Whats the worst/best advice you had??

[Lucybelle]

I thought this might be a good thread, maybe to tie in with the overbearing MILs out there, and also cos everyone was laughing at my post in the MIL thread.

My MIL told me to peel and core an apple, thread it with string and hang it around Mitchells neck so he can chew on it through the day!! Apart from being dumbfounded, I kept thinking about that joke about the kid that's so ugly they had to tie a porkchop around his neck to get the dog to play with him!!

My GF's MIL told her not to worry about formula, just give him Ribena in his bottle (straight)....apparently it has everything a 4 mth old needs. OMG!!

[Fostermum]

OMG does your MIL not know that apples go brown rather quickly without their skin DUH. Sorry that is the most stupid thing I have ever heard. Except for a friend of mine who is very into psychics and stuff, my son has a birthmark on his left forehead and she believes that in a former life he was shot at close range and that is how his life ended, now WHY would you tell anyone that :rolleyes:

[veve]

Oh my goodness- I CAN NOT believe she recommended this!!!

Apples around a child's neck!!! - never mind the fact that apples go brown (a perfectly valid point though :) ) what about the fact that you have placed a string AROUND his neck????? does she not know how many kids die playing with venitian blind cords??? and she wants to give him a rope of his own???

bizarre???

I'm sorry- I'm a paranoid freak- but that situation would give me nightmares!!!!

xxxx
veve

[H&B'sMum]

I don't know whether to burst out laughing or be horrified. LOL won.

The best advice I got was "enjoy him." And we still are.

[Christie Marschke]

Apple - foul!

My husband's grandmother - who was shocked to find that I wasn't weighing my baby after each breastfeed ("how do you know he's getting enough?") - told me that I should just crush up Arrowroot biccies into his bottle because after all, once they get to two months, they're really getting hungry...

Mouth open and looking at photos on the wall behind her of her obese children, i just nodded and smiled. Then she went on to tell me how I was so lucky becuase I had to great babies and she had 5 bad ones - all colicy, always throwing up and really unsettled..........

I just nodded and smiled.......

Christie mum of Ella and Rafe (rhymes with safe).

[Elfin]

Crikey Lucybelle I can't even come close to the apple :D The worst has been to put some brown sugar in a bottle mixed with carnation milk. This was to 'cure ' constipation for a three month old. I switched formulas and this did the trick.

[mumof2girls]

My sister was advised to put a teaspoon of brown sugar into every bottle that her son had as his bowel muscle didn't work (they finally found out at 4 months) and it did the trick, she was worried about his teeth but they were fine. It was the only thing that worked for him!

I don't think that I have been given any bad advice that comes close to you guys advice :)

[Chickadee]

I don't know if it was bad or good advice, but it was certainly odd. I was given this suggestion during a talk on introducing solids, in the context that "babies like chewing on bones". It might also have been in reference to teething.

I never tried it. We have 2 dogs and I could only imagine the fights that might have broken out!

[yummmmy_mummy]

lucybelle u start out with apple and then when theyre older u start putting lifesavers on it.. hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahah ahahahahah
i mean giving them a peice of apple is one thing but to put it on a string OMG some people have strange advice.....a strange peice of advice i got ( weather true or not i dont know) was to use baking soda mixed with water in a smooth paste and put it on cradle cap........ i never tried this but apperently it works another odd thing someone told me which isnt really advice is that a child has the ability reconise there past life up until the age of 5

[Kat]

I don't know if it was bad or good advice, but it was certainly odd. I was given this suggestion during a talk on introducing solids, in the context that "babies like chewing on bones". It might also have been in reference to teething.

I never tried it. We have 2 dogs and I could only imagine the fights that might have broken out!

I've heard that one too...I am not sure at what age it was recommended but I think the logic was meant to be high in iron? Also it was from a CHN!
Kat

[Kat]

The best advice I ever got was to not have too many preconcieved expectations - my friend said things would be a lot easier if I didn't try to live up to some notion of what having a baby would actually be like e.g. don't expect anything specific to definatly work

She was so right. The best thing my husband and I do as parents is to be flexible enough to work through all the changes and adjustments.

We are also lucky to have a terrific baby - however the less stressed we are it seems the less she cries too!

Kat