Unwanted advice

These days I am finding myself constantly having to bite my lip from well meaning friends and family offering unwanted advice, so I thought I would write down their advice and the response I would have liked to have given:

"Why don't you leave him to moan?" (this was by a well meaning friend because I respond to Edward immediately rather than letting him cry.) Because if I leave him to moan, next time he wants attention he will cry to get it. At the moment he moans or coughs and this is enough to get mummy's attention.

"He could be just moaning to get attention". Well that's good enough for me, he's got it.

"Why don't you give him juice?" Instead of my breast milk, which do you think is better? If I introduce juice he might completely refuse to drink water and breast milk.

"Are you still feeding him? Will you be poking them through the gates at school?". Breast milk doesn't become useless because he's over 6 months old and I am hoping he will be home schooled, so no gates will be in the way.

"Doesn't your back hurt using the sling?" No, I've carried him since he was a few months old and I am used to his weight, as his weight has increased, so has my strength.

"When will you end co-sleeping?" When Edward can walk from his bed to mine in the middle of the night, if he needs me.

When people give well meaning advice I try not to take it personally but I feel that they are directly trying to tell me I am doing something wrong and if I try and defend myself I am going to end up insulting them, so I end up biting my lip and wishing I had said something different, but they often make it personal by telling me stories of how they did/do it. It's a difficult line to tread!