I had a baby recently, and my MIL is full of unsolicited advice. But every new thing she says proves just how neglectful of a parent she was.
So far, her expert advice was: don’t rock the baby to calm him, don’t carry the baby or he will be spoiled, don’t feed him too often, let him cry in his cot, let him get used to hot temperatures (28C indoors), keep the baby awake for the whole day (apparently 2 weeks old is old enough for this). She also suggested not changing his nappy unless it’s poo? Seems like I should just just leave him in his cot and go out lol. And finally, she said she used to give paracetamol to her babies “to make them sleepy”. Paracetamol doesn’t make one drowsy, so her babies must’ve been in pain?
This woman was just colossaly negligent to my husband and SIL! Husband was a unicorn baby, sleeping all the time, and SIL was inconsolable for a whole year. She never had proper experience calming a baby since one of them was always calm and the other couldn’t be calmed. I feel bad for my husband!
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