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Originally Posted by chemommy25  Maybe i should rephrase what said. The doctors said that it wasnt safe to put cereal in bottles anymore. she told me to wait till about 5 months and feed them with a spoon. so when someone asked how old they should be to eat cereal i just said what my doctor told me. I figure i would give advice not straight from my mouth but from a doctors. Nobody has to listen to advice that they don't want to listen to. But, i would rather listen to a doctor. Im not saying i know everything, i actually don't know much. i am a young first time mom. i figure the advice was useful. but all babies are different, i was just saying what i did. sorry to say old school, i didnt mean it in that way, i just meant the old way of doing it may not be as safe as just feeding the baby with a spoon. Just because im young doesnt mean im completly clueless though. and doesnt give the right for anybody to bash me and call me names, and tell me to STFU. |
When you, at the age of 20 with a what, 5 month old baby, sit there and bash all the other advice you've received from all the other forum mothers in here... it gives me full reason to tell you to STFU.
I was 25 when I had my son... I didn't know everything then and I still don't know everything now... I'll never know EVERYTHING about raising my son, I'll only know what I've tried and what has worked for me.
I can also tell you that if I listened solely to what the doctor's told me about my son and how to keep him healthy, he'd not be as healthy as he is today.
My son has had difficulty with his bowel movements the entire 2 1/2 years of his life. Putting him on cereal too early (he was on it at 2 months, I'd mix cereal with formula and a fruit baby food and give him a feeder bottle, which he loved) didn't make him gain tons of weight and it didn't make his bowels any more or less difficult... what it did do was limit the amount of spitting up he did. They told me to try dark karo syrup, and it kind of worked... but not enough. They told to use miralax, and it kind of worked, but not enough. I heard from another mom to try using Good Start as his formula instead of Enfamil, and it was a little better. In the end, what has finally worked was something I tried myself... soy milk.
Not that everyone wanted to hear about my son's bowels... but the point is that the doctor's don't know everything... women have been having babies for thousands of years without the benefit of a doctor telling them what to do every step of the way... the only thing I was saying was that you had absolutely no right to insult every other mother on this board simply because you have a bone to pick with your future MIL.
And to agree with everyone else... keep your personal family drama off the board... that's what PMs are for... it's tasteless and tacky to do it in public.