What are the 10 worst "wrong" practices that Singaporean parents do during confinement and with newborn babies?

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my goodness! you mean there's this urine theory circulating around?! Here's mine. Not specific to confinement but myths. 1. if baby drools, it's going to rain 2. if baby has eye secretion means he's heaty 3. rub beer on his scalp to grow more hair 4. give gripe water and ruyi oil for every single ailment, even the lack of an ailment, because it's an elixir. the baby will be easier to look after 5. only a male family member is allowed to deliver confinement food, so that the next baby will be a boy. 6. Pregnant women should not be seated on the same bed, or else the baby in your tummy will change gender 7. Pregnant women should not eat pig stomach for the gender of your baby will be changed 8. cannot cry during your confinement, or else your eyesight will be affected 9. drink while sitting down or else you will suffer from incontinence

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