Anybody get weird looks/vibes being a young mom?

Maybe I’m trippen but does anyone else get weird looks being a young mom? I’m 21 & This older mom was grilling me at the park today.. I was looking behind me like.. is she staring at me and why? I definitely feel like I get treated differently too. People around me like family members try to give me unsolicited advice and I find it extremely disrespectful. Almost like they don’t think i have the best interest in my child. Smh can anyone relate? What’s the best way to deal with it?
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I’m 17 with a 1 year old people always stare or make rude comments or ask me how old I am and then just no longer want to talk to me and I always get given advice I definitely don’t need because I’m doing good I’ve learned to ignore people your being th best mum you can and no one else’s opinions matters

I’m almost 26, but I look like 14-18 years old lmfao I have bright green hair, people definitely give me weird looks, I just focus solely on my son & let my ability to parent show. I went through my pregnancy telling only the people who saw me frequently in person, so I set my boundaries with family kinda from the jump, like without having to really specify to them that I’m not seeking advice unless I come looking for it.

I got weird looks my whole pregnancy. My friends shamed me before I got pregnant (planned pregnancy). The Dr's told my husband and I to finish school and not to shake the baby. 🙄 we're both 20, I have a college degree and we live on our own. Your not the only one

I rarely would visit with my parents and now all of a sudden their in our lives again and they want to make snarly comments and try to give unwanted advice, it’s extremely infuriating being that they haven’t been around for almost 2 years and now all of a sudden them being around her for a couple months they think they can say whatever they want to me😭🤔

i had my first at 16/17 and my second at 19/20 i'm almost 22 now and get HELLA looks

I was 21 with my baby at a grocery store when an older couple asked if I was a babysitter because I looked too young to be a mom and my daughter didn’t look enough like me to be biologically mine… like wtf makes strangers think they have a reason to judge. My partner’s mom lives in a different state and sends groceries to our house because, “What if Tay forgot something? Or maybe you guys can’t afford enough food.” I hate that so many people think we’re incapable of taking care of our own family just because we had our baby at 20 yrs old.

@Tay that would make me so mad I’m sorry somebody said that to you. It’s a never ending battle. ATP I stare back 😂🤷‍♀️

Ppl in my family underestimate tf out of me. But they aren’t around enough to do it to me so I bust their balls each time they try me

I had my baby at 19 -the older nurses at the hospital would come into my room to gaslight and make remarks about how young my husband and I were and that we were going to have a hard time taking care of our son (my husband has 9 other siblings and I used to be an intern at a preschool) There was one nurse that was really bothering me, she was telling us how to change our babies diaper right before we were scheduled to go home and I was like GIRL nobody decided to help us with anything for the 3 days prior, you guys just left us in a room alone with a newborn and now you want to show us how to do all this stuff 😒🙄 I am usually a laid back/shy person but I was seconds away from telling her off

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