I know I should bite my tongue, but I don’t want to. Aibu?

[HospitalToast]

I saw this on Twitter. I’m dying to write a reality check reply but I also remember what life was like before I hd my first. Aibu to reply with a suitable gif?

Just leave her be.
No need to be unkind

Why? Taking a 3mo would relatively straightforward. Easier than a couple of toddlers

I think she’s being a bit sarcastic anyway! Sounds like she realises people will think she’s crazy!

Loads of tiny babies at Glastonbury. Much easier that toddlers running around everywhere.

But she's already wryly acknowledging that!

Of course you are. I’ve seen plenty of people with small babies at glasto, and heavily pregnant women. My idea of hell but their lives, their choices. Nowt to do with me.

She seems to know it’s a bit mad, leave her be, it’s not like she’ll not be able to sell it on if she changes her mind. Why do you care

One 3 month old would be no problem

Loads of babies go. 3mo much easier than a toddler.

Really, really wouldn’t have worked for us, but each to their own!

Why do you want to be mean to her? She is a grown adult who can make her own choices about where she talks her child. No need for you to make snobby judgements about her.

I.was at Woodstock 69 at 5 months old.....

Why would you want to be a dick?

I can safely say that the 3 days I spent at the Green Man festival with a 3 month old were in my top ten worst days ever. Just a couple of notches down from cancer diagnoses and suicides of close family members.

But some things you have to discover for yourself.

Theres loads for kids and babies to experience at Glastonbury. It's not all about the main stage...

Thanks for the replies. I decidedly against it - there’s a lovely innocence to first timers. Who am I to burst her bubble? But there isn’t no way I could have coped with a festival at that point. They haven’t even been immunised yet is one reason. Plus my own birth recovery (c-section once and assisted natural the other) plus the 11/12 times waking per night my youngest was doing at that point.

Just because you couldn't do it doesn't mean it's in any way an unreasonable plan. We took DS to his first festival at 8 months. If our favourite festival had been at a time when he was 3 months we would have still done it.

Especially easy if EBF. It was a born of a pain that DS had already started eating by the time of his first one.

Her bubble may not need to burst, to be fair - I could easily have done a festival at 3 months with DD (and I had a C-section).

Non of your business. Not your kid. Not your family. Just because you couldn't cope doesn't mean she won't be able to

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I took my children as babies to Glastonbury, dd2 was 3 weeks old and the older 3 were 18 months, 3 and 4. It was great. Hard work, but it’s hard work anywhere with 4 kids under 5 so might as well be somewhere fun.

First immunisations are at 8 weeks but why is the even relevant?

Glastonbury has a family field and loads of children go. A 3 month old would be way easier than a 3 year old.

I’m surprised more of the ‘I took my newborn quints to a muddy festival, no problems’ posters weren’t concerned about the vax/herd immunity thing too.

Can’t think of a crowd more likely to include anti-vaxxer families than these festivals, so posing a risk. For me, it’d be an important consideration these days.

And just to add, there would have been about 18 reasons above that one as to why I couldn’t/wouldn’t have taken my small baby to this kind of thing. Birth recovery issues, feeding issues, messing with the routine, my own mental health. Can’t think of anything that would have been less fun at 3 months. Shudder.

She seems to know it’s a bit mad, leave her be, it’s not like she’ll not be able to sell it on if she changes her mind. Why do you care

I first read this as ‘she can always sell the baby, if it interferes with her social plans’