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I tend not to take lo with friends w/o kids, but I too have gotten comments about her "behavior." Like, she was such a good, happy baby when she was 4 months and everyone could pass her around, but I don't get those comments when she's only happy on my lap and cries for others, lol.

Mine are really pretty good about LO. The only thing (and this doesn't even bother me - just makes me laugh) is that they often just don't understand the baby's schedule, so they'll want to go out to dinner and ask me to bring LO. Well, LO goes to bed by 7pm, so that's pretty much a no go. But they are super sweet about her and seem to genuinely enjoy her company.

I was that friend who didn't know how to handle my friend's children for the last 7 years!! There was no getting around it, if I wanted to spend time with her, I needed to understand that she had to bring her kids. I would just sit there open mouthed, in stunned silence, while she dealt with her three little ones who are now 7, 5 and 2 and were probably crying, throwing a tantrum and running off all simultaneously! Deep down, I thought that they were the most badly behaved children I had ever seen - oh how I am going to learn, huh?!

LOs been a charmer lately (*knock on wood*) so pretty positively. But for the ones that have seen her in a mood there's always some wacky suggestions. One time LO was fussing about leaving the playground so my friend kept saying that I should have told LO that she won't be able to go to the playground tomorrow if she keeps fussing. I tried explaining that a threat of punishment 24 hours from now isn't going to work all that well on an overtired 18 month old but she insisted that's what she'd be doing with her kids, so good luck with that.

Our friends are impressed that she's always happy and doesn't cry. Our CFBC cleaning woman says she'd have a baby if it would be like our baby.
It feels so nice that people like her.

I think it depends how close you are with those friends. I was one of the first of my friends that had kids so yup I hang out with friends without kids all the time and they seem fine with it but the friends I have with out kids that I didn't see that much before having kids I never see now. I think that is how life goes.

Everyone always loved G! They thought he was fun, polite, and well-behaved (I never really had issues with fits/tantrums in public). Seeing how I was pretty much the only one in my Young Adults group with a child all my friends kinda took him in! Now, pretty much all our new friends have kids so they're more sympathetic than anything else. lol