crying babies on buses

[RosieWithTheGoodHair]

I know IABU but I HATE it. I dislike buses at the best of times but it drives me mad to be basically stuck in a small space with a crying child

The only babies I hated crying on buses were my own because I knew there would be arseholes on the bus like you OP.

When i get on the bus i deliberately poke ds so he screams all the way there, then sit back and read the DM on my phone until our stop.

I have perfected the 'don't fucking care' hardstare

I don't know, RosieWithTheGoodHair (that name rings a bell for some reason....) I happen to like their mewing little cries, their vunerablity, their downy little heads, their cute little bottoms.....

I threw up in every bus when I was little - would that be better?

Walk - get a cab - babies cry

Hello, Donald Trump. Welcome to Mumsnet.

No probs bugs.

Mines just finished screaming cos he is too tired to sleep due to napping fail. Finally got him off. I imagine my neighbours are even more relieved than I am.

Bugger no he's not

Oh bog off op.

You have to put up with it for maybe 20 minutes.

I have to put up with it all day, all night, all week atm (teething).

We have to get places. I do all I can to stop him crying but sometimes I can't help it. Or do you think I sit there not realising

You know what I hate on buses? Passive aggressive twats who think the world owes them perfect silence on public fucking transport. Hth

DS cried inconsolably on a bus once when he was about eight weeks old. I was trying everything and in the end I got off much earlier than I had needed to and walked because I hated the thought of interrupting everyone else's journey on the dirty stinky noisy bus. I remember crying as I walked along the street.

There was a lovely lovely woman on the bus who smiled kindly at me and asked whether I was ok. I think it was her kindness that started me crying, actually. When I pressed the bell to get off, she looked at me sternly and said "you're not getting off early, are you?" I lied.

The OP hasn't said they shouldn't be there or that anyone is to blame, just that they hate it. Most if not all of us would agree, we hate it but it is a fact of life.

My dh is the most laid back kind of guy but when he is in an enclosed space with a crying child he really finds it very, very hard to cope - he would need to get off the bus or if it was a plane or train where he couldn't get off he would have to pace up and down to deal with it. Nothing else gets him like that.

Babies cry. They can't help it. Adults can be judgey cunts. They can help it.

Earphones. Good ones. I hate it too, whinging kids do my head in but it can't be helped. I just turn my music up and feel sorry for their parents getting dirty looks. All kids cry and lets face it most of us would scream our guts out on a bus in rush hour if we could.

I rely on buses to drop DS off at nursery every day, some days I also pick up. We have used public transport since he was 10mo, he is now 3.5z. There were days, especially when I had to pick up, when he was so overtired that he screamed ALL the way home, 20 minutes. People have been nothing but kind to us, every single flipping time. I was just as flustered and red faced as screaming toddler and maybe that's why nobody ever gave me any crap.
Thank fuck you're never on my bus.
I could, of course, stop commuting, stop working and taking DS on buses. Do you hate benefit (ab)users too?

I hate crying babies as much as the next person, but what on earth are parents meant to do on a bus?? They can't just 'take them out' can then.

So YABU.

Screaming babies dont bother me that much. It is very loud, but they are babies and cant help it. I must admit, my heart sinks if someone with a baby/young children gets on the bus but I wouldnt get pissed off about the noise levels, its just one of those things.
Earphones/music helps.

The parents probably aren't enjoying it, either. They need to get to places just like the rest of us, though, don't they - and that includes back home.

I only hate it when it's mine.

I'd rather listen to a crying baby than someone else's music from headphone or loud mobile conversations, babies don't know they are being inconsiderate

Erm... At what point did I say that babies should be banned from buses? I just said I find it annoying, which I do. I also said that I KNOW I'm BU.

Calm the hell down

Yabu and you know it.

Thank fuck you're never on my bus.

Why? Because I might sit being silently annoyed and post a thread on mumsnet about how it's annoying that has absolutely no direct correlation to you or your child?

Get a grip

I do my best to reassure the mother, or other person with the baby, because I know the baby picks up on stress vibes from their carer.

Calm the carer-calm the child.

You probably do the opposite, judge and stress the carer and make the baby worse. Well done OP!

I just can't take this attitude. Babies cry. Get over it ffs.

I was upstairs. I didn't glare at anyone or even judge anyone. I just said it was annoying. The crying, not the child.

Flipping hell, babies can do things that can are annoying and I can (or should be able to) say so without being branded the devil!