Sometimes parenting advice doesn’t sit right

 Sometimes parenting advice doesn’t sit right.

You read something, or someone tells you what “worked for them,”
and your whole body tenses.

That feeling matters.

You’re allowed to pause.
You’re allowed to say, “this doesn’t feel right for me or my child.”
You don’t owe anyone blind trust when it comes to your baby.

Because no book, no expert, no well-meaning stranger
knows your child like you do.
And that little voice in your head that tells you to hold them a little longer,
to try something different,
to go against the “normal” way
that’s your intuition speaking.

You’re not being difficult.
You’re being a parent who listens.