to ask for the most bizarre advice you've been given after this gem from my mum (lighthearted)

[CherryChasingDotMuncher]

I'm due baby no 2 in 5 weeks, I work in the hospital I'm giving birth in, and my mum also used to work there about 10 years ago.

I work closely with the chief executive in my job and am in the office next door. My mum has told me that when I go in to give birth, to get "star treatment" and a room of my own in postnatal, I should tell them that I work next door to the chief exec and they will give me what I want.

I actually giggled as I could imagine just how obnoxious I'd sound rolling in mid-contraction and saying "I work with the chief exec you know. What you gonna do with that information?" And then having midwives flocking round giving me pedicures and the like

She is adamant she's right! I joked that he's universally disliked to they'd probably put me in the corridor if anything! Even if I did have the brass neck to say this, I really would rather a side room go to a woman who needs one, and although I'm a high-risk birth it probably wouldn't be me! I'd rather have one on the premise of actually needing one, not because of who I "know".

It inspired me to ask the members of MN for the most bizarre advice you've been given?

Weird, I just ate clementines chopped up into yoghurt, eat that most mornings, no sickness.

MumW

My gp suggested that I try drinking tonic water before going to bed

Someone on MN recommended tonic water for "restless legs" so my husband tried it (he nearly kicks me out of bed some nights) and it certainly works for that. And comet think of it he hasn't complained about cramp either . . .

"Adam Ant doesn't wash for days!"

According to my mum, when I declared I was in love with him and still am.

Adam Ant has well documented mental health problems.

Indeed he does, poor man. That info would have killed my crush on him stone dead.

Yep, poor bloke. I've seen him live and he was fantastic. Apparently he's been undergoing treatment for a couple of years now though and seems to be doing better.

He was hot in the 80s though, think every girl fancied him!

He so was

Someone recently told me that refugees are causing pollution in the UK because we are having to chop down trees in order to build houses for them all, and as a result there isn't enough carbon dioxide being produced to keep the air clean.

Someone warned my sister not to emigrate to Canada because they are part of the USA and as such are governed by Donald Trump.

StStrattersOfMN

He had amazing cheekbones. The 80s was a great era for really hot blokes. Adam Ant, Bowie, Patrick Swayze, Prince, Boy George, George Michael...

Except for Bowie, not one of them aged well!

Although I am pleased to see Rick Astley has aged like a fine wine.

YY I think they peaked in the 80's, Brian Ferry, Tony Hadley, Sting

We were discussing Rick Ashley on FB the other day, he's improving with age like a fine wine.

Tony Hadley was ruined for me when I found out he was a Tory. Same with Ken Dodd (although I wasn't in love with Ken, for obvious reasons...)

Now Bryan Adams. There's a man who's really aged well. Still would.

Oh god, he's a Tory? You're joking. You're not joking, are you

"That I must love a loathed enemy" :(

Yep.

www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2007/oct/13/the10rightwingrockers

I was so disappointed. True was the soundtrack to my early teens. (I was 13 when it was released!)

Ariminta99 not staying up late to sleep through - but to sleep late
My MIL didn't see why my small child wouldn't sleep in until 11am---- after a late night.

For record - if I ever kept DD up late she would get up EARLIER and then was a fucking nightmare

The main problem with her sleeping with us is we then have to go to bed at the same time as her, leaving all the jobs I can't do with her around not done, and we don't have any time to just be us and not mum and dad.

Not quite sure how that ended up on this thread definitely the wrong one!

Just remembered another gem from my DM. I asked if I could use her landline phone one day to call my daughter's mobile phone as my mobile's battery was dead. She insisted that wouldn't be possible. She said if you wanted to call a mobile phone,you had to call it from another mobile. And the same applied to landline phones too.

Apart from the ones about crap care these are brilliant! DH's stepmum advised pork chop bones for teething babies to chew on confused clearly the invention on infant bonjela had passed her by!

Did she think you'd had puppies? :D