Comments on: Seven Things I Would Never Say To a New Mom http://www.baby-log.com/first-three-months-baby-life/seven-things-i-would-never-say-to-a-new-mom/ Learning to be a Mother, Raise a Baby, Live as a Family Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:10:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: Baby Formula http://www.baby-log.com/first-three-months-baby-life/seven-things-i-would-never-say-to-a-new-mom/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Baby Formula Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:35:54 +0000 http://www.baby-log.com/?p=141#comment-50 I was doing the same thing even with my own mom. I just tell her, yes mum, i am doing what you taught me. But I am not really doing it! ;) I just tell her that so she won't get angry with me. Luckily, she hasn't caught me lying yet. Ohh! sooo bad of me :) I was doing the same thing even with my own mom. I just tell her, yes mum, i am doing what you taught me. But I am not really doing it! ;) I just tell her that so she won’t get angry with me. Luckily, she hasn’t caught me lying yet. Ohh! sooo bad of me :)

]]> By: Emma http://www.baby-log.com/first-three-months-baby-life/seven-things-i-would-never-say-to-a-new-mom/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Emma Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:24:26 +0000 http://www.baby-log.com/?p=141#comment-44 I know exactly what you mean! This is why I was saying in the post that advice from family members should be handled differently. Sometimes confrontation is the only way to get them off your back, and I would have done the same thing as you. Off topic, when I read your blog, I thought "OMG, she is my identical twin." I too used to do rock climbing before I had Eric and it was almost a religion foe me :) Keep the great stuff coming! I know exactly what you mean! This is why I was saying in the post that advice from family members should be handled differently. Sometimes confrontation is the only way to get them off your back, and I would have done the same thing as you.

Off topic, when I read your blog, I thought “OMG, she is my identical twin.” I too used to do rock climbing before I had Eric and it was almost a religion foe me :) Keep the great stuff coming!

]]> By: Shen-Li http://www.baby-log.com/first-three-months-baby-life/seven-things-i-would-never-say-to-a-new-mom/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Shen-Li Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:58:02 +0000 http://www.baby-log.com/?p=141#comment-43 When my son was born, my MIL kept giving a lot of advice about how to manage him. Some good, some not so good. But the thing is, she took offence whenever I rejected her advice. In the end, I took hubby's advice and gave her the impression I was listening to her advice (even when I was totally ignoring it). So when she asked if I was doing something, I would reply, "Yes, Mum," even when I wasn't. It worked really well until one day she followed me up to the room when I was giving my son a bath and insisted on "helping" me apply "prickly powder" on my son. In case you're not aware, the powder is supposed to help reduce the red rash he was developing in his joints because he was a hot and sweaty baby, although our paediatrician told us not to apply the powder because he said it would make it worse. I stood there totally mortified, unable to say a word because I had given her the impression I had been using the powder. After that, I told hubby, "She's your Mum. Please tell her to butt out." I know husbands don't like confrontations between wife and their Mums but, hey, if it had been my Mum, I would have told her flat out. When my son was born, my MIL kept giving a lot of advice about how to manage him. Some good, some not so good. But the thing is, she took offence whenever I rejected her advice. In the end, I took hubby’s advice and gave her the impression I was listening to her advice (even when I was totally ignoring it). So when she asked if I was doing something, I would reply, “Yes, Mum,” even when I wasn’t.

It worked really well until one day she followed me up to the room when I was giving my son a bath and insisted on “helping” me apply “prickly powder” on my son. In case you’re not aware, the powder is supposed to help reduce the red rash he was developing in his joints because he was a hot and sweaty baby, although our paediatrician told us not to apply the powder because he said it would make it worse.

I stood there totally mortified, unable to say a word because I had given her the impression I had been using the powder. After that, I told hubby, “She’s your Mum. Please tell her to butt out.”

I know husbands don’t like confrontations between wife and their Mums but, hey, if it had been my Mum, I would have told her flat out.

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