Anyone sick of these 3 questions?

[JordieC]

First of all I sincerely apologise to anyone who I asked this because now I know how annoying it is!!!!

1. Does she sleep through the night?
2.Is she crawling YET (without a huge emphasis on this)
3. Does she eat solids

Now if it comes up in a perefectly normal conversation I don't have an issue. But when they are asked like that by perfect strangers giving disapproving looks...Of course I am a bit sensitive there because ATM I can answer a big fat NO to all of them!! But there are reasons!

1. No - we like her to party with us night - her favourite is the shopping channel at 2am!
2. No - we don't believe in babies being allowed to move - we make sit in a highchair all day
3. No - I have always wanted to breastfeed till she's at least 9 and solids would get in the way of that goal!

No - in all seriousness our DD is doing fine. Yes a bit behind in the crawling but she still moves. So anyone else annoyed by these or other questions?

P.S. I'm sure if you ask me in 3 weeks I will not be as annoyed!!

[BhoysGirl]

Jordie,

A big fat yes to being sick of those questions, although not so much these days. I have to confess that to the outside world, which included my mother, I tend to, well, lie, or at least gloss over the stuff that I don't want to focus on. It's probably only my BellyBelly friends who know the real story. My DS is starting to give me better overnight sleeps, but only occasionally more than about 6 hours, and has only really decided that solids were the go for the last month, maybe 2 months. Before that he was completely bm obsessed. He still is to a large degree, but I know he won't be forever like this, so I'm enjoying it while it lasts.

[Jennifer13]

Oh Jordie - just wait, there are ALWAYS three annoying questions! The number four to yours is 'Is she a good baby?' (So far she hasn't been brought home in a police car, so fingers crossed...!).

Toddler years:
1. Is she walking yet?
2. Are you STILL breastfeeding? (There are numerous variations on this one...)
3. You mean she still wakes up during the night???

The 'still' questions seem to be the most annoying... And don't even get me started on toilet training!

[mountain mummy]

I tend to ignore questions like that (being on my 4th child now!!) but with my first two, yes, they annoyed the crap out of me! Especially as my DD (#2 child) didn't start to crawl until about 14-15 months old! But on the plus side, she was walking by 17 months old! (my eldest was walking by 11 months, so there were great expectations from family for DD)

[Je$$_84]

i hate the "r u still bfing" q's... especially from my MIL...

i got it with DS with the crawling, walking, talking crap... its annoying, certainly know how u feel.

[satya]

In the early days I hated:

"Are you breasfeeding?" (why does this matter to anyone????)
"Are you still breastfeeding?" (from people who knew I was having trouble)
"Was it a natural birth?" (So what if it wasn't?????)

I know I'm going to be really annoyed with:

"Is he on solids yet"? or "Why isn't he on solids yet? so and so was on solids by this age"
"Why don't you try him on wheat bix (or some other type of food)?"

I keep telling people I will only introduce rice cereal at 4 months if he's ready for it but most other foods will be introduced from 6 months onwards. It seems that this isn't satisfactory for some people in our families so I know there will be comments and questions. I just know it's going to drive me mad.