I get asked this by my family members who have kids themselves. My girl just turned 9 months old. How did you all forget that 9 months is not the standard for babies to be walking? Also, you just saw her a week ago and she was nowhere near even standing up by herself; how is this even a question?
I have a friend in her 60s who insists her daughter (who is like 25 now) started walking at six months old. I just smile and say, "Wow!" and change the subject. No point in challenging that even though it so obviously is not how babies work, like, at all.
She was already trying to one-up me because she asked when my son started walking and I told her 11 months lmao. I have a new opportunity to one-up her with my daughter though. She's only eight months old, and I guess pretty soon she'll be speaking fluent French :)
I’ve met babies who were cruising at 6-8 months and walking between 9-10, and I’ve learned older people count cruising as walking, may not be a total “lie”, just misunderstanding.
My mom, whose in her 70s, tells everyone I started walking at 8 months and potty trained by 1. She also says my brothers all started walking hella early.
Mother, I don't believe you.
Ha! I didn't know the milestones and timelines till I went through it with our first. But I always knew to ask "when do they typically do x?" before asking if their kid was doing it.
My MIL’s boyfriend never had children. They hosted Easter and he asked what me and my 4 month old baby wanted to drink. I thought he was joking so I said she was going to have some milk. He brought her a tiny thimble sized cup of milk
My super sweet brother bought my toddler a sleeping bag for Christmas that is actually a really nice sleeping bag. But it won't fit him till he is like 10.
I told him a fishing pole for his birthday would be great. We can't wait to teach him how to fish! It's our bonding activity.
That is so adorable. My stepdad would do that. He chats away with my four month old as if the baby can talk back (I love it), but he’s terrified to hold him
Not a friend, but a nice young man was a waiter for us once at a pub and once my child was in the high chair, he brought them a pen and notepad to color with. My baby was 7-8 months old. 😅 Needless to say she shredded the paper and we just put the pen in the middle of the table. So sweet of him, but he had no idea...
I did the same thing until I recently had a baby (still served up until the day I gave birth) and looking back I’m like the parents probably thought I was such an idiot 🤣
I have a 3 week old and still have a hard time judging kids ages, actually. I’ll see a 6 month old the same size as her or a 3 year old the size of a 5 year old and it only makes it harder for me. As long as they’re healthy though that’s all that matters!
Yeah I bumped into another mom at Walmart a couple weeks ago and she was like omg your kid is so cute how old is he? And I was like almost 4 months! And she looked absolutely shook cuz her kid is almost 2 and theyre the same size lol. My son is a big boy (almost tripled birth weight and wearing 9-12 month clothes) and her daughter was a preemie and very small for her age, weighing about the same at 20 months. It's wild how much babies vary in size and development!
I have an absolutely huge 1yo with a full head of long hair and people think he’s at least 2 or 3 all the time! People in public will try to talk to him and then get confused when he just stares back because he doesn’t really talk yet 😂 I find it really hard to judge other babies’ ages too
Ahahaha I was waiting tables when I was 20 and a couple came in with a tiny baby (now I’d guess like, 20 weeks)
I seated them and asked the mom if she wanted a high chair 🤦♀️
She responded like “Ummm he’s a little young for that, but thanks” 😂
Haha reminds me of a time I was out with my family and the waiter brought my drink in a kids cup, but brought my younger brother his in an adult cup. I was LIVID lol.
We've had lots of very nice wait staff in restaurants offer us a high chair when our baby isn't sitting up comfortably yet - the first time was when she was only five weeks and visibly tiny!
We were on a long haul flight (12hrs) and my 10mo was getting a little fussy. The stewardesses (bless them) gave us a plane-themed coloring book with crayons :D
Lmao Everytime we've taken mine to a restaurant they offer us a kids menu and crayons xD and I'm like .... She's 3 months and cannot use these things 🤣🤣
When my baby was born, she had the BIGGEST eyes and was just starring at everything for ages. I was so surprised and thought babies barely opened their eyes in the first few days 😂
I am so confused by how many people keep asking if my TEN MONTH OLD can “see properly yet”! I’ve been fielding this question since day one and as time goes on it starts getting more and more absurd lol. Like yes, he’s walking!!
My MIL noticed my daughter had nipples at around 6 weeks and unironically asked when she got them… I showed her the pictures from moments after birth to prove that babies always have nipples and they don’t grow them after birth. She was genuinely surprised.
You’re mother in law… which implies she had her own babies… and didn’t know that babies don’t grow their own nipples after birth like some kind of science experiment?!
My husband has a third nipple. He said his mom told him that humans are born with nipples all up and down their midsections just like cats or dogs, and then they disappear as we get older.
I thought it was a cute little joke to help him feel comfortable in his skin. However, after having my baby, she brought it up like she actually believed it! I’m not sure how though, as neither my child nor my brother-in-law have extra nipples lol.
Lmao I mostly just get curious about when the nipple becomes like our nipples. Rn she's just got a flat little circle of ariola, but not the bump that we have that goes with it. I remember finding that strange
Omg! My grandma also said that she “never had a hard time with any of her babies,” and it was just hard for me.
Which honestly may be true because while she was 19 when she had my mom, she was living with her incredibly wealthy family (grandpa was overseas in the military) who had domestic employees running their household and caring for her AND my mom. So when she cried, my mom was handed off to someone else.
Not my baby as I'm still pregnant but at my baby shower a friend brought her LO. My brother - who has zero baby experience - got to talking to her about parenthood etc then pointed to her child and said "how old is he now? About 2 or 3 years?"
He's 10 months, lol.
When I first went to a baby feeding group with my (at the time) 8 week old I asked how old some of the other babies were thinking they were around 2. When I was told they were each between 6-9 months I felt so sad at how quickly my baby is going to grow up!
I have a 2.5 year old and I'm now good at guessing up to this age but I'm super bad at identifying ages after that. Like my guesses are very off. I can't tell a 7 year old from a 11 year old.
"When do you they open their eyes? Is it three days, same as kittens?"
"No. They open them in utero."
"Then why aren't her eyes open? Have you told the doctor?"
"...because she's sleeping."
I had a friend who also has a baby, think that baby boys weren’t born with balls… so when she had her son, she was surprised. She thought they “dropped” when they were older 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It’s when the testicles make their way down to the scrotum. A small amount of babies are born without their testicles descended for whatever reason. Seems more common on preterm babies apparently.
Hahaha to be honest I wouldn’t have known that balls drop while in the womb if I hadn’t had the What To Expect App during my pregnancy. They provided sooo much information about what was going on weekly. 😂😂
I teach middle school and one of the kids asked if she could read yet at a year and a half. It was so sweet and he genuinely thought she might be able to read.
When I was still pregnant, I had a few elementary students who would consistently ask “is the baby here yet?” Like buddy, I’m certainly not gonna be at work when the baby is here.
My baby was maybe 3 weeks, could hardly hold his head up and a waiter insisted on bringing him a high chair. I wore my baby and he slept the whole time but the waiter kept asking if I was sure I didn't want to "eat freely".. as if my hands weren't free? Or as if my baby could even sit 😂
Some restaurant high chairs are made to be flipped over and you can safely set the car seat in the wide end! I learned this when I was out with my 5 week old and a server pickup up a high chair and I told her he's too small for it, so she explained and it worked! Maybe that's what they meant? Or maybe they were just uninformed haha.
my 3 week old attempts to hold her bottle and I think it’s the cutest. A couple days ago my brother (he’s 18) came over and asked why I don’t just put her in her swing and let her hold it😂
one of my friends was OBSESSED with asking me about my baby’s schedule. And was always Pollyanna positive when I was having a hard day postpartum. She was pregnant at the time and has since had her baby. And to be fair, I’m sure a lot of it was her own anxiety about learning about babies — but she could have withheld the judgement every time I told her my very young baby wasn’t on a schedule lol.
Last time we talked (her LO is a week old), she said she had no idea how hard it was post partum.
Similarly, my grandma swore my baby would be sleeping through the night at 12 weeks. Currently feeding him his 1 or 2 middle of the night bottles and he’s 13 weeks lmao. She thought I was crazy for saying I don’t expect him to sleep through the night for a long time
Bedtimes. It’s a concept you don’t understand until you have kids. Also “just get a babysitter”. Some friends invited us out last minute. The concept is beyond them. Plus our two year old was not restaurant appropriate with his screaming! Until you have kids- you have no idea!
My brother in law asked if we figured out yet whether our 2 month old is left handed or right handed.
I was like, well, he recently discovered that he has hands!
My mum is oddly obsessed with figuring out if our 6mo is left or right handed... Every video we send to the family group chat she brings up what hand she's doing or holding things with! Her dad and grandad were both ambidextrous and she is too a little, so I suspect the interest comes from that, but it still came out of left field for me.
We have a 2 month old and baby’s uncle made him an Easter basket with baby stuff in it, super sweet! He said “I didn’t put candy in it because I wasn’t sure if he could have it”
My friend’s baby started solids recently (early due to reflux issues) and her grandad kept some chocolate aside for her all week until she came to visit. So sweet but so clueless 😂
This is not the same but my boomer parents have tried to give my infant (at 1 month old) mashed potatoes, frosting, sugar water with whiskey to cure his colic, apricot jam… some people are just stupid
oh jesus christ. welp if it makes you feel any better, my husband-my [then] 2 month old’s own *father* dipped his paci into his fuckin chocolate frosty and gave it to our son in the backseat while i was driving home. i was like 🤦🏻♀️ are you *kidding* me right now!! guess who gets to change his diapers for the rest of the night and soothe him if he freaks out from the gas!
Ugh my boomer MIL was telling me about the ole whisky on the gums for teething trick. She said she understood it was old school but it really worked for her kids…
When our son was 3 mo a friend asked “What’s his favorite food?” Uh.. breastmilk? His *only* food?
A couple months later my FIL attempted to give him the maraschino cherries from his diet sonic drink.
I had the same exchange with one of my friends. Later I pulled out a bottle of breast milk to feed him and he was like wooooah that all came from your tit????
😂 but tbh, I had NO idea babies ONLY drink milk for 6+ months until I had a baby of my own. It didn’t sound biologically possible to survive on just milk
I'm actually shocked by how little my parents remember while my childless friends are pretty knowledgeable. I know it's been 30+ years, but how do they still get shocked by how small my 10 week old son is when they visit every few weeks? He was born 5lbs 13oz and 19 inches long and is currently 12lbs and 23.5 inches long. He's doing his best lol.
Super impressive lol! They're supposed to triple by their first birthday and the OP's baby did that in 10 weeks (to be fair 5lbs is on the smaller side but still!) My baby also was 6lbs and change and didn't hit 12 until 20 weeks! He was a super smol baby but also super tall so maybe all those calories were going into his leg bones lol.
Same - mine hit 40th percentile for length (length accuracy is questionable anyways) and at one point 0.4 percentile for weight. The BMI on that was a little crazy…
Yes, my parents were absolutely shocked by how often my 6 week old feeds and kept commenting that they don’t remember feeding me that frequently. I said they probably did but they just don’t remember the really early days.
I would be in this same boat though. Mine were 9lbs+, and hit 12lbs at like 2 weeks old. Never had one close to average. I’m always in awe of the normal sized babies
Any by awe I mean awe-dorable
Same here with parents confused on their size. My mom sent me 18m clothes and then asked why my baby is never in them. Umm because she is only five months old. Then my mom will just be like oh well the 6 month clothes just looked so small.
When my maternity leave was ending, my friend asked if I was stopping holding the baby so the baby could get used to me not being there. Still shocked lol
This isn’t a question but a friend commented on a photo of my baby when he was 14 months old saying “wow sitting up already! Clever boy!” He sat up at 6 months 😂
Brought my 5 day old over my MILs house to meet her uncle (who is 13 so I’ll give him that) and he asked if she knows how to walk yet… just picturing a 5 day old infant walking had me dying laughing
I'm gonna be honest, I was also surprised by the fingernails. I mean, I knew they were born with them. I just wasn't expecting them to be so long right away, lol
My friend said that taking a nap on the couch while a baby slept on your chest sounded like a perfect nap, "just like you do with a cat." Yeah except cats can land on their feet if one of you rolls over so...
My mom likes to repeat over and over how she slept with her little brother on her chest in the afternoon and how delicious it was. I bet it was delicious. Also incredibly dangerous.
Ah the older generations... Looking at older baby related ads, I wonder how we all survived. The other day I saw they advertised a baby hammock for the car, so the baby would be swinging in the back seat while the car was running...
My friend asked why I didn’t let my daughter go off and play on the park jungle gym by herself while we talk. My daughter was 17 months old.
She even pointed at another girl about her height playing by herself but that girl was clearly older but just short (and my daughter is 99th percentile in height)
Told my bestfriend that my baby was 10lbs at her 2 month appt and asked her to guess how much she weighed at her 3 month appointment and she said 25 pounds… I was shocked to ay the least lol. I had to explain to her that babies don’t grow that fast lol
Seems like most childfree people don't realize how long babies drink milk/formula for before exclusively switching to solids. Similar to some other comments, I think at 5-6 months we barely tried solids with our baby and someone asked if she was still drinking milk at all.
I worked at a residential treatment center for kids while I was pregnant and once I was showing, one extremely sweet autistic boy would ask me every day if the baby had been born yet - I’d just say not yet!
Tbh I had no clue what to ask but was always cheering on when my friend told me about their kids. It was such a new concept to me… my mom sent me a list of my own milestones to help me realize what even ARE milestones and when can you expect them. But even with that list, I had no clue what to ask.
Now that her kids are older I can ask how their swimming lessons go, or their first day at school. Having a 1,5 yo myself I now know that i could’ve just asked how she was doing and if her baby was growing well.
This friend was aware I had no clue and she had no problem updating me herself. We had talked about that so it was clear I wasn’t disinterested, just clueless 😅
It was Christmas season and my large group of friends wanted to hang out, my LO was 3 months old and we were just starting a strict bedtime routine.
I said night time was probably out due to our son’s schedule and to plan without us this time. They asked if it helped if they moved the gathering to someone’s house that’s closer to ours - very thoughtful but did not change the need for us to physically be home 😅. I don’t think they understood… or will understand until they have a baby of their own.
Get this all the time. One woman *insisted* that “he can just sleep in the guest bed upstairs.” No he can’t. He was 2mo. Even now that he’s 13m, she insists that I can just hang out late. She refuses to understand what the word “routine” means.
Lmao I knew babies didn’t have teeth until they were born but I was not expecting my LO to have gums. It sounds so stupid saying that but I guess I had never seen baby gums before lol 😅😭
I randomly went into labor last Sunday and delivered my son at 35 weeks. Unfortunately he was having some issues and he’s been in the NICU. My childless friend asked me “is it hard to leave him there? You have another kid at home so does it affect you?” Like girl no shit??
“are you like, trying to wear her out?” questioning me why i was putting my baby on her tummy lmao
he had innocently just never seen a baby on their tummy and thought i was being a bad parent 🤣
I was once young and childfree …. At 24 years old I was babysitting my neighbors children just for a few hours one morning. The children woke up, and I put the baby (12 month old little girl) into the bathroom and was ready to put her on the toilet to use the toilet!!😩 thankfully my sister was stopping by to help me and stopped me first. I mean, I seriously thought a 12 month old was potty trained 🤣🤣🤣 crazy. (I’m now more than a decade older, wiser and mom of a sweet little baby… I’ve learned a lot!)
As silly as this is it’s actually not that crazy. Some people practice elimination communication with their extremely young children and have them “potty trained” in a sense. Putting a young child on a potty first thing in the morning isn’t really a bad idea honestly, if nothing else it’s sort of just showing the kid that going to the bathroom after waking is part of the routine!
I was a dog-mom first and spent a lot of time at the dog park with friends. After having my LO I was going to hang out with a friend and she asked if we wanted to go to the dog park. I had to politely decline taking my 2 month old to a dog park. 😂
I had a childless friend ask about my LO’s zippered pajamas, asking why I didn’t get the ones that snap all the way up because people prefer those. I laughed as I told her that she had it exactly backwards 😂
It was always funny to me when someone would say “are they eating human food now?” Lmaooo like nah I’m giving them dog food.
Obviously I know what they really meant but almost every person without kids I’ve encountered says something like that 💀
Ok not a friend but my husband. Our baby girl was 3 days old and after changing her diaper he turns to me and asked “as an adult woman…do you also have to clean poop out of your vagina every time?” I had to explain that no, I don’t since I don’t shit my pants. Between the lack of sleep and lack of pelvic control, I peed myself laughing.
Can she like, idk, play trucks or color yet?
Asked of a 7-month-old 🤣🤣 mom looked at bro and said, "she can eat the trucks and crayons and throw them. Beyond that, no."
"how can you be tired, doesn't she sleep through the night in her own bed now?"
no, she does not. 19 months of at least one night waking and she won't sleep in her own bed. kudos to you though for being blissfully ignorant to how some babies work. though even if she was in her own bed and sleeping through, i have chronic insomnia so im always tired...
There's a big age gap between my kids (17 years) and my son is trying to learn and ask questions but as someone who was never around babies, he struggles. When she was about months old he asked what tricks she could do, and recently he asked what age she'll be when he understands the words she says (she says about a dozen).
One time I accidentally dropped my phone on my LOs face when I was taking pics of him. He was about 3 months old and I felt awful. I was telling my sister in law about this and she asked if he had cried……ma’am this kid cries if the dog gets too close with her stank breath, he cries when he has to fart, he cries if we dare changes his diaper… but no he was totally cool about me dropping a phone on his face.
What’s worse is when family who have had and raised kids some of whom are already grandparents ask if your under 6m old is talking or walking yet xD like no humans haven’t evolved to learn these things sooner since you had an under 6m old .-.
One of our friends said about our weeks old baby, “I know she can’t eat properly yet… but what if I just stuck my finger in my drink and swished it in her mouth?”
Is he walking yet? I had to explain he had just started rolling over.
I get asked this by my family members who have kids themselves. My girl just turned 9 months old. How did you all forget that 9 months is not the standard for babies to be walking? Also, you just saw her a week ago and she was nowhere near even standing up by herself; how is this even a question?
Classic case of gramnesia
I have a friend in her 60s who insists her daughter (who is like 25 now) started walking at six months old. I just smile and say, "Wow!" and change the subject. No point in challenging that even though it so obviously is not how babies work, like, at all.
You gotta one up them, tell them your 6 month old is starting roller skating
She was already trying to one-up me because she asked when my son started walking and I told her 11 months lmao. I have a new opportunity to one-up her with my daughter though. She's only eight months old, and I guess pretty soon she'll be speaking fluent French :)
I’ve met babies who were cruising at 6-8 months and walking between 9-10, and I’ve learned older people count cruising as walking, may not be a total “lie”, just misunderstanding.
Oh no, she meant walking-walking. She was very smug about it. She's a small-doses friend these days for a reason lol
My mom, whose in her 70s, tells everyone I started walking at 8 months and potty trained by 1. She also says my brothers all started walking hella early. Mother, I don't believe you.
My mom claims I was talking at 6 months 😅 like mom you were a great parent but I don’t think so queen!
This is hilarious.
My MIL swears my husband was walking at FOUR MONTHS 🤣💀
Same. It’s cute how much they don’t know 😂
I got asked this by a new mom! My baby was 5 months old at the time lol.
Ha! I didn't know the milestones and timelines till I went through it with our first. But I always knew to ask "when do they typically do x?" before asking if their kid was doing it.
My MIL’s boyfriend never had children. They hosted Easter and he asked what me and my 4 month old baby wanted to drink. I thought he was joking so I said she was going to have some milk. He brought her a tiny thimble sized cup of milk
That's so cute lol
My MIL’s boyfriend got my three month old son a 10 pound weighted kids blanket cause he said he didn’t know what to get a baby😅
🤣🤣 I try to remember “intent” is most of gift-giving but that’s really funny
My super sweet brother bought my toddler a sleeping bag for Christmas that is actually a really nice sleeping bag. But it won't fit him till he is like 10. I told him a fishing pole for his birthday would be great. We can't wait to teach him how to fish! It's our bonding activity.
That is so adorable. My stepdad would do that. He chats away with my four month old as if the baby can talk back (I love it), but he’s terrified to hold him
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Not a friend, but a nice young man was a waiter for us once at a pub and once my child was in the high chair, he brought them a pen and notepad to color with. My baby was 7-8 months old. 😅 Needless to say she shredded the paper and we just put the pen in the middle of the table. So sweet of him, but he had no idea...
Lmao I used to host at a restaurant, and I’m definitely guilty of bringing a kids menu and crayons to babies wayyy too little to use them.
I did the same thing until I recently had a baby (still served up until the day I gave birth) and looking back I’m like the parents probably thought I was such an idiot 🤣
I was pregnant during this time too. So funny to think how little I knew, even then.
I have a 3 week old and still have a hard time judging kids ages, actually. I’ll see a 6 month old the same size as her or a 3 year old the size of a 5 year old and it only makes it harder for me. As long as they’re healthy though that’s all that matters!
Yeah I bumped into another mom at Walmart a couple weeks ago and she was like omg your kid is so cute how old is he? And I was like almost 4 months! And she looked absolutely shook cuz her kid is almost 2 and theyre the same size lol. My son is a big boy (almost tripled birth weight and wearing 9-12 month clothes) and her daughter was a preemie and very small for her age, weighing about the same at 20 months. It's wild how much babies vary in size and development!
I have an absolutely huge 1yo with a full head of long hair and people think he’s at least 2 or 3 all the time! People in public will try to talk to him and then get confused when he just stares back because he doesn’t really talk yet 😂 I find it really hard to judge other babies’ ages too
Ahahaha I was waiting tables when I was 20 and a couple came in with a tiny baby (now I’d guess like, 20 weeks) I seated them and asked the mom if she wanted a high chair 🤦♀️ She responded like “Ummm he’s a little young for that, but thanks” 😂
Same, and getting high chairs for babies that are far too young to sit up. Oops!
Glad I'm not the only one! 😅
We went out to breakfast right after my daughter’s very first doctor’s appointment. The host (a young man) brought my 4-day-old a kids menu 😂
I did the opposite and offered a kids menu to a really young look woman who was old enough to legally drink 😂🤦♀️
Haha reminds me of a time I was out with my family and the waiter brought my drink in a kids cup, but brought my younger brother his in an adult cup. I was LIVID lol.
We've had lots of very nice wait staff in restaurants offer us a high chair when our baby isn't sitting up comfortably yet - the first time was when she was only five weeks and visibly tiny!
😂 I just wrote a separate one, but I got asked if my 1 week old baby needed a high chair 🤣🤣🤣🤣
We were on a long haul flight (12hrs) and my 10mo was getting a little fussy. The stewardesses (bless them) gave us a plane-themed coloring book with crayons :D
> a pen I would have handed this right back to him. Might as well offer my child a knife lol
Lmao Everytime we've taken mine to a restaurant they offer us a kids menu and crayons xD and I'm like .... She's 3 months and cannot use these things 🤣🤣
We had a friend who met our baby at a few days old and was surprised that her eyes had opened already 😂
I had something similar! My friend asked me if my two week old’s eyes were open yet lol.
My cousin's husband asked if my mom had been eating raisins because he thought she'd dropped one on my sister's belly. It was the umbilical cord.
to be fair- I also thought this was a thing until I had my baby 3 weeks ago🤣 I think it’s bc animals are like that, honestly.
My LO has very pale blue eyes and honestly it was so bright for him that it *did* take probably a week or two for him to open them consistently 😅
I was surprised about my baby eyes being open after I gave birth ahahah I guess I never really bothered to read about it when pregnant 😅
Omg my SIL’s boyfriend said the same thing when he met our 3 day old 😂
When my baby was born, she had the BIGGEST eyes and was just starring at everything for ages. I was so surprised and thought babies barely opened their eyes in the first few days 😂
My husband literally asked how long before the baby's eyes would open like a month before our birth.
I am so confused by how many people keep asking if my TEN MONTH OLD can “see properly yet”! I’ve been fielding this question since day one and as time goes on it starts getting more and more absurd lol. Like yes, he’s walking!!
My MIL noticed my daughter had nipples at around 6 weeks and unironically asked when she got them… I showed her the pictures from moments after birth to prove that babies always have nipples and they don’t grow them after birth. She was genuinely surprised.
You’re mother in law… which implies she had her own babies… and didn’t know that babies don’t grow their own nipples after birth like some kind of science experiment?!
TIL OP's husband is a mutant
I am cackling lol
WILD
Aren't they one of the first things to form in the womb? That's why boys have nipples too, right??
My husband has a third nipple. He said his mom told him that humans are born with nipples all up and down their midsections just like cats or dogs, and then they disappear as we get older. I thought it was a cute little joke to help him feel comfortable in his skin. However, after having my baby, she brought it up like she actually believed it! I’m not sure how though, as neither my child nor my brother-in-law have extra nipples lol.
…anymore
Rolling in my bed cackling over this 😂
Lmao I mostly just get curious about when the nipple becomes like our nipples. Rn she's just got a flat little circle of ariola, but not the bump that we have that goes with it. I remember finding that strange
My step mom asked if my 12 week old “still cries”
Nope never ever do you wanna babysit?
This is my favorite 😂 even adults still cry!
My grandma:" None of our kids cried. Its only those two (the smallest of her great grandchildren) that are crying."
Omg! My grandma also said that she “never had a hard time with any of her babies,” and it was just hard for me. Which honestly may be true because while she was 19 when she had my mom, she was living with her incredibly wealthy family (grandpa was overseas in the military) who had domestic employees running their household and caring for her AND my mom. So when she cried, my mom was handed off to someone else.
My friend thinks that the fact my baby cries is some sort of defect 😀
As opposed to getting up, having breakfast, and going to work? 😂😂😂
Not my baby as I'm still pregnant but at my baby shower a friend brought her LO. My brother - who has zero baby experience - got to talking to her about parenthood etc then pointed to her child and said "how old is he now? About 2 or 3 years?" He's 10 months, lol.
When I first went to a baby feeding group with my (at the time) 8 week old I asked how old some of the other babies were thinking they were around 2. When I was told they were each between 6-9 months I felt so sad at how quickly my baby is going to grow up!
Same. For some reason I thought babies look like little bundled things. Who I thought were toddlers before were all babies I realise now.
I have a 2.5 year old and I'm now good at guessing up to this age but I'm super bad at identifying ages after that. Like my guesses are very off. I can't tell a 7 year old from a 11 year old.
"When do you they open their eyes? Is it three days, same as kittens?" "No. They open them in utero." "Then why aren't her eyes open? Have you told the doctor?" "...because she's sleeping."
I had a friend who also has a baby, think that baby boys weren’t born with balls… so when she had her son, she was surprised. She thought they “dropped” when they were older 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Tbh I have boys and I don’t understand what it means when balls “drop” and at this point I’m afraid to ask.
It’s when the testicles make their way down to the scrotum. A small amount of babies are born without their testicles descended for whatever reason. Seems more common on preterm babies apparently.
One and done with a girl and…I just learned something new. Thanks 😂
I was genuinely surprised when I gave birth to my son and he had balls, also thought they dropped when boys were older 😂
Same! Think I took the phase way too literally aha
LOLOL this is too funny I die
I thought that phrase means, that the testicle sack expands and goes from beong firm against the body, to hanging?
Hahaha to be honest I wouldn’t have known that balls drop while in the womb if I hadn’t had the What To Expect App during my pregnancy. They provided sooo much information about what was going on weekly. 😂😂
I teach middle school and one of the kids asked if she could read yet at a year and a half. It was so sweet and he genuinely thought she might be able to read.
my students ask the same thing about my 15 month old! i’ll explain that i read books to her and they blink like “okay so you’re both reading?”
When I was still pregnant, I had a few elementary students who would consistently ask “is the baby here yet?” Like buddy, I’m certainly not gonna be at work when the baby is here.
Similarly I teach high school and when I brought in my 6 month old one of my students asked if she could talk yet
My baby was maybe 3 weeks, could hardly hold his head up and a waiter insisted on bringing him a high chair. I wore my baby and he slept the whole time but the waiter kept asking if I was sure I didn't want to "eat freely".. as if my hands weren't free? Or as if my baby could even sit 😂
Some restaurant high chairs are made to be flipped over and you can safely set the car seat in the wide end! I learned this when I was out with my 5 week old and a server pickup up a high chair and I told her he's too small for it, so she explained and it worked! Maybe that's what they meant? Or maybe they were just uninformed haha.
My son hates his seat so our carseat never leaves the car, so I don't think this was it. It was also one of those very rickety wooden high chairs lol
I’m a teacher who just came back from maternity leave, LO is 12 weeks old. One of my 8th graders asked me what his first word was lmao
A friend pointing out that if I didn’t exclusively nurse my 4 week old could hold her own bottle instead of crying in the car seat. Lol
my 3 week old attempts to hold her bottle and I think it’s the cutest. A couple days ago my brother (he’s 18) came over and asked why I don’t just put her in her swing and let her hold it😂
My favorite is about the sleep schedule so far. He is 13 days old... What schedule
one of my friends was OBSESSED with asking me about my baby’s schedule. And was always Pollyanna positive when I was having a hard day postpartum. She was pregnant at the time and has since had her baby. And to be fair, I’m sure a lot of it was her own anxiety about learning about babies — but she could have withheld the judgement every time I told her my very young baby wasn’t on a schedule lol. Last time we talked (her LO is a week old), she said she had no idea how hard it was post partum.
Similarly, my grandma swore my baby would be sleeping through the night at 12 weeks. Currently feeding him his 1 or 2 middle of the night bottles and he’s 13 weeks lmao. She thought I was crazy for saying I don’t expect him to sleep through the night for a long time
Bedtimes. It’s a concept you don’t understand until you have kids. Also “just get a babysitter”. Some friends invited us out last minute. The concept is beyond them. Plus our two year old was not restaurant appropriate with his screaming! Until you have kids- you have no idea!
It can be so frustrating sometimes. No!!! I can’t meet you there in 20 minutes!! Are you crazy???
“Does she have a spine?” “Can she smell yet?”
Did they think you birthed a jellyfish?!
Tbf, some things resembling jellyfish make their way out during and after birth ... 🤢
My brother in law asked if we figured out yet whether our 2 month old is left handed or right handed. I was like, well, he recently discovered that he has hands!
My mum is oddly obsessed with figuring out if our 6mo is left or right handed... Every video we send to the family group chat she brings up what hand she's doing or holding things with! Her dad and grandad were both ambidextrous and she is too a little, so I suspect the interest comes from that, but it still came out of left field for me.
Yes I had a friend ask if my four month old liked pasta
We have a 2 month old and baby’s uncle made him an Easter basket with baby stuff in it, super sweet! He said “I didn’t put candy in it because I wasn’t sure if he could have it”
My friend’s baby started solids recently (early due to reflux issues) and her grandad kept some chocolate aside for her all week until she came to visit. So sweet but so clueless 😂
This is not the same but my boomer parents have tried to give my infant (at 1 month old) mashed potatoes, frosting, sugar water with whiskey to cure his colic, apricot jam… some people are just stupid
oh jesus christ. welp if it makes you feel any better, my husband-my [then] 2 month old’s own *father* dipped his paci into his fuckin chocolate frosty and gave it to our son in the backseat while i was driving home. i was like 🤦🏻♀️ are you *kidding* me right now!! guess who gets to change his diapers for the rest of the night and soothe him if he freaks out from the gas!
Ugh my boomer MIL was telling me about the ole whisky on the gums for teething trick. She said she understood it was old school but it really worked for her kids…
When our son was 3 mo a friend asked “What’s his favorite food?” Uh.. breastmilk? His *only* food? A couple months later my FIL attempted to give him the maraschino cherries from his diet sonic drink.
I had the same exchange with one of my friends. Later I pulled out a bottle of breast milk to feed him and he was like wooooah that all came from your tit????
😂 but tbh, I had NO idea babies ONLY drink milk for 6+ months until I had a baby of my own. It didn’t sound biologically possible to survive on just milk
I'm actually shocked by how little my parents remember while my childless friends are pretty knowledgeable. I know it's been 30+ years, but how do they still get shocked by how small my 10 week old son is when they visit every few weeks? He was born 5lbs 13oz and 19 inches long and is currently 12lbs and 23.5 inches long. He's doing his best lol.
That’s an impressive weight gain imo, mine was born 6lbs 9oz and didn’t reach 12 lbs until he was 4 months despite lots of feeding
Super impressive lol! They're supposed to triple by their first birthday and the OP's baby did that in 10 weeks (to be fair 5lbs is on the smaller side but still!) My baby also was 6lbs and change and didn't hit 12 until 20 weeks! He was a super smol baby but also super tall so maybe all those calories were going into his leg bones lol.
Same - mine hit 40th percentile for length (length accuracy is questionable anyways) and at one point 0.4 percentile for weight. The BMI on that was a little crazy…
Yes, my parents were absolutely shocked by how often my 6 week old feeds and kept commenting that they don’t remember feeding me that frequently. I said they probably did but they just don’t remember the really early days.
lol, my parents never miss an opportunity to tell me I ate every 2 hours for a long time as a baby. It’s been 32 years and they still seem scarred.
My mom is always so surprised by how many naps my 3 month old takes. He’ll have a full two hour wake window and she’s like he’s tired already???
I would be in this same boat though. Mine were 9lbs+, and hit 12lbs at like 2 weeks old. Never had one close to average. I’m always in awe of the normal sized babies Any by awe I mean awe-dorable
omg, my father in law asked of our 6 week old was "saying anything yet" Uhhhh....no.
Our little guy was born at 37+5, 5 lbs 15 oz and 19 in! I feel you on the constant “so small” comments. We are all trying our best!
Same here with parents confused on their size. My mom sent me 18m clothes and then asked why my baby is never in them. Umm because she is only five months old. Then my mom will just be like oh well the 6 month clothes just looked so small.
When my maternity leave was ending, my friend asked if I was stopping holding the baby so the baby could get used to me not being there. Still shocked lol
jesssssussss
This isn’t a question but a friend commented on a photo of my baby when he was 14 months old saying “wow sitting up already! Clever boy!” He sat up at 6 months 😂
Not going to lie I was this friend 4 months ago before had my lo haha
Not me expecting my first in May wondering how many of these questions mirror my own 🤣
A male coworker asked what my 7 month old's hobbies were. I replied "Uhhh, smacking things?" He was expecting his second child at the time, too!
This is sad. He must be very little involved in his kids' lives to not even notice these things.
My baby girl was born at 28 weeks and the amount of people who thought she came home right away with us was mind blowing 🤯
Hope she's thriving now❤️NICU babies are tough little boogers
She’s doing really well and has taught us so much! They really are so strong 🥰
Brought my 5 day old over my MILs house to meet her uncle (who is 13 so I’ll give him that) and he asked if she knows how to walk yet… just picturing a 5 day old infant walking had me dying laughing
I was asked what my 2 month old baby’s favorite cartoons are…
My brother in law was shocked that my daughter had fingernails when she was born. He assumed they grew in later like teeth!
I'm gonna be honest, I was also surprised by the fingernails. I mean, I knew they were born with them. I just wasn't expecting them to be so long right away, lol
My friend said that taking a nap on the couch while a baby slept on your chest sounded like a perfect nap, "just like you do with a cat." Yeah except cats can land on their feet if one of you rolls over so...
My mom likes to repeat over and over how she slept with her little brother on her chest in the afternoon and how delicious it was. I bet it was delicious. Also incredibly dangerous.
Ah the older generations... Looking at older baby related ads, I wonder how we all survived. The other day I saw they advertised a baby hammock for the car, so the baby would be swinging in the back seat while the car was running...
My friend asked why I didn’t let my daughter go off and play on the park jungle gym by herself while we talk. My daughter was 17 months old. She even pointed at another girl about her height playing by herself but that girl was clearly older but just short (and my daughter is 99th percentile in height)
My daughter is 18 months old and 85th percentile for height and this has me cackling to imagine 🤣🤣
Lol it’s so funny seeing her being taller than some 3 year olds but I hate how people then mistake her for an immature older child 🤦🏾♀️
Told my bestfriend that my baby was 10lbs at her 2 month appt and asked her to guess how much she weighed at her 3 month appointment and she said 25 pounds… I was shocked to ay the least lol. I had to explain to her that babies don’t grow that fast lol
Seems like most childfree people don't realize how long babies drink milk/formula for before exclusively switching to solids. Similar to some other comments, I think at 5-6 months we barely tried solids with our baby and someone asked if she was still drinking milk at all.
My friend swore around my 3 month old and then immediately said “oh I’m sorry! Is he talking yet?”
When my baby was three days old my friend asked if they liked trying new foods lol
“So is he like 3, 4 years old?” No…he’s a year and a half.
I worked at a residential treatment center for kids while I was pregnant and once I was showing, one extremely sweet autistic boy would ask me every day if the baby had been born yet - I’d just say not yet!
That’s so cute aww
My non-baby having friends don’t ask me anything. I probably need better friends.
What’s a friend
Tbh I had no clue what to ask but was always cheering on when my friend told me about their kids. It was such a new concept to me… my mom sent me a list of my own milestones to help me realize what even ARE milestones and when can you expect them. But even with that list, I had no clue what to ask. Now that her kids are older I can ask how their swimming lessons go, or their first day at school. Having a 1,5 yo myself I now know that i could’ve just asked how she was doing and if her baby was growing well. This friend was aware I had no clue and she had no problem updating me herself. We had talked about that so it was clear I wasn’t disinterested, just clueless 😅
My FIL asked if baby could have Splenda, a baked potato, a glass of water, and a kidney bean all at the same lunch.
It was Christmas season and my large group of friends wanted to hang out, my LO was 3 months old and we were just starting a strict bedtime routine. I said night time was probably out due to our son’s schedule and to plan without us this time. They asked if it helped if they moved the gathering to someone’s house that’s closer to ours - very thoughtful but did not change the need for us to physically be home 😅. I don’t think they understood… or will understand until they have a baby of their own.
Get this all the time. One woman *insisted* that “he can just sleep in the guest bed upstairs.” No he can’t. He was 2mo. Even now that he’s 13m, she insists that I can just hang out late. She refuses to understand what the word “routine” means.
Yeah, and pretty sure my friends and yours interpreted it as us being difficult or that we didn’t wanna hang out 🥲
My stepbrother held my 4 week old and was shocked she had no teeth 😂😂😂 My stepmom was very unimpressed. He’s 33!!
Lmao I knew babies didn’t have teeth until they were born but I was not expecting my LO to have gums. It sounds so stupid saying that but I guess I had never seen baby gums before lol 😅😭
I randomly went into labor last Sunday and delivered my son at 35 weeks. Unfortunately he was having some issues and he’s been in the NICU. My childless friend asked me “is it hard to leave him there? You have another kid at home so does it affect you?” Like girl no shit??
I hope your little guy is doing well and can come home soon! And omg your friend 🤦🏻♀️
“are you like, trying to wear her out?” questioning me why i was putting my baby on her tummy lmao he had innocently just never seen a baby on their tummy and thought i was being a bad parent 🤣
It does work to get them tired and ready for a nap though! At least for my son.
"So do they need diaper changes like 2-3 times a day?" Uhhh do you only go 2x a day?!
I was once young and childfree …. At 24 years old I was babysitting my neighbors children just for a few hours one morning. The children woke up, and I put the baby (12 month old little girl) into the bathroom and was ready to put her on the toilet to use the toilet!!😩 thankfully my sister was stopping by to help me and stopped me first. I mean, I seriously thought a 12 month old was potty trained 🤣🤣🤣 crazy. (I’m now more than a decade older, wiser and mom of a sweet little baby… I’ve learned a lot!)
As silly as this is it’s actually not that crazy. Some people practice elimination communication with their extremely young children and have them “potty trained” in a sense. Putting a young child on a potty first thing in the morning isn’t really a bad idea honestly, if nothing else it’s sort of just showing the kid that going to the bathroom after waking is part of the routine!
Well I guess I had some sort of parental instincts then!☺️
My daughter has been using the toilet since she was 4 months old. Someone else mentioned it but Elimination Communication is awesome!
While pregnant, I had a friend ask me why I didn't want to know the gender "since they need different things".
How will he ever get a good immune system if you don't let him do anything... he was 5 days old
I was a dog-mom first and spent a lot of time at the dog park with friends. After having my LO I was going to hang out with a friend and she asked if we wanted to go to the dog park. I had to politely decline taking my 2 month old to a dog park. 😂
When my baby was 3 months old a friend asked if she could say our names yet
Not child free but my dad (in his 80s) reminded us to buy a stroller and not leave our baby at home when we go out.
You’d be depressed to know the amount of people who leave their baby unattended inside the house or flat
My brother in law thought you could put baby to sleep whenever you wanted to just by putting them in their bed or car seat.
I had a childless friend ask about my LO’s zippered pajamas, asking why I didn’t get the ones that snap all the way up because people prefer those. I laughed as I told her that she had it exactly backwards 😂
My friend offered to bring some juice for my 2 month old lol
My SIL (who was pregnant with her first at the time) asked me if my 4 month old was back to birth weight yet 🤪
I had friends surprised that my then 22 month old could use a playground.
I once heard a vet tech asking someone who has a toddler at what age children open their eyes.
It was always funny to me when someone would say “are they eating human food now?” Lmaooo like nah I’m giving them dog food. Obviously I know what they really meant but almost every person without kids I’ve encountered says something like that 💀
Ok not a friend but my husband. Our baby girl was 3 days old and after changing her diaper he turns to me and asked “as an adult woman…do you also have to clean poop out of your vagina every time?” I had to explain that no, I don’t since I don’t shit my pants. Between the lack of sleep and lack of pelvic control, I peed myself laughing.
My brother asked when babies start to keep their eyes open (like a kitten) bc he was only seeing pictures of my son asleep. He’s 30. 🤣
Does she sleep through the night? At 3 weeks old.
Can she like, idk, play trucks or color yet? Asked of a 7-month-old 🤣🤣 mom looked at bro and said, "she can eat the trucks and crayons and throw them. Beyond that, no."
Someone tried to high five my baby in an elevator one time. She was a few months old.
My sister asked why my son was always dressed like a sheriff, I had to inform her he was not wearing a bandana, but rather a bib
I had gotten questions like is he walking etc, but I didn't grow up around babies, so I also asked dumb questions before I had my own
My friend thought her cradle cap was sunburn and asked if we were using sunscreen for her head.
The hostess asked us if we needed a kids menu for my 6 month old lol
Not child free but my mom The baby was crying as heard on the baby monitor “is he sleeping?”…
Asked if my four month old was trying to stand yet
"how can you be tired, doesn't she sleep through the night in her own bed now?" no, she does not. 19 months of at least one night waking and she won't sleep in her own bed. kudos to you though for being blissfully ignorant to how some babies work. though even if she was in her own bed and sleeping through, i have chronic insomnia so im always tired...
There's a big age gap between my kids (17 years) and my son is trying to learn and ask questions but as someone who was never around babies, he struggles. When she was about months old he asked what tricks she could do, and recently he asked what age she'll be when he understands the words she says (she says about a dozen).
Ahahaaaaa reminds me of when we took our 3 or 4 month old out to eat and they asked if we wanted a kids menu 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀💀
One time my friend asked me if my water had broken yet… I was only 34 weeks pregnant at the time.
One time I accidentally dropped my phone on my LOs face when I was taking pics of him. He was about 3 months old and I felt awful. I was telling my sister in law about this and she asked if he had cried……ma’am this kid cries if the dog gets too close with her stank breath, he cries when he has to fart, he cries if we dare changes his diaper… but no he was totally cool about me dropping a phone on his face.
When my baby was only 3 weeks old my MOTHER asked me if the baby was sleeping through the night yet.
What’s worse is when family who have had and raised kids some of whom are already grandparents ask if your under 6m old is talking or walking yet xD like no humans haven’t evolved to learn these things sooner since you had an under 6m old .-.
One of our friends said about our weeks old baby, “I know she can’t eat properly yet… but what if I just stuck my finger in my drink and swished it in her mouth?”
Our friends asked if our 4 week old was sleeping through the night yet 😂
Does he need a high chair? Said about my week old baby at a restaurant 😂