Why do people stick their oar in?!!!

[Emmy1987]

My friend keeps telling me Daisy should be on stage 2 milk with baby rice in the bottle by now!

I keep telling her she doesn't need stage 2 and is nowhere near ready for solids but she keeps rabbiting on! She even told me about her friend who's baby is a few days older than Daisy gave her LO a chocolate biscuit (!!!!!!) and tried asking if Daisy wanted one - REALLY?!

She tells me what a good baby Doo is then tells me I'm spoiling her when I pick her up when she cries!

She means well but aaargh I wish she'd keep her nose out!

Anyone else had unwanted advice?

 

[Miss_Bump]

Some people just like to poke their nose in!

Ignore what she says and defo ignore baby rice in bottles, that is so so dangerous and causes a massive coking risk!

Also, all your baby needs now is milk!

 

[Emmy1987]

That's what I thought!!

 

[mixedmama]

Ugh I hate it when people try to offer unnecessary advice I get a lot of the 'spoiling her by picking her up too much' from OHs family members! They're not the ones who have to listen to her crying everyday so I don't think they're entitled to an opinion on the matter lol.

My neighbour, who works in a nursery , told me that I had take Ava to see the doctor because she couldn't say any words and apparently she should've been talking (this was when she was 9 months old btw).

As for the baby rice thing, just ignore her! She's obviously very misguided if she thinks it's ok to give a 3 month old baby rice...IN A BOTTLE.

 

[Babushka99]

Yessss, I had a friend who nagged and nagged me to wean my daughter from 3 months that I actually kept making excuses to not see her until I actually started weaning. It was that bad. She kept saying 'oh give her banana, give her a rusk she's so hungry, she needs bread' Its funny even when you start weaning they only eat a tiny bit anyway so obviously not that hungry even at 6 months!

 

[sapphire1]

Blimey, I hope nobody listens to your friend's 'advice'. Sounds like you know what you're doing far better than she does, ignore her! x x

 

[cherryglitter]

it's what people do which is a shame!

 

[HellBunny]

Jeeeez some people are annoying!!!
Babies shouldn't have rice in their bottle anyway.
We put lo on stage 2 milk (hungry milk 0+ not the 6 month one btw) at 8 weeks as he was on over 100oz a day.

Sometimes just just have to say yeah okay... whatever, thanks. My parents give me some crap advice (without that sounding disrespectful!) so i just nod and agree, ie Cola and fizzy drinks by now... LOL

 

[xcharx]

YES my mother!!!!!!! "you should put baby rice in her milk now.... the milks no good for her anymore.... the milks not filling her up anymore..... Aww is mummy being mean not feeding you.... your not suppose to rapidly cool the bottles the milk will go funny".... seriously ladies I've told her soo many damn times that she's butting in but she still does it!!!!!

X

 

[leahsbabybump]

oh dear bless her poor baby a chocie biscuit
take no notice hun weening a baby at younger than 5 months is really bad for their digestive systems sounds like you know what your doing so i wont blabber on lol just take no notice of her

 

[KittyVentura]

Some people cannot see past their end of their nose and think that what they did is the best and only way. It can be hard if you have so much success with something to understand why another wouldn't want to do the same but people SHOULD be able to offer advice if needed but never try and oush their ideals onto another. E.G my best friend has a 2 week old suffering wind. She was going through thing she'd tried to help her and so I showed her the colic massage I learnt at baby massage as it helped Fin with his wind. If she decided togive it a go and it works, fab. If she decides to give it a go and it doesn't work, I'd hope she'd appeciate the advice regardless. If she decides to not try at all, that's completely her choice to make and I'll not mention it again xxx

 

[rwhite]

Your 'friend' sounds like an idiot.

You sound like you have your head screwed on right, you're doing a great job - keep it up. At the end of the day, you know what's best for your baby, not her.

 

[Emmy1987]

We put lo on stage 2 milk (hungry milk 0+ not the 6 month one btw) at 8 weeks as he was on over 100oz a day.

See I told her it was for hungrier babies like yours not for a baby who drinks about 35oz a day and she replied with 'well she'll never sleep through unless she has that or solids'

But this is the woman who gave her 10 day old baby baby rice because he was feeding 'too often'!

Definitely going to keep up with the nodding and smiling politely whilst thinking 'not a chance!'

 

[shellie]

People used to get on my nerves when my son was a baby. I used to get told by my MIL that I should give him a bottle and put rusks and milk for him when he was about 2/3 months old, she said he must be starving!

My OH's family also told me I was too possessive of my baby and I should leave him in the house with them alone and go out or let them take him out without me for the day, I went to the shop once and did leave him for 5 mins and when I came back he was full of chocolate and mush, when I asked what it was they said they'd been giving him the middle or chippy chips and a chocolate mouse - needless to say I never left him with them again!!! xxx

 

[xx~Lor~xx]

she's your child!!! You know what's best for her, not your friend. She probably means well, but it's annoying! My nan is a bit like this, and my mum occasionally, but I quickly tell them that they're my children and I'm raising them how i feel is right. They both agree I'm doing a great job on my own so their comments tend to stay quiet now.