To want to tell the loud, simpering mother in the post office queue to keep it down?

[Nicdigby]

OK, now I accept that we all talk nonsense to our babies, even in public, especially when they do funny things, BUT this woman today in the post office was REALLY loud, REALLY simpering, and was doing the whole "oooooh aren't you a gorgeous laughing boy, Mummy loves you when you're that....doesn't she? oooooh, she does, she does, yes, Mummy's talking all about you.....oh you're smiling, oh Mummy loves that, ooooooo, yes you are, Mummy loves you...." Non stop.

And she was doing it so loudly and so smugly that I just wanted to tell her to shut up. The poor baby was only a few months old and was probably wanting her to shut up too!

I mean, really, the whole post office queue could hear her and she had this simpering look on her face that I just wanted to say "oh, PLEASE, get a life you sad cow".

God I am getting so intolerant these days. AIBU or do you agree that sometimes other mums' simpering is way over the top?

Other mums' simpering can be over the top but what the hell. All good, loving stuff. Get over it.

Perhaps she's a bit deaf?

deaf or just inconsdierate to everyone else?

or maybe, like me, she is crap at interacting with a young baby due to self-consciousness and is trying to get herself over it?

(i briefly thought of claiming to be her, just to freak you out, but decided against it [saint] )

steady now

I feel like this when people on the train read to their dcs in a condescending and LOUD way

"so Peter Rabbit broke through the fence"
ooh isn't he a naughty waughtly ickle wickle bunny, didn't his mummy wummy tell him not to??

etc
usually to a bored looking 8yo IME

God, imagine a mum simpering over her own child? YABU. What would you rather she did? Any other country apart from the UK this would be considered normal.

Oh so WHAT!! A mother showing that she loves her baby in public is surely a good thing?

Maybe you need to get a life

I know it's normal behaviour! It was just so over the top and loud. I wanted to slap the woman. Maybe it's my pregnancy hormones.

or maybe I am just being unreasonable

yabu
how dare she be nice to her child

why do some mothers speak in a strange baby language of made up words? surely if they expect their dc to learn english they must actual speak that language to them.

Let them coo away, but what gets up my arse is when they are looking to see if anyone else wants to gush at their sprog.

YABU, don't be such a misery guts

would you prefer she was shpouting abuse at the baby?

Aw frosty, be nice......

Better a simpering, loving Mummy than one effing & blinding and threatening a belting to a small child...

Elmoandella - isn't it called Motherese? It's an instinctive way mothers talk to their babies in a singsong voice with exaggerated emphasis that is the first step to learning about language as communication. I think.

blimey frostthesnowman, maybe it's you who's being unreasonable with that sort of over the top response? I wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of you in a bad mood.

ah, that is a nice thing to witness.

far FAR better telling their child to fuck off or similar!

TBH more bothered when they are swearing and slapping in public than being loving. And yes I ahve seen that in my post office!!!!!

this is true, adventcandlequeen, a point well made.

oooh shouting and spouting!

i just spoke in normal english? softer tone and kinda singsongy when i'm along i suppose. but a cup is a cup. not a "cuppy wuppy"

if that makes sense?