As I was carrying DD around in a sling yesterday...

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...an older gentleman stopped me and exclaimed:

"That's love! That's love! Oh, it's so good for the bonding, she is going to love you so much, she's going to be your best mate!"

How lovely!

Aaaah thats soo lovely ! I usually only get told that my back must hurt.

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What?! Some people are so fricking ignorant!

Another man cooed over DD and was telling me how he carried all of his children around too. I think you are right about forgetting they are fathers!

That's such a lovely comment

I have ds2 in a sling, under a babywearing coat (and ds1 either walking or in pushchair). Am always getting comments, usually 'Oh! There's another one in there!' (pointing at coat) .

One woman said how lovely it was that I was carrying him in sling and then, I kid you not, said 'that's one thing we've learned from the [racist N-word, or its German equivalent]' .

Bump I think I'd have burst into tears

lol at kangaroo

When my DC were tiny, whenever DH went out, he'd put them in the sling - sooo many women cooing over him, he loved it

I'd just get backache

I was stopped by a gang of young-ish boys when DD was tiny and hidden in a ring sling. When they found out there was a baby asleep in the 'bag' they thought it was really cool. (Or maybe that's why our area has such a high teenage pregnancy rate -- people like babies! )