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To think this is really rude?

36 replies

ExcuseMeDoYouMind · 10/09/2021 04:39

My 7 month old has decided that 4am is an appropriate time to wake up and PLAY.

He also thinks it's appropriate to shout at me because I won't play.

AIBU to think this is really rude?

Also, totally unrelated, but does anyone know which recycling bin babies go in please?

OP posts:
Nsws2015 · 10/09/2021 04:51

Yep with you...my 16 month old has been awake since 1.30, but tired and wanting to sleep, so we cuddled but I apparently didn't cuddle them right as they fidgeted out of my arms and lay across my bed meaning I couldn't lay back down without moving him off my pillow which meant more wriggling round 🤣 finally got him back to sleep at 4am only for him to wake at 4.30 and decide he's up for the day......thankfully he's going to granny's for the day, husband is already under orders to tell granny he needs a nap in his cot otherwise he is going to be crabby!

Oh and he's now doing the actions for wind a bobbin up at me....how can I be grumpy when he's being cute 🙄🤣😍

Bearsinmotion · 10/09/2021 05:00

I can’t sleep due to insomnia and I miss the baby days. Please send him here instead of recycling (as long as you collect him before the kids wake up)!

twinningatlife · 10/09/2021 05:19

Yup both my 7 month old twins are awake shouting at me, shouting at each other and now the cat has got involved - he is squeaking at the twins and they are shouting and laughing at him
Meanwhile I'm here with my head buried under my pillow hoping to get 45 mins of sleep in before my real alarm goes off at 6am 🤣😬

Pollypudding · 10/09/2021 05:25

My 573 month old husband decided to get up at 4am and watch American Football! He has now got back to sleep and I am wide awake 😉
I miss the baby days too @Bearsinmotion and impressed you are able to keep your sense of humour in the middle of the night @ExcuseMeDoYouMind and @Nsws2015. Flowers

UnsuitableHat · 10/09/2021 05:28

Very rude. LTB.

Bluetrews25 · 10/09/2021 05:31

I think they go in the green bin, for organic waste.

Hope you can catch up at some point, OP. Brew Cake

Pinklioness · 10/09/2021 05:41

Babies are just very immature. They really need to get a grip.

YANBU

HocusPocuss · 10/09/2021 05:44

@Pollypudding

My 573 month old husband decided to get up at 4am and watch American Football! He has now got back to sleep and I am wide awake 😉 I miss the baby days too *@Bearsinmotion and impressed you are able to keep your sense of humour in the middle of the night @ExcuseMeDoYouMind and @Nsws2015*. Flowers
573 months 😂
CoolNoMore · 10/09/2021 05:54

My 14 month old has been up for about an hour and the only thing he wants to do is eat his big brother's baby monitor and dig his toenails into my leg. So rude.

I've had a look at our recycling bin and it seems to have a pyjama top, several cars and a 'That's Not My...' book. No babies in there, but give it a minute and he'll be in there too...

Travelledtheworld · 10/09/2021 05:56

@Pollypudding are you having an affair with my husband because that's what he's doing. Sport all sodding night.

TheSquashyHatOfMrGnosspelius · 10/09/2021 06:21

LTB

Leave The Baby Grin

Standrewsschool · 10/09/2021 06:23

@TheSquashyHatOfMrGnosspelius

LTB

Leave The Baby Grin

Love it!
Pollypudding · 10/09/2021 06:24

[quote Travelledtheworld]@Pollypudding are you having an affair with my husband because that's what he's doing. Sport all sodding night.[/quote]
🤣🤣🤣

Ljc1985 · 10/09/2021 06:32

My 14 month old was rude enough to think 5.15 was an appropriate start to our day!

Let me know when you work out which bin 😂

MonkeyPuddle · 10/09/2021 06:38

My 10 month old is currently having her first nap of the day. I am less than impressed.

ChampionOfTheSun · 10/09/2021 06:42

We've been up since 5am also, 19mo DD is not usually such an early riser but it is also swelteringly hot in our room so I gratefully brought her downstairs where it's much cooler!

Fromage · 10/09/2021 06:42

Your baby is very rude.

Or is he secretly from, for example, Qatar, where it is 7am?

Perhaps you could go back to the delivery centre and check you weren't fobbed off with a baby with some sort of dodgy body clock.

It's terribly poor behaviour but hopefully he can correct himself - most do by their early teens when an earthquake won't bloody wake them and the delivery centre has lost interest because by then they are out of warranty.

I wish you luck with your new 8pm bedtime.

Minesril · 10/09/2021 07:08

We're trying to night wean the 17 month old because quite frankly it's ridiculous he still wakes up for milk. The first few nights were a nightmare of him pulling at my top which I thought was a bit rude. Last night was a lot better (grudgingly had water instead) and now he's fast asleep just as I need to get him and his brother ready...

Nsws2015 · 10/09/2021 08:36

I think I've gone past the tired stage now I've made the older kids packed lunches and had some brekkie and a cuppa....can't seem to switch off! The little terror gave me the cutest smile as he left with daddy to go to granny's for the day and is apparently currently too busy playing to have a nap! He can nap when he wants tbh so long as it's not after 3 or in the car on the way home!

It's a good job he's at granny's or he would be in the bin today, and I wouldn't be fussed which 🤣🤣...playing with his bloody baby einstein activity table at 5.30am and setting off the music was not music to my ears at that time of day!

Igmum · 10/09/2021 08:47

Clearly you have a faulty one OP, but it should be still within the guarantee period. My teenage model apparently now cannot function unless in a darkened room and either asleep or plugged in to some tech. I fear this is a problem of age and that it is out of warranty

AbandonedCharacter · 10/09/2021 08:49

I'm appalled by the jokes about recycling bins.

Put your baby on Etsy as a hand-made item instead!

MrsEricBana · 10/09/2021 08:52

Babies are rude. Fact. Then 18 or 19 years later, when you love them more than life itself they leave for uni and say "Bye Mum, love you" and your heart breaks into a million pieces. Just rude. (Enjoy ever single second OP Flowers)

SoupDragon · 10/09/2021 08:53

I once took DD to be weighed at the baby clinic purely to work out how much postage would be to send her to someone else.

Needless to say she's still here 15 years later.

rockyIV · 10/09/2021 08:57

I love this thread.

Last night my 4mo DD, 3yo DD and 40yo DH took it in turns to wake me up with their crying, sleeptalking or coughing.

Do you still need to book appointments at the skip?

MrsEricBana · 10/09/2021 09:09

Dogs are never rude. Do you still have the receipt? If yes I suggest an exchange.