What do you do with unwanted sleep advice?!

[Rouge]

For a start Zander's sleep issues are NOT him being in need of ANY sleep training.

It drives me crazy that people automatically go for the parents lack of "training". Some people need to think before they speak. He's an awesome kid, and his sleep patterns are not consistent, I have known him to go days without waking.

I would say no I won't try that because xxx, and then say but thank you anyway and leave it at that.

[{sarah}]

I'm just so sick of it after 4.5 years people giving advice over & over. Do they really think we haven't tried everything possible?!

As for days without waking.... Weve had four in a row this week. He's such a clever little man

[Rouge]

There ya go! Awesomeness And you are an awesome mummy don't forget that

[Arimeh]

OMG - 4 days without waking?!?!!? Can you send him here to teach DS cos he still wakes up every night!!!!!

[Astrid]

For me I respond based on how the advice is given, how often and how insistent they are. If someone recommends to me "she who will not be named" I have to admit I do not hold back on saying what I think about her.

So normally I will just say "I am not comfortable with that" and if they push it I become less polite. I had someone harping on about how unsafe co-sleeping is and I ended up snapping back at her "well babies still die in cots by themselves, I think you should back off."