Mother's advice. Sometimes, just, ssshh.

[Littlejenfer]

16 weeks pregnant with pfb, and pfgc on both sides. I'm pretty chilled out about it all, and MIL is equally happy but excited.

Then... my own mother. Who can't help herself and send daily, if not hourly, advice on the baby. Buy Muslims. Stroke the bump. Don't bother doing X. Make sure you do Y. Have you done Z yet?

AIBU to just want all the 'helpful advice' to just stop. Or am I being a miserable grumpy cow and just let her carry on with it. 16 weeks down... 24 to go.

Have had friends who crave for advice and have had in the same situation as you. Sadly none is ever happy. Guess its also the hormones

I think all the muslin chat may have come from my comment. I was jut picking up on the autocorrect fail - Muslim/muslin.

Best bit of advice I got was to cherry pick the advice you take on board. Everyone is different. Every family is different. Every family is different. People mean well when they give advice but it is based on their own circumstances.

Having said that my mum's advice was (and still is) very much appreciated.

Oh and regarding musliNs. Not so useful with DD as not sick but DD I didn't have enough of then. I still use them now as general mopping up cloths. I just bought a job lot of mixed ones off eBay so they're not pretty but after the action they've seen that's no bad thing that I didn't splurge on anything fancy!!