Headbands and Bows on bald baby heads,

[PasstheBucket89]

Why do people do that to bald babies, when i see photos of tiny baby girls with this stuff i think god that must be so irratating , i feel sorry for them, i mean as hair gets thicker, etc not as bad, but am i being unreasonable in thinking wtf do people do this it looks so uncomfortable???

I agree with you, especially in these boiling hot days. The poor baby must be so uncomfortable.
Not to mention the strangulation risk.

I agree about the cartoon character thing, every girl has a bow drawn on them just incase we didn’t know they were female.

I don’t like bows at all, if I’d had had girls they wouldn’t have worn them because they look naff. I was a very non dress/frills/bow wearing little girl. I always feel sorry for girl babies trying to crawl and getting tangled up in the skirt or tutu they’ve been placed in. It’s so impractical why do it?

Seriously who gives a fuck if someone misgenders your baby. My pram has a purple hood, people probably thought DS was a girl.

I always feel like the babies I’ve seen with massive headbands are ‘on show’. One toddler I saw had massive bows stuck to her head and was being paraded round the swimming pool and of course couldn’t be wet. I’m pretty sure if they’d taken the ridiculous bows off and let her play she’d have been a lot happier.

I agree.

But the worst thing has to be the beaded dummy clips which spell out the name of “princess” or whatever. I can’t get the logic of anyone thinking something made in someone’s back room with lots of tiny beads is safe to give to a baby!

@burritofan

It can also help ‘well wishers’ identify the sex of the baby. Why on earth do they need to know? You can wish a stranger’s baby well or call it a snuggly-puggly squishy-cheeked bundle of delight (for instance) without knowing girl or boy.

As for putting bows on female babies = compliments on how gorgeous she is, is there a parent alive who hasn’t been complimented on their gorgeous baby? It has nothing to do with them wearing a bow or band. A woman leaned out of her car the other day to call DD “exceptionally cute” (no head band or bow, just peanut butter in her hair), I’m under no illusion that that means she’s the cutest, it’s just the natural response to a baby. (Except the really plug-ugly battery-chicken-looking ones, who are usually the ones adorned in bows, poor sods.)

What a really nasty comment to make about a babys appearance. The sentence in brackets.

You should be ashamed of yourself!!!

@HopelessSemantics

everyone thinks my baby is a girl but he's a boy. I have drawn a cock and balls on his forehead in permanent marker to stop this happening.

I think they look ridiculous and uncomfortable.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

A hat could blow off

How childish am I that I sniggered at that?!

😂

Also can't stand them. Never put one on DD... didn't help she looked like Phil Mitchel so would've just looked ridiculous.

Always dressed DD in more practical clothes so she could play without having to worry about ruining a dress or whatever... certain family members have said she's "scruffy" and were surprised when wearing a dress for a recent party.... just because I don't dress her like a doll doesn't mean she's a scruff. She's clean, clothes are clean, hair is brushed etc.

Can not stand the expectation that girls should dress "pretty" 🙄 absolute sexist bullshit!

@burritofan no babies are plug-ugly battery-chicken-looking. They just look like rugrats (and hopefully behave like one).

• HopelessSemantics

everyone thinks my baby is a girl but he's a boy. I have drawn a cock and balls on his forehead in permanent marker to stop this happening*

brilliant!

It's a shame that some of you don't think your baby is cute enough without dressing it like a toilet roll holder

@HopelessSemantics

also agree with jeans and we were given so many pairs of them. They are tacky af. And trying to get jeans onto a baby? Are you kidding me? Like trying to nail jelly to a snake.

How do you get them off to change their nappy?

Ah come on, we've all seen some ugly babies, haven't we?

Being ugly isn't that bad, there are worse things to be. We don't all have to pretend everyone is gorgeous.

You know you're picturing the ugliest baby you've seen right now.

@RedRumTheHorse exactly! I have no idea. Ugly, impractical, uncomfortable and I have at least five pairs of them.

Hate them too. Babies don’t need fashion accessories whatsoever.

Never understood the “showing off” of babies or children though. Other people really don’t care.

I never say it out loud but bows on bald babies is one of the things that identifies you as an utter moron in my view. Is it so horrible if no one knows your infant is a girl? It looks stupid, it’s sexist, and it’s pointless. I’m a mum of two girls and every idiotic baby bow I was gifted was shoved into a drawer.

My 3 year old has earrings and has worn bows since she was a few weeks old.
Am I bothered by this post? Absolutely not

Each to their own. But a lot of posters here sound very judgemental

Goodness, no, you mustn't ever put a headband on your baby - it doesn't matter if your baby girl is mistaken for a boy, but put a headband on her and she might be mistaken for ... a working class baby!

This. This is all it is. An opportunity to sneer at anything deemed beneath the middle classes, in the guise of "concern" for baby safety. An attitude of "why would you put a potentially dangerous item of clothing on your child, what kind of parent are you?!"

I have 2 boys and don't live in the UK so thankfully don't have to deal with the class bullshit that is so prevalent.

But really. These are baby headbands. Does anyone really feel that strongly about them? Some look cute as fuck, others look crap.
But I ignore the opinion of anyone who continues to use "naff" or "tacky" as adjectives in this instance. These are just less direct words to describe that you think these babies are probably "poor" and their parents probably have several kids, don't work and claim benefits....

Oh, don’t all get your hair bows in a twist, it was quite clearly a joke. All babies are lovely squishes. Even the bald potatoes.

As a mum of 2 boys (now young men!) I look longingly at the lovely tutu style skirts and over the top sparkly Lelli Kelly shoes ! I think it’s years of fairly boring boy outfits .

Glad I'm not the only one that don't like them. I have 3 boys and when my eldest was a baby he used to be mistaken for a girl. When I said he was a boy I was told on more than one occasion that he was too pretty to be a boy!

I hate seeing newborn babies dressed in miniature adult clothing. I've seen babies in mini jeans and mini leather jackets, I think it looks horrible. Under six months their mannerisms just don't go with it. From 6 months they are more robust, smiling and looking cuter in jeans and little shirts, etc but think it is horrible on a 2-week old baby. I think newborns are lovely in just little sleepsuits - job done. I'm in the minority though.

@frazzledmomof3

Not bothered but bothered enough to call people judgemental hmmmm

I'm sure some people think some of the stuff I put my child in is shit too, it's fine.

There are some awfully rude people on here. Why not just say they're not to your taste and leave it at that? There's really no need to aggressively slag off the people that do like them.

I personally hate seeing babies in girly pink dresses, but I respect that we all have different preferences without lowering myself to name calling (or classism)

We had two, one gifted and one came with a set. The one from the set didn't look very comfortable once on so it got taken down(after a pic ) . The other one she wore once or twice. Don't see the big deal really.