What's the stupidest piece of baby advice anybody ever gave you?

Well, I have a few. Both came from my hubby's grandma. She told us not to ever take our baby outside when it was windy, because it would give the baby gas, because the baby swallows the wind. :-)


Also, she told us that when the baby is teething, we should let her chew on a chicken bone, because it is good for the teething. Like bones don't splinter all the time, or she couldn't choke on pieces of it.What's the stupidest piece of baby advice anybody ever gave you?
When I had Raynauds Syndrome, and was told by my obstetrician not to breastfeed, a cocky La Leche woman told me that every woman could breastfeed, and I just had to learn to work through the pain, as I was being selfish to my baby.





Other than that, the woman who told me to mix flour into my son's formula to make a paste for him to have to stop his reflux takes the cake (she was childless). The friend who told me to ignore my three day old baby crying at night because she had to learn about good sleep habits also sticks out, as well as the colleague who told my not to drink coffee when I was pregnant because it would turn the baby black (she wasn't joking, she was from a third world country, with lots of superstitions).What's the stupidest piece of baby advice anybody ever gave you?
In the ER the doctor on call said, ';Well, it looks like a virus. I'll prescribe some antibiotics.'; I said, ';Do you KNOW it's bacterial, or are you just prescribing something so you feel like you're doing something?'; She said, ';I'll just prescribe them.'; I never even filled the prescription. Seems to me a doctor should know better.
Oh god, there are so many times!!! One I remember vividly was when I was pregnant, and some lady approached me at the mall and said that if I keep rubbing my stomach the way I do, the baby will end up breach. I also remember this one time when this lady told me that I was making my son sick because I was breastfeeding.





Jeez, some people are just plain weird.
My husband's grandma: Well, it's one o'clock now, so she has until...five right until she has to eat? Go have fun I'll watch her.





Me: She's breastfed (speaking of my six week old daughter). That's not how breastfeeding works. She'll be hungry in half an hour. I'll take her with me.





Her: No, it's the same as formula feeding. Go have fun.





Me: No I'll take her.





Her: Well, it's up to you (duh.)
When I was at my partners parents house and his grandma was there too, our baby (who at the time was 2 weeks old) was asleep in his moses basket and he woke up starting to cry and so I walked over to get him and she said to me ';huh, you hardly let him cry at all';





Yes..im going to let me 2 week old cry on his own... NOT!
Oh it was the day we brought our son home from the NICU. My dh's sister decided she was going to go into our sons room, wake him up just to hold him. I said NO. You are sick! Then my 'brilliant' mil said, ';Oh it's ok. He needs to be exposed to germs to build up his immune system.'; I said, ';Excuse me. You do NOT expose a preemie, born 6 weeks early, to a cold like that on purpose. Ever heard of RSV?';





Oh another ';brilliant'; idea from the mil was to give our son whole milk at 7 months old. I said, ';NO! He's lactose intolerant, just like his daddy.';





Oh yeah I have a milion ';helpful'; from my nitwits-in-law.
That you have to leave your child to cry it out at night or they won't learn to sleep through





AND





That a child shouldn't sleep in your bed because he'll still be in it at 18








CHILDREN do things at their own pace without any pressure from parents, my son did these thinsg in his own time and it made our lives so much happier not listening to this rubbish...
Not a dumb piece of advice, but an annoying one after a while:





';The baby is going to change your life. Get ready for it!';








Well, DUH!!! I never once thought I would have my same life, pre-baby.
That my daughter is being deprived and her growth is being stunted because she doesn't drink from bottles. This came from my mother.


*cries*
To let my baby play with a plastic bag because they like the noise!!!!


Whatever I would never let him play with a plastic bag! Crazy!!
I would spoil her if I held her too much. She is 16 now and far from spoiled and she still lets me hold her.
My mother told me to give my daughter bottles of water with sugar when she was like 3 weeks old.
If you let it stand up it will be bow legged, if you tickle it, it will stutter when it talks
nursing is easy





stupid because it's super hard and often emotional
any and all...free advice is worth what you pay for it
shoot it