[BabyRN2Be]

Originally Posted by stevielynn

My mother-in-law bundled my son up in so many blankets that he got a "blanket fever" which is a real thing . . as soon as the blankets came off down came his temp.

steph

I had seen a commercial lately for Luvs diapers. It had the voiceover of a "grandmother" giving advice to a young mom, which she ignored. One of the things that she said was "when in doubt, it's better to overdress baby." Yes, I agree it can lead to fevers, but I guess that's what people thought was best to do so many years ago.

Someone also mentioned something about morning sickness. The more morning sickness a mom has, the healthier the baby. I'm wondering if that's true or if it's something used to placate the mother during the 1st trimester.
I used to tell my clients these things, but after my cousin had a CDH baby, I'm not so quick to say something like that. BTW, this was when I was a very young doula and probably wasn't so bright to say something like that.

Anyone heard about this with morning sickness? Are there any studies saying that this is true?

[crankyasanoldma]

I heard a mother tell her daughter to put on some socks or shoes because bare feet on the cold ground would "freeze her uterus and make here sterile"- she might have said "barren".

[OUstudentnurse]

I just got through with OB this year in school and my instructor always said that if a mom had a hx of miscarriage and with the current pregnancy had a lot of morning sickness, everyone would get excited because morning sickness was a good sign that the pregnancy would go to term....something about having the right amount of hormones to sustain the pregnancy would make it more likely to have morning sickness?

[Nightcrawler]

Both of my grandmothers thought that my mother was incapable of breastfeeding because her breasts were small. I can remember my mom talking to my grandmother on the phone, trying to convince her that she was not starving my brother to death!!!! My mom always told me that both grandmothers snuck me so much food as a infant that she, being young, finally gave up on breastfeeding my sister and I. It wasn't until she and my father moved several hours away from my grandparents, and she gained a little more self confidence and experience as a mother that she was able to stand up to the family and successfully breastfeed her last two children

[VioletX]

My sister is pregnant now and she told me the other day that she knew she was having a boy because she was on bottom during sex. I think thats the stupidest thing I have ever heard, and I told her so too.

[SmilingBluEyes]

ewwwwwwwwwww ****TMI**** is what I woulda told her violet.

[nurseunderwater]

My mother told me when I was 16 that smoking marlboro cigarettes would NOT make me sterile....(she was a mom at 18, maybe she thought is was BC??)


She also told me that the rythym method only worked if you had a 12 piece band in the room

[louloubell1]

Originally Posted by fergus51

All caucasian babies are born with blue eyes.

That's not a myth, just a little bit of an exaggeration. Most caucasian babies are born with bluish/gray eyes, though certainly not all.

[judy ann]

She also told me that the rythym method only worked if you had a 12 piece band in the room [/quote]


I heard that the rhythm method was when you get pregnant to music.

[NeuroICURN]

Originally Posted by kids-r-fun

Baby oil and massage.

When my middle was a baby one of my neighbors was an old Jamacan lady(maybe she was Haitian?) , she taught me how to rub his head to get rid of the flat spot on the back of his head. Is hard to explain how to do it, there is NO pressure, just a firm stroking. It took a month or so but it did round out.

Um, maybe it took about a month because babies' heads just round out naturally anyway!!! You were kidding, right???