Times when you've had to bite your tongue

[AnneD]

When people say, if you really want something, it'll happen. Oh yeah? Try telling that to someone who is infertile and really wants to get pregnant...

 

[AnneD]

When some genius tells me I shouldn't be depressed because I've got my baby. Depression's got nothing to do with that. And, newsflash, postnatal depression tends to happen *after* one's had a baby. Not after, say, one's failed a driving test.

 

[AnneD]

When people ask, "Is she a good baby?", meanining if she sleeps through the night. Yeah she's a good baby, but she doesn't sleep through the night, she's too young to last ages without a feed.

 

[robinator]

When people claim they know better than medical professionals. Please, who spent years and years, not to mention tons of money, on studying medicine? And since when does googling equal research?

Vax/anti-vax threads, much? Lol

 

[babydust1990]

Blimmin'eck AnneD, seems like you were in the mood for a good rant

 

[robinator]

When people ask if I'm still breast feeding. How is that relevant to......anything?

 

[MommyJogger]

I love cats so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP4NMoJcFd4

The first time I saw this video was about 7 weeks pp. I had serious baby blues (not ppd, but serious hormonal imbalances) and every time I saw another baby I would burst into tears because I couldn't take him/her home. I also had a major bf compulsion, as in I hear a crying baby and was like "you don't understand, I HAVE to nurse that baby". DH showed me this video and said, "This is you, only I'm pretty sure she's joking..... So you're crazier."

 

[AnneD]

When people claim they know better than medical professionals. Please, who spent years and years, not to mention tons of money, on studying medicine? And since when does googling equal research?

Vax/anti-vax threads, much? Lol

Oh yeah. I tend to read them as if they were sitcom material.
The same goes for people who claim that a mother can diagnose her kid better than a doctor because "mummy knows best". Makes me want to hurl, but I tend to keep my mouth shut.

 

[AnneD]

Blimmin'eck AnneD, seems like you were in the mood for a good rant

Indeed I'm on a roll... Once upon a time when I was having counselling my CPN told me that a large part of my depression was to do with keeping my mouth shut and people-pleasing. None of that today, clearly.

 

[babydust1990]

Blimmin'eck AnneD, seems like you were in the mood for a good rant

Indeed I'm on a roll... Once upon a time when I was having counselling my CPN told me that a large part of my depression was to do with keeping my mouth shut and people-pleasing. None of that today, clearly.

You rant away! Good for the soul

 

[robinator]

So are cats!!

 

[AnneD]

When people ask if I'm still breast feeding. How is that relevant to......anything?

It is! You mean you didn't send Lane down to the chippy to get her own fish and chips after she was a month old? Or whatever your local equivalent of a chippy is?

So are you STILL breastfeeding???

 

[MommyJogger]

When people claim they know better than medical professionals. Please, who spent years and years, not to mention tons of money, on studying medicine? And since when does googling equal research?

Vax/anti-vax threads, much? Lol

Oh yeah. I tend to read them as if they were sitcom material.
The same goes for people who claim that a mother can diagnose her kid better than a doctor because "mummy knows best". Makes me want to hurl, but I tend to keep my mouth shut.

Depends. Seriously, some doctors ARE idiots. We go to a physician group and one doctor EVERY time we see him tells me my son has diarrhea because his poop is runny and there are no food chunks. Even at the 6w visit. And I've never been to the UK, but even I know to just nod and smile at HVs.

 

[robinator]

When people ask if I'm still breast feeding. How is that relevant to......anything?

It is! You mean you didn't send Lane down to the chippy to get her own fish and chips after she was a month old? Or whatever your local equivalent of a chippy is?

So are you STILL breastfeeding???

It's STILL not relevant!!

 

[robinator]

I don't even know what a chippy is....

 

[babydust1990]

You don't have chippys

Fish and chips are like the most British thing ever!

 

[robinator]

But I know what a limerick is!

 

[robinator]

You don't have chippys

Fish and chips are like the most British thing ever!

I thought tea was lol

 

[MommyJogger]

I don't even know what a chippy is....

Just replace it in your mind with a Five Guys.

 

[AnneD]

When people ask if I'm still breast feeding. How is that relevant to......anything?

It is! You mean you didn't send Lane down to the chippy to get her own fish and chips after she was a month old? Or whatever your local equivalent of a chippy is?

So are you STILL breastfeeding???

It's STILL not relevant!!

Please can I send you my MIL and FIL to sort out, they keep asking me that.