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From the Run out of Womb blog

As soon as I became pregnant, I realised that babies and children are one issue on which Everyone Has An Opinion. And so many of those opinions come from social media.

Often, that's great. I love the baby-focused Facebook groups where you can go for practical advice and others' experiences.

But they also often host daily eruptions between one parent or another. People get mad, thrust their views where they are not wanted, people get upset. The erupting storm usually looks a little something like this...