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To wish people wouldn't put headbands on babies?

262 replies

SusuwatariToes · 22/06/2013 03:38

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?

OP posts:
piprabbit · 22/06/2013 11:12

LOOK wigs for babies in case the baldness plus headband doesn't do it for you]].

perplexedpirate · 22/06/2013 11:12

The other day when it was really hot I saw a family of three older boys and a baby girl. All the boys were in shorts, t-shirts and trainers, totally age appropriate, suitable for the weather, looked really comfy. The baby girl was wearing a huge (and I mean Big Fat Gypsy Wedding huge) dress in neon pink made out of the itchiest, scratchiest looking polyester I have ever seen. It had gauze and netting and all sorts going on.
She was tiny, i'd guess about 1-2 months at most. It was roasting hot. There is no way the poor thing was comfortable and I still can't understand why the parents thought it was OK.
I feel sad for that baby. Sad

Sparklingbrook · 22/06/2013 11:14

Oh no. I had reins. Is that bad?

pip that is very wrong and unnecessary. Sad

JamieandtheMagicTorch · 22/06/2013 11:15

I believe the ones people put on bald babies correlate with Baby On Board stickers, although more research would be needed to confirm that.

I agree with the feminist angle too - why do people care sooo much that no-one mistakes their girl for a boy, and wants to make it extra obvious by a nasty pink bow?
Any why are baby girl clothes often so impractical (dresses getting caught so the baby can't crawl) and uncomfortable - the baby equivalent of high heeled shoes.

UserError · 22/06/2013 11:15

What I don't get is people saying the elasticated, fabric bands are tight. Do these people not put hats on their babies then? It's about the same level of tightness, if you want the hat to stay on.

I have no feelings one way or another as I had a DS. The only hairband I made him wear was a set of bat ears on his first Halloween. :D

JamieandtheMagicTorch · 22/06/2013 11:16

P.S

I don't think people get all that worked up. Just a little light judging in the morning.

LunaticFringe · 22/06/2013 11:16

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usualsuspect · 22/06/2013 11:17

Would a blue headband be ok?

JamieandtheMagicTorch · 22/06/2013 11:18

Lunatic. Me too. Purple paisley as well

JamieandtheMagicTorch · 22/06/2013 11:18

usual

yes, if it holds back real hair

JamieandtheMagicTorch · 22/06/2013 11:18

... as would a pink one. It's the lack of hair that makes them ridiculous

RoooneyMara · 22/06/2013 11:19

Well that's good then if the elastic isn't too tight (though hats kind of sit on your head regardless, unless it is windy - iyswim - a band would just slide down)

That website with baby wigs says as the tagline 'Made just for little girls!'

I challenge ANYONE to say that's not a feminist issue

expatinscotland · 22/06/2013 11:19

I'm Latina and had my ears pierced as a baby Shock.

usualsuspect · 22/06/2013 11:20

My DD1 wore frilly plastic pants over her nappy back in the day.

She doesn't seem to have been traumatised by it.

JamieandtheMagicTorch · 22/06/2013 11:22

Frilly plastic pants are cute. I think boys should wear them too. v v cute

Fairenuff · 22/06/2013 11:24

If babies were only ever dressed in practical, comfortable clothes, they would be permanently dressed in babygros or baby vests in hot weather. And they would all be quite happy like that.

So we are all guilty of dressing our babies up unnecessarily, for appearances, rather than practical reasons, boys and girls alike.

SantanaLopez · 22/06/2013 11:24

DD is wearing frilly pants over her nappy today Grin

If babba is clean, fed and sleeping then I couldn't give a rat's arse what is on their head.

usualsuspect · 22/06/2013 11:25

In fact she grew up to be the least frilliest girl ever.

LEMisdisappointed · 22/06/2013 11:25

Has anyone actually said they like these things?? yuck, they are horrible and if ever i see someone with a poor DD with one of these my initial thought its "you are not a mnetter"

expatinscotland · 22/06/2013 11:26

My mother and I took a bag full of outfits to a beautiful park on a bright, sunny day and posed newborn DD1 in them, one after another, for photographs.

Shock
expatinscotland · 22/06/2013 11:26

It was winter when DD2 and DS were born so we did the same, but indoors.

JamieandtheMagicTorch · 22/06/2013 11:27

Fiarenuff

That is true

I did enjoy dressing my DS1 up , and probably some things wer enot so comfortable for him. DS2 was in baby gros or just a nappy for over a year.

TSSDNCOP · 22/06/2013 11:31

Expat I used to dress DS, photo him, then undress him and redress him and photo again.

I am a loon Blush

TSSDNCOP · 22/06/2013 11:32

If I try and get him to do it now try things on now he sighs and says "I am not a dolly Mummy" Grin

LittleAbruzzenBear · 22/06/2013 11:36

I am going to put it out there and say that people put them on uglybabies to try and detract from their face.