To have felt a bit scared for this newborn

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Was in busy supermarket this afternoon.
Lots of kids/trolleys/shelf stackers etc.
There was a couple walking about, mum with trolley & dad with the teeniest of newborns I have seen in a while, all cute and floppy. But just being held in his arms.
I saw them a few times in the space of half an hr, and everytime all I could think was don't drop him/her!

AIBU for thinking it was a bit daft of them?

I wasn't keen on the slings I tried. I could have tried more I guess and I bet there are loads more available now too. But each to their own - maybe they prefer to carry in arms. It's pretty safe ime.

You obviously weren't wearing it properly dont

I got really cross at the hospital as they refused to let us leave carrying DS in our arms. They were taken aback that we didn't have a travel system, and in the end found a buggy from somewhere that we had to use for him (even though it was patently too big for him), and a MW came out to the car with us to check that we had a seat in there for him.

I understood that we weren't allowed to carry him from one ward to another (he had to be pushed in a cot), as we were under their oversight, and it's easier to have a rule that no one can do it rather than try to distinguish between mums who are a bit wobbly post-partum and those who are OK, but at the point where we had been signed off to go home?? Ridiculous

OP my newborn fell out of a sling. I shudder a bit when I see a newborn in one! Scariest thing that ever happened

This also happened to me Dont.

And no OP I was wearing the sling properly.

Rather than making ridiculous judgments on people in a supermarket, minding their own business, why don't you stop being a GF on your first day on MN and head back under your bridge.

Your two year old riding a bike at supersonic speed without stabilisers sounds way more dangerous than a newborn being carried by a parent. What a strange view of the world you have.

I hated the sling.
I had spent months waddling around with my baby attached to me the last thing i wanted when they popped out was to have them attached to me again.

Also i would scowl at any interfering busy body who would dare to come up to me and harp on about good slings

I'm so glad you didn't say anything, because that would've been super awkward. I can only imagine how I would react if I was carrying my newborn baby and somebody tried to tell me it was dangerous.... It wouldn't go well.

You are scared by the fragility of a newborn. The parents weren't scared. They get to decide.

(and slings are the very work of the devil).

Oh god the horror.

All those little babies in the developing world being carried by mum and fed all at the same time whilst she carries a bucket of stuff on her head. She didn't even have any shoes on and the surface wasn't leveled.

Huh? YABU.

Ahh, but Mumi they don't really have supermarkets in the developing world, so she won't get bumped by a trolley.

"You obviously weren't wearing it properly dont"

OP I'm not really understanding the point of that statement. Maybe I wasn't wearing it correctly* - do you go up to strangers and check they are? Do the sling police pop by before you leave the house to check? If not then why would you assume a baby on the street (or indeed in the supermarket) is safe in a sling??!

*i was. It was a design fault. But thanks for that, makes me feel much better about my 5 week old sliding out into the concrete pavement. As long as it was my fault who gives a fuck eh?

Bloody hell you'd have thought I was a right oddball when DS was a baby then

You sound overly anxious - are you always like this? Do you think you might need to see someone about it?

Dontyoulovecalpol your post made me feel queasy to read! Was baby okay??

Dont please dont be upset.

OP sounds like one of those parent like i do or i will fear for your children types.
They are usually the ones whos children rebel dramatically and start dating one of the Rolling Stones

Big sling fan here, but still wouldn't have batted an eyelid bar thinking "nawww".

Mine was very similar Dont

You might want to google "class action lawsuits baby slings" OP.

Baby was absolutely ok thank you (and sorry if I gave the impression something morbid had happened) it was one those "happens in slow
Motion but also in a flash" moments. She and I both started screaming LOL.

Thanks Izzy and hope your baby was similarly unhurt chipped

My friend slipped on ice carrying her newborn in a sling. Broke her elbow and fractured the baby's skull.

He was, mercifully, absolutely fine, but it was terrifying.

Accidents can and do happen.

Just letting you know. please stop being so sanctimonious

Also a big sling fan. Also carried in one from birth. Hasn't made me crackers, though.

DD came home at 4 1/2 lbs. There was no carrier small enough for her, she was dwarfed in every pram.

I carried her. Perhaps I should have practiced before?

Surprisingly enough, walking and carrying a baby does not actually require specialised education.