Am I the only one...?

musicteacher84

Who gets a little pissy when my mil refers to L as "MY baby?"

Example:  mil writes on fb, "I'm so excited to see my Lucy this weekend."

I know, I should get over it - it just bothers me - it happens all the time; it's always "How's MY baby/little girl doing?"  Oh well, I guess it could be worse.

Sorry for the mini-vent!

C_mommy

ummm no. My response to that would be unless YOU spent X hours in labor X hours pushing and X amount of stitches please STFU. But I HATE that crap. It makes me so mad, its not your child its MINE! 

As you can tell, people do this to me as well. I'm sorry  

musicteacher84

Okay - thanks because it bothers the hell out of me!  I usually just let it go - but I know one of these times I'm going to spout off something not-so-nice...it annoys the hell out of DH too - so maybe I could get him to say something instead of me - ha!  Probably not though & I'll have to be the crabby witch of a DIL again.

ladyaylena

Yea, it kinda irks me when my mom and step dad do that too...lol.  Not that I would ever say anything.  It also bothers me when they start calling him by my special nickname for him...  I've made it pretty clear to everyone that it's mommy's nickname for LO.

wordtoyourmother

.....or she could just resent your kid like my MIL...lol

like you said, it could be WORSE!

mollyk5

preach it. 

 my mom likes to say that my LO does everything that he normally does that is cute is "because I'm here".  "Oh, he's smiling because I'm here."  "Oh, he's laughing because I'm here."  "Oh, he's going to sleep because I'm putting him to sleep." 

 Yes, it could totally be worse, but still bugs. 

rainlily

MIL did this when DD was a newborn.  I would ignore her when she asked about "her" baby or would tell her that DH was fine!  I don't think it is okay for other people to call DD their baby.  Especially my MIL...we have so many boundary issues with her.  She stopped after I would not respond to her question.  I know- it was passive aggressive, but I couldn't think of any nice way to tell her to stop.

mommy~to~mj

I HATE it. I would never say anything but it grates on my nerves. I just respond with "your granddaughter" is fine.

orleyl

She is adorable. But nobody refers to my baby at theirs except maybe dh. But my mil lives in another state and only saw dd once. I see many posts about this though.

Now that I am thinking about it, my neice was the first baby in our family and I used to refer to her as my baby, but it did not bother my sister at all.