https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:22:51 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice/page/2#post-2056962 Fri, 06 Feb 2015 07:09:03 +0000 MrsBananaGrabber 2056962@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>On a more general note, SO many people have insisted on telling me "Pregnancy and/or birth will be for you EXACTLY like it was for me, which was [xyz]." Then, when I tell them "Really? Because someone else told me that for her, it was completely different," they respond "Well you can't listen to HER- every pregnancy is different!" </p> <p>Also, it's not really "advice," but I'm so sick of people telling me that "everything is going to be so different" and that I "have no idea what it will be like." Obviously, everything will be different, and no one knows exactly what it will be like. All these people know that I helped raise my brother who is 16 years younger than me, however, so it's not like I have absolutely no newborn experience. </p> <p>Also, my dad told me to stop eating bread while pregnant. No idea why. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice/page/2#post-2056868 Fri, 06 Feb 2015 00:48:24 +0000 Mrs.KMM 2056868@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsHansen82: I've actually had friends who's OBs have told them to go home and have a glass of wine to relax when they were late in their pregnancies. So that isn't quite so crazy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice/page/2#post-2056855 Fri, 06 Feb 2015 00:36:26 +0000 turquoisemama 2056855@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When I was overdue, my dad told me I should have a couple of margaritas to relax me so the baby would come out. When I told him that was crazy, said "You're not going to hurt anything, the baby is fully formed by now" :shocked: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice/page/2#post-2056845 Fri, 06 Feb 2015 00:23:33 +0000 BcBgStar03 2056845@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My family has no shortage of ridiculous advice when it comes to my pregnancy. My aunt told me to keep a picture of a cute baby and look at it everyday so that my baby comes out cute. Uuuum, what?? Excuse me, but my baby will be cute regardless, thank you very much. The same aunt told me not to slouch, because it was going to make the baby's head too big. My aunts and cousins also freak out if I bend over, lift anything that weighs more than a feather, sit on the floor, or wear heels(OMG the lectures I got for wearing heels to my BABY SHOWER). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice/page/2#post-2056637 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 20:51:10 +0000 SleepyMonkey 2056637@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>some lady told me that she didn't have morning sickness because she ate a lot of fruits and veggies during her pregnancy, and it was completely related to her diet. mmkay. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice/page/2#post-2056372 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:50:03 +0000 mrschickpea 2056372@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Coffee-lover: you've got to be kidding! What the eff!? Might as well not use your arms at all eh? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice/page/2#post-2056356 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:32:12 +0000 Anya 2056356@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MUI831: I got that one too.. yeah that's a hard pass. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice/page/2#post-2056343 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:14:08 +0000 buttermilk 2056343@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: LOL!!! too funny </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice/page/2#post-2056304 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 17:44:44 +0000 Coffee-lover 2056304@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had a coworker tell me not to sweep or vacuum during my pregnancy because it will cause a miscarrige. When I asked how it would cause that she told me that the downward motion I would make with my hands would cause my body to push the baby out. Then she looked at me like I was crazy and asked how I did not know that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice/page/2#post-2056265 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 17:13:09 +0000 Espion 2056265@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@miramira: Ha! A cactus absorbs radiofrequency radiation? Do people not understand that ionizing radiation is different? </p> <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: I would have piled California rolls on my plate and given that person some serious side eye! </p> <p>(Although, in defense of having no idea what they are talking about: in my youth, I tried to card someone for adding grenadine to their sprite because I clearly didn't have enough fun in high school. I was SO insistent and I refused to order the drink until he could prove he was "of age". I STILL get red thinking about it, ha!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice/page/2#post-2056256 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 17:06:14 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 2056256@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@caitlanc: seriously! I had no idea what to say. I think I mumbled... ""it's just a california roll....it's not raw...." </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice/page/2#post-2056251 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 17:03:23 +0000 caitlanc 2056251@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles - If that had happened to me I might have slapped them if I wasn't so shocked! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice#post-2056238 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:58:37 +0000 lilteacherbee 2056238@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: Yup, that's what I was going to say. Umm I'm 5'0" tall, how in the world do I NOT lift my arms over my head?! I had one coworker who was serious about this and warned me about it every.single.day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice#post-2056232 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:55:50 +0000 blackbird 2056232@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: taking food from a pregnant woman should be a crime, really. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice#post-2056211 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:47:07 +0000 2PeasinaPod 2056211@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: what the what :shocked: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice#post-2056208 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:45:15 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 2056208@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When I was at a baby shower (I was about 37 weeks pregnant myself), one of the other guests RIPPED A CALIFORNIA ROLL OUT OF MY HAND, just as I was about to put it in my mouth, and said 'You're pregnant, you can't eat that." </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice#post-2056206 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:43:51 +0000 fuzzypeaches 2056206@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom keeps telling me (this preg and last) to watch "nice" things on TV (i.e. to avoid the news and crime shows) and to only listen to "nice music"<br /> hahahahahaha</p> <p>My grandmother won't let me drink cold drinks/watermelon in case the "baby gets cold." </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice#post-2056182 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:20:41 +0000 namaste 2056182@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: My mom told me that when I told her I was changing a light bulb. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice#post-2056144 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 15:58:23 +0000 miramira 2056144@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A student in the college I work in told me I should put a cactus beside my computer to absorb radiation so it doesn't affect the baby! Apparently this is common practice in some places. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice#post-2056116 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 15:41:07 +0000 loki 2056116@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rockies11: hahahaha omg that IS mortifying. and ya i'm with you on that, everyone is acting like it's all doom and gloom. and there's a bit of a condescending tone like they know better than you and you're just such a naive, unprepared little lamb. drives me nuts. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice#post-2056112 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 15:39:43 +0000 Rockies11 2056112@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MUI831: my MIL bought me nipple roughing up exfoliating gloves (in pink AND blue), which she presented to me at Christmas in front of the entire extended family and went into a 5 minute long tirade about how to rough them up, and her roughing up process and so forth. It was mortifying. And I knew it was not a real thing right from the outset. </p> <p>@Mrs. Lion: and @loki: I slept WAY better with a newborn than in the third tri. </p> <p>Another one that made me crazy when I was a FTM was how everyone was always like "wow huge changes" and "your life will never be the same" and "get ready for a huge change". I just think you have no concept of what those changes will be, and everyone makes it sound like those changes will be all terrible and it just is unduly alarming without providing any useful information. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice#post-2056063 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 15:23:28 +0000 loki 2056063@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Espion: omg horrible! no thanks!</p> <p>@Mama Bird: ya. apparently my baby can see what i'm doing (???) and is slouching in utero. she's destined for a lifetime of bad posture because of me! the same woman told me i need to think long and hard about what i name her and should choose something unique like Destiny or Harmony. Nothing against those names but nooooot entirely my taste. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice#post-2056048 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 15:13:34 +0000 Mommy Finger 2056048@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@buttermilk: The sad thing is that this is what she was told so she did it when she had the 4 of us. Ouch! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice#post-2056044 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 15:12:03 +0000 buttermilk 2056044@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MUI831: lololol rough up your nipples! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice#post-2056020 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 14:56:26 +0000 Mama Bird 2056020@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@loki: what? Haha really?</p> <p>@autumnlove: wow, what a charmer. Sorry you have to deal with that!</p> <p>I get a lot of "don't go out when it snows, you could slip, and why don't you just work from home for a few months?" Come on, mom, make up your mind if you want me to be a housewife or keep my job! And I've known how to walk for long enough that I don't need to be bubble wrapped! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice#post-2056016 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 14:55:27 +0000 simplyfelicity 2056016@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Espion: Ahhhhhh! I just winced. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice#post-2056014 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 14:54:52 +0000 Espion 2056014@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MUI831: Along those same lines, I heard someone mention sandpaper! O.O </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice#post-2056009 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 14:52:16 +0000 Mommy Finger 2056009@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom would always tell me to rough up my nipples with my towel after I got out of the shower to get ready for breastfeeding. She actually came with me to the breastfeeding class I took b/c DH couldn't make it and they said definitely don't do that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice#post-2056008 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 14:50:19 +0000 simplyfelicity 2056008@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Kemma: Stretch marks develop in the middle layer of skin (the dermis) below the epidermis but I am sure scratching doesn't help at all. :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-inane-pregnancy-advice#post-2056007 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 14:50:18 +0000 blackbird 2056007@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MoreCoffee: bizarre....although i did have someone comment that soda was bad for me. sorry but sprite and ginger ale is where it's at in the first tri!</p> <p>@FaithFertility: There's truth to that man. Your body odor changes and I just felt so stinky in my last trimester. Ugh. Hated it. </p>