Small Babies With Headbands

How dreadful.

Oh crikey Casdon 😱

Yes they are fake (and not to my liking!!) - but soon there will be some idiot out there...

Germanshepherdsmum

Having babies’ ears pierced is cruel and, as Allsorts says, dangerous. And, dare I say, it looks really common. Tattoos next, to get that over with?

There are times when I disagree with GSM 😉 but this time I’m in full agreement. Headbands, earrings tattoos (God help us!) naff and dangerous.

OMG! Don’t go giving people ideas!! 🤣

Agree. Every time I see a baby with one on I think “what a shame”. It also seems a bit naff.

I remember a few years back going into one of those Claire's Accessories shops which did ear piercing. There was a young woman there with a little baby getting its ears pierced - the poor thing was howling and crying and the girl doing the piercing asked the mum what she should do. She just said 'oh just ignore her and get on with it'. I was appalled.

That looks really pretty, but I think it looks ok because the child is able to stand up. When I said I hate seeing babies in headbands, I meant babies in prams. Once they are older, it’s fine. I should have made my feelings clearer. Apologies.

That’s terrible MissInterpreted. It’s bad enough when you take a baby for injections which are for its good, but to deliberately inflict such pain for no good reason is just awful.

Germanshepherdsmum

That’s terrible MissInterpreted. It’s bad enough when you take a baby for injections which are for its good, but to deliberately inflict such pain for no good reason is just awful.

Exactly. I think there should be some kind of age limit for it.

I am surprised that a piercer, or whatever they are called, is willing to do it.

I'm not a fan of headbands on babies .
I wonder if their mothers are trying to disguise the bald spot at the back of the head , which most babies have temporarily .
I also think that it's best to wait until a child asks to have her ears pierced .
That's what I did !
I guess that we all think that we are right !

I think you can only buy flat screen TVs now can't you?

think it is a eastern european thing

I'm not a fan but they look even worse when the poor baby has pierced ears as well

I think it's about the fad to accessorise absolutely everything. Like little dogs with diamante collars etc. Which is about objectification. About turning your tiny baby into a sort of statement / fashion accessory. Maybe I'm just over analysing lol

At least a bonnet serves a purpose - either warmth or protection from the sun. Silly headbands are a stupid craze. Babies look cute without them, and really - headbands are for when a human being has hair!

Well put! I haven't been able to find the words.

I don't like them either, they're just unecessary. I don't like the big bows that parents put on school children's hair either, some schools have banned them.

I absolutely hate them and they are utterly horrific!!

jan1956

think it is a eastern european thing

It def isn’t!!

jan1956

think it is a eastern european thing

I'm afraid it isn't, locally it seems to be across the range of British mothers. Most "eastern european" mothers that I see have well-dressed children without unneccessary adornments!

I couldn't agree more . I thought it was just me that didn't like them . Even today , I don't like anything around my head . I'm sensitive to most materials.

I am neither for or against them - I think they are just the latest "cute" (for some) accessory, but I just wanted to say that babies would surely object (at a high volume) if they were too tight or uncomfortable and mine would have whipped it off and thrown it out of the pram (as they did with woolly bonnets in Winter and frilly hats in Summer!)

I put hats and bonnets on my now adult children and both my GDs wore headbands. Neither had much hair as babies so I guess it was partly to identify them as girls: I didn't ask.
Some culture pierce baby girls' ears at a very young age. In Cyprus, in the 1950s, our landlords had a baby girl, named her after my mum, pieced her ears and put wool in as sleepers, presumably not to hurt her.

I think they look dreadful and wonder whether they do any damage, the babies can hardly complain if they feel uncomfortable or too tight.