Put a f*cking blanket over your baby

[Noti23]

It’s horrible day- freezing light rain that sticks to your & face ice cold wind.

Nevertheless, am I still seeing 6 month old babies being strolled around in the pram wearing nothing but a coat, jeans and socks. No blanket, no raincover. Meanwhile their parents are dawdling by wearing a nice thick coat, a hat and a pair of gloves.

Are these people stupid or lazy? AIBU?

Why the hell do so many folk on here care so much about what other parents are doing? Seriously?!

I can honestly say I'm too focused on my own children, wherever I am headed, and my own train of thoughts to pay very much attention at all to other peoples children let alone notice what they are or are not wearing.

We used to try and get round the hat/sock/gloves removal issue in cold weather by adding extra layers underneath the coat. A travel Grobag/sleeping bag helped too. Still didn't prevent the hat/gloves though - and yes, by 6 months, they really can remove them!

A cold baby cries, a hot baby dies.

My son will throw off any blanket hat or gloves I put on him, if it was that cold i wouldn't take him out but I'd hate to think some random was calling me stupid and lazy for not wearing them as I so a 30 second dash from the bus to the shop

Don't babies cry if they're too hot or cold?

That was something I found very reassuring when DD was little - that if I missed something (like a blanket coming off and her getting cold) she told me about it - LOUDLY!!

Feel free to take my baby for a walk anytime , and good luck keeping a blanket or raincover in him.

How is it competitive to dress your child according to the weather?

@Noti23

I'm not presuming I live in the same area as you. Or that we have the same weather.

I'm presuming you're coming onto an internet board to shout out to the world that you've spotted what you judge to be inadequate parenting.

And you're hoping for a chorus of replies so we can all sit snugly (excuse the pun) in the notion that we're doing right by our children, while everyone else are savages.

"Yes, I will be judgmental when I see babies suffering" - have a chat with the mother next time, directly. Then come back on here, I'd love to hear how it went.

How is it competitive to dress your child according to the weather?

It’s not, it’s the superior ‘I’m a better parent than them’ posts that make it competitive.
What were you hoping to achieve from this post? Are you hoping people will read it and see the error of their ways?

I'm sure people thought this about me. As a baby my DD always seemed to get hot easily, and she's the same now she's a bit older. Kicks the duvet off every night and feels hot to the touch quite often. As a baby she rarely would have a blanket over her. If it was freezing then yes, but definitely not on weather like today's ( 9c here and light drizzle). I was in the minority from what I saw and worried sometimes the other mums would think I wasn't keeping her warm enough, but I think I knew what she needed - she would let me know quickly enough if I got it wrong.

Amount of clothing sounds ok - until it gets wet - a rain cover would have been a better idea ... but I still remember trying to keep it on the buggy when baby had other ideas ..

Because just like adults, not all children are the same. I don't feel the cold. Nor does DD. My godson, on the other hand, really does. So quite often I'll be out with him and DD in a double buggy and he'll be in a snowsuit while she just has a knitted blanket and thin coat. They're both perfectly happy and, judging by both their behaviour and sticking my fingers down the back of their neck, warm enough. So judge away!

The person who said earlier "babies cry when they are hot or cold" - exactly!

Also my youngest brother suffered with seizures if he ever got overheated as a baby, this continued into his adolescence. So my Mum would rather risk the cold for a little while rather than piling on layers- the point is you can’t possibly hope to know the individual circumstances of the baby in question.

Um it's 14 degrees in London today. I'm only wearing a light jacket. I was always taught that you should dress baby in one layer more than you've got on yourself. My son is nearly 4 now, but if he were a baby I would put him in a vest, long sleeved top or jumper and winter coat today. I would not put a blanket on him.

"Does it help people feel better to point out the perceived mistakes of others? Stupid question really considering that over half the posts on this site are exactly that."

Yes, I call them 'praise-me' posts. A high percentage of posts on here are these. I'm praising me because I do this but my 'friend' does that. I'm disingenuously wondering aloud on MN if it's wrong to feed my toddler healthy praise-me foods because most people seem to feed theirs crisps and mars bars. I'm writing with a faux-naive question about whether my friend is wrong to let her kid loose in the car while mine is always strapped into a big fuck-off praise-me car seat.

I don't find them so annoying now I recognise them for what they are.

If a baby is too cold it will cry/shiver/go blue. Were the babies you saw crying/shivering/going blue?

Mine won't even wear socks in the buggy and has never worn a hat for more than 30 seconds. He won't put his feet in the foot muff.

Some kids are just more compliant than others.

This always pissed me off and as someone that has to be in a wheelchair It Gets Fucking Freezing Down There!

Goodness. I obviously had an incredibly advanced child. She was taking socks, shoes and blankets off before she was 6 months old. She only had one hand too.

She still takes her socks and shoes off asap now she's 16yo.

Completely agree OP! I used to walk to school with a mum who didn't even own a coat for her baby. It would just be in an extra jumper with no blankets and it would be freezing. She was a highly educated woman but seemed to completely lack common sense!

Bet this mums baby will have a lot less coughs and colds in childhood than the babies wrapped up to point of over heating..stop being so bloody judgemental toward a mother you no nothing about

They probably have a better idea on how hot or cold their child is than a judgemental busy busy tbf

I fail to see how even a hot baby would keep warm while getting wet and facing the wind. I’m not here looking into every pram to see how the baby is dressed. A few cases have shocked and angered me, that’s all. I’m not a judgemental person- a few pp have taken this very personally. Even pulling the hood of the pram down would have helped. I don’t like to see a baby shivering while waiting for the bus. If a baby’s lips are turning blue then I doubt it’s warm enough. I should have said something instead of ranting about it on mumsnet.

I had a cosy toes for mine, it looked like a sleeping bag. I used to be envious sometimes at how warm and cosy they looked while I pushed them along shivering with cold.
With my first, I was typically clueless and bundled him up, complete with blankets, hats, gloves etc. You could literally just see his eyes peeking out.
My neighbour asked me if there was actually a baby in the pram. 😂