to be sick of these blogs; directed at pregnant women?

[TheOriginalWinkly]

I know, don't read them, but I keep getting sucked in then annoyed. I'm talking about the 'mummy' blogs that come in 3 flavours:

1. Omg my bubs is the mostest wonderful thing ever/you won't remember when I held you at night, when I whispered to you as you were born etc (its more like, you won't remember rubbing snot over my boob and kicking me in the throat as I changed your nappy.)

Yes yes, you love your baby. Well done.

1. Pregnant woman, how I wish I could grab you in the shops and tell you it doesn't matter what wipes you buy because you have NO CLUE about anything whatsoever and soon you'll be exhausted with greasy hair and an incessantly screaming baby wishing you were anywhere else but here and you'll never ever have time to even send a text message.

Why? Why burst someone's bubble? All I heard about babies was how fucking hard they are. It didn't prepare me, it scared me.

1. Here's 101 things you must/must not do when you have a baby. You must go out for dates and alone time (er, who has my child?) You must not bother trying to read to it because you're only doing it for your own benefit.

I hate them. Hate them hate them hate them. Why do all these women pop out a baby and suddenly think that their insights are totally fascinating and that they speak for all new mothers? It's so bloody conceited!

Forums, even mn are exactly the same as you have described. You will find the exact same conversations happening here. So you can choose to read it and get annoyed or don't.

Er...don't read them?

I've never read a mummy blog in my life because I know they would aggravate me. Doesn't mean that the women who write them are smug conceited arses though (although some of them might be, who knows?), just that they're not my kind of thing. Some people like them, they like the solidarity of knowing that someone else has had the same thoughts and experiences that they have had. If other people enjoy them, they enjoy them. Reading blogs isn't compulsory thankfully

Blogs bug the crap out of me. One person's uncensored, unedited opinion, frankly who gives a crap? I am inclined towards professional blogs but personal ones no thanks.

Why do all these women pop out a baby and suddenly think that their insights are totally fascinating and that they speak for all new mothers? It's so bloody conceited!

They don't, generally - they write them as a record of their thoughts and experiences and then if people are interested they get promoted virally. How are you coming across so many that they are unavoidably ruining your day?

Totally agree OP. Worst of all is I can't stop my FB news feed being cluttered with them. They're just so patronising.

Everyones experience is different and they interpret and report it differently. Its no use taking any of them too seriously because you find things out for yourself.
These women just want to share their thoughts and only they know 'why'

I would just say don't have 'expectations' and don't compare and that way you just have your own experience.

I'm coming across them because my Facebook friends post links saying 'oooh this is so true', then I read it and its shite.

Can people not keep a record of their thoughts in a diary? Forums are different, you're inviting discussion and other opinions (sometimes)

However I have period pains and a teething, snotty baby, so am quite willing to accept that IABU about a lot of things.

A diary would be a good idea unless you want everyone to know what you are going through, which these people seem to want.
I kept diaries years ago and reading them back I am bloody glad I never 'shared' them. I sound like an idiot!

Can people not keep a record of their thoughts in a diary?

Blogs are essentially online diaries, though. Just because you can read them, doesn't mean that they are intended for a wider audience than the author and anyone who happens to stumble across their page out of the billions online.

Yes Winkly I agree. Which is why I don't click and don't read them anymore. I don't need to be told how much I should love my baby when she's the devil incarnate refusing to nap despite being tired, how hard having a baby is see previous comment or what I should or shouldn't be doing We all made it through today in one piece. I consider that today's achievement.

YANBU. Fine if they want to write it for themselves but I wish it didn't appear so frequently on my FB feed.

Ah Winkly if its the Facebook feed then I can see why you keep stumbling across them. Just keep scrolling, keep scrolling.

I have a friend whose sister emigrated to the USA and now writes a blog all about being a mom and her unique experience as an immigrant. Because no one in the USA was born elsewhere you see

I lurve blogs. Always have. Although I do miss the the blogging world of about ten years ago, back before it was all sponsored posts and giveaways and reviews and brands and was mostly just people writing about their lives.

(Yes, I do find other people's lives that interesting. I am nosy.)

Sounds like you've got a FB problem rather than a blog problem OP!

OhNo DoJo (see what I did there? Am so funny. Should start my own blog). I have no Facebook problem. I love Facebook, which is Against The Law on MN.