Bad Adivce

Yogi Berra was famed for his verbal bloopers. "Always go to other people's funerals," he once advised, "otherwise they won't come to yours."

Ever since my wife and I were blessed with a son (and even before) we have been given a plethora of advice. Some good and some bad and some just plain stupid. What is worse is when you get adivce from different phsicians and nurses that conflicts. Today my wife and I visited a lacation center for help with feeding our child. The nurse there completely frustrated me. All the adivce she would give us would conflict with what our pediatrician would say. When she weighed our son and measure him at 11 lbs she was suprised and asked us how much we have been feeding him. Well, from what our pediatrician says is that you should feed an infant whenever he/she is hungry and also that as long as they are gaining weight there is no such thing as too much weight gain in the early stages. Listening to this nurse I expected that at anytime we would ask her is she was a real nurse and she would respond "No, but last night I stayed at a Holiday Inn." All that the visit did was stress my wife into believeing that we were over-feeding our son and that everything we were doing with the feeding was wrong. Tomorrow we are going to contact our pediatrician and get the final verdict. So I see it like this advice is like milk in the fridge you don't know if it is good or bad unless you try it. (because as I also see it that expiration date is a crock... how do they know that exact date it will go bad?