What is it about pregnant women, and newborn babies, that makes everyone else (READ:other than the pregnant one or the mother) think that they know better about how to look after oneself/the baby, what to eat/feed the baby, what is 'best' etc etc?
This is a question I raise from both, personal experience and observations. I agree, most of the elderly have experience in both, being pregnant and having had their babies...but that makes them no experts on how I, or anyone else from this generation for that matter, should look after themselves or raise their babies. A few things I think they need to understand - be it mothers, mothers-in-law, relatives, neighbors, or even older friends or siblings - are
# You had your baby a long time ago. Things were different then and are way different now.
# No two pregnancy experiences are the same - they never are for the same woman having a baby the second time around, forget for another person
# Just as you dislike/d anyone telling you how to do things so does the one you are 'passing on' your 'infinite' and 'tried and tested' knowledge to
# Your way is NOT the only way things should be done. They may have worked for you. We'd rather deal with everything MY way
# Our generation has way better facilities and products than you even dreamed were possible. Let us utilize them
# Our babies are just as perfect, if not more, than yours were (that includes even us when we were babies). DON'T tell us their nose should be this way or their foreheads that way or they should be massaged for this long...THEY ARE PERFECT the way they are!!!
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