i might be U here and projecting!)

Bobby & Kathleen Angel are doomed really, poor bastards ;-)

I agree, YANBU!

I am unashamedly a Hollyoaks fan

I really do think that having the kids in roles like that is giving a bad message to the younger viewers and teens who might think, "Ohhh, I'll have a baby, it looks easy enough"

Another thing that makes me is how quickly the mums gets their figures back after childbirth. Mercedes spent weeks at the end of her pregnancy in a cellar, yet managed to come out looking quite sleek and is now back to about a size 4. Both she and Theresa lost the baby weight by the time they'd even left the hospital.

And she's prancing about town like she didn't take a knife to the gut 2 days ago. Some stab wound

I can still remember Home & Away 15 years ago, when teen sweethearts Angel and Shane had their baby girl (also called Shane). Angel was never less than immaculately turned out in chic boho dresses and perfect pre-Raphelite curls.

You never actually saw baby Shane, but Angel reguarly referred to her as she quietly exited the room in which she'd put the baby down to nap, as in 'Shane's just gone down for a nap, so I'm going to chop up some organic veggies for tea' or 'Shane's sleeping now, so I'll get on with writing my prize winning essay.'

you're all going to want to thump me for admitting this but my 6 mnth old dd is like this. She smiles all the time, entertains herself for hours and very rarely cries. Oh and sleeps for 12 hours straight every night.

she would be a great tv baby. I might see if I can hire her out.

I also think Little Tom is amazing...all the stress and bereavement he's been through and not a dysfunction in sight!