whats the worst advice you have ever been given?

[sunshinesupermummy]

come on, dish the dirt

From an elderly midwife when I was in hospital with my 9 day old bf baby: "Why have you got him on the breast all the time? You need to get him into a four hourly routine as soon as possibly. You don't mind it now but you wait til the novelty wears off...."

Funnily enough, the novelty never has worn off my pfb, stupid cow.

Let babies cry for a bit, they're just after attention. Can you believe I considered following that on the FIRST NIGHT. Can you believe it? I felt bad for cuddling my own new baby boy. WTF!

Babies always settle into their own routine.

I didn't have a baby in that case.

My mother said I was an idiot while trying to breastfeed... formula much better on her eyes, aparently.

Go to back to work, you are getting boring...which I am not, obviously

You don't need to pick her up when she cries. Crying is a baby's job. (MIL)

acorrding to my midwife breastfed babies don't need to be winded??

My Grandma told me to break my own waters with a knitting needle. I refrained from doing so.

QueensPeach pmsl - me too!!

SoH, that's a bit scary

Worst bits of advice for me have to be:

Drink milk to make milk (community mw)
Don't sleep with your baby you'll roll over and suffocate him (best mate)
Give him lots of stuff with cows' milk in it (hv)
Oh and anything - anything - that includes the words "rod" and "back".

When I asked for some advice about the MMR for dd1 (16 years ago) I was told "do you want to be a good mother or a bad mother?".

This still makes me cross

Oh, I had that one, Islamum. Ridiculous - ds would have been one very unhappy baby had he never been winded.

My mother was very insistent that we couldn't possibly bathe ds in the bathroom. Had to be in a baby bath in the sitting room in front of the fire. Because bathrooms are cold (Helloo? We had central heating!) and full of germs that leap out of the loo every time it flushes (she has a point about the mechanics but it honestly wasn't going to harm ds).

And she knew perfectly well we didn't actually have a fireplace...

it's easy to potty train any child in a weekend! Some children perhaps..........not mine!!!

'Try and get your ds put on the at-risk register, then you'll be able to get a council house more easily.'

I kid not you. This was said to me by a well-meaning, kind and usually very intelligent friend, when I was having a small self-indulgent moan about my living arrangements after xh and I split up.

Needless to say, it was not a piece of advice I took

my dsis used to be bathed in front of the gas fire. but the toilet really was freezing. when ds was born, mom insisted i should just stick the baby bath in the tub, and bathe her that way. much easier than the stand i was trying to faff round with.
mil timidly asked if 1 and a half hour old ds2 had been given milk. dh shsushed her quite outrageously that he had been givenmothers milk and it was the best for the baby etc etc etc.

oo, forgot about htis as i completly ignored it at the time. ds1 had jaundice. dh's auntie told me not to eat anything with turmeric in it!! i was still in hospital at the time. ds was born a month early

When registering DS with our doctor, the receptionist saw we'd ticked the box consenting to organ donation and said, "You don't want to do that!"

Put that baby on "normal milk". This from FIL when DD was two weeks old and I was breastfeeding.

The obvious Rod and Back talk from MIL re DS at 4 weeks.

Put him (DS) on solids at 10 weeks because his weight gain had slowed down while being breastfed with occasional top up formula bottle. This from my mother. Followed by huge sulk and not talking to me for 3 months when I failed to heed her advice.

My mother reckons you don't need to worry about giving the baby the colostrum - there's no point in bfing until your "proper" milk comes in

(DM)That baby should be on the potty (11m old). Your sister was potty trained when she was 12 months (Yeah right )

Send a screaming ds1 to preschool, because he will soon have to go to school.

Yes right. I even did it. Everyone told me to.
He hated it.
He loved school.
I think he would have loved school anyway.

I regret it so much.

pop a wee whiskey in the bottle help newborn sleep - i didn't

From GP 2 days ago:

Disposible nappies are better than real nappies

Twat

actually mozzy, i agree with the gp. they are better if you are the sort of person who doesnt change their babies nappy very often. disposables suck up so much fluid, that baby will feel quite dry even in a wet nappy, (that after all is in all their advertising!) but in real nappies, the material feels soggy and wet immediatley, so needs to be changed more often, ormore prone to nappy rash.
but if you are a mom who wants whats best for her babies skin and the environment, then yes real nappies are etter, but they have to be used properly. otherwise, disposables are better for the babies skin, but obviously not the environment.
phew, managed to get that all out. wonder if you managed to read it all..

while bfing on a train, random woman sits down next to me and says "you need to be careful doing that or you'll smother the baby"... [fhmn]

Don't cuddle them too much.