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@Rainbow Sprinkles - If that had happened to me I might have slapped them if I wasn't so shocked!
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@caitlanc: seriously! I had no idea what to say. I think I mumbled... ""it's just a california roll....it's not raw...."
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@miramira: Ha! A cactus absorbs radiofrequency radiation? Do people not understand that ionizing radiation is different?
@Rainbow Sprinkles: I would have piled California rolls on my plate and given that person some serious side eye!
(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!)
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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!
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@Rainbow Sprinkles: LOL!!! too funny
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@MUI831: I got that one too.. yeah that's a hard pass.
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@Coffee-lover: you've got to be kidding! What the eff!? Might as well not use your arms at all eh?
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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.
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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).
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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"
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@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.
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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!"
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.
Also, my dad told me to stop eating bread while pregnant. No idea why.
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