Babies are worse than toddlers when going out.

[Sianlouise432]

A genuine AIBU because I'm coming from a place of 0% experience with toddlers.

I know I've got the terrible twos to look forward to, however I just think taking a baby out and about is SO ANNOYING.

DS can stay awake for max 1.5 hours before he gets cranky. He fusses and cries. Toddlers have tantrums but you can kind of ignore them.. Babies cry for genuine needs which makes it so difficult cause you HAVE to act.

So AIBU? Babies are worse to take out and about.

Babies are easy compared to toddlers

I'm afraid you literally couldn't be more wrong - toddlers move!

In the nicest way possible OP, come back when your baby is a toddler and tell us if you feel the same 😂

I have a toddler and a baby, I know which i would rather take somewhere at the moment, and it’s the one that doesn’t spend 95% of the time trying to get out of the pushchair 😂

I much preferred taking ds out as a baby - I could contain him in a pram for one thing and he didn't talk back at me, or throw himself on the floor, or try and make a run for it

So much easier taking a baby out than a toddler. You have so much to look forward too

Babies are much easier IMO. I have three... 5, 4 and 6 months. 5 year old is easy, 4 year old is generally ok, 6 month old a doddle. The worst ages were between about 15 months and 2.5 years.

Totally depends on the individual babies and toddlers. My daughter was really tricky as a baby and as a toddler (impossible to just ignore her tantrums without ruining everyone else's day so ended up having to take her home early a LOT) and still really difficult as a 7 year old... My son was pretty easy as a baby and still as a toddler. I do know what you mean re. the flaff element of taking babies out though- so much STUFF and having to work around multiple naps - but on the plus side they're a lot harder to misplace... so, swings and roundabouts.

Babies are easy , toddlers are a different breed.

I found my baby harder than my toddler. She hardly ever slept in her pram (but did want naps - at home). She hated it when the pram wasn’t moving. She couldn’t bear two adults talking and her not being involved.

She’s now very calm and quite sensible for a toddler. She’ll hold your hand, stand near you, never runs away, hardly ever tantrums. She’s great.

Have a three year old. I dream of the baby stage again. Fucking hell its a walking nightmare.

I think it depends on the child. My DD wanted to be held all the time, cried in her pram, pushchair and car seat, wanted to feed constantly, would only sleep in my arms. We didn't get out much for the first 6 months or so as she was so difficult.

She's nearly three now and the last year has been much easier than the baby stage! Definitely easier to take out and about now.

😂😂😂😂😂😅😅 Babies are a piece of piss compared to a toddler 😂😂😂😅😅😅😅😅😅

Yea it only gets harder

Ds1 tatrumed by being sick when he was a toddler. Usually on me.
However at least with a toddler you can pick them up and move them when they tantrum.
Autistic teenager having a tantrum is definitely worse than babies or toddlers. My one is 6'3.

I also think swings and roundabouts.

My eldest was a really tough baby. He had medical needs and cried a lot. He's an even tougher toddler. He was easier as a baby.

My youngest was a real velcro baby. Wouldn't go in his pram until about seven months. However he was breastfed so I just bunged him in the sling and off we went. Sometimes I remembered the change bag. He's 18m now so still easy. I'm expecting him to get a lot tougher in the next 9 months or so.

Sorry, toddlers are harder. I walked miles and miles with my baby in his pram and he didn't care where we were as ling as there was something to look at.

Now he is a toddler, he only tolerates the pram for short times but doesn't walk far and even that takes ages as he tries to get away with not holding hands. He hates shops apart from supermarkets and in the trolley likes to take things out of the trolley and drop them on the floor.

It's only fun going to parks etc. Taking him to places not designed for children is a ball ache.

Omg babies are so much easier. They can't try and run into the road, throw themselves on the floor screaming and kicking, abruptly stop walking and trip up strangers, throw a meltdown claiming their legs are broken and insist on being carried when they weigh a tonne and you have a load of shopping, cling onto every railing/lamppost they see, climb on everything, run away if you try and look at anything in a shop or sit down in a cafe.... I could probably go on

Toddlers can be real beasts.

Sorry!

Toddlers have tantrums but you can kind of ignore them

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Babies are ridiculously easier than toddlers. Laughing at ignoring a toddler tantrum .

It's all just awful

Surely you're talking about your baby, if there is a lot going on mine won't nap but he doesn't get fussy, he is very smiley and laughs a lot, he'll be tied the next day if we have a big day out at a family party etc but doesn't cry. The only time he cries really is if he bumps himself/falls over, he's just started crawling and pulling himself up on things. Even then he's easily distracted by a couple of funny faces and blowing a raspberry or two and it's back to laughing. He certainly can't tell me no and go mad when I take him home, like I've seen toddlers do.

Babies are soooo much easier!!

Babies are a million times easier!

I loooooong for the baby days again. OP, I know it’s tough sometimes but this really is the easy bit.

Babies cry because they have genuine needs - you’re right, but this mean you can fix the problem. Nappy, food, sleep etc

Toddlers make a hullabaloo over absolutely nothing and sometimes not even your very best parenting and all your bribes will fix it.

How old is your baby? If very young, then I do empathise because it can be nerve wracking the first few outings until you get the hang of it. But trust me, this is the easy phase.