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post #1 of 15
4/14/08 at 3:23pm
what?! Sounds like you've been talking to my grandma! Someone needs to write a book of all the crazy advice women with fresh babies are given.
post #2 of 15
4/14/08 at 3:26pm
okay, this thread is doing something strange - my comment ended up on top of the page? speaking of craziness. Sorry. I wish I'd said something wittier.
post #3 of 15
4/14/08 at 9:47pm
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"Give your infant warm water out of a bottle." ????

I have no idea where it came from or what it means but someone suggested to me that I give me 2 day old infant warm water out of a bottle "to bring the hives out" ......... WHAT HIVES??????........ Apparently my baby is going to break out in red bumps if I don't give him warm water WTF WTF WTF people are driving me mad I tell ya

p.s. They seemed dumbfounded when I said well I am not introducing a bottle for at least 6 weeks
post #4 of 15
4/14/08 at 9:50pm
I would just look at them in horror and say "NO way would I ever do that!!"
post #5 of 15
4/14/08 at 9:52pm
I think I'd say "Wow, why on earth would I want to give my child hives?"

Go you for knowing better than to follow that nutty advice!
post #6 of 15
4/15/08 at 9:24am
Get used to it. People are obsessed with giving crappy, unsolicited information to new moms. Doubly so if you're young, like I was the first time around.

Practice this, "Hmm, that's interesting. How about that weather?"
post #7 of 15
4/15/08 at 11:37am
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Originally Posted by nutbee View Post
what?! Sounds like you've been talking to my grandma! Someone needs to write a book of all the crazy advice women with fresh babies are given.
You hit it right on the nose!!!!! Grandmas say the strangest things.
post #8 of 15
4/15/08 at 1:36pm
I was given this advice during my last pregnancy by someone in DH's family:

"Ask your pediatrician about participating in a formula trial. You don't know if you're getting the "real" formula or the one they're testing, but it is free!"

I was absolutely stunned and had no idea what to say. I think I just ended up staring at him and maybe nodding.
post #9 of 15
4/15/08 at 1:36pm
Yeah, with my first, my MIL would not *stop* with the feeding advice. Alternate formula with bottles of honey water. OMG. And trying to explain botulism to a foreign woman who thinks she knows everything... impossible. Then my FIL was apparently asking my dh if breastmilk was "good enough". And when they came to visit 3 days pp, my MIL is sitting there on the couch next to me, asking how I know how much the baby is getting, and telling me I should pump and put it in a bottle so I know. Explaining diaper output was about as successful as the botulism talk. Ugh.

And then at 6 months old, my MIL was asking if my roly poly 100% breast fed never-had-a-bottle baby was going to get heart disease.

Just let it in one ear and out the other, hun. And come here to commiserate since it's fun to swap bad advice.
post #10 of 15
4/15/08 at 1:54pm
I was the first one in my family to breastfeed for a few generations, so I am an anomaly. My g-ma said she fed her babies Karo syrup, Carnation Heavy Cream, and water mixed in a bottle. WOW! They lived. Breastfeeding in her time was for poor folks and you didn't do it if you didn't want to look poor.:

Then, a friend who is EBF told me last night that she had to start her wee-bit on baby vitamins, because there is no Vit. D in breastmilk???? Now, I'd love to know where that came from, but I didn't have a chance to ask.
post #11 of 15
4/15/08 at 2:04pm
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Originally Posted by eastkygal View Post
Then, a friend who is EBF told me last night that she had to start her wee-bit on baby vitamins, because there is no Vit. D in breastmilk???? Now, I'd love to know where that came from, but I didn't have a chance to ask.
It actually comes from the AAP. Not "no" Vitamin D, but "insufficient" Vitamin D... at least, in sun-shy dark-skinned mamas living in northern climates.

If you and your baby get enough sun, Vitamin D is so not an issue. There was a great article about this in New Beginnings (the LLL magazine) in about 2004. A total of two hours a WEEK of sun exposure is enough for baby to manufacture all the Vitamin D s/he needs. I remember learning in a college physiology class that it takes one square INCH of adult skin 10 minutes of sun exposure to make your RDA of vit D.
post #12 of 15
4/15/08 at 3:34pm
Your post made me smile remembering those first days... My mom said the same thing but adding camommille to the water so the baby will sleep... HELLO!! WE ARE TALKING INFANTS HERE!! IT IS NORMAL THAT THEY WAKE UP! I tried to introduced a bottle to my baby at 7 weeks just because I had to go to the hospital and we didn't know if I was going to stay there for a night, of course she didn't take it (she never took it!) and my mom suggested adding honey to the milk.... When I talked about botulism, she looked at me like I was crazy and said that she never heard of that and that in Canada, when I was born, it was reccommended to give honey to babies... I am like... First of all, that was 32 years ago, second, just because you haven't heard of it it doesn't mean it is a lie!!

Get used to it, that is the best advice. I tried to please my MIL once and went to the bathroom in a mall to breastfeed my baby (she was too embarrased of me doing it in front of other people) that I felt SO BAD that I told her: "I don't eat in a bathroom and neither my baby should do it, SORRY" and since then, I decided to just follow my intuition and instincts.

Water for infants can actually be dangeround and it affects the natural way the baby knows when he/she needs to eat. Breastmilk has all the water and nutrients necesary. After the baby starts on solids, then you can give a
little water if you want to.

Gigi
post #13 of 15
4/15/08 at 3:53pm
I'm so glad my mom breastfed! My mil didn't, but thankfully, she no longer offers bfing advice to me (4th kid and all). My dh's grandma thinks it's quaint that I bf. . . like the poor farm folk of her youth:

Just let it roll off
post #14 of 15
4/15/08 at 4:08pm
When my DD was a baby, my grandma was frickin' obsessed with convincing me to give DD bottles of water. Every time I visited her, she'd ask me if I'd given DD water yet and say that she and her friends were all worried. I just told her that my doctor had said that giving water to a breastfed baby was unhealthy (which was true), and that would shut her up for a little bit.

Of course, she also lectured me on not having enough clothes on DD. She'd ask where her shoes and coat were in the middle of the summer. I figure her kids must've been dehydrated from sweating in heavy clothes, so they probably needed the water.
post #15 of 15
4/15/08 at 4:12pm
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Originally Posted by Jennisee View Post
When my DD was a baby, my grandma was frickin' obsessed with convincing me to give DD bottles of water. Every time I visited her, she'd ask me if I'd given DD water yet and say that she and her friends were all worried. I just told her that my doctor had said that giving water to a breastfed baby was unhealthy (which was true), and that would shut her up for a little bit.

Of course, she also lectured me on not having enough clothes on DD. She'd ask where her shoes and coat were in the middle of the summer. I figure her kids must've been dehydrated from sweating in heavy clothes, so they probably needed the water.
LOL!!!!!!!!
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