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?

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
At 3 months the baby will have had the 8 and 12 week jabs so already building a good degree of immunity.

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.
But for lots of people it would have been fine. The person who wrote the tweet clearly knows it might be totally not doable when it gets to it but she's not at all silly to be planning it and hoping for the best

It just comes across as showing off what a cool new parent she is tbh. When she gets there, she'll be disappointed to find a whole field full of families with children of all ages and that no one gives a shit.

I agree there is a innocence to new mums thinking they can carry on with life prior to having children . She'll have different priorities but may still go . I'd put money on her selling the ticket but leave her to it .

I used to loathe the patronising comments when I was pregnant about how I'd never be able to do x,y,z, how I'd be exhausted, what a struggle it was and so on. Possibly not as much as the naysayers loathed the fact I didn't fall in with their predictions. We don't all sit around in pjs for the first 6 months and then spend the next 5yrs planning our lives around being home for nap time.

I used to loathe the patronising comments when I was pregnant about how I'd never be able to do x,y,z, how I'd be exhausted, what a struggle it was and so on

And it didn't always stop when things had already been done. We took DS on holiday for a week to Malta at 8 months and had a brilliant time. Even afterwards some people refused to believe it and kept saying how holidays with babies are a nightmare, it must have been such a struggle etc.

One friend said I was "mad" for taking DS to his 2nd festival at 16 months as if we didn't have pretty good idea by that point what would and wouldn't be fun for all of us.

Yy dappled And then it's about what a struggle the next stage is. Yes but wait till she's mobile, wait till she's a toddler, wait till they're preschoolers etc. Now both are mid and late teens and it's only recently I've stopped receiving the crap about how much harder the next stage is. I was constantly being told I'd have to give up the horses when dd was born/ at the next stage. Erm, no, it's just the ideal excuse to get ponies too.

There is something to be said about having to plan your life around taxi duties with teenagers, but the flip side is they can hold your place at a festival or gig when you go to the bar, your drink while you're in the pit, or go to the bar for you!

So much I still have to look forward to Trainspotting. Mine are both still pre-schoolers at the moment. We took both of them to a festival this year. Imagine!

Like the idea of them going to the bar for me eventually!

Ahh, but wait till they are actually at school and old enough to run off, need a 6pm bedtime 365 days a year, you have to factor in homework, and how exhausted they'll be, extra curricular activities etc, you'll never leave the house again. Delete as appropriate for every other stage of life up to 25

In all honesty, I'd say as they become less physically dependent, they are more work mentally, but easier overall. But as you'll already know each stage is rewarding in different ways to compensate for new challenges.

Yes, it's quite handy, if more expensive than factoring in soft drinks for you all! Possibly too late for you now, but try not to have a summer born as your first or there's only a small gap between old enough for bar duty and going off to uni.