Small Babies With Headbands

I did see a mum on social media who had one of her identical twins medically tattooed. Apparently it's done under light sedation and the tattoo looks like a small freckle. It was to avoid confusion with medication etc but she still received very mixed comments.

I think they look stupid.

Surely they do no more damage than hats, bonnets, the silly elasticated caps that look as if babies are off to milk cows...

Katek

I did see a mum on social media who had one of her identical twins medically tattooed. Apparently it's done under light sedation and the tattoo looks like a small freckle. It was to avoid confusion with medication etc but she still received very mixed comments.

That poor mother, she would soon be criticised if one of the twins received the wrong medication due to them being identical.

I am beginning to think that social media, X, Facebook and forums like GN, MN are giving folks platforms to be judgemental on all and sundry?

I am something of an ‘oldie’ but I think these bands are quite cute! No worse than a baby bonnet which I think looks silly, unless needed for sun protection. I love current baby ‘fashions’. So much choice, so much free movement for the child and better IMHO than the fussy matinee jackets etc that were once the given. And don’t get me started on the stiff little girls frilly knickers! Just horrible and my girls never wore them despite my mothers obsession with them!

Babies are cute enough without any additional adornments! Bonnets were to keep little heads warm in the days when we walked everywhere.
I cannot bear wearing hats of any kind and could imagine tight fitting headbands being very itchy for a baby’s soft head. I would imagine most people use them to identify the baby as a girl!

I think they’re awful too and always wonder if they cause headaches.

Why would they cause headaches anymore than a hat or cap would?
They're usually slipping down half the time.

I don't like caps either on babirs

But a hat or cap won't stop a baby breathing if it slips. A headband could - especially the big wide ones.

MissAdventure

Why would they cause headaches anymore than a hat or cap would?
They're usually slipping down half the time.

I agree, the soft ones have no elastic or boning like hats or caps.

I guess parents would be sensible enough to remove them when the baby is unattended.

Girls with little or no hair tend to be mistaken for boys... so that is one solution to stop nosey parkers asking - boy or girl? .

If you think babies were dressed in wollen bonnets when we were younger and if I tried to put one on now it would be a massive sensory overload hate anything wollen. I think babies must be uncomfortable in these wollen monstrosities. Even hospitals seem to use wollen hats as soon as baby is born to keep heads warm. But the material used to make these headbands feels far softer. I have headbands made of the stuff myself and it's really comfortable. I mean I think the huge bows are a bit much but really head and should only be used to keep back hair not as a fashion accessory.

I love the little bands around their little heads, they can be easily and quickly taken off but what I absolutely hate to see are babies with pierced ears.

And recently I saw one where one of the parents had used coloured biros to draw ''tattoos'' on the babies arms ...

I don't like them, but I guess fashions change. When my babies were born, my mum in law was shocked that they wore babygros instead of nightdresses!

I must admit I think they look ridiculous. The mothers must spend their whole time adjusting them otherwise they end up over the poor babies eyes.

My DGD always pulled if so her DM gave up trying. The problem we have now is she won’t wear anything on her head.

OurKid1

I don't like them, but I guess fashions change. When my babies were born, my mum in law was shocked that they wore babygros instead of nightdresses!

My eldest had those little flannelette nightdresses Ourkid1 with an embroidered motif on the sash. How times change.

I was saying exactly this the other day. I completely agree that they look ridiculous.

I absolutely hate the look, especially on a baby without hair. It kind of looks like a bandage and makes me think of someone has had to be shaved for surgery.

Vests with envelope necks, boys in nighties, all the ties and ribbons on clothes, scratch mittens, mop caps, frilly crackly plastic pants.
We had had much better taste in the olden days.

It’s rather like dressing a doll up. Thank heavens my granddaughter is dressed properly and sensibly.

I have to say I quite like them, and as a mother of four sons, much female frippery is welcome to me! Surely if they were too tight, babies of even only a few months old would simply pull them off and chew them? (In some cases maybe that could pose a danger, but one would surely not leave baby on her own to sleep, wearing a headband?)

I can't imagine my girl would have kept on on.
It would have been pulled off in an instant.
Not that I like them anyway.

Of goodness me “that type of person” “common” whatever you mean by that - it is rather rude. If mums who work hard with babies to the point of exhaustion want to dress them up and put a bow on top to go out why ever not. You could argue the same for every type of baby wear from Liberty fabric smocked dresses, sailor suits ,double denim to extreme ruffles. Would you have babies in white babygrows with a white bonnet ? My Gds wore these very soft stretchy bows and if they didn’t want them on they just pulled them off. I actually quite liked them so assume I’m going to go into the bracket of “common” and that “type of person”. I’m just glad I’m not a narrow minded person ……..