Since having DS, MIL has treated me to a wealth of parenting gems tha are presented to me as indisputable facts, to be ignored at my peril. They make me laugh as they are so random and swing wildly from one school of parenting to the next. a few examples.
Baby must stay in arms for sleeps till 6 months, then left to CIO in cot as soon as the six months are up (shock to the system much?)
Television is fine. Toys that light up are not.
Jars of food are the work of the devil. Cow & Gate, only Cow & Gate, in times of emergency. The new-style pouches are the devil in organic clothing, they haven't got enough nutritional research behind them.
Don't sing to baby. It will delay their speech. Talk only
Oh I've probably outed myself anyway!
Anyone else have this?
AIBU?
To really wonder where MIL gets her information
Millionsofbluebells · 27/09/2012 13:55
wow....perhaps they are really erm yummy 
DS likes to lick his high chair though so I can't talk really
monster i honestly thought your mum was calling your child a monster 
I drank a bottle of blackcurrant and beetroot juice (yum) when bfing and my DM was horrified. She said that the baby's poo would be bright red.
When I mockingly tried to figure out (out loud with added pointing to breasts for effect) how my milk-coloured breast milk would turn pink in my baby's digestive system, she went a bit herself.
^Saying to mother or mil or any older mother' times have changed and you don't know jack' is as stupid as an older mother giving unasked 'advice'.
This is an age old conundrum, listen to older mums, take or not take the advice, experience offered and make sure you are happy with your parenting.
Not really a huge deal is it??^
What on earth are you on about? Who is meant to have said that?
On a car journey when DD was 12 months old and hungry MIL insisted on feeding her bits of sandwich in her carseat. I said 'I don't think that's a good idea' but MIL said 'no it's fine, I did it all the time with mine' and I held my tongue.
A couple of days later she related how when her youngest was a toddler she was sat in the carseat eating something and began to choke - MIL said she had to stop the car on the shoulder and swing her DD around by the legs. 
My ex's mother (a retired physiotherapist) told me not to listen to anybody who said giving birth lying down is more difficult. Apparently the Active Birth movement is nonsense.
A few months later she told e how much easier her home birth was, as she was able to stay upright during the pushing stage, which made things easier 
according to MIL, DS wakes through the night because i would have a drink of water and sometimes a few crackers during the night when i was pregnant, as i was constantly hungry and it helped with the nausea. she has even told her DD to never eat/drink through the night or she'll end up with a "crap sleeper like DS and DDIL have wound up with"
also, bf has caused every ailment/issue we have had since he was born, and the solution is always to give formula. or wean ridiculously early
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My own mum was the pain in the backside with her 'advice'...she has a fixation with hungry baby milk and seems to think it is a 'cure all' for any baby issues!
DC had severe colic as a baby - 'You need to give her some of that HBM, it'll stop that colic'
'DC has alot of milk doesn't she, you need to switch her to HBM' - (DC never drank more than 5 ounces at a time during her entire first year of life, she liked little and often, and even now she is 4, still eats in the same way).
'DC isn't lseeping through the night with no feeds at 5 weeks old! You need to give her HBM, she'll sleep right through, it's not normal to still eb having night feeds at this stage'
MIL gems of wisdom were 'give DC rusk in a bottle to fill her up', despite me telling her its a huge choking hazard. She also advised us to wean DC at 10 weeks! No perceived logical reason, just that 'it was about tiem she had some proper food'.
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