AIBU to be surprised at advice on Boots Web MD website?

[MakeTeaNotWar]

As a new parent, been reading through "10 Mistakes New Parents Make" www.webmd.boots.com/children/baby/features/10-new-parent-mistakes

and am really surprised at numbers 2 & 3. In fact, I think they are misguided at best and irresponsible at worst as neither makes reference to what age baby they refer to.

How odd Number 3 has now been reworded - oh the power of Mumsnet

When I was in hosp there was a mum whose 2wo was sleeping through so she just left her- baby ended up a bag of bones in hospital needing feeding up, she was practically force fed every 2hours.

Yay I complained too, much better phrased now

Coincidentally, I have just recieved a Boots baby magazine/pile of nonsense through the post, and sent a friend an angry email about some of the advice given. Their sleep expert claiming nearly all babies can sleep through the night at 3 months, all they need is a dream feed, that they should be napping 5 (!?) hours during the day, and feeding every 3-4 hours. Surely if this was the case they would be having about 4 feeds a day max? There's also stuff about not picking them up every time they cry during the night. Like others have said, fine for some babies, but if you were an inexperienced new mum this is just the kind of thing to set you off on a big train of worry about your baby who still wakes up, feeds every hour and a half, and doesn't nap that well.

This is bloody awful, on so many fronts!

'Confusing possetting with vomiting' - they seem to suggest that vomiting only happens with a virus. All I know is that if your infant is regularly sicking up entire feeds with enough force to hit the wall, you can call it a 'posset' rather than a vomit if you really want, but it's still reflux and it still needs dealing with.

And the thing about the fever in a baby under 3 months is right in that you need to check things out with a doctor, but it is scaremongering to say that it's always 'considered serious' - mostly the doctor will still say 'sit it out and give them paracetamol!'

And arf at no. 10! If I'd listened to the insane 'tips' about breastfeeding given by one of the most well-regarded neonatal units in the country, by both a senior consultant and a specialist pediatric dietician, then my son would have been in very serious trouble.

And really, I think they should reword no.10 as 'don't trust unreliable sources, most especially ridiculous 'top ten' lists on the internet which are largely full of shite.'

I emailed a complaint and accused them of giving out misguided information they emailed me back saying they were going to contact their "experts " and look into it , I then said what some colleagues , eg midwives nurses said about the advice , im sure i wasnt the only one they must have got loads of complaints i explained we all had discussed it on her and were quite shocked by the advice :)