Right? I am calling BS on this too. Their vomit is not that acidic to ruin a shirt and since at a month old they only eat milk, it does not colour either... source: my two kids, several nieces and nephew. Aaaaall barfed on me, even on nice clothes, I got every stain out...

Yeah pretty sure it is to the effect of " I don't' want to wear it again because it has been soiled in my head mentally" even if it is cleaned. I have the feeling it is easily remedied with dry cleaning but the cousin is saying ' it is ruined' because something about the experience makes her never want to wear that blouse again.

My first thought as well! A month old baby does not eat carrots or spinach yet that could possibly leave nasty stains. This is just milk; if you cannot wash the piece at home you can at least have it dry cleaned. I am pretty sure the "completely ruined" part exists just in the head of this lady. Maybe she was so disgusted by being vomitted on (people have different sensitivity levels) that she will no longer wear it. Fine - then have it cleaned and sell it on eBay.

Thank you for asking this very common sense question. Im a new mom here too and I will agree. She may say it’s ruined and demand 1800$ which is outrageous honestly but I feel like she is saying it’s ruined cause she feels like it is not that it actually is.

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From when my daughter was a baby and puked, I remember mostly the sour smell of it. Usually I could get the stains out of the fabric, but a few times I did throw away a piece of clothing, because the smell of puke kept lingering even after washing... 🤢

Milk/formula and milk/formula that comes out from the baby is not necessary the same. If it was in the baby for some time it is probably already a little fermented. Therefore there can be persistent stains, especially if you can not wash your clothes in a normal way. However if removed early with some warm soap (you nearly always can use shampoo) normally no marks will be left. It would be no problem for normal clothes that you can wash. HOWEVER the girl seems to wear only some of these way overprized labels. If you ever had a look at them you may notice they nearly always have following cleaning instruction: "CARE: Dry clean". And it could also be made of some delikate fabric and staining. Additionally it is totally possible that the stain has stayed there for days before someone tried to clean it. Therefore it is totally possible to ruin that shirt with baby milk/fomula puke.

Great point.

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It's still quite acidic, probably bleaching effect

People who are saying YTA clearly don’t have kids and have no clue what they are talking about. That much is obvious cause no logical person would come to that conclusion if they did.

Exactly! Comparing it to an older kid breaking something isn't the same thing at all: if anything, the appropriate comparison would be if the kid had thrown up on the blouse. If it was involuntary, it wasn't the kid's fault, and the parents shouldn't be held liable for it. Like a business asking a customer to replace a glass door that someone accidentally tripped through....

Me too! On them.

With the way she reacted I'm thinking she really can't afford a £1800 top. Freaking out like that and asking for recompense makes me think her finances are very tight, if not over drawn, because she's spending an outrageous amount of money on her clothes. I mean, £1800? What is that top made out and who made it? Maybe she got it for a specific reasons and had just purchased it recently so she was overly excited to wear it and it that impaired her judgement in deciding to hold the baby. I know people have a tough time turning down their chance to hold the baby when the baby is getting passed around. I imagine it's worse for women in that regard.

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How can anyone buy the part where the blouse is ruined? When she was 3months old my daughter vomit on my silk blouse at a wedding. Got it to a professionnal cleaner and it was perfect after their magic trick. Someone feels humiliate and wants revenge.

As for A, I kind of understand it. With a big family/friend circle your first few weeks would be a revolving door, every five minutes someone popping by to see the new baby, taking up your time while you have a lot to do as a new parent, especially a first timer. But if you give one day to get it over with at once, you might have some peace for a while.

why would alice have a spit cloth if she's not a mother? it's the mom's responsibility to offer one & she didn't. if alice doesn't have any experience with babies, she probably didn't think to ask for one if nobody else was using one; she couldn't have known it would've been necessary in exactly two seconds if nobody else had any issues without one. the mom already knew alice always wears expensive clothes, so in my opinion it's on her to take preventative measures & offer a spit cloth to alice. the mom & all the nta people keep acting like it was a given that the baby was gonna puke & that alice should've known better, but if the mom *already* knew better as she had experience, why didn't *she* offer a spit cloth?? sorry, the logic doesn't follow. ESH, alice for expecting a new mom to pay that much over a minor mishap, & the mom for not doing anything if she knows alice always wears expensive clothes but wants to hold a baby.

Sarcasm 👍

I imagined the baby immediately projectile vomitting while being handed over - right in the face and down the front of the blouse. Ask me how I know this scenario...