New Moms! How do you feel when someone tells you what to do with your baby?

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As a new mom how do you feel when someone tells you what to do with your child? For example:” he needs to go to bed earlier, don’t feed him that, put the car seat this way. Don’t read to past this Time, pierce  their ears. Etc

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Unsolicited parenting advice usually goes in one ear and out the other with me lol. I don't pay much attention to it.

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It depends how it’s worded. Sometimes I get helpful hints like “when mine was small we found this good” that is fine. But when they TELL me I want to punch them. I was leaving church the other day and my MIL TOOK her and my diaper bag and put socks inside her sleeper and a bunch of extra clothes that she didn’t need and she just cried the whole drive home because of. Like I know how to dress my child 😖
The only ones I find TELL me are ones with grown ass children. I think moms with young children know how annoying it is so they never do it lol.

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It depends on the specific advice. If it’s anything related to safety like a car seat, I’m grateful unless they’re obviously wrong. Most things I’m usually annoyed though.

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I guess I’m doing everything right or I don’t have annoying people like that in my life, because no one ever gives me dumb advice. 🤷‍♀️

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It depends.

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If it's offered as a helpful thing like, holding ours this way really helped her calm down, I am super appreciative! I've never done this before and am willing to try anything! If it's a black and white statement, I'm far less inclined to listen or follow it. Safety stuff falls outside that for me. I am going to follow the car seat instructions to a T, obviously, and make him sleep on his back until he is able to roll on his own.

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I don't feel anything lol people are more than welcome to have their own opinions, but I'm very confident in my parenting choices and comfortable as a parent in general. Other people's opinions don't bother me in the slightest.

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Haven't heard that much crap from anyone.
I had trouble with breastfeeding and people gave a lot of advices but did they in an attempt to help me make it work.
It was a bit overwhelming..
But other than that, not much had been said..

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If it is about safety issues, I appreciate it. If it is anything else it depends on how it is worded and who it is from. If they suggest or share what works for them, I will listen. If they tell me what to do and don't know us or our kiddo, I tune them out. Every kid is different so just because your kid preferred more layers, went to sleep at 7pm, or never used a paci doesn't mean that is what works for our kiddo.

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People give me unsolicited advice all the time.  It's the WORST. "Do this, don't do that, you should do this, what are you doing?" like oh my GOD I didn't even ask for your opinion let me raise my child!!! I think it's because I'm 23 people think I'm immediately some kind of idiot that is incapable of being a good mom. Like holy shit get away from me 😒

New Moms! How do you feel when someone tells you what to do with your baby?

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