Put a f*cking blanket over your baby

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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?

Parenting is knowing your own child, not following the herd.

I don’t really judge anymore now I have my DS who pulls ANY hat off and has had a habit of losing at least one sock since he was 3 months old. I do put tights under his trousers now instead of socks. He always pulls one shoe off too fwiw and he WILL NOT wear mittens, not one bit. He has a footmuff on his buggy, there’s no way he’d keep a blanket on.

Parenting is knowing your own child

when you see the number of mothers who wear sunglasses whilst their tiny ones are left blinded in the sun, and can't even be arsed to reverse the buggy... most of it is laziness.

My DS also hates his raincover and it won’t be long before he learns how to pull that off too... I have tried so many different hats and even hoods, he has a real issue with them. Mittens just make him angry, he hated having his hands covered even as a newborn.

YANBU!!!!! But I also feel like this when I see a little baby without a hat on in the summer burning away in a sling or sun in its face in the buggy whilst parents are oblivious with their sunglasses and hats! Some parents are massively selfish/lazy.

Okay for those of you saying no excuses - how would you have handled my little brother as a baby whose core temperature was unusually high and if he got too hot (as he did as a baby in cold weather but shoved into a snowsuit) and he started having convulsions? Still no excuse for my Mum to cater to her babies physical needs by going against her instinct and keeping him as lightly dressed as possible? I’m amazed that there’s ‘no excuse’ in your minds when actually there can be a myriad of very genuine REASONS. FFS the bull-headed responses on these threads don’t surprise me anymore but they still wind me up 😂

@JosefKeller

Just saw your post!!! Yes!! Thank you!!

And the PP who mentioned the idiots who drape a blanket over buggy in sweltering heat for “shade”

I'm talking about snow suits... I don't drive, don't have money for the bus so we have to walk everywhere no matter what the weather. We have to walk the dog 2 hours a day starting at 7am when it's frozen solid out at the moment. So I put the baby in a snow suit because it's that or hats and blankets that she throws off. I don't know what another option would be.

A Swedish friend of mine often used to say how dreadful it was that U.K. babies and children hardly ever wore hats in winter. In Sweden it was the norm.
Er, I tried to explain that a) whatever you do, they so often just pull them off, and b) it’s a bit different in Sweden, where winters are that much colder. (And longer!). She was living in Devon, hardly Siberian weather even in the depths of winter.,

It's just as annoying as people who don't mind their business... I don't know, if you feel personally attacked by other people's parenting, maybe you should say something directly to them.

Mine pulls his hat off repeatedly sometimes. I usually put him in regular clothes and a snow suit on top. it probably doesn't look like much but he never feels cold at all when I take him out. I assume most parents care though. My mum would always over wrap my first until he was screaming and sweating and then he hated the buggy.

Snowsuits are often overkill in the UK. Our winters are generally fairly mild nowadays depending on where you’re based. It was 12 degrees here in Yorkshire today for example. Overheating can lead to SIDS.

Babies/toddlers who strip off or pull blankets off is what cosy toes zip up fixed blankets were invented for. Show me a baby or toddler who can undo a zipped cosy toes with a velcro top fastener and I'll show you a genius

and I've had 3. Repetition is key when it comes to hats and gloves etc. When it really is cold and they really do need to wear a hat or gloves or blankets then you'll have a battle on your hands if you gave up at the first hurdle. Start as you mean to go on.

My almost 2 year old was in the pram today, no hat, cover or rain cover. He was soaked but he loved it, he loves the wind on his face, always has. Had to battle with him in the shop to put his socks and shoes back on before going outside. I'm sure people judge me but my kid is perfectly fine 😊

Show me a baby or toddler who can undo a zipped cosy toes with a velcro top fastener and I'll show you a genius grin

Mine can't undo it, it's true. He just tries and tries to pull it off, kicks it and screams and cries until he can barely catch his breath. I'm the sort of shit mum who would rather not let him get so upset he's choking on his sobs, so we stopped putting it on. Probably because I'm lazy.

It annoys me too. Mainly the blanket part. Sometimes my (20 month old) daughter refuses to wear a hat but I always make sure she has a thick winter coat and mittens on with a cosytoes and blanket too if needed.

It was equally annoying when I saw kids with big thick fluffy coats and blankets on in the middle of the summer!!!!

Come on. We all know kids kick off their shoes and socks, throw blankets out, kick them off, throw their hats out, refuse to put a jacket on. We’ve probably all been that kid. Pompously telling someone you put tights on your kid is unnecessary.

@Letsallscreamatthesistene OP clearly is very nice. She’s worried about babies getting cold. She’s a caring person. She’s right about the useless parents who wrap themselves up and don’t give a monkeys about their little ones catching cold.

My daughter always refused to wear a hat or gloves so I understand how some babies are without these items, however the best I saw was in the chip shop one day a lady left with a baby in a buggy and used the rain covers to keep her food dry and let her child get soaked instead 🤦🏽‍♀️

The thing that truly gives me the rage is NO SOCKS

Yup I have seen a few young children and babies under dressed in the buggies and prams recently. It's really cold where I am atm. Rained for about a week, hailstones, ice, strong winds. Kids in buggy, no rain over, no cosy toes or blankets, doing the school run.
On the flipside I have also seen small babies wrapped up in like they are going to the North Pole with hat, snowsuit and blankets covering them up in shopping centers where they are not even going outside.

When my children threw off blankets and it was cold, they got put into all in ones and zipped up. They didnt have the option of being cold.

These threads are like buses, none for ages then all of a sudden 3+ pop up all saying the same thing to various degrees😑

My partner feels the cold ridiculously easy so unless it's a heatwave he's double layered.
My middle child (6) and myself get way too warm way too quickly especially if we're walking and take forever to cool down so unless we're in the antarctic you're likely to find us in jumpers/jackets or a rain coat.
The eldest (7) refuses to wear his big coat unless you force him because he doesn't like them but you'll find him in his jumper 99% of the time because he likes the feel of it and it's his comforter, he will wear hat, scarf and gloves though.
The youngest (1) hates gloves and hats and will only wear shoes if she's walking, she hates blankets and even as a baby in a carry cot pram would kick it off her feet (she won't sleep in a sleeping bag or under a quilt either🙄) she has a cosy toes but she pulls her legs out and lies them over the top, she also hates the raincover and will scream blue murder with it on and will pull at it to stick her head out.

Judge away though op, just know that there's people judging you😊 have a nice evening judgy pants

Show me a baby or toddler who can undo a zipped cosy toes with a velcro top fastener and I'll show you a genius

We had a cosy toes like the one in this picture. DS used to first pull up one leg, then the other, and then sit there with them on top of the outside of the cosy toes.

The thing that truly gives me the rage is NO SOCKS

He also used to throw off his socks and shoes and then, for good measure, roll his trouser legs right up. I did try tights. He thrashed about so much that they got clicked (on the zip of the cozy toes) and he pulled at the click thread until he had unravelled a big enough hole on that side to get his foot and lower leg out. I tried him in a snow suit and he was able to unzip the bloody thing and puled his arms out of the sleeves.

YABU my children always kicked off any blankets and hated rain covers. You are not the expert on everyone else’s children OP.