Parenting advice from Grandma

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).

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!

Oh yes, and FIL is convinced he and his 3 brothers were all potty trained by 1 year. More like Gma was.  

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

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.

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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!!

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millemama wrote: 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!!

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.

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.

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.     

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