To wonder if people really have their baby girls in massive oversized head bows 24/7?

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Or is it just for Instagram pictures? Like massive headbands with an enormous bow?

I have a 10 week old dd and if I put her to bed that way it would never stay on.

At the moment it's really in fashion. This is dd4 for me and I don't remember this trend with any of the others.

On fleek * my autocucumber is SO last year

They are absolutely horrendous, and yes, obviously they are a danger. I can not understand how people would not realise its dangerous to put something like that on a child. Also a danger.... Amber beads. Really what are people thinking!

DD was bald as a coot until she was three and was often mistaken for a boy. We tended to dress her fairly gender neutral but mainly because the clothes we liked were in those colours and styles. Whilst it pissed me off occasionally for her to be mistaken for a boy most of the time it didn't.

I think I find them naff because it's an example of how early gendered bollocks begins and in my experience the mums (and it's mainly the mums) who make their daughters look like an Easter egg with these things are the mums who will normally continue to buy very gendered clothes as their baby grows.

I do realise it's also none of my business how you dress your baby but yep, stereotyping starts at a very, very young age. We can influence it for the better.

Also, I would hate to have a fucking bow strapped to my head all day, it would be so irritating.

Mop caps haha I'd forgotten. All the rage for baby girls around 40 years ago. Together with little lacy pinny things.
Can't think why we dressed our daughters as Victorian maids.

I think parents who do this should be made to wear one too, an absolutely huge one

I’ve seen so many of these on Instagram- they do my head in! They can’t be comfortable for the poor babies and they look so tacky, not to mention posing a health hazard.

They look awful 🙈my 19 month old dd has the occasional small hairband, but pulls it off

@RaspberryBubblegum the article says it was a facebook post, written by someone who has a friend whose DD apparently died. The post was later deleted.

Awful and yes, tacky. Must be uncomfortable for the little one, too.

Just why?

They’re foul and look ridiculous.
Why put something 5 times the size on a little babies head? Is it so she looks ‘more girly’ ?
Tacky

What a load of absolute wankery. Babies should be in soft comfortable clothes.

@PeggySuehadababy I know but I'd rather be on the safe side than find out the hard way that they were indeed correct
Also if that happened to my baby and my friend posted a viral post about it I would ask her to delete it too.

They have been around for ages and look absolutely ridiculous. I really hope they don't wear them all the time but sadly I wouldn't be surprised.

DS used to be mistaken for a girl because he has long eyelashes.

He still gets mistaken for a girl because he has shaggy hair (a style of his own choosing). If he was a girl with that style, she'd get comments about it being too short anyway.

It's never made his willy fall off, and he's perfectly capable of replying "actually I'm a boy"

Let babies/ children be babies/ children. Dress them comfortably and practically. Don't give gender excessive importance.

I suspect the fb story was a tarradiddle, like most of those daft warnings, but it doesn't stop bows and headbands being wankerish on bald babies. Comfort, practicality and ease of laundering are the best criteria!

A family member did the Disney thing and posted half a dozen fb pics of her baby in different outfits all taken in one session (same background) . I commented what an easy going baby, any of mine would have screamed the place down if dressed and undressed 6 or 7 times in a row. S/he did, was the response!

I don't like the big bows. They are ridiculous.

My 8 month DD's fringe is almost in her eyes now and I have been wondering what I could use to hold it back (rather than cut it). Are there any safe/soft options which are not a choking or suffocation hazard?

You can get really soft stretchy ones that aren't uncomfortable for the baby at all

I bet if you asked a bald, or nearly bald person if they’d like to wear a really soft stretchy hairband all day, they’d say no thanks. It would still be an aggravating thing to have on your head unless you could reach up to rearrange it, scratch underneath it etc Babies just have these things plonked on their heads and they have to put up with it.

smellybeard a little hair clip is what you need, if you want to grow the fringe out.

One of NCT mums used to make them for her DD as she couldn't bear the thought that she might get mistaken for a boy ( no chance, as she was always dressed in big flouncy dresses and frills, anyway).
She ended up turning it into a business as so many other people on her estate asked her to make them for their newborns. I found it all a bit bizarre...

I also hate shoes on babies. What’s the point? Utterly ridiculous. Babies are not a dress up doll ffs.

I did put headbands in from a couple of months old. Just fabric ones and not massive ones.

Then bows once she was old enough to have little bunches and ponytails. Same colour as her outfit.

I like them myself.

They are horribly tacky and dangerous. What a winning combination.

I'd have to ask DH to take me out back and shoot me if I ever put one of those on DD as a baby.

My daughter is 18 months and she sometimes wears a little rubber band with a mini pigtail on the top of her head, but they do it for her at nursery, I never bother. She looks really cute though. She does have her ears pierced because that is absolute normal in Spain and in many other places.