Tips for dealing with the child can be helpful. Good tips are always those that make life easier, and especially your child! The advice to let it scream, therefore leaves out very quickly.

The gut feeling is right - and sometimes the mother-in-law
Mothers and fathers who work intensively with your baby automatically develop a feeling for what is good for the child and what is not. So let your gut feel calm. This is true even if the good tip comes from the mother-in-law or your know-it-all sister. In most cases, common sense is enough to judge its quality. However, you should make sure that your gut feeling is reported and not the desire to finally sleep again one night or to enjoy your wife without a greedy-sucking baby on the chest. Then quite different body regions speak.

If in doubt, just read it!

If you are really not sure whether a tip is good or not, then a good textbook or even an online portal like fatherfreuden.de still helps. Ideally, you can make your own picture based on the facts and make your own decision. And tips do not always have to be followed by behavior. For example, to tell if your baby is too warm, it will tell you it's starting to sweat in the back of your neck. Would you have known that? Maybe that has already told you the annoying girlfriend of your wife and you just did not listen.

How diplomatic do you have to be?

Of course, you know that everyone means well with you, your partner and the baby. The clever tips should make your life easy and also be good for the child. Still, you do not have to swallow all the teachings with a friendly nod. Especially in the first few months, this is not possible anyway, thin as the nerve costume is then, as a rule. So you will eventually say that you now have enough good advice and that you do not want to hear anything anymore. That's fine and you'll be forgiven. After all, experienced mothers know exactly how you feel right now. One thing you should be prepared for: The flood of good tips will most likely not end this way.