Parenting advice from Grandma
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Topic: Parenting advice from Grandma
Posted By: Plushie
Subject: Parenting advice from Grandma
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 4:22pm
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Just had a good chat with my Grandma, she had some absolute gems!
Firstly she's HORRIFIED that i'm not giving him rosehip syrup 2x daily (i dont even know wtf that is but apparently he should drink it). Secondly, she's APPALLED he isnt on purees. When i pointed out we won't be starting for another few months her advice was to start with some sweet pudding (yes, pudding.) Thirdly, she is confused that i havent put him onto the bottle yet. Thrown into the mix is dismay that he doesnt wear gowns (??!), upset that he's in the backseat of the car (how ever do i comfort him while i'm driving?) Her parting advice was that i should call plunket and have a chat as they obviously havent explained what babies need very well! Anyone else got some genius parenting advice? Or is my nana just nuts? (I ask in the spirit of laughing at the weird crap people have told you rather then asking for a diagnosis on my nana!) |
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 4:26pm
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my mil once told me to "prepare" my nipples for breastfeeding, i should scrub at them with a goldilocks. Yip. passed on that thanks
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Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 4:31pm
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Bahahahahahahahaha Your Nana is Gold!
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Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 4:36pm
Don't let her babysit...hee hee
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Posted By: Zaylah
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 4:40pm
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Lol thanks for sharing - that wee giggle definitely made my day!
Oh your poor sweet grandma though lol! ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 4:40pm
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all sounds very silly now doesnt it?! but just imagine that in your grandmas generation those things were all quite normal! Good on her for suggesting you talk to plunket! LOL!
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Posted By: sbeach
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 5:07pm
every time my aunt sees me BF she comments how hard it must be for DD to drink lying down...we just use the plain old tummy to mummy hold... She has even tried to position DD straddling my knee so she is sitting... she tried this first when DD was 3 weeks old!  ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: millymollymandy
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 5:09pm
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That's so sweet, sadly my Nana's are long gone and I would have loved some silly advice from them.
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Posted By: Richie
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 6:43pm
lol that is gold! Fortunately for me neither my Mum or Nana give that sort of 'advice' haha. It's cute tho 
As for 'preparing your nipples' lizzle.... I actually got told to to that by my friend who is 27 (albeit with a toothbrush, not a goldilocks lol). She got told to by her Mum when she was pregnant and she thought she was mad so didn't do it... she got really bad cracked nipples and huge amounts of pain so I thought I might give it a go when I got UTD. I gave mine a quick scrub with a soft toothbrush every time I had a shower and I never once got a cracked nipple. No pain, nothing. BFing was easy peasy for me and I pay full credit to that little toothbrush! lol -------------  
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Posted By: AngieBabe
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 6:49pm
Actually Plunket Nurse suggested this sort of 'hold' for me to help reduce wind as DS got really bad bouts of colic - it did help heaps! ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  
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sandie wrote:Posted By: nathansmummy
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 6:51pm
| Had to laugh about that post haha |
Posted By: Danda08
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 7:21pm
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Classic!!
My MIL suggested I should add salt (to sweeten it) to the potato/EBM puree I had prepared for my 6 month old twins after they rejected it when I offered it in their second week on solids. I thought she was joking until she told me to add salt to something else to make it 'sweet' so they would eat it. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Hopes
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 7:30pm
Awesome  Amazing your Mum / Dad made it in one piece!
Our lawyer told us that when he's teething to drink enoug alcohol so 'he gets a bit in your milk - just enough to calm him down'. And when I visited my Grandma in Australia, I popped in to see her (slightly batty) neighbour, who told me all about driving from Darwin to Perth with a five-month old: "It was easy, I just popped a bit of rum in his bottle of milk every time he woke up - not much, mind, just enough to keep him sleepy"  -------------   
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Posted By: TrinaL
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 7:31pm
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Oh I have a whole family full of gems.
As I am leaving for the hospital - "If they offer you a c- section take it" BTW I had a no problem natural birth.
Dip the dummy in honey She will have bandy legs if you let her stand up like that Why have you got that child strapped to you again. |
Posted By: londonbaby
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 7:40pm
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I had some classics...
Are you feeding him AGAIN??? Is he having another sleep? You only got him up an hour ago! Put some brown sugar in water if he's thirsty Just let him cry, eventually he will fall asleep ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: M2K
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 8:24pm
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hehe, this gave me a laugh!
I wasn't given advice, but it amazed me throughout my pregnancy that my nana could remember all her pregnancies "Oh aunty such and such did that too" she had 9 children
The only thing she mentions is the fact that we aren't married, "why do young people insist on starting families and they aren't even married yet?" Makes me wonder if our grandchildren will laugh at what we are doing now
* my Aunty gave me this advice - To stop baby from waking during the morning, start giving her water bottles, they won't bother waking for just water. When my girl was 5months old. ------------- 
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Posted By: Plushie
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 8:25pm
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I've had the brown sugar/water one as well! What is that about!?
My nana is the eldest of 12, mother of 6 and a nurse (back in the day) and i'm sure this was all the standard approved method of parenting at the time but it certainly made me think! I wonder if DS will think i parented weird if/when he has kids! My Dr when i confirmed my pregnancy adviced me to rub turps or meths on my nipples to toughen them while pregnant and to cover them in margerine while i was feeding...sounded weird to me so i never did. She also told me when he was new if he was fed, burped and changed then to put him to bed and shut the door - no need to coddle him. And the other week she asked if i'd let him have a kick on the floor yet (well...what did she think he was doing?) My other nan advised me to rub rum on the gums when teething - no subtle milk method for us! Ahh bless, all well meant advice! ETA: every time we chat she asks about his dad, then follows up with "so...you're not getting married then? I suppose things are different these days..." in this disbelieving tone! |
Posted By: tessie
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 8:58pm
| I was advised my then 3 month old should be on solids lol |
Posted By: UpsyDaisy
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 9:00pm
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What your nan told you sounds pretty accurate to what they used to do. I have my dads plunket book he was born in 1930 and would have been 80 last year (my mum was 37 and he was 48 when I was born). The 1930s advice is so crazy/funny now - absolutely no night feeds or snacking, a bowel motion MUST be secured everyday, a scraped chop bone to chomp on at 3 mths? In the Plunket book circa 1930 BF seems to be encouraged initially but then at 3 months he was put on "formula" the plunket nurse wrote the recipe so much water, cream milk and something called karalac?? In one of the recipes there was more water than milk a fortnight later the entry - Dan has been unsettled and fussy (and no weight gain). New "formula" recipe given which had way more milk and cream and a week later he was sleeping much better and had gained weight. I bet poor dad had been hungry
My mum is 70 soon and she never tells me to do things the old fashioned way so glad she has rolled with the times. |
Posted By: ItchyFeet
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 9:27pm
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It's not just grandmothers, my mother's generation doesn't seem to be much better. Much of the OP advice is very similar to mine and DHs plunket books of the late 60s/early 70s. I think the rosehip was for vitamin C perhaps? Karilac is mentioned in mine, as is castor oil and something else I've forgotten that I know had alcohol in it. I thought the brown sugar/water was for constipation. I apparently suffered from constipation (mum knows different now and 2 more children later) so I was given prune juice from a very early age - I wasn't even on solids then. Weaning seemed to be encouraged much earlier, DH was fully weaned in a week (my breasts would have died if I'd tried it that quickly) at 22 weeks old. My parents couldn't understand why I continued to BF my son past 6 months, and they've constantly asked when am I going to wean him. They can't understand why we didn't put honey on his dummy, why he can't have peanut butter, why I refused to give him biscuits when we started him on solids, or even why I offer him fruit or veges rather than a biscuit (no wonder my sister and I have been overweight so much of our lives). They can't understand why I don't add sugar or salt to his food, and as for strapping him into a car seat, sympathise with him when he moans about going in there.
I used to be told all the time "he's old enough, he should be sleeping through the night by now". He was about 6 weeks old when that topic started. When I comment that's not what my brother did, I got told "he was different". All three of us were apparently at least 3 weeks overdue, and considering she never had a scan, one pregnancy was while on the pill and another with an IUD, how could you tell? She also reckons she had pre-eclampsia, but none of what she says about it sounds anything like what I know of it. Mum's usual advice to my friends (but not me strangely) is to have a brandy before feeding to help the baby sleep. It often astounds me we made it through infancy. Actually, have just remembered that my MIL was really concerned that DS was in a capsule in the backseat of the car. She told me to always make sure someone sat in the back with him to make sure he was okay. Well meaning, yes, practical, no way. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: AbzandH
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 9:53pm
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Pissing myself at these!!! My mum bless her just reinforces what I think, but checks my wee mans nappy like soooooooo often its a running joke haha.
My grandmother came here from holland, didn't speak a word of english, and bless her had NO IDEA how the baby was coming out, even when labour started! Had her first baby on 2 wooden planks over a bath at the old maternity hospital in town (overcrowding much?) |
Posted By: sbeach
Date Posted: 18 May 2011 at 9:09am
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I was reading DH's plunket book, from 1979 so not that long ago... At 8 weeks his mum was told to offer baby rice after morning feed and puree veg after evening!! and by 16weeks was having 3 meals a day! Funny how advice has changed just in 30 odd years! ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Panda289
Date Posted: 18 May 2011 at 12:49pm
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Ah this thread is so funny! Not had baby yet but been given plenty of advice.. when I mentioned us having a bassinet my MIL was shocked we would pay money for it when we could just use a cardboard box like she did.. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: AbzandH
Date Posted: 18 May 2011 at 1:23pm
| A CARDBOARD BOX!!!!!!! |
Posted By: Kalimirella
Date Posted: 18 May 2011 at 1:39pm
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Or a drawer :P
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Posted By: _Deb_
Date Posted: 18 May 2011 at 4:00pm
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Man this thread is cracking me up!. Gotta feel sorry for everyone that had all these things given/done to them as babies though! ------------- 
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Posted By: tictacjunkie
Date Posted: 18 May 2011 at 5:50pm
| "A bit of whisky on the gums" fixes EVERYTHING. You shouldn't lift your elbows above your shoulders while pregnant or you'll strangle the baby. Carseats are a waste of money, what's wrong with a moses basket on the back seat? (In-laws). Give them a bottle of ribena each morning from 6weeks for their teeth! Rub raw potato on their feet. If he doesn't like his bath force his head under water til he gets used to it. (In-laws again, ds is hypersensitive, I would consider that abusive.) |
Posted By: Whateversville
Date Posted: 18 May 2011 at 5:56pm
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I never had any waky advise from my nana all she said was 'don't dress it in yella (yellow) I hate yella on kids'
I was told things like the only was they learn to sleep is to put them in bed and shut the door they'll soon learn. |
Posted By: kellie
Date Posted: 18 May 2011 at 7:08pm
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I got told to give ribena as well from 6 weeks Apparently it's good for them! ------------- 
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 18 May 2011 at 7:38pm
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I got told by my Nana she started my Uncle on boiled carrots at 3 months. She was impressed I was only BF at 4 months.
Even my Dad's wife - her kids are late 20's early 30's was told to give babies cooled boiled water till they're milk came in. The 10 mins feed each side then back down. So much of this was done and advise seems to change with every generation. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: fairy1
Date Posted: 18 May 2011 at 9:34pm
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I don't really have any grandparents left (well, I have one but shes a bit delusional now) but the MIL wanted us to use a dolls cot for DS when he was born. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Hope
Date Posted: 18 May 2011 at 9:49pm
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My mum and MIL were a bit wild and crazy by plunket standards in the '70s early '80s - they exclusively breastfed, demand fed and never let me or DH cry to sleep. Ironically demand feeding didn't work for my kids because of my milk oversupply problem and they had to be put on a routine to regulate my milk. It is good not to be given crazy old fashioned advice though! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Mama2two
Date Posted: 18 May 2011 at 9:56pm
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My Grandmother is 88 years old and bit crazy.
Apparently I spoil my children by holding them too much and am asking for trouble later. I should just do what she did which was get them up in the morning and after breakfast put them in a pram and park them under a tree in the yard for a few hours while I go about my business. WTF!
Also, they should be toilet trained by one. I should apparently hold them over the toilet until they do their 'business' everytime after they wake up. I didn't actually realise I was raising puppies but there you go. A few gems from my mad grandma  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Panda289
Date Posted: 19 May 2011 at 11:43am
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tictac junkie my Mum told me she used to put me in a carry cot and place me on the floor of the car in the back seat so I was wedged in between the seats when she drove! Luckily she has told me not to do this..
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Posted By: Kalimirella
Date Posted: 19 May 2011 at 8:14pm
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My mum used to put us in a carrycot in the boot lol,
She has also said she knew no better at the time and not to do that! ------------- Kiara is 3 and Teagan is 2, now we're expecting our long awaited 3rd! http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: UpsyDaisy
Date Posted: 19 May 2011 at 9:16pm
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OMG In the boot Kali and you are WAY younger than me! That would have been useful to know when you were a teenager and having one of those fights with your mum the ultimate comeback - you put me in the boot! |
Posted By: boys.boys.boys.boys
Date Posted: 20 May 2011 at 9:22pm
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LOL at some of the ways of the world!!!
My grandmother apparently used to put her son (my uncle) into his pram in the back of the car on the way to church, then when they got there she could just wheel it out and he would carry on sleeping!!! She didnt recommend it, but did say that it worked really well!!
ETA.. the people that we brought our house of werent allowed (or were advised not too, whatever) to start solids with their children (around 1960's?) until 8 months old. Apparently the poor things were just screaming for the last few weeks.... As someone said, it's somewhat amazing anyone had live children that grew into normal healthy adults!! ------------- 4 boys!! 7 years, 5 years, 2 years and 8 weeks... |
Posted By: Plushie
Date Posted: 21 May 2011 at 9:28am
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baha! my mom has been going on about the chicken bone thing a bit lately. Going to be hard to let her down on that one because she insists i loved it and it was the best thing to do.
Curious to know about carseats too as apparently i was in the front seat next to the driver but when my brother was born 2 years later i was relegated to the back and he got the front. I guess no carseat for me after that! |
Posted By: rachelsea
Date Posted: 21 May 2011 at 10:27am
haha these are funny, have heard most of them myself too! Received a new "pearl of wisdom" from the MIL last night. She rang while I was changing the baby's nappy so heard him crying in the background. DH told her he'd just done a big poo and was getting cleaned up. She said "Breastfed babies always poo more. Put him on formula because it constipates them so you don't have to deal with as many dirty nappies." 
eta: my parents used to lie me on the backseat of the car in the carrycot too (I'm 28 hehe) and mum said sometimes they'd turn a corner and I'd fall off the seat ------------- DD 4yrs DS 2yrs http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 21 May 2011 at 11:26am
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No such thing as carseats when I was a kid, didn't even have seatbelts in the back.
Used to sit in the middle of the front bench seat in my Poppa's Holden Kingswood - joys of the 70's ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: gypsynita
Date Posted: 21 May 2011 at 11:18pm
hahaha this is the best thread ever 
I've got my old plunket book too and I was started on solids at the ripe old age of 6 WEEKS!! umm... a potato?? tictac junkie?? what for!? Best advice I had from my MIL was when I was putting my 4 month old down for frequent naps and she told me that he wasn't yawning cause he's tired, just cause he's bored (in other words we should keep him up for her entertainment). ------------- Anita Mum to Cian (Aug 08), Josh (Jun 10) http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mothermercury
Date Posted: 21 May 2011 at 11:51pm
This thread is awesome! My grandma doesn't give me any crazy advice. She lives overseas, but whenever I speak to her on the phone, she is pretty cool about my parenting choices. She's supportive of breastfeeding, co-sleeping, etc. "Whatever works best for you," is what she says.
My dad seems to think that the wee one should understand and listen to the word "no" by now. (It's more like, "Hahaha, that's a funny word, Mummy. I'm going to eat grandpa's glasses now." ) That's the only crazy thing I hear, and it's not so bad really!
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Posted By: tictacjunkie
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 1:17am
| Raw potato seemed to be a cure-all - wind, constipation, teething etc. I'll ask Mum what she used in the car for me (I'm 29), at least she knows carseats are a better option! Not advice but my grandmother always asks "is your milk bad?" whenever dd spills. So tempted to say "I don't think it curdles inside your tit Mama". One of her friends said bf is for poor people who can't afford formula! |
Posted By: BessieBear
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 10:07am
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I still remember my mum using the carry cot for the pram as the car seat for my little brother as and sister, and thats less than 20 years ago. Only for short journeys though. LOL Dh's Gma bles her, was a MW and although she doesn't give me lots of advice, when she wants to hold the baby, she asks if she could have a nurse. ------------- Sarah Mum to, Boy 07/2008, Girl 03/2010, Boy 05/2012, Angel  07/08/2014
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Posted By: BessieBear
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 10:10am
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Oh yes, and FIL is convinced he and his 3 brothers were all potty trained by 1 year. More like Gma was. ------------- Sarah Mum to, Boy 07/2008, Girl 03/2010, Boy 05/2012, Angel 07/08/2014
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Posted By: BessieBear
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 10:12am
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Oh yes my Grannie, this actualy really upset. Was convinced babies don't need carseat. Apparently they were driving along and my uncle opened the door and fell out of the car. ------------- Sarah Mum to, Boy 07/2008, Girl 03/2010, Boy 05/2012, Angel 07/08/2014
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Posted By: Emmecat
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 1:30pm
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lol Mum is ALWAYS telling me to give the babies rosehip syrup and or boiled water. She cannot believe solids ought to be started closer to 6 months than 3, nor can she understand the benefits of BF past a week or so lol -------------   http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Plushie
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 2:03pm
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I wonder why there is a magic cut off line? Now DS is over 3 months people keep asking if i'm still feeding him and making a face when i say yes.
Speaking of potatoes...if you oversalt your stew or soup, throw a whole raw potato in there and it'll somehow magically absorb some of the salt. They really are the magic veg. Should have added i'm only 23 so some of my moms retro advice isnt that old! She's always telling me how she'd blend up raw lambs liver and mix it with puree apple to 'trick' me into eating it. I'm not sure thats 'bad' just gross!! ETA: at least my mom mostly keeps it shut and lets me get on with it - its my two nanas that are really mad. I was told very seriously yesterday to not let him put his hands in his mouth or he'd get sick. Probably has some basis in fact but how? His hands are ALWAYS in his mouth, it'd be a full time task to keep them out! |
Posted By: Kalimirella
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 3:45pm
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Re the hands in mouth and getting sick, I've found the opposite is true, let them have the hands in mouth, they will pick up small bugs from the environment but seeing as you are BFing they will already have your immunity to them and so get small doses of something they can already deal with. Great for developing their immune system!
I quite happily let my daughter crawl around and stick things in her mouth (within reason!) and shes had all of 2 colds (1 in her first week though so that doesn't really count) in her 13 mths of life and no other infections or sickness. ------------- Kiara is 3 and Teagan is 2, now we're expecting our long awaited 3rd! http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: My3Sons
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 7:14pm
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these are great, loving reading all the pearls of wisdom!!! ------------- Mum to Mr 10, Mr 6 and Mr 4 
 
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Posted By: millemama
Date Posted: 03 June 2011 at 1:30pm
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[QUOTE=BessieBear]
With DD My nipples were very cracked and ouchie and MIL wispered to DH (she wouldn't say it out loud to me) to put cabbage leaves in my bra. I know it's what you do to help you dry up,I think but I'm it doens't fix cracked nipples.[QUOTE] Actually I swear on cabbage leaves for helping my cracked and sore nipples, I was desperate when DD was a newborn and remembered that a friend had bought an organic cabbage and left it in my fridge so thought WTH worth a crack nigel! And to my amazement it worked and felt so cool and soothing, aaahhh. So you never know. Also don't let anyone tell you that small boobs = not much milk, MIL was/is always amazed that I have never run out of milk, and I'm still going surprisingly!! ------------- http://daisypath.com"> 
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Posted By: millemama
Date Posted: 03 June 2011 at 1:35pm
I think this comes from an old myth that if you have a fright you should throw your milk away as it will be tainted and cause colic! ------------- http://daisypath.com">
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Posted By: T_Rex
Date Posted: 03 June 2011 at 8:18pm
Your MIL commented on your boobs being too small? And I think my MIL is bad!!
I'd heard the cabbage thing too, so when we bought DD home on christmas eve we stopped at the local vege store to buy one. Poor DH was in the queue amongst all these people buying christmas strawberries, and there he was with his cabbage . I was lucky and never needed to try it though, so ended up feeding the cabbage to the chooks a week or two later.------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: millemama
Date Posted: 04 June 2011 at 10:20am
Ahhh she's ok, its taken us 20yrs to get here, but we are all good most of the time, bit hairy in the early years tho. Taken a bit of mellowing out on my part, and hers. And having kids....finally has changed things a bit, something in common I imagine. ------------- http://daisypath.com">
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Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 04 June 2011 at 7:05pm
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My nana is awesome, she thinks Im doing great and is really supportive of everything I do as a mum.
Cant really think of anything shes said thats been weird or whatever. ------------- |
Posted By: M2K
Date Posted: 04 June 2011 at 8:26pm
Congrats! You're keen, number 3 on the way
I remember you for having 2 close in age, like I have, although I still wonder if I am brave enough for a 3rd! -------------
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Posted By: Littlechop
Date Posted: 14 June 2011 at 11:28am
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Some of these are hilarious.
I remember my FIL commenting on my DD still having her dummy at 22 months (she used it for sleep times). "What has she still got a dummy for? Even xxxxx [her cousin] doesn't have his "num num" anymore." Well that might be because xxxxx is actually 6 months older than DD. Strangely he doesn't make comment to his own daughter about the fact that xxxxx still has a bottle before bed at almost 4 years old??? My MIL also suggested some Farex from 2 months for DD. She suggested this to her daughter so same cousin as above was given Farex from 2 months as he was "so hungry"  - and he was born 6 weeks early. Obviously I didn't take this advice.
As DD was FF I gave her water from quite an early age. SIL and MIL offered me some Lemon Barley cordial to put in DDs water to improve the taste. I declined. SILs kids still only drink water with Lemon Barley in it. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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