by Hill.Mandy

Created on: October 31, 2008   Last Updated: June 27, 2009

Pregnancy is an exciting time. The second anyone finds out that you are pregnant is when it all begins to start. "You really should watch what you eat." "You need to sleep as much as you can." "You need to take it easy, don't lift that, dont do this." Its don't do or do this, do that. Its one suggestion after another. Some come from family members, some come from complete strangers.

The thing is is that no matter who the person is, if she is a mother, she knows it all, or at least she will make you think so. The thing is that most of these mothers do know what they are talking about, not entirely, but they have experienced it or they wouldn't be offering advise to you. And each and every piece of advise you get will be different and will tell you something different to do.

Yes you may be annoyed at all of this, but no matter what you do or say you are going to hear it anyway. The easiest way to deal with it is to simply smile and listen, sometimes agree or tell them that you will consider their suggestions. Some will be extremely helpful, I find that whenever something happens with my child, I turn to my mother, grandmother or aunt, just so that I know what they have went through and will say about the situation.

Of course I don't always listen, but I do consider since they are more experienced than I am. If you go through your pregnancy telling everyone that you don't want or need their advise then you will regret it down the road when you need a bit of advise for a particular situation. Use your gut on what you think is the best thing to do, but always remember what that other person had said they had done. It really does help. If you question what they have to say and you have no clue what to do, contact your child's doctor, he will tell you what you could do.

If you get really annoyed by all these suggestions that wait until the last possible moment to tell everyone that you are expecting. Wait until you start to show and its obvious that you are having a baby. Then once people start to give you advise on anything, if you don't want the advise or are annoyed with listening, I know some people never shut up, then simply just smile and block out what they are saying, just nod and agree, and start thinking about that baby and how wonderful its going to be once that baby arrives.

If you think that the advise is going to stop once you have that child, think again, you might as well just get used to it, no matter how old your child is you will forever continue to get advise from someone. Just take it all once step at a time and remember to enjoy your pregnancy, and always remember that its only advise that they are giving you, they aren't trying to tell you how to raise your child, and somewhere down the road that advise may be helpful.

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