Advice...

The minute we started telling people we were pregnant we started being bombarded with advice…for the most part this was well meaning, some was very useful, but it also became overwhelming and sometimes a little personal.   We managed most of the time to smile sweetly nod our heads as though in agreement, but sometimes the advice was just too much.  One of my favourites was ‘you’ll have to move, there is no way you can bring a baby home to a one bedroom flat’.  As lovely as it would be to be in a family home where we could decorate a nursery it is just not financially possible at the moment and comments like that really made me sad.  The very best piece of advice we had though was…listen to everything, take what, if anything, you need from it and ignore the rest. 

So for now that is what we are doing…But I’m sure in 11 weeks’ time this will all change and I’ll be begging for any and all advice and trying to remind myself of this…

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