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Babies: 3 - 6 Months
Childless People Giving Advice
Apparently, occording to my unmarried childless friend, it is counter productive to breastfeed past 6 months. She read it in a magazine and everything. Oh, and children should be potty trained by their first birthday also. I laughed and said she was wrong on both accounts but I was amused that someone who isn't a parent nor has done extensive research on the benefits of breastfeeding would give me advice. Anyone else receive advice by someone who hasn't been through this?
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Re: Childless People Giving Advice
ME! It's very frustrating bc you want to set them straight without being rude, but yet it's pretty annoying!
My one friend from HS constantly gives me advice, yet she has no children. Her other friend has 2 kids so she often tells me what that girl does with her kids. Well, every kid is different and I have my own way of doing things.On a couple of occasions I've nicely told her that actually, xxxx is true, not yyyy. Sometimes I just let it go though.
This past week she made sure to tell me to start veggies before fruits or LO "wont ever like veggies". Umm, ok. Too bad my pedi already told me that our brains are hardwired to prefer sweet flavors over other flavors, and starting fruits first has nothing to do with whether or not a kid will like veggies.
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I have a co-worker that does this to me, and it drives me INSANE. She's one of those people who have an opinion about EVERYTHING. seriously.. I don't remember the instance or even what was talked about but she always has something to say about Layla and she should be doing this and doing that, and it's like uhm how many watermelons have YOU pushed through YOUR vag? oh yeah, NONE so shut the ef up woman.
one time I was like I'm so tired, layla was up ALL night and this n that and she was like oh why were you up with her? don't you live with his parents? why can't someone else get her? uhm yeah okay. she's MY baby, MY responsibility. not anyone elses but mine and SO's. he just so happened to have to work at 7 that morning and I didn't have to work until 2 so I got up with her of course... ugh!! stupid ignorant people!
The Nutty Life
I hate this!! I've actually had that exact comment from DH's cousin about how I should stop breastfeeding at 6 months. That beyond that it's totally pointless and the kid should be eating food.
YEEAAHHH. She shut up real quick when I told her kids shouldn't have cow's milk until 12 months!
Even some people who have kids annoy the crap out of me. This one lady was dissing me for giving DD a bath in the middle of the day instead of before bed. Baths make her wide awake. I do what works. The same lady also told me I was pretty much a terrible mother and YELLED at me because DD's bed time is 12 midnight. My kid doesn't get up at 6 a.m like hers.. we have a schedule. Step off.
Ugh....I got the 3rd degree from my BIL's friend. He felt that I was endangering everyone around my daughter since we are holding out on the Hep B vaccine until she is older. Ummmmmm.....She's not sexually active and she's not getting a tattoo any time soon, she's 13 months old. Dumbass.
Apparently in his eye Hep B can be airborne and transmitted like a cold.
I've had a childless male friend tell me that going up to pop the paci back into my 3month old's mouth every hour of the night is letting her manipulate me. I should let her cry for an open ended amount of time. Even worse, I began to doubt my instincts after his "advice". I snapped out of it, once I did my homework. If my young baby, who is incapable of self-soothing, needs her mama...then I'll come running. Always.