Hungover Friends vs Toddler

[HeatherRuss]

A few of my friends arranged to go out for lunch today and because they 'hadn't seen LO in ages' they asked me to bring her. One of my friends is TTC but the other three are not intentending to start a family anytime soon. Anyywayy we went to wetherspoons which is all fine and one of my friends turns up in the previous nights clothes, hair a state and make up smeared across her face. During lunch she goes to the toilet twice to vomit and only talks about how hungover she is and how wasted she was the previous night. She and another friend manage to polish off 3 bottles of wine between them during lunch.

I totally wouldn't normally have a problem with this but she insisted I bring DD and I dont think this is really good behaviour to be showing her, even though she is only 10months. Had I known I would have simply not come!

Am I being totally ott?

my kids are used to seeing me doing this, so they wouldnt bat an eyelid seeing anyone else do it.. yabu

As long as she didn't vom on your DD or give her any wine, nothing to worry about.

I think it would have made me cringe a bit personally on vomiting and necking wine, but at 10 months the baby wouldn't have known or understood. So maybe a bit PFB?

I think you're being a little bit unreasonable but I know where you're coming from on your initial thoughts.

Agree with Compo though

YABU as baby will be oblivious to this but OMG, am I old fashioned or does your friend have a serious binge drinking problem?

Oh I think the OP will be back this morning to tell us her 8mo broke into the drinks cupboard last night. Nothing like a bad role model.

Reminds me of my brother and his firstborn. We were staying at our parents, who were also visited by my elderly and rather frail ILs. As my brother, my SIL and the baby were sleeping upstairs, my Mum suggested that maybe they could do the first nappy change of the day up there, rather than trundling down the stairs and waking the guests up. Cue: brother going off into major strop about how his daughter wouldn't feel they loved her or that this was really her home. He was nearly in tears over it and there was no way you could convince him that this was actually about his feelings because the baby wouldn't know or care either way. His baby and he were one: hence anything that upset him must be an insult to his baby.

I have never had the heart to remind him of this when he has made fun of other precious parents.

I'm just in awe that your friend could drink so much wine with such a bad hangover!

its the microwaved food! but have to say the ones in London are partucularly vile

and Annabel Karmel has helped devise their kids menu!!!!! hate her