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?

We don't give staff a single room on my ward if their children are admitted. We might have a bit of banter with them but no other special treatment. I have definitely had preferential treatment when people discover I work in the hospital I'm also a patient at. My MS team almost treat me like a member of their team!! Trying to rearrange an MRI scan the other day and they managed to fit me in this Sunday.

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My mum always told us we'd get a chill on our kidneys if we sat on a cold surface. And going out with wet hair would make you ill. I was going to the GP once and firmly told my my sister that the GP wouldn't be happy that I turned up with wet hair!!

My mum says when new shoes hurt I ought to cover then in a damp cloth and bash them with a hammer.
This is a tried and tested method of breaking in Doc Martens and Army boots, don't know anyone who doesn't do it!

From my dad, declare yourself bankrupt then your student loans will get wiped out. Aye OK dad.....

My mum and Auntie weren't allowed to wash their hair during their periods. My Nana is a crazy bitch though and wouldn't let them wash their hair more than once a week even during puberty (she'd put talc I'm their hair) and also said that virgins shouldn't use tampons! My mum left home at 16 I wonder why!?

DC's grandparents (Bulgarian) think if you put an onion under the bed of a sick kid it'll absorb the sickness. I nearly pissed myself when their grandma told me!

Fink, an example is, I was staying at a place called Plaza Azul, mum said say it plarthar arrtool, mum and stepdad also called Lanzarote, Lantherotty. I think they tried to pronounce it the Spanish way as they went there a lot and even tried to learn Spanish (with some success).
It amused the taxi driver, he remembered me on the way back too and mentioned it again. It was in a nice way though, and he told me how to say it right and taught me my most useful Spanish phrase, how to ask for the bill.

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Oh yes, I'd forgotten about sitting on cold surfaces and going out with wet hair.

I once went out in sub-zero temperatures with wet hair and by the time I'd trudged 3 miles through snow to get to the station (bloody school wouldn't give us a snow day even though the roads were impassable) my hair was frozen. Snapped a chunk of it clean off! Didn't catch a cold from it though.

Taking magnesium will help leg cramps.

Never go to bed with wet hair, you will get pneumonia.

My Health Visitor told me to take a bath with lavender oil to soothe pain and help my episiotomy stitches heal.

I'm sure that's why they pinged open... I don't even like baths. Why would I want to soak a healing wound in water? I wish I'd used my common sense and just showered instead.

Oh, and my mum also told me I should only ever wear white knickers because the dye in coloured ones could cause a nasty infection 'down below'.....

Oh and if you have a chest infection, wear big knickers because they keep you warm.

But surely white knickers are also dyed?! It's not a natural, unbleached colour. Maybe she should have been advising unwear made from hessian sacks!

To prevent cramp at night put a cork in your pillowcase.
Bonkers.

And Dad used to say if you go to a disco, keep your "(h)and on your halfpenny pronounced apenney)!!!!

And this isn't really answering the question, but DS1 once convinced DS2 that whenever DS2 left the room, we all disappeared. DS2 was darting into rooms for weeks just to check we were still there.

DS1 has the potential to be a supervillain, as you can tell.

DM told me and my DB when we were growing up that if you stood on a pin, it would travel through your veins/arteries/small versions thereof and pierce your heart.

DB went to the GP when he was 16, convinced that he'd stood on a small sharp object, and repeated DM's dire warning that a needle was currently wending its way through his blood to his heart.

Doctor was like your mum's story is BS, go home.

My Dad makes little digs about my weight all the time. Yes, I am overweight. He likes to keep making the same suggestion, seafood. Eat prawns, they are good for you!

I am allergic to shellfish.

Oh and it's ok to smoke, it keeps your hands busy.

My mum says when new shoes hurt I ought to cover then in a damp cloth and bash them with a hammer.

That works!! But you can also bring them to a bootmaker (especially if it's thin leather...)

I have a weird footshape (narrow, low heels) and the front of the foot is pretty broad. This really works for me!

fink. If she'd thought she could get away with it, she probably would have! Anything to discourage those pesky males....

My ex-MIL was insistent that there was 'no goodness' in peas. She would still constantly serve them up, but she advised me that they were actually just empty little green sacs, with no vitamins in them whatsoever.