What's the most irritating piece of unsolicited parenting advice you've ever endured?

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One of mine was:
being told by a woman serving in a mobile fish and chip van that I was damaging my children's career prospects by home educating them.

lol my mum told me told me that too!

On telling the a nurse how pleased I was that DS had got himself into a routine, she replied gleefully that 'once you think they're settled they just change straight away, it never gets easier' etc etc This was 11 months ago, we're still going on the same and he's perfectly happy.

Also a childless friend telling me after the birth of DS that she would never want to have children but all that long holiday (by which she meant maternity leave) would be lovely. I suggested that it's definitely not a holiday, particularly when you've been in a mental hospital because of the severity of PND. She paused then said 'Yes, but still' Wtf!?!

dd1's bio dad's mother (who hit him with a frying pan round the head when he was growing up and had left her kids to live with their alcoholic abusive father!!!!!! not a great choice to choose between but still.......mothers don't usually leave their kids imo) came to see dd1 at my mums house when she was 6 weeks old, when she arrived dd1 was crying so she told me i needed to feed her, when i said i just had she told me i was starving her and that i wasn't a very good mum (i was 17) i told her fuck off, off my drive and never come back - she hasnt dd1 is now 7. and hasn't seen her bio dad since she was 6mths old either. no loss

Have been laughing at some of these threads, shocked at others - especially the "give that 5mo a slap" type ones.
I'm pregnant with my first at the moment, and it's good to know the 'advice' only gets worse when you give birth. So far I've been told (by exclusively childless friends) that I can't eat eggs, cheese (ALL cheese) milk or any nuts. Not to mention don't stand up / sit down...move at all
Luckily both my mum and MIL both have the attitude "well that's not how we did it but obviously things have changed, and you follow current advice" - I hope that carries on!!

Not so much advice, but when Dh phoned his mum to say that DS2 had been born, her reply was "Oh well, never mind". In response to the fact that he was a boy. She now has 2 sons and 4 grandsons. She often makes comments like
"oh i thought you or x might have had a girl for me" WTF. I pointed out that she was very lucky because she has 4 healthy grandchildren, and she should think of her friend, who has 1 daughter who has had 4 mcs, and another daughter who had a still birth, but no, she still moans.
She also said to me recently
"Ds2 is 6 now you would think you would have lost some of that weight, i suppose that what comes from being a childminder, yu sit on your arse all day eating biscuits and reading magazines

Reading Bugmums post a bit down the page reminded me of an incident i had with ds.
Had to go to hospital when ds was 6 weeks to check hips (breech birth) they were running very late and managed to call us in just as he was getting hungry. Well needless to say he got agitated and the screams were getting more high pitched the woman doing the scan was taking ages as there was a student learning how to do the scan as well. Suddenly she turned to me and in a harsh voice said "dont you have a dummy or something for him?" To which i replied in a very harsh manner myself "no he needs a bf and if you dont mind can we finish this so i can feed him unless you want to wait till i bf him now??!!" Needless to say she finished rather fast and we left