I was wrapping baby? My choice, but her kids never needed wrapping to sleep and personally she wouldn't want to hinder their movement which, did I know, could even affect muscle growth.
Was my baby a bit on the small side? Lucky, she said, as all hers had been big because personally she had followed a special diet in pregnancy which did I know could influence your child's size later in life.
How I shouldn't feel bad that I had a C-section and couldn't deliver "naturally" like her as she had a high pain threshold.
I didn't have a pain threshold, which is why I asked to be moved into a single room.
Welcome to the competitive world of parenting.
You thought it was just going to be you and your family raising your child but as soon as you become pregnant you find that the whole world has an opinion and is not afraid to wade in.
As David Beckham learned this week. "Parenting experts" and "health experts" in the UK's Daily Mail said former footballer David and wife, fashionista Victoria, were risking stunting their 4-year-old daughter Harper's speech and were putting her teeth at risk of damage.
Clare Byam-Cook, a former midwife quoted in the article as a "parenting expert", went so far as to say that the Beckhams were putting Harper's "wellbeing" at risk. Another "expert", Sue Atkins, suggested they were taking an "easy option for parents ... the same as giving them an iPad, really".
People waded in on Facebook and Twitter, some saying that they were "disburbed" by it.
What was this parenting "crime" of the Beckhams that was inciting such scandal that one would think from some comments they were abusing their daughter?
Quite simply the gorgeous, happy, obviously well-loved 4-year-old was photographed using a pink dummy.
A dummy. Not a cigarette or a tab of ecstasy or a bottle of gin.
Her parents were not starving her, leaving her alone, bullying her or putting her out on the streets to make a living. They were not hitting her or verbally or sexually abusing her.
The simple fact that she was seen using a dummy at 4 was enough to unleash the parenting posse of experts, and there are zillions of them.
David Beckham, a competitive sportsman at the top of his game, wasn't going to let this crowd run with the ball. He tackled the critics full on on Instagram (where he has more than 10 million followers) saying:
"Why do people feel they have the right to criticize a parent about their own children without having any facts? Everybody who has children knows that when they aren't feeling well or have a fever you do what comforts them best and most of the time it's a pacifier so those who criticize, think twice about what you say about other people's children because actually you have no right to criticize me as a parent."
He is absolutely right.
They say it takes a village to raise a child. Myself and many mums I know are grateful for the constructive support they have received in parenting from friends and the wider community.
But there is a world of difference between well-informed and well-intentioned constructive support, and snarky criticism.
"Parenting experts" may live by the textbook, but that is not the real world.
The irony is that loving parents trying their best are often the target of unwanted advice, while parents who really do need advice - and intervention - are not seeking it or getting it. There are some terrible parents out there who abuse, starve and even kill their children.
But the majority of good parents try to do what is best for the child and the family. Sometimes it is a struggle. Often it may not make parenting gold medal standards.
But so what?
If a child is well-loved, fed, warm, safe, secure, respected and showered with as much attention as you can, the rest may not be perfect but children will still thrive.
Beckham 1, parenting experts nil.
