Not sure where to ask about this awful terrible baby advice you have published?

[ridiculouspirate]

www.mumsnet.com/babies/features/developing-a-routine

What on earth?

Mumsnet advice pages used to be reasonably balanced and evidence based. Saw this shared on Facebook and wondered wtf someone was thinking?

Make it stop before someone tries this bollocks on their new baby!

[MadrigalElectromotive]

I absolutely agree with OP.

[elQuintoConyo]

Crikey i just read it! That wouldn't have helped my DS. Slept nowhere apart from on me. Hated being swaddled. Never finished a bottle

[MiniLop]

What utter bollocks!

[ShowOfHands]

What the what now?

Bring back MorningPaper and her rocket to Lebanon, all is forgiven.

[MiniLop]

This is the kind of thing that would have panicked me as a new mother - "try to feed your baby every 3-4 hours", DS was breastfed and therefore fed on demand. There's no way he would have gone 3 hours without a feed for the first few months, never mind 4 hours!

[Whoknowswhoknows]

What a horrific pile of shite! Please do something about this asap, MN!

[Kalispera]

What a load of crap! Don't let the baby sleep too long but take it out for a walk so it'll sleep longer.

And really don't change a nappy after every feed unless it really needs changed. Why the fuck would you do that to a full, cosy baby who is just ready for a nap?

[insan1tyscartching]

Meh did pretty similar with mine,all five slept through the night in their own cots from being six weeks old. Mine are aged 29 to 13 now and that was the expected routine when the eldest four were babies and I did the same with the youngest regardless of current advice. They all thrived and I was happier having a routine.

[FoxesSitOnBoxes]

I am really pleased that everyone else thinks this is as shit as I thought it was. Poor new mums trying to force their babies into fitting in with this. Horrible pressure. And the "face it- this might be the only way you get a good night sleep" or whatever it is comment on the Facebook post. absolute balls.

[MovingOnUpMovingOnOut]

There's another thread about this. I'll find it...

[BastardBernie]

Wow, that is possibly the worst advice page I have read about babies, ever.

[BifsWif]

I actually thought it was a joke when I read it.

You've failed massively with this one MN.

[MovingOnUpMovingOnOut]

Oh, it's your own tread op. You can find it yourself

[ridiculouspirate]

So annoyed I posted two threads

[lljkk]

I didn't think it was all that shite, actually.
But then again, when I joined MN, Gina Ford was all the rage -- every other thread was about getting baby to sleep at precisely 7:07pm etc.
I coslept with mine until they were 2-3-4-5 yo, anyway.

[ridiculouspirate]

Just in case they didn't spot it in feeding or all the Facebook anger. ...

[Emochild]

Swaddled and tucked down for a nap -erm isn't that against SIDS advice?

Also why would you wake a sleeping baby?
Was this advice taken directly from gina ford she who will not be mentioned?

[JassyRadlett]

Christ alive. That is some shit (and potentially dangerous) advice.

[lovelilies]

That really is a big pile of shit.
Shame on you MN!!

[Oly5]

This advice is awful and will
Just put pressure on new mums. Babies don't really self-settle do they MN??
Terrible, just go with the flow is the best advice I ever had.
New babies do not sleep well at night. That's it. End of. They're not programmed to. The sooner we accept that, the better

[Philoslothy]

It seems to be very dated advice. I had my first children nearly two decades ago - this was the advice I was given.

[Ilovenannyplum]

That article is a pile of shit

[NoTractorsAtTheTable]

It seems to go against Mumsnet raison d'être - "Make parents' lives easier by pooling knowledge, advice and support"

Those prescriptive rules go entirely against that ethos.