Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

to feel really annoyed by this endless ranting & raving

36 replies

sauce · 25/02/2007 20:53

about what, how, when, why to feed babies? breast or bottle? finger food, puréed food, food from a jar, regurgitated food (yes, this is done), blah, blah, blah?

OP posts:
oliveoil · 25/02/2007 20:54

oh god yes

very boring and tedious

swift1 · 25/02/2007 20:54

Maybe youre just having a bad day? People find this stuff really informative and helpful.

Caligula · 25/02/2007 20:55

LOL

Yes.

This is a parenting site!

(But I kind of see where you're coming from)

Original poster
sauce · 25/02/2007 20:55

not when it makes others feel badly, especially new mothers who think they don't know their arses from their elbows! not helpful AT ALL!

OP posts:
Twiglett · 25/02/2007 20:56

its boring and tedious when you're through with it I think

I think when you're doing it its endlessly fascinating

unlike re-decorating which is the other way round entirely

motherinferior · 25/02/2007 20:57

Yes, but when you're stuck in the middle of experiencing it you do want to weigh it over and talk about it endlessly. Later you want to talk endlessly about schools. Parenthood is a constant stream of intrinsically rather boring things you endlessly rehash, I've found. It's All Part Of The Magic.

oliveoil · 25/02/2007 20:58

what I find b&t (can this be a new acronym?) is the insistence that one way is better than another

when it all ends up appearing in a nappy so why the angst?

NurseyJo · 25/02/2007 20:58

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

oliveoil · 25/02/2007 20:58

oooh I have schools to come

lockets · 25/02/2007 21:01

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

Original poster
sauce · 25/02/2007 21:02

agreed oliveoil about one way supposedly being better than another. It's not the advice & support I resent (obviously), it's the damned superiority!

OP posts:
Eddas · 25/02/2007 21:02

Ok it may annoy you but to others it is informative and helpful. Some people need ideas and help. Not everyone have real life family and friends they can rely on for help and information. Surely that's why sites like this exist.

As someone else said you don't have to read them. I'd imagine that what you find interesting some others don't.

Not too sure about the regurgited food though Really? think i'll steer clear of that. Although did see a monkey eating his own vomit in the zoo the other day, DD very curious about that

Bozza · 25/02/2007 21:03

oh olive you will love schools. Fantastic subject.

motherinferior · 25/02/2007 21:04

And there's so much you can endlessly rehash with schooling. It's a bottomless pool of boredom.

oliveoil · 25/02/2007 21:05

(although I didn't read reports on dd1's chosen one or even visit so I may be immune to school threads already [slacker])

Moomin · 25/02/2007 21:05

well if you look at the alternative, i.e. getting your advice about parenting from just one person who has just happened to have written a book and got it published, and may well not know their arese from their elbow, then I'd rather read lot of views and opinions, weigh it all up and make the decision based on what suits me best. Give me mumsnet anyday

Original poster
sauce · 25/02/2007 21:06

oh for pity's sake! i'm not slagging off MN.

OP posts:
MrsBadger · 25/02/2007 21:06

if you mean the superiority of up to date, evidence based advice over old wives' tales, manufacturers' propaganda and the school of 'it never did me any harm', then I do think you might be being a teensy bit unreasonable.

But I guess this is why the site is neatly divided into different topics, so if you don't want to read about any sort of feeding ever, then lo, you don't have to.

robbosmum · 25/02/2007 21:07

sort of know what you mean,,,there sometimes isn't any middle ground its either you will kill your child if you continue to do this....(sorry complete exaggeration) however i have been helped, and lol at some threads more than i have irritated and i am a new mum with endless queries

robbosmum · 25/02/2007 21:07

sorry ,should read more than irritated

Original poster
sauce · 25/02/2007 21:08

propaganda, eh? everyone seems to have an axe to grind, don't you think?

OP posts:
SenoraSpoon · 25/02/2007 21:08

is there ranting and raving going on? I must have missed it.

LowFatMilkshake · 25/02/2007 21:09

Sorry Sauce, I am a bit slow tonight

Are you saying that while you agree this is a parenting site and people have questions to ask (often repeated again and again and again by newcomers etc), what you dont like is the critical ranting and raving that goes on when one group disagree with how another group do something??

Advice and experience is okay
critiscm, ranting and raving is not

Sorry it's been a long day, but I need clarification before I decided if you are being unreasonable or not -

Moomin · 25/02/2007 21:10

my god - now who's ranting?! I know you're not slagging off MN; I'm just saying that even when threads and posters annoy me at least it's a range of views rather than just one. Some people are going to give themselves ulcers.

Rhubarb · 25/02/2007 21:10

I don't see any ranting going on sauce other than by your good self!

New mums get paranoid, have you never been there?