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

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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?

Mil repeated tells me that cutting white bread out of diet will cure ds. He has hfa.
She bases this belief on her friend, who KNOWS, said friend had dc with autism but the instant that she cut white bread out of their diet, he instantly became NT.

I know that there are some complex connections between gut bacteria and some aspects of autism, however when I challenge any of Mils facts about autism she readily admits that she doesn't agree with 'science' because 'they' can't know everything. Sigh.

I don't even bother passing it by her that autism doesn't necessarily need curing.
She is a lovely woman normally but is convinced that homeopathy works better than 'science'. She's fine with people eating cake just not white bread. Lol!

Many years ago my dear departed gran told me off for washing my hair when I had my period! Apparently this was very dangerous back in her day.

Or having a bath.

Someone my mum worked with NEEDED a bath but it was her time of the month, so she wore her wellies in the bath - no idea how this helped.

DoctorBeat

I went and got myself the pill for a similar reason, I got grilled about why I was using it and not the mini pill.

Infants and children do grow when they're asleep, as that's when the growth hormone is omitted.

My elderly aunt always maintained that you should chew bananas really slowly as they are difficult to digest. Specifically bananas, other fruit and veg not a problem for the digestive system apparently

I am convinced my while family is barmier then box of frogs as so many if these gems still circulating
Yy to orange and milk
Yy to go out with wet hair/keep kidneys warm

We were given spoonfuls sugar to cure hiccups(tried this on my bestcfruend and made her vomit)

Chewing gum gets stuck if swallow it

Not just Apple, but any kind sees grows trees(I should have grapes and sunflowers totally block my hearing by now then!!)

Parsnip "cores" poisonous-my mum diligently cut out the cores when making a stew or soup

Adamant hedgehogs (and cats)need nourishment if milk

Making me eat cheese even tho made me suck as a kid as ud get used to it(can't eat dairy, but in them days allergy was just awkward fickleness )

Giving friends anything sharp(scissors knives etc) would cut friendship and had give a copper coin to cancel out the damage

I could go on for hours

DMIL's sayings - never let your baby look upwards, or directly at a light. Can't remember why, I pissed myself laughing, then promptly forgot the why bit.

. But, you're NOT meant to look directly at sun, so why is silly to advise not to let a baby stare directly into a bright bulb or any other strong light source?

My mum told me to stop tickling my 2 month old lb's feet because I was torturing him.

Yep cant wash hair on period, white potatoes are common, never put the washing machine on on new years day....

"Sugar feeds the brain" - exh's DGM

You mustn't go out after you have a bath/shower. You'll get pneumonia because your pores are open. My mother told me that, so it's fact.

My mil always tells me off for giving the kids ham. She's convinced it will poison everyone and won't buy it. I've explained it's cooked but she's adamant that it's not. I'm serving one on boxing day for a buffet but it will be cooked on Christmas eve. She'll eat breadsticks to make a point.

She also won't eat leftovers. This Christmas she will do a turkey for 2 people that is big enough for 6 and most of it will go in the bin.

My father in law said, very earnestly, that my having a fallopian tube removed wouldn't be a big problem, it just meant we wouldn't be able to have both girls and boys in future. Apparently one ovary produces girls and the other boys..... My husband tried to explain how it actually works but he just kept saying "I'm sure I read it somewhere" 😁

My DM, who bottle fed us all, insisted that I should sterilise my nipples before feeding my daughter with steam. I had images of me hoiking a very burnt bosom over the spout of a kettle several times a day.

Never trust a man with a beard....He's got something to hide . From my dm

Gowgirl my DM insists on not using the washing machine on New Year's Day because you will be washing your luck away .

She also would not let us drink orange juice when having cereal because milk and orange will curdle in your stomach.

PonderLand tickling will cause a stutter. My DM again.

And never eat hot bread straight from the oven, that will also give you a bad stomach.

Ooo, I recall my granddad telling me matter of factly that his doctor told him he cannot eat reheated food, that it will make him ill. As he was enjoying his pre-made lunch (not in UK, but a brilliant subsidised hot lunch service delivered to your door for older people who couldn't quite manage to cook daily anymore.). I pointed out his lunches were cooked the day before and reheated and went ballistic at this quack doctor and demanded his name to write a letter of complaint for telling a vulnerable senior citizen such nonsense. It was at that point my uncle stepped in and informed me the doctor advice my grandfather was repeating was from 40 years ago, when they didn't have a refrigerator and food poisoning from eating days' old leftovers was common. No food gone to waste, in those days.

Never wear a dressing gown in bed / unhygienic apparently.

Never bath after eating - you'll get a stomach cramp and drown.

I was once advised by a qualified chiropodist to find some "gypsies" and ask them to "buy" my toe warts. This apparently would work better than excising them...

I remembered another one that did actually work. My Chinese friend told me to leave a little bowl of vinegar out, to help a cold. Not sure if it was the placebo effect, but I did feel better.

Never eat an apple before going to bed. This will make you sick and give you nightmares.

Never go to bed or go outside with wet hair as you will get a cold.

Drink out of the other side of the glass i.e. the side furthest from your mouth to make hiccups disappear (this is very hard to do!).

Never put shoes on a table as somebody in the house will die!

Reading too much will damage your eyesight!

I have countless others if only I could remember them.....

The shoes on the table comes I think from the days when dead bodies were laid out on a table at their home, so a superstition.

That's a whole other thread

In the 80's I got some careers advice from my Nan.

I was 16.

"'Ere, you're better looking than that Sam Fox, why don't you become a Page 3 girl?"

When I replied that the idea didn't really appeal, she returned to reading The Sun, shaking her head in despair as she posed the rhetorical question....

"You know what your trouble is? You've got no ambition!"

Cheers Nan!

Rusty I gave DS some apple to eat about an hour before bed when he was about 4. Ye fucking Gads. He hurled so much it was a strip-the-bed-and-dunk-in-the-bath evening.

Yes yes to orange juice and milk curdling in your stomach. Could never understand why people have fresh orange at breakfast.

MIL told DH his work should give him an extra day off for the 2nd January as he was Scottish.
I pointed out a lot of his workforce were from different countries and had different BH. She said it was cultural and he needed it.

She also kept telling me that all you need to do to get a sleep in with babies/toddlers is keep them up late - they will then sleep through the night and sleep until 11am.