To mute my unbearably smug new parent friends (lighthearted)

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Lighthearted but I honestly hope I was never as smug and dreadful as my friends who have just had a baby. It’s a constant stream of parenting memes and parenting advice on social media with endless #blessed posts, 30 baby pics a day and now my friend has told me she can’t relate to people without children as how could anyone understand the bond between a mother and child.

They have become unbearable smug twats - I might have to mute them until they become normal humans again! Why does this happen to usually sane lovely people?!

Aibu?!

Sympathy and solidarity, OP - my friend is currently The First Pregnant Woman in the World. She's sent me messages about her pregnancy every day this week and told me proudly how she was keeping active even though she's pregnant. She's six weeks She also sent me pregnancy facts - I have a preschooler and a baby so pregnancy is neither new or all that old to me! I love her and she's brilliant and I'm so excited for her but this could be such a long nine months...

Oh god. My favourite is the wife of one of DH's friends who posted parenting advice literally from birth. My favourite was how to survive a flight with children. Her little one was eight weeks old at the time. I thought seriously about sending her my threenager and shipping the pair of them off to NZ.

@heidipi the homemade nuggets and all sorts of other home made things, are for DH and I. I’d be fucked to make HM nuggets purely for the toddler to chuck on the floor.

@Hardbackwriter, I’m not sure your friend will have followers by the second trimester.

It's similar to when someone gets a puppy and you never get to finish a conversation without being interrupted with "Who's a lovely boy then, eh ? You are, yes you are, yes you are." before asking what were you saying again.

(of course if it is new parrot they say "Who's a pretty boy then..."

Ah this thread is now reminding me of my DN who as a toddler wasn’t allowed any kind of sugar or sweet stuff, except on very special occasions. Then they found her eating cake out of the bin at grandma’s birthday tea 🤣

@Dragon50 to be fair she's not doing it on social media (yet), and I have tried to remind herself that because it's so early she hasn't told many people yet and so she's sharing all her excitement with me. Hopefully later on when more people know she can indeed put it on social media where I can politely like it rather than having to think of replies to messages sent individually to me ('gosh, really, the size of a sesame seed?! That's very small!')

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Oh god. My favourite is the wife of one of DH's friends who posted parenting advice literally from birth. My favourite was how to survive a flight with children. Her little one was eight weeks old at the time. I thought seriously about sending her my threenager and shipping the pair of them off to NZ.

LOL 'how to survive a flight with children'. Stop.. 😂😂 I went shoe shopping with my 4 year old yesterday, while we were there my two year old had a MAJOR BRAT meltdown in the shop because I wouldn't let him get out of the buggy and run around. I barely survived that never mind a flight 😂😂😂.

I'm at an age where a big portion of my Facebook friends are having babies. I would say 9/10 are not obnoxious with their baby posts, they clearly are just chuffed with their baby and enjoy taking multiple pictures and talking about their baby, fair enough. Though the 1/10 who are obnoxious are insufferable, the memes "you dont know love until you hold your baby", changing their bios to things like "I'm a mother and my kids are my world" (isnt that how most people feel?) the most annoying ones I have seen is people posting a meme which says "when someone without kids say they are tired" with a some sort of hysterical laughter picture. Or the ones that just feel the need to drop the fact they are a mother to everything, such as on swap or sale groups "I'm a mother of 2 children does anyone have a nespresso machine" or "I'm a mum of 3 kids I'm looking for a roofer" or something - I dont get it.

@Hardbackwriter nooo 😂 cringing for her. I actually think when she gets to about 35 weeks she’ll cringe at herself.

My friend did similar.

Today the baby is a poppy seed
Today the baby is a pumpkin seed
Today the baby is a raisin
So on and so on until it got to melon stage, by which point of muted her.

I had a bit of twatness surrounding me with my PFB.

Not as bad as your friends, and not as bad as some I have witnessed but I had a small amount.

It soon left when the toddler stage arose.

1"Theres only one perfect Baby and every mothers got it"as the saying goes! Apart from Doting Mums and Dads, The Grannies are trying for a second place as well! All Look at him /her and what she can do .Much better than any other babe born!

@Hardbackwriter sounds like plenty of gin for the next 9 months!

@Mreggsworth I hate all that bullshit. A friend got upset with me once when I said Rose West probably said ‘I love my kids, I do’.
I’ve posted about this before, but she once told me I didn’t need an oven as much as she did as she had x4 kids .

@heidipi yes re the sugar/treats, that’s very common.

Though mine helpfully prefers eating mud to sweets at the moment…

Yes, getting addicted to social media, and becoming obsessed with having a new baby, and all that this entails. as in broadcasting all and sundry, is truly an odd state of mindset to be in.. It is insanely irritating to ever be in the company of such people..

I just read on the community FB thing, that a village woman here, posted, Hi villagers, good times for me last night, my little baby went straight to sleep in her cot, so gave her Mumma some peace and quiet, to watch Netflix, and my fur baby (cat) was fast asleep on my new sofa... the mind boggles. !!