Unsolicited Parenting Advice from Strangers, 2

The nice Jamaican woman who helps run Juliana's Restaurant informs us that breastfeeding mothers should avoid all green, leafy vegetables, especially lettuce and cabbage, "because it makes baby gassy." Also beans, needless to say.

Later, when we've left the restaurant and start down Toronto St, a young woman offers to sell us a stockpile of formula, cheap. We're breastfeeding, we tell her. Oh, she says. Well, if you change your mind, just drop by [censored] Burnell St and she'll hook us up.

Unsolicited Parenting Advice from Strangers

Taking Agnes for a walk around the neighborhood in her stroller. She starts to fuss and cry towards the end of the walk, probably because it's almost time for her to eat.

A woman who is pulling her car out on Victor stops the car -- perpendicular across the street -- and opens the door so she can lean out and yell, "Your baby might be too hot! My baby cried once and it was because I had him bundled up too hot."

Later, we receive a second-hand piece of unsolicited advice via my mother, who was told by the woman who runs the El Salvadoran grocery store on Sargent that she should tell us that hot chocolate is very good for breast milk.