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

[ailbhe]

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.

Comments

[sidheag.livejournal.com]

Mostly agree, but what have you against "it's OK never to sterilise bottle-feeding equipment", assuming that (as usual IME) it's followed by "just put it in a hot dishwasher cycle"? Don't think the infant food poisoning rates are much higher in the US, where hardly anybody seems to sterilise, than here, are they?

[ailbhe]

IME it's followed by "just run it through the dishwasher" without any mention of "on the hottest cycle" and that's NOT adequate for teats even if it might be for bottles. (And according to online news, infant illness rates are higher in the US than in the UK but I couldn't point at figures right now since I can't remember which US news site had the info).

[squishsplash.livejournal.com]

The infant mortality rate (https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2091rank.html) is one crude reference.