Share the best baby advice you’ve been given with ASDA Little Angels for the chance to win a £300 voucher! NOW CLOSED

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Having your first child can be a daunting time, causing you to ask yourself ‘Am I doing this right?’ multiple times a day. And with the constant stream of parenting tips from all and sundry, it can be hard to know who and what to listen to. ASDA Little Angels would like to know what the one piece of baby advice someone gave you was that really cut through the noise and made a difference.

Here’s what ASDA Little Angels has to say: "We all know you can get great advice online from the likes of Mumsnet or our own Baby & Toddler Club; but sometimes that one thing that makes your life easier can come from the most unexpected source. We’d love to hear yours!"

Did someone show you a handy trick to make nappy changes hassle-free or tell you the must have essentials for your nappy bag? Maybe you were given golden advice on how to still feel like yourself whilst caring for baby? Or perhaps you were told tips on how to get your baby to sleep through the night?

Whether you were enlightened by the numerous uses for wet wipes or told a never-fail trick to soothe your baby, please share it below and you will be entered into the prize draw where one Mumsnetter will win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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When I moved from breastfeeding to bottle a friend suggested I use room temperature milk from the very beginning. DD didn't know any difference then and saved the hassle of having to heat bottles up when out and about or at home.

Trust your instincts

enjoy it - it doesn't last long.

The best advise I was given, is don't listen to people's opinion on how to bring up your baby.

Someone told me- and it took me until my second child to believe it- do it your way. Whatever suits your WHOLE family is best for you. Any other ‘rules’ don’t matter!

Have a routine for you, not for the baby! So have somewhere to go to each day to get you out, have a time you will eat, get showered and dressed etc, or else you end up not eating because you are dealing with the baby, then filling up with crap because you are starving, then your sugar levels fall again... or you end up getting to lunchtime and realise you've not managed to clean your teeth yet.

It's too easy to forget your own needs with a baby, and most first time mums will have spent most of their life with school/uni/work routines, suddenly having no structure to your day can completely throw you.

Ignore the books on sleep training, you will only stress yourself out. Each baby is different

It’s NOT a race.

Your baby will roll, sit up, grow teeth, eat solids, poo in a toilet, read and write at his/her own pace. And guess what, in the end, it’ll happen either way... and before you know they’ll be bringing you breakfast in bed. ;)

The best advice I was given was by my health visitor during my first visit. She recommended that I get out everyday and have a walk even if it's a short one. That really helped me when I was sleep deprived and felt a bit low.

For any visitors, the cost of a cuddle with the baby is to make you a cup of tea.

Best advice I ever got - Don't listen to any advice.

There isn’t anything that will work with all babies. You can compare as much as you like, but ultimately your baby isn’t the same as anyone else’s, they are an individual and have to be treated as such.

Get out of the house every day

Easy to say, hard to do but - try not to sweat the small stuff!
As long as baby has milk / food, sleep, clothes, is clean and loved!
Oh and housework can wait!!

Don't make any decisions in the small hours of the morning.

It's not going to last forever ....and it doesn't ! The early years go so quickly and soon you'll be looking at a 10,8&6 year old thinking where did the time go?
Enjoy the babies ..it's the easiest time !!! Wait until your DS10 is analysing your parking skills !!!

Best advice I got from - a very low-key midwife in hospital when I was totally knackered - 'all they need is lots of love, don't worry about the rest'. Blessed relief to my ears

Enjoy it all! Every burp, every poop, every windy smile....and take so many photos....they do grow up so so quickly, and those days where you think the lonely baby time will never end, when you're sat on your sofa, your best comfy grey milk-soaked top that looks like crap but feels so so comfortable on, and your baby is wailing, and your kids need their dinner, and the house is a pit....one day that ends, one day your house will be immaculate, the dinner made on time, your top is nice and clean, and the house will be so quiet....those are the days you're going to look back and remember with the biggest smile how wonderful those early days actually can be. - My Mum told me this!

When you reach the end of your tether, because you've been up just too many times that night, or they've needed picking up constantly today, just remember, there'll be a time when they no longer need you. There'll be a last midnight cuddle, a last breast feed, a last time that they put their arms up to you and ask to be picked up. That thought still gets me through a lot of difficult times.

Rest when baby sleeps. The housework will wait.

It's a phase and it will get better tomorrow/next week/next month

You can never hold your newborn baby to much, and don't listen to those who tell you, you do. Babies need to feel loved💗

Trust your instincts & relax.
Also remember to look after yourself. As you need to be happy & healthy for your baby

Don't buy too much stuff. You'll get most of it given, you won't use half of it and you won't have space for it.

The best advice I was given was, "babies want to survive". This was when my twins were tiny and I was worried about going to sleep (on the odd occasion when they were both asleep!).