To be slightly obsessive about how much I dislike this woman at my post natal group.

[Sushipaws]

When my lot of mothers moved into the group, we all got on great with the older babies and mummy's. They were a wonderful source of information and we all chatted together. Then about 6 weeks ago the new group moved in with us. Their babies were about 3 months old and even though we welcomed them and tried to talk to them, they all seem to congregate around this one horrible woman.

I despise her.

On that first day her ds was screaming and she was shoving her bongela soaked finger in it's mouth and instructing the other mum's to do so. She talks really loudly about how bf is a chore and woman should give it up early as it holds them back. The other day she was spooning baby rice into her ds's screaming mouth saying he loved it but it was being sprayed everywhere. The other mum's all look to her because she seems so confident but I wanted to grab the baby rice, hold her down and shovel it down her throat.

OMG I know I'm being petty, but she's now started to show up at the other group I go to and at the baby cinema where she talks really loudly and she doesn't even try to soothe her crying baby.

This feels better to have a moan.

I know nothing about cat. And I spend too long on here as it is. Do you think I hav erto be on here for 30 hours a day or something, like some sort of ritual?

ROFL Twig, I love that fact that I get looked at like I have three heads when I have no idea what my precious darling weighs.

Happy and healthy so I don't want HV comments TA very much

i haven't noticed poor threads. But I am not on here 30 hours a day. Am no ritualist

Why are you suspicious about the 'poor' threads?

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cod are you giving "i am poor at Christmas" people the fish eye hun, ehnwhat bout all the wee bubbas

You meet all sorts. The bossiness of some gets worse. Blank out your ears, make your own decisions and feel sorry for her and her wailing child. It takes all sorts and not everyone is compatible. When you mix with a small community its diff to do much about it, without causing yourself problems!

I don;t do any appeal type stuff anyway

The baby does seem happy some of the time and she does play with him. She bounces him on her knee a bit harshly but thats maybe just my opinion.

Yeah, too many poor threads, if your poor, go get a job and stop spending so much time on mn...................ha ha ha only kidding.

Cod are you moaning about sod all? I'm getting straight on that other thread to slag you off.

sushipaws - I think you ned to lose her somewhere.

In a couple of years she's gonna make you feel real bad that your DC is not reading War and Peace when all they should be doing is a bit of messy finger painting.

Sounds like you may have a competitive parent in your midst!

they come in the most UNLIKELY guises. My Bf, who had the most heartwrenchingly awful first few months with her Ds (he nearly died-being so premature) found herself privy to a mum who seemed to think a mild case of infantile excema was worse on the worry stakes.

I mean we all worry we are not perfect and it is natural to worry about your children BUT -stop stressing other people out!

Yeah- there are a lot a freaks out there!

I wonder if Prunie is my sister in law?

You are SOOOO right, i never even considered the competitive parent thing.

I may just try and wind her up, teeeeee heeee heee.

For competitive parents you need a handy set of stock phrases. My favourite is "You must be so proud."

Yeah, wind her up. it will make you feel a lot better!

(Yes, I know that is evil, but . . . )

and it only takes one bad apple . . .

sounds like someone i know
did we all hated bringing up baby, didnt we?
there are people like that [sadly]

lol cornsilk
Well let me see
Do you have an evangelical passion for the Contented Little Baby Book?
Do you refer to how much money you have in practically every conversation you have?
Are you snotty?

literally snotty as in full of mucus?

arf
oh god I can't decide if that would be worse or marginally better
No, snotty as in looking down on
From a low point, I might add [bitch]

What's a baby cinema?

where you go and watch films in a room full of squalling babies
Pruni am I allowed to tell them the story about the baby cinema....

oh yes if you fancy

I have never been to a baby cinema
when I met up with Pruni she made me tell this other woman that we had met at the baby cinema because Pruni didn't want to look like an internet weirdo
then Pruni went off tot get cake and this woman gave me the third degree about the baby cinema
oh what day is it on?
is it the Odeon?
how much is it?
what age can you take?

and I was all oooh, and eeeer, and oh I can't recall.
the woman clearly though I was a complete bumbling fool with a head full of candy floss.
so I gave up and told her the truth, that Pruni and I had in fact met in an S&M dungeon.
still the cake was nice.