To feel alone in a sea of Kath Kidson

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everyones child has a toy called sophie....

I don't want to talk about baby food and really don't care what kind of bloody pram you have got.

How can that 'Yummy Mummy' bag be any compensation for not being able to carry a proper handbag anymore..

'would you like a drink'

'I'd love a coffee..'....
.'yes we have some de-caf,'
(I don't want de-caf I want fucking caffine you cunts)

Child cares not what it says.

I bought a CK nappy bag when my 1st was born 3 years ago. I loved it. But now, about to have my 2nd baby I actually hate myself for even contemplating leaving the house with it. With it's twinkly floral pattern, it makes me feel bloody queasy.
I'd actually hate me if I walked past in the street. Time to ditch the feckin thing and get a normal person bag.
(But my daughter did love chewing Sophie Giraffe)

I picked up a smug Sophie in mothercare today and nearly papped myself when I saw the price! How can it cost that much, it's a bit of speckly rubber?
Prams...yawn
Kath/cath kidston...yawn
Your incredible success with Horatio's baby led weaning...yawn. I don't care if he's eating organic sun ripened tomatoes and home made hoummus thankyou. Congratuwelldone.

Aw man, my sis bought me the CK nappy bag as a gift. I feel a bit poncey that's for sure...the truth is it isn't even that good, v little room for a v big price tag.

I agree with the decaf shit. This baby was caffeinated in the womb so I sure as hell ain't stopping now.
We've avoided Sophie so far...

YABU about caffeine - i haven't and won't give it up and neither will my friends!!

No, and please don't post 50 photos on FB of your baby covered from head to toe in gunky food and saliva. It may be cute to you but I have no interest in the cute way your child sucks on a kiwi and it actually makes me want to balk if I'm trying to eat my kitkat.

I think I vomit more when people talk baby chino's like they are something really hip and cool.

YANBU.

And the park in my new neighbourhood is full of mums doing "buggycise"

How can I make new friends if I can't catch them?

Does no one just want to come to mine and sit on their arse with a (real) coffee and a packet of non-brand name hob nobs?

How very nice of you to go to toddler groups to stand around looking at what bags everyone has and dismiss people as boring or vacuous for talking about baby stuff.

I hate talking about babies.

Does it show my age that I prefer Laura Ashley to Cath Kidston?
I wondered into a CK store by accident other day.
Sort of Farm House Chic, isn't it? Kind of boring inoffensive.

Yanbu I'm dreading all the yummy mummy shit when I have this baby, I have a 5 year old and met some excruciating Mums when he was small.

Piano I would gladly sit with you and eat my way through a packet of biscuits, don't like coffee though can I have tea?!

My changing bag was way more expensive than the yummy mummy one

In my defence, it was a birthday present. My main birthday present because I couldn't think of anything else I wanted as I was in a baby fug.

OP I think I love you

I'm adding converse to this, they used to be cool now every Emma, Sarah and Jane is wearing them.

I have a funny Sophie story. When we bought our house 5 years ago the garden was really overgrown and we were sorting it out. I can across what I thought was a manky dog toy and threw it out straight away. Roll on a year when my second baby was on the way and they were ALL the rage. I wonder if the one I found was vintage given the lady who had previously owned the house was in her 90s before she'd died!

I bought 'Sophie' for DD who is now 2.5 as a friend's child had one and she wouldn't put it down. She had lots of teething toys that had previously belonged to her brother but she had no interest in them after a few seconds.

My son has a CK draw string bag with old fashioned footballers on it as the design and a wallet but they were both gifts. They are quite attractive items.

My good friend of 18 years who is very clever, degree from Sheffield University, is currently weaning her first baby and she talks to me about baby food but a lot of it is anxiety about the process. My DP's family have an annual gathering with second cousins, aunts and uncles attending. This time around lots of them had their first child, who were babies or young toddlers, without exception they did tend to talk about baby food and how their child can count to 20 at 15 months etc. These things were less frequently talked about by relatives with older children. Isn't it just because it is all a bit of a novelty with the first- I don't think it is a particular 'type' of person.

AnyBagsofOxfordFuckers I offended you didnt i?

Does no one just want to come to mine and sit on their arse with a (real) coffee and a packet of non-brand name hob nobs?

the thing that pisses me off is they look ok in the smock top, breastfeeding with gusto.but.can we discuss how to get red wine stains out of babygros without ? no we fucking cant..i'll get my coat.

You'd love my NCT group.... At 38 weeks pregnant we all went to the pub, sat in the blazing sun and shared a jug of Pimms between us...
Giant tummies and (small!) glasses of yummy Pimms. We felt human and not like giant whales!!
Ever since that day we've been pretty close knit and totally able to take the piss when one of us buys our child a giant ride-on Thomas the Tank engine toy and the other babies are in Primarni and eating worms in the garden. Most weekly meet ups end with wine and we didn't care who breastfed, formula fed, who has the Bugaboo, iCandy, Mammas and Pappas etc!
We are the MOST "un-nct" NCT group ever.

We have Sophie the giraffe

I have a Cath Kidston changing bag (bought for me).

Of course at Nct you talk about babies, it's the one thing you have in common. The inverse snobbery on this thread is hilarious!

I even own a Bugaboo, stuck that in yer pipe.

Oh, I do drink extra strong tea. Don't like coffee.

Hate cath kidson, hate that yummy bag, self-proclaiming!! Bought the giraffe, baby wouldn't have it, totally ignored it!

YANBU to dislike 'Kath Kidson' [sic], rubber giraffes, and twee bags. But if you have to make a big deal about it, IMHO you're just as much of a poser. Are you an Anti-Yummy-Mummy?

• do you often tell people you can't stand talking about prams?
• do you then bitch about Bugaboos, and make sure everyone knows you're using a 50-year-old Maclaren you found on Freecycle/for tuppence ha'penny/in a ditch?
• do you look down on people who like brands?
• do you compulsively notice the brands of everyone's changing bag and baby shoes?
• do you talk about how little you talk about your children?
• do you secretly wish you had a newspaper column, so you could talk about how little you talk about your children to a wider audience, and more people could admire the wholesome, individualistic way you're raising these children?
• be honest: do you think you're not, like, a regular mum; you're a cool mum?

My dd2 had a Sophie.

Most expensive dog toy I ever bought.

Mind you, dd didn't give a shit about it so at least someone got some enjoyment out of it.

By DD3 i took a spare nappy and a packet of wipes in a crumpled asda bag and would then read Guardian for most of the session, only pausing for toileting/choc biscuit duties.

I would later get DD3 a cheese pie from Greggs and let her eat it out of the paper bag in our filthy old maclaren, and usually pass herds of yummy mummies with those stupid fecking rice cake things.

MulberryHag

Your lot sound great. pimms and eating worms in the garden....is pianodoodle in your gang too?!

I didn’t do the antenatal class first for various reasons..maybe I would have a different experience i I had?

I think a lot of people are a bit try hard TBH. I just want to have a bit of a laugh/whinge/banter and to enjoy watching dd play and be with other children.