Crying baby

[Helen12aZ1]

When your baby is really crying does anyone experience people just taking the baby off you so you can have 'a break' even if you didn't want one you just wanted to soothe your baby?
Or when someone has your baby a normal person would give the baby straight back to the mother but they just walk off thinking they can soothe the baby themselves when more then likely the baby just wants his mother?
Sorry to rant , this happens to me so much and just causes anxiety when other people has cuddles with my baby.

I think anyone would have struggled to take my first off me if I didn't want them to 😂 - do you not feel able to say "I think she needs me at the moment" and keep hold of her?

If I'm cuddling a friend's baby and it starts crying, I tend to say something like "Shall I take him for a wander or do you think he needs you?"

I've had this discussion with friends a few times and mostly they've said they appreciate it when people don't immediately hand their babies back when they stop being quiet and calm; so is it possible that others just don't know you'd prefer to have yours back...?

If I was holding a baby who began to cry, I would try and soothe them too. If it didn’t work, I would give them back to their mum, but I would try myself first.

I would also offer to “have a go” at settling a baby who was really crying as sometimes it helps to have another method.

If you don’t want people to try, tell them no. But people, especially the baby’s family will want a cuddle from their newest family member.

I agree with the posters above but I do find it annoying when people do this with my baby, asking and taking the baby when the Mum says yes is fine but just taking them without asking is not. Same goes for wandering off with them, I’d check if the Mum wanted their baby back if it was crying.

Happened to me for the first time yesterday. Baby was being pushed in the pram by a relative, she was getting further away and baby was crying (real tears, which she doesn't do often) , but she kept on going and I had to rush to try and catch up with them. I didn't like it, and I think she was crying because she is not very used to other people, which I do want to rectify, but not like that. I think said relative wants to be helpful and feels like she should be able to settle baby, but the truth is she just doesn't see her often enough to really understand her cues or know how to settle her.

Id of been delighted if someone wanted to try soothe my crying baby when she was a baby