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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you know that in many Subsaharan countries, strangers help parents with their kids? As in, waitresses in restaurants will hold and take care of your baby and kid while you eat? Not bcs it is their job, but bcs that is their culture?
My dd had the most horrendous GERD as a baby. Heck, she has it still at 19. That meant that she screamed in her car seat during any drive, so much that it was heard with windows up by all the pedestrians? She would scream if held too!
And that nothing ever helped? I am pretty sure that this whole country still has the stories of the worst mzungu mom in the country!
People would knock on the window to help my baby, and I never got upset. I knew they thought they were helping me out. However frustrating it was?[/quote]
Same here. Still has it. Very painful. [/quote]
It is so terrible, right? But, people will offer advice regardless. That is when is it annoying, as you are exhausted, haven't slept in a year, and yet, they are acting like you are the worst mother ever?
One of the best compliments I got from a stranger was on a flight back from London, where dd was receiving medical care, a British woman, a bit older, told me that I am a very attentive and a good mom. I basically held dd, 7 months at the time, on my chest and rocked her up and down so she could sleep and not scream the whole time. London to Nairobi, I had another flight after that too. She never offered to help, but she must've observed that I did my best to soothe dd and, just that one sentence is still in my head 18 years later. Sometimes, it is the small kindness that moms appreciate.[/quote]

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