To go one better than the babies wearing stupid hairbands thread...

[VIX1980]

My dp's cousin puts not only the massive flowered hairband on her 3 months old baby but also.....clip on earrings. seriously..

i saw the pictures and couldnt believe what she'd done, the poor baby was sat there with a headband bigger than her head a scratchy tutu with pair of socks on, tiny vest top with cardigan and clip on earrings with hello kitty on them. obviously baby earrings not talking pat butcher, if that even makes it better i dont know.

for what its worth i totally agree by the way, think they look stupid especially with the massive flowers on. when i recently had my ds whos 3 months now my dad pleaded with me not to put 1 of those silly bands on his head, i couldnt stop laughing and had to explain its usually only girls who wear them.

Aren't they a choking risk (the earrings)? That's what I've always thought when my friends put hairclips in their baby daughters' hair.

My DD is due in about 2 months and I can assure you that there will be no headbands, earrings, hairclips (maybe a haircut if necessary?) or other such nonsense. She will however have a pink cot blanket as it's left over from when my DS was a baby

clip on ear rings

Oh, just remembered: a friend of mine who is now in her mid-thirties told me that her mother used to stick bows on her head when she was tiny. This was long before the stupid headband trend, her mother would tie a cute bow and stick it to her head with sticky tape

Some, and I mean some, babies can carry off the headbands if its for a formal photo (though how on earth do they stay on) but earrings are just wrong. Fake or real!

Why do people want to make their baby look older? They should be cherishing its baby-ness!!

Oh I like little pretty hair clips (when the child in question has enough hair to warrant it), but clip on ear rings

To be honest i think she'd of been happy with a doll instead, she bought the clip on earrings whilst stil pregnant and she didnt know what she was having, god help the poor child if it had of been a boy, i think it was getting hello kitty earrings whether it liked it or not.

youngest had the headbands but she had a mass of hair and it needed to be off her face, but earrings

Did the baby have a handbag too? I don't get the whole tiny kids with handbags thing!

How on earth do these people get things to stay on their babies heads? Do they superglue them on?
Both my girls won't have anything like that on!

Clip on earrings HURT

But you haven't asked a question that makes any sense, therefore YABU

Toddlers like the bags my girls used to have an old one of mine suppose its copying mum

Poor, poor baby. Sigh. That. Is. All. :(

Who knew you can get clip on earrings for babies?! Dd sometimes wore headbands, stopped the "what a lovely boy" comments and I thought she looked cute. She's 2.5 now and finally has enough hair to tie up and have clips but she whips them out after half an hour despite moaning at me to "do my tails"! Clip on earrings are just ridiculous!!

My friend put one of those bands on her baby for her christening. It looked awful and she was screaming and pulled it off. She was left with a huge mark around her head where it had been digging in.

Word of caution, what you have to do when you encounter these babies in public is turn off your brain to mouth filter before you get into serious trouble. We bumped into a colleague who had a tiny newborn girl and dd asked innocently 'what's that thing on the baby's head mummy?' Now said thing was a pink, frilly, beaded, lacy monstrosity about 3x bigger than the baby's head. The answer should have been 'a beautiful headband darling' and not 'um, a garter?' Colleague flounced off. I did feel very, very bad.

Dotty - I meant the tiny ones who aren't actually old enough to be copying, as in there's a handbag propped up in the pram with the baby!

What Trills said.

OUCH.

VIX your dad has reason to worry ...

www.littleknitwitz.co.uk/en/all/128-spindlerose-baby-headband.html

I hate these too. Although I tried clips on DDs hair from about 8 months old as her hair was getting in her eyes. She pulled them out and I took her to the hairdresser for a fringe trim.

Much as YAtotallyNBU, perhaps the outfit was put on for some hideous cute baby photos and this is not her usual get up. Or am I clutching at straws?

stifnstav-never come across that thankfully

oh nooooes Ariadne, now I want a fruit-themed baby hat from that website

lady i work with used to put bells and hoops on the bottom of her daughters dresses daughter is now in her 20s and lives in tracksuits and not a bell in sight

Haha! At bows stuck on with sticky tape

I can guarantee my ds will not be wearing that boy headband!

although that bow tie is quite appealing