Pieces of advice I'm tired of hearing/seeing even when they're not addressed to me

If you breastfeed exclusively, your period won't come back until you introduce solids.

If you can talk through them, they're not real contractions.

You mustn't [anything] while you're pregnant or breastfeeding.

It's ok never to sterilise bottle-feeding equipment (especially when it's said to someone seeking advice for a newborn).

You need to prepare your breasts for breastfeeding by [arcane and painful ritual].

You have to / must never attempt to set a routine for the baby.

I forget the rest, because it's hot and I'm very very pregnant today. And I have an NCT coffee social this afternoon with ONE attendee so far. And she has a bump, not a baby, which may well make it even harder to talk. I may scavenge some others up somehow.

Social stress

So my NCT social event is over, and two women came, one with an external baby and one with an internal baby. They were lovely, if a bit more interested in adult-led weaning than I am, and stayed for about an hour, and it was fine. Now I'm feeling angry and stressed.

I'm annoyed, as far as I can tell, because I find it very hard to clamp down on my strong feelings about various things baby-related, but I do, and other people seem to me to be less reluctant to speak out to strangers on these matters. (Online journals don't count as talking to strangers; if you don't like what I say you can click away). I tried to be as moderate as possible on the topic of eco-disposables and cloth nappies, and on breastfeeding (I really, really stayed very quiet about breastfeeding, and didn't even mention that I'm still feeding Linnea, which felt very like not being Out), and I didn't even enthuse too much about sling use, though I did tell the pregnant woman that feeding a baby in a sling was a valuable skill and she's welcome to come and practice with my slings once her baby's external, before she buys one of her own.

They were nice, but I feel self-repressed, and that leaves me feeling a bit bitter. Ho hum.