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JLaVO888

What’s the best and worst piece of advice you’ve ever received? (Pregnancy related or not)

meggyme

Best advice: Every parent is just making it up as they go along.
Worst advice: I can't think of a specific one, but probably some outdated piece of medical advice.

JLaVO888

Best: Being a parent is the hardest thing you will do but the best.

Worst: Sleep when he baby sleeps is still the most annoying piece of advice I constantly hear.

dtspmama

Best (from my therapist, when I confessed I thought I was going to be a horrible parent):  the things you think you're doing that will mess up your kids won't impact them at all; they'll be scarred by something as insignificant as you forgetting to put a banana in their lunch for the first day of school. 

Worst:  Sleep when the baby sleeps.

swanbrooner

Best: Don’t compare yourself to other moms or your kid to other kids.

Worst: When you’re super pregnant and people tell you to “stock up” on sleep before the baby comes as if you  can hoard sleep hours and access them when you’re exhausted.

char245

Best: you’re the mom, do what feels right to you.
worst: don’t hold your baby all the time you’ll spoil her. 

mschanandlerbong1214

Best: follow your instincts. It’s your baby, you will know if something is wrong. 

Worst: (not really advice just more judgmental) you’re still nursing? You’re gonna screw him up. 

meggyme

@mrschandlerbong1214 I got a lot of that too. Why do people care that much? She was 19 months, not 19 years!

Allycat11

Best: Your baby is not giving you a rough time, they are going through a rough time. That helps me so much through the first several months...not so much with toddlers though lol. 

Worst: I could probably write a book of these...short version is just ignorant comments and unsolicited advice regarding my daughter's physical and behavioral health problems. 

mamaoftwomonkeys

Best: You know your baby best

Worst: Just put the baby on your chest, and they will  find the nipple by themselves and start nursing -said by the pediatrician who saw us in the hospital  (DD Was a terrible nurser that needed SO much help)

novelblessings

Best: you know what is best for baby

Worst: Anything sleep related; DD has never followed the “rules” of sleep

Allycat11

@novelblessings my DD is the same. We have heard so many suggestions since birth on how to make her sleep better and nothing worked. At 5.5 years she still does not sleep through the night. 

My 2 year old son has been a great sleeper since about 1 year, so there is hope that not all siblings are like that!