is it just me or is it REALLY annoying that when your baby cries everyone says they are hungry!!!!!

[honey2theb]

i get it all the time. when i say no, shes just been fed i get ' are you sure' grrrr!! no im bloody starving her!

also get annoyed when shes crying from too many people fussing over her ( my dads house is very loud!) and they are in her face saying 'whats wrong baby'and ' here give her to me' and they dont believe she hates it!! ' oh its good for her to be around noise' yeah right!
ffs she lives with 3 dogs and a parrot so shes used to noise!!!

ooohhh yes.

Had a situation with MIL, would not leave the kids alone. In fact if she could pick up 3 or 4 and dance a jig round the room she would. One time, poor DD had been kept awake all day, must have been 6 or 7 months old. Crying, really miserable. I took DD off MIL and went off to find somewhere quiet for her. Bloody woman was following, calling and clapping her hands. She had 3 children herself, regularly looks after her grandsons. I expected her to have a clue. But only this week I had to remind her not to play in the road

I feel your pain!

I had this when I took dd to visit dh's family in bangladesh. Every time she even squeeked three to five woman would jump, grab the baby (she was 6 months) and try to make her be quiet. I was breastfeeding so they were convinced she was hungry too. Was a very hard 4 weeks! My sympathy...

oh yes yes! me too! another one certain to rile me is the assumption that they are teething..... the slightest sniffle, runny poo, red cheek, irritability..."oh, he's obviously teething. . if my ds waere teething every time someone said he was, he would have more teeth than a great white shark and I would be loaded because he would be in the Guiness Book of Records!

Yes yes yes!!! Was going to post this too!

I don't mind so much the 'Are they hungry?' questions (asked in a conversational way rather than the presumption you don't know).

Its more the 'They're hungry' statements usually from ladies with a blue rinse who you've never met who nod knowingly at each other and then say stuff like 'there there baby' while tickling them under the chin.

Er - NO - he's NOT hungry he's bloody knackered and you've just made it worse by stimulating him some more!

What is it about these people that makes them think they have a better idea about what your baby wants after listening to them cry for 5 seconds than you do after living with them constantly for several weeks!?!

Sorry - rant over!

Oh I used to get "It's wind" - suddenly my parents would start speaking Scots and go "Look, he's grippin', he's grippin'" and never once did anyone take him and try to settle him, or tell me what they used to do to wind a baby, they just carried on, repetitively chanting "It's wind, he's grippin'" until one day I lost it.
It wasn't wind, it was just baby stuff.

lol, glad its not just me

used to irritate the fark out of me when my mother, dp and everyone else on earth, everytime one fo the babies cried would declare 'hes hungry' which translates as 'YOU deal with him, coz youre bf'ing and i cant obv.'

NO hes not ALWAYS hungry, and even if he is right now, is it too much to ask that one of you take him off me and giv me 5 minutes peace for once???

I totally sympathise.

2 occasions I can remember once at the health clinic when we had to wait so long for Ds to be weighed that it had crossed into his nap time and he was tired. On leaving one of the HV said to me "he's hungry" in a sharp tone. Annoyed me that she was so presumptuous and felt that she was criticising me.

Second occasion when my Ds sleep pattern was messed up and my Grandma was staying. Ds was crying out of tiredness and my nan said hes hungry I said that he wasnt and she stormed off. I was like wtf.

Why does everyone think they know when they clearly dont.

My DD is normally crying out of tiredness - not hunger - do these well meaning strangers think we're starving our babies

whats worse is people asking you, when you are holding a crying baby 'whats up with him?'

er, i dunno. if i knew what would make him happy instantly, id do it, wouldnt i? hes a few months old, what should i do, utilise my psychic powers??'

i mean, if im holding the child, and ive obviously tried all the obvious things, or am about to... what bloody good is it asking me?

Everyone knows better than you about your own baby. They are no-where in sight at 3am though when the baby starts crying

Don't forget 'it's wind'. That was my mil's answer to all the problems in the world at one stage. Even my dd'd first smile was 'wind' according to her.

HUngry?!

Wish that was what everyone had said to me!
All Mad MIL ever said was:
'He WANTS you to pick him up. That's it. He is not hungry or lonely or anything like that, just vindictive and trying to play you. You will spoil him in the end'

Twat.

Bastards!
Sympathising. Trying to help.
Fuckers

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and when you show even the slightest bit of stress they say "don't get uptight or you'll pass it on to the baby"

FFS, I used to want to say you are pissing me off, not the baby.

here's to our pre christmas rant. Cheers!

oh god yes am going to suffer this all Boxing day at my inlaws. Even when my DS is obviously knackered and just needs some quiet time with his mummy and daddy he gets taken off us and passed around aaaarrrgggghhh,

and breathe.

The doctor conducting DS1's 6 week check told the "visitor" in the room that he couldn't finish all the tests because the baby was hungry.

He wasn't hungry. He was fed up and miserable because the doctor had done every test twice to demonstrate to the visitor (who hadn't even been introduced to me-to this day I've no idea who she was or what she was there for)

(I complained about him to the FPC )

We had this, DS was going through a grizzly phase. DH mentioned he (DS) had been crying a lot that day on the phone to his Dad, who said 'Have you tried feeding him?'

Er, no, didn't think of that, thanks for reminding us...

my fav was always 'can't you stop him crying?'

Yeah but I like the noise

I get this all the time too - and I also get the "give her to me, she'll stop crying for me"....

My DD isn't always hungry! I may be a first-time mum, and she may only be 8.5 weeks old, but even I've managed to figure that one out!

honey2theb you have my sympathies...

This thread is hilarious....

At my mum's I get...

'You're crying because you missed your nan'
'you're crying because your nan isn't talking to you'
'you're crying because your nan moved to the other sofa'

etc
etc

Or ' tell me what mummy did, I'll tell her off for you....'

AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I sooo hate that one. "Who did it to you? Who did it? I'll get them, who did it?"

Did WHAT you insane old trout?

at my in laws - it always

check her nappy check her nappy

Honestly.