Hate going in public with baby

I get this too, she was term but we've had feeding issues so she's been slow gaining weight and is only 9th centile. Whenever people ask how old she is, it's always followed with, oh wow really, but she's so tiny who much did she weigh at birth.... then this makes me feel like I've failed because she didn't gain much weight in the first few weeks. I'm not sure why strangers feel the need to comment, just tell me my baby is cute and move on

I had the same with both of my babies, it used to bother me until I was in a lift with another parent and baby. Her baby was younger than mine but was almost double the size and I realised how little mine. The thing is, she will be small and dainty, she came alot earlier than she was supposed to so try and focus on that. Many people don’t understand premature babies until they’ve had one themselves so it’s easy for people to say things in passing which is probably sensitive to us but they’re just saying oh look how tiny she is etc like most people do with babies. With my first, I was so concerned with how big she was and putting in weight and being the same size as other babies but in reality she was a premie, she was healthy and that’s all that mattered so maybe try and think of it that way. It’s ok that she’s small, look at her journey into the world. Try not to let what random people say affect you. Everyone makes comments on babies regardless, just let go over your head 💕

I get the opposite, they ask how old mine is & say, "oof shes a big un!" "Oof thats what you call a big baby" "bet you felt that coming out" shes not overly big, shes long, 12 weeks goin into 6-9 stuff. But my 1st was skinny & long and people uses to comment on that saying it looked like id stretched him out. People cant just say "oh your baby is beautiful, congratulations" there has to be some other comment too xxx

Hi, my baby was born at 27 weeks, it really helps me to see him by his corrected age, this is the age I give first when people ask how old he is too. Size wise and developmentally he appears closer to his corrected age, so I avoid some of the comments this way. Like others have said unless you've had a prem baby it can be really hard to understand. You're doing amazing.

I get this but the opposite. People pointing out how chunky and big my son is. Does my head in. He was born 10lb 9oz x

I get the opposite too, my boy was born 9lb 12oz and he's currently 17lbs, I had one lady say "you basically birthed a toddler, did he come out with a briefcase?" 🥴 x