To be bored senseless by my friends constant baby boring/boasting?

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Please tell me I'm not the only one secretly bored to tears by my friends incessant baby boring/boasting?
We have been friends for about five years. We used to get on very well - we still do, I guess to a point. She's a very sweet, good natured woman, I don't dislike her, I'm just starting to dread the thought of seeing her due to her current obsession with her child.
We both have toddler daughters of similar ages, mine is a bit older. Now I know we are all probably in some way baby bores to our friends, I probably am to some extent in that I do talk about my child IF people ask me about her. I'm proud of her and think she's brilliant, but I actually make a point of steering the conversation towards other things like world events or funny things I've overheard, life plans or a bit of work gossip - whatever it is to make me feel like there's more to my life than my offspring. That seems reasons reasonable to me.
Not if you are my friend. From the moment we meet to the moment I leave she just witters on non-stop about her child.
The most banal, pointless crap you've ever heard from an in-depth analysis of her sleep patterns, a blow by blow account of her eating habits to an eye wateringly detailed description of the contents of her latest nappy. Colour, size, and smell. If I try to divert the conversation away onto something else she will almost immediately interrupt me to point out something incredibly 'important' that Abby is now doing. "Oh look Abby is looking at that flower! Look! She's picked the flower! Look! She's just dropped the flower! Now she's found another flower!!"
She also always tries to constantly imply that her daughter is massively advanced in all ways. She's not, she's normal. This particular boasting bugs the shit out of me.
Any advice? I am not about to ditch my friend, we are part of a close circle of friends, I'm just getting to my wits end with her as I know she's better than this really. I'd love us to go back to the good old days where we would laugh and talk about normal and fun things and for her to regain her sense of self. She isn't depressed, I'm not being horrible to someone who is having a hard time. She isn't. She has a wonderfully supportive boyfriend, a big close family and an interesting part time job.
Anyone else in this position?

I know a few of these. One was really anti the idea of having a dd for years for some reason I never understood.

Now she's got one, has totally changed her tune and never stops banging on about her and sharing nauseating posts on facebook. Worse, she's got that timehop thing so you get all of the previous year's posts rehashed too.

I think I'm a baby bore. But I'd have the social skills to realise if someone wasn't interested and the ability to talk about other things so YANBU.

Thanks folks. Turned out to be a really funny post I was roaring at your answers! Glad I'm not the only one to have a baby bore as a friend. I suspected I wasn't but was feeling like a bit of a bitch for starting to dislike her company.
Some really good suggestions too which I hope to try out. I was also interested to hear that some people are saying it put you off their child. It really does!! It didn't want to admit that but because she harps on so much about this bloody kid I'm beginning to dislike the child too, just feel overloaded with it all.
I do actually try to say things like "yes ALL toddlers do that! VERY NORMAL!" But it just goes over her head. She can't see that her child isn't anything but super gifted. Other coping mechanisms I employ are to see her with other friends to dilute it a bit and frantically try to change the subject but as I say, she reverts it straight back again into her kid.
I should have an honest chat with her about how she's boring me senseless but I'm just a bit worried about it.
Just hearing all of your funny stories really help as I will just think of them and snigger to myself next time she goes off on one!
I do also suspect once a baby bore, always a baby bore. I can't see her changing any time soon...

Tell her 'even Abby is bored of hearing about Abby so change the record lady'.

Yadnu as you can see... drives me bananas and I know wax lyrical too but I catch myself in company and I particularly hate the 'they're so advanced' crowd. .seriously, wish they would listen to themselves! ! Another I know doesn't just tell you how amazing her dc are but repeats the same anecdotes, over and over in the same conversation! Hard to know what to say but I did snap one day and regretted it, got no satisfaction so try to just nod and look vacant.

Ahh...now I feel better after letting all that out. Thank you op!! :)

Fuckinell...it's worse when your not seeing the kid in the real flesh and they get out pictures which your expected to coo at and ask questions about. Bores the shit out of me. We all have kids that get abit if pasta sauce on their flaming face ffs

Jo that made me

My friend is like that with her son. My son is 12, whereas hers is just a little baby. Whereas, to her, every little thing is amazingly exciting/must be discussed/photographed etc, after 12 years I still think my son is fab but it's not quite as new and exciting????

My SIL is like this. She used to be interesting but now she will not talk about anything else. We were talking about the awful accident at Alton Towers and she said how much her dd had loved it when she went, then started going on about Peppa Pig world. She can get literally anything back to her dd in three sentences or less. I just avoid her now.

My bf is an arse about her child
it is as though she is the first person ever to have had a child and now I cannot bear any thought or talk of breast feeding as all she does is bang on about it all the farking time

everything is politicised, everything is an issue

she has a very sketchy idea about parenting dreamed up by herself and other militant hippy middleclass frustrated mothers
everyone has parenting madness but it should be mandatory to stfu about it

You are very def not b u

God also agree re proud GPs

My mother is the most cringeworthy bragger

Worst baby bore ever was a woman on a prospective parent tour years ago at our primary. She kept asking for the gifted and talented classes and was totally put out when she heard these do not start until year 3 or so, certainly not reception. Half the tour was about mini Einstein's (3) astounding gifts. 4 years on, mini Einstein remains a lovely yet unremarkable boy, the huge gifts are still slumbering inside him only for mum to see.

I do understand the urge to brag about one's child though, mine is so evidently fabulous yet of course dh, myself and gp are the only ones captivated so I try to keep shtum.

I have a friend who is like this. But even worse, I am not allowed to mention my dd without being told why she is not special. If her son has done it, he is the only the one who has ever done it so early and perfectly. If my dd has done it, he did it last week but better.

I really don't give a shit about his shit, which I am always told non anecdotes about. Its not hilarious or adorable, its the same yuck that comes out of my dds bum, my bum and her bloody mouth!

Sarah Your friend is a "Mummy Two shits"

Thanks to mumsnet for that. Two shits is a ultra competitive person, ie, you've had one shit, they've had two shits. Sometimes it's their kids that have had two shits.

TaliZorah thank you, that is a fabulous phrase, I must remember that!

Reni I cant remember what thread that came from now, but its genius.

A friend of mine not only talks about her kids all the time, but shows me pictures on her phone of activities they have done together eg baking, and their artwork.

Thing is, she hates being a mother (has told me so).

Oh the horror, cereal! Second hand kid's artwork! Wtf, I find it hard to marvel at my own dd's when she proudly shows me, an adult showing me someone else's would probably get an honest critique unless her dc stood next to me .

Artwork! My DD's artwork will be admired by me and either stuck on the fridge or placed in her keepsake folder. I've never felt the need to shove said artwork into another persons face and say scream, "ADMIRE IT!!!"

I would fight fire with fire and bore her back with art. I have a prolific producer of primary school junk modelling creations.

Just been chatting with my friend about this thread n she has just admitted to me that she actually calls Facebook Rosebook now as all she sees on there is baby Rose!!

Silverglitterpisser does your friend's name begin with W by any chance? It sounds exactly like my SIL whose granddaughter is called Rose. She drones on and on and on about how amazing Rose is - she couldn't even let me son have the limelight the first time she met him when he was a few days old. She was already saying how much more she slept, much more she ate blah blah blah. Rose was 4 months old then.........my DS was about 4 days!

Thankfully we don't see her often but I'm dreading next month when we do see her and she will no doubt go on about how much better Rose's speech is compared to my DS (who is now 22m). I think I will need for that encounter!

*My son not me son

Of course YANBU to feel the way you do. Although personally, I wouldn't continue a friendship with someone whose company I didn't enjoy. I'm not that tolerant.