Do you follow your instinct to raise your kid?

chej18 follow her gut instinct as she knows her baby even better than the Kraamzorg so the KraamsZorg should let mom care for her own baby more, they do not have the motherinstinct and the mom does.I always followed my mother's instincts andit always paid off for my kids in spaded.

I follow my on instinct since I am the one that takes care of my baby and I witness her daily developments. My hubby also suggests some and we try it. My 9-month old baby was constipated for almost two months and we are glad that after giving her yakult, fibrosine (as advised by the pedia) instead of the duphalac the other pedia had prescribed and then dulcolax (sincce fibrosine alone did not work, she was able to poo without crying like hell. I think its the parents who knew their children too well. Just don't experiment a lot and make sure that if you try giving something or doing something for the first time, make sure it is controlled. It is nice listening and trying advice you get from other people but if it doesn't work, you can have it your way.

Yes, I do follow my own instincts and I don't mind advice from other parents, but only when I ask for it. That's one thing that annoys me the most is someone else telling me how to raise my own child. In my opinion, when you have a child of your own.. use your practices on that child but as far as what I do with my own child, that's my business! What is good for one child, may not be good for ours.

It is funny how when we become mums we do get an instinct for things with our babies. I lose count of how many times a midwife or doctor has told me to do something for my baby that has not seemed right and so I did it my way and got a result. When my third son was born he was a hungry baby, no amount of milk could satisfy him at all and by the age of 2 months he was taking two full bottles at each feed. I had a word with the health visitor about it and asked if I could try him on rice. She went mad, no no no he was not ready for it and it would make him ill, cause allergies. I thought yeah but hes hungry and milk alone is not satisfying him, so even though I was told that I should not feed him solids until he was 5 months, I did not listen. I put him on baby rice the next day and he never looked back, by the age of 3 months he was on full time solids, by the time he was 7 months he was eating food with lumps in and by the time he was 10 months he was feeding himself. Now all through that I had to pretend to the health visitor that he was on milk until he was 5 months old! He loved his food, he is six now and he still eats well and has no allergies at all.

I think it's definitely best to go on your own instincts. All babies (and mothers) are different, and what works for other people doesn't necessarily work for you. With my first baby, I listened to what they told me at the baby clinic, and also read lots of books - but by the time I had the fourth, I pretty much did what I felt was right. Everybody thinks they have a right to give advice to new mothers ... but you don't have to follow it if you're not comfortable.

Yes, first I will follow my instinct firstly,however, I think we should heard more experience from other ones which is also helpful for me!

I go by my own instincts, from what my child does around me.. Even how they act.. After all, it is only God and I who knows the child better.

Sometimes the nurses are afraid to give the baby powder milk at on early stage. The reasons for this is that it can also stop the bowel movements. What mother should do is to drink a lot of water and this will enable to build the milk. Well it is good that she was able to do this. Make sure to tell her to make the milk tin so that it doesn't constipate the baby. Kiss the baby for me.

It may be instinct but I think alot of raising kids is good old common sense. And some people are motherly and some aren't.