Notes from my MIL
shanmoyer
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Sorry I've been MIA - DH is keeping me ridiculously busy at work!
Wow - she's priceless! She called me last night to see how I was feeling after my fall and gave me these little jems that I thought might make you all laugh your pretty little butts off. I know DH and I had a good hard laugh last night!
1) "Oh it's okay if you fall, you're only 28 weeks! God will figure it out." Uhm...okay? I let her know that depending on how you fall (at any point in pregnancy) that it could cause harm to both Mom and baby - and that at later stages in pregnancy it can bring on contractions, or complications. "oh no, you're fine. You don't need to worry about things like that untl at least 37 weeks".
2) "I don't know why you're worried about Postpartum Depression. That's not even a real thing." Enter 
face here. I let her know that 80% of women actually get the "baby blues" and 15-20% get PPD - which I'm at higher risk for because of my family history with depression and mental illess. "It's not a real thing Shan, you just need to surround yourself with positive people and be happy that you have a baby. I remember Lulu and I would get together every week and I called her once because I wanted to drown B in the kiddie pool. She came over and we cooked hotdogs instead. That's all you need!" Again...
3) "I bet within two weeks of Bug being born, you're back at the bar." Uhm..probably not. I may go for a drink with my gf's or dinner or something, but I won't be boozing it up. "But it's the best! Make sure you express your milk after drinking because....wooo! B would sleep so well after giving him some of that milk! It was great! And I would freeze it and make sure that was the milk available whenever we needed a sitter!" I'm sorry...what?!
Seriously - she's a fruitcake! I wonder if BIL knows he was almost drowned, and drunk, when he was a baby!!
Gosh it makes me nervous for her to babysit!
Re: Notes from my MIL
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Her comments about PPD make me sad though- sad that so many people think like she does, and are unaware that PPD really does exist. It doesn't matter how happy you are to be a mom or how much you love your baby, you may still suffer depression. Sucks that people continue to perpetuate the myth that it's all in the mom's head, isn't real, etc...
OMG, I'm crying!! Too funny!
That one's a keeper :-)
ya - I hot pretty hot under the collar when she told me it wasn't a real thing. I todl her that perhaps 29 years ago it wasn't considered real, but it is the #1 pregancy complication that plagues women in our modern times. Once I started throwing stats out...she shut up. Well...until she told me about wanting to drown her baby in the kiddy pool.
lol bookmark this if you ever need a laugh in the future!
This. Holy Crap...
DH and I laughed SO hard when she said the thing about breastmilk! lol
I've been good! a little tumble down the stairs the other night, but I'm allright and Bug is doing well!!
lmfao!!! your mil is a riot! and yeah, i'd have a video monitor and not leave the area if she were to babysit!
This. LOL.
I feel your pain, Shan! Any possible post I could make about my MIL is the same way... full of
and 
... she's probably more of a fruitcake if you can imagine that.
Well...she likely won't ever be responsible for looking after him by herself...she has a wee bit of an issue with wine in that she likes it a little too much
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