To wish people wouldn't put headbands on babies?

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I hate wearing headbands. I last about an hour before the pressure behind my ears really gets to me.

Once they are old enough to figure out how, they will pull them off at every opportunity. They clearly don't like to wear them.

I know people think they are cute but babies are already cute! Little boys aren't put through this torture. AIBU?

Snopes says that at least the American ones weren't for the emergency services but to alert other drivers to make them drive better . Don't know about the UK.

x-posted, dammit.

YABU, I think they look cute.

Some headbands serve a very practical use-holding in place a hearing aid so the baby doesnt play with it. I see no problem with headbands as its surely the parents choice what they choose to buy-if we all liked the same stuff it would be a boring world. i wear headbands all the time for practical reasons and i imagine if my baby had lots of hair a headband could be useful. i do think its a bit mean to slag off a babys dress sense.

empress a baby does not have a dress sense.

good point about the hearing aidcthough!

To me it's a bit like silly hats. I never put a hairband on DS, but I made him wear all manner of silly hats that had no real purpose. I just liked seeing him with animal ears.

Every child should dress like Quinoa here

Agree that babies with bone-conducting hearing aids need to wear headbands to keep the BC aid attached (theoretically the fetching white towelling NHS band but I don't know anyone whose child has a BC aid who hasn't attached it to a "regular" headband instead). And I guess it's useful that other babies wear headbands because that means there's a selection easily available in the shops that parents can buy to attach the BC aids to...

YANBU ! I agree!

YANBU. They are ridiculous, especially on girls with absolutely no hair. I think people do it so we can tell their bald baby is a girl, but it looks ludicrous.

the same with three strands of hair sprouting out of the very top of their head with a scrunch/bobble round it. They look like Yorkshire Terriers.

i do think its a bit mean to slag off a babys dress sense.

Babies don't have dress sense empress but unfortunately their mad mothers do!

I tried Kiwi it doesn't work...

I'm also not a fan! Though I do appriciate a nice hairband, I'm not keen on them on a baby!

I hate them. I think they are vile. All my friends with young baby girls, less than a year, have them. Especially at parties and christenings. They make me want to vomit. I didn't realsie that I was not alone, in my dislike. Seeing this thread has made me feel a whole lot better.

Kiwi I did, it's hilarious!

I have a friend who is a GP who dresses her little baby girl in lots of pink complete with headbands and tutu-type dresses - she just can't help it; and her baby does look cute and happy.

Kiwi your Quinoa link is very funny.

Anything with taffeta shouldn't be on a baby. Or anyone with skin, actually. Feels itchy just thinking about it

I can't stand that stuff, and at least as an adult I usually get some sort of shift like material between it and my skin.

thereal that's Pebbles from the Flintstones! awful.
ok for Pebbles as she isn't real

kiwi nooooo, my bladder control is gone, I'm actually PMSL @ that!

best quote the zoo one " but they could barely contain their excitement!"

we are on day 3 of DD having fever - I feel like a zombie - but you've just made my day!
I think I love you...

My dd has and does wear tutus but with leggings so the material is not on her skin, with leggings and a little top it looks cute,'she has them in red, black, pink and blue! Ds3 has a purple one and a silver one as he likes them to,'bit he wears them over jeans.

My dd has tutus from boden actually so they can't be that bad if boden sell them

And all her tutus have a cotton underskirt anyway.