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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To be absolutely LIVID about this email?

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Lividlavidacoco · 01/12/2021 20:12

‘Hi Livid,

I hope you’re well and your return to work went smoothly? Just to let you know, a few of the mums messaged me after Monday’s session to express discomfort at having a penis in the group environment. They expressed they felt uncomfortable breastfeeding with him in the room and we want the group to always be a safe and inclusive space for breastfeeding mummies. I am a small business so think it’s best that he doesn’t attend again. Sorry for the inconvenience, I’ll refund any sessions you have pre-paid.’

WTAFFFFFF.

Context: I returned to work 2 weeks ago, DH is now a full time stay at home dad to our 8 month old son and he’s loving it. He’s a brilliant father and this will be the set up until DS starts school.

I attended a baby music group with DS since he was 2 months old and he really enjoys it (as much as a little baby enjoys anything!) with other mums. No where in the literature of the group does it refer to mums, everything is ‘baby and parent’ so I assumed him attending the group instead of me would be fine. I told the group leader 3 weeks ago that DH would be bringing DS from now on and she was totally fine about it.

There are only 3 groups for babies in our small town and I attended all of them: a breastfeeding group, a ‘mums and babies’ coffee morning and then the baby music group. Obviously DH can’t attend breastfeeding or the coffee morning so this was the only one he could do Sad

WIBU to fire back an email asking firstly why she feels the need to refer to my husband by his genitals and secondly, where in the group descriptions anywhere Eddie’s it says it’s a mums only group??

AIBU here???

OP posts:
whynotwhatknot · 04/12/2021 11:18

Glad its sorted but the leader still overreacted and didnt really apologise for referring to your dh as a penis did she

she should have looked into the complaint before firing off a stupid email

hope dh and ds enjoy their group now

user1481840227 · 04/12/2021 17:56

@LolaSmiles

user1481840227

Listening to Bitchy mummy complaining about not wanting to invite OP's husband for coffee in a WhatsApp group is different to agreeing with making up a false complaint to get another parent removed from a parent and child group.

I'd say the other mums were as bad if they were agreeing with making up complaints to try and prevent another parent attending, but don't think them listening to one mum bitch about coffee means they agree with such a nasty complaint.

(Obviously if I've forgotten that they all agreed with making up a complaint then I agree with you Smile)

Sounds like they knew she was trying to get him excluded from the group, she said she was going to contact the leader...even if she didn't tell them she was going to make up a 'better' reason they still knew she was going to contact the leader to try to get him to leave and it doesn't sound like any of them did anything to stop that until this ended up here!

She messaged to say she’d seen this post and put 2 and 2 together because she’d been on another group chat when one of the mums was complaining about DH being at group and said she was going to contact the leader. However, her original outrage at DH’s presence had nothing to do with breastfeeding! She was annoyed because they all go for coffee after and she felt awkward not inviting DH but didn’t want him there confused So, she put this complaint in (in her words) to ‘make the group girls only again’ (alright, motherhoods answer to Nigel Farage hmm)

DrinkFeckArseBrick · 04/12/2021 20:24

I'm so glad it's got sorted,this thread made made me happy, it's nice to see that lots of people are still normal, and also go out of their way to stick up for people being treated like shit.

Fighters of equal baby group rights: I salute you!

Yuledo · 05/12/2021 22:15

Hi, dh supporter. Well done for sticking your neck out rather than ignoring it all.

RogerThatBravoOne · 06/12/2021 21:52

Is anyone else thinking of Motherland? BitchMum is Amanda, DH is obviously Kevin. (I would never leave Kevin out by the way…)

I’m hoping NiceMum will come along to let us know if she’s Liz or Julia. (I’m hoping for Liz)

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