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StarlitRN
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Oh FIL....shut your trap!
StarlitRN
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Sorry for the rant but I'm annoyed!
My FIL drives me nuts! He doesn't agree with about 90% of my parenting ways but his biggest issue is EBF. He believes that it is fine (good even) for the first three months...but that after that it isn't healthy and baby should be on a mixture of formula & solid foods. He is even against rice cereal & purees....he believes you should just take your food, mash it a little with a fork, and feed it to LO. They can gum it! He loves to tell about how DH & his brothers loved roasted chicken & pizza at this age! 
I got annoyed a few weeks ago & made DH have a talk with his dad (basically telling him to shut-up about my BF). I thought it had worked but FIL found another way to get his point across! Last night he came over & kept talking about DDs hair and how pretty growing hair is a sign of good health & nutrition. I was actually feeling pretty good until a few minutes later when he casually starts talking about how it is weird that DDs hair hasn't grown at all since birth (not true). He kept talking about it & I knew he was trying to say that she isn't getting enough nutrition through BM....without really saying it! Grrrrrrrr!!!! He drives me mental!
The cherry on top to all of this is that him & my MIL are moving to the city & bought the condo 2 floors below us!! They move in next week!!! DH & I are both NOT happy about this idea (we didn't know until after the offer had been accepted!). So until we move to TX in the spring my ILs will be living 50 yards away. The thought of being snowed in with them all winter is bringing me to tears! I really hope I survive. 
(and no it will not be great having "help" or free childcare here.....they are not allowed to be alone with DD due to them not respecting our parenting wishes...something that we have easily gotten away with when they lived 2.5hrs away....now it is going to be drama!)
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Re: Oh FIL....shut your trap!
OMG, I would freak if my ILs moved that close.
He'd probably think I was REALLY starving my baby, b/c most of his hair has fallen out since birth.
Oh FIL! He needs to shut his trap and since they are moving close I would have your DH lay down the law!
I was in a similar situation MIL says DS is too skinny, 20 lbs 31 in, 1 year. She shoves bread and potatoes at him to "fatten him up", she says he's developing slow walking skills because I BW too much and that DH and I will never become pregnant while I still BF O.
DH had to tell her to stop with the skinny and everything else and realise that in Romania (where she is from) babies are given table food at 2 months (in most cases). O is BF and didn't start solids till 6months. BWing is good for him and I'll get pregnant if the time is right for my body. We threatened to not let her see DS if she was going to be so super negative about our parenting styles. It worked like a charm and she hasn't said a word since:)