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SIL tried to humiliate me today for using CD's
The same one I posted about the other day who is always putting other people down. She has known that we use CD's for months now and has always kept quiet if she had anything to say. But she hates it when other people get attention.
A friend of ours is about to get a foster placement and it might be a baby, and she is always tight on money, so I sent her a link about Econobums. Well, today at our niece's b-day party, she starts asking me all about them and is very interested. So we start talking about CDing and I am telling her how easy it is, how much we love it, how much money we save, etc...
Well SIL pipes up, super loud over the whole party "CD's are disgusting. I hate dealing with my daughter's poop and I would never touch anything other than disposeables. What do you think everyone? CD's or disposeables? Disposeables win hands down, cloth is just gross"... or pretty much something to that effect.
Now I am usually very non-confrontational, so I ignore her at first, but SIL is sitting right next to me, so I continue my conversation with my friend. She is still listening and butting in, saying why would ANYONE choose to do this. So I tell my friend, for SIL's benefit, for environmental, cost, and health reasons. I said something like, picture 1 baby going through around 8-10 diapers a day times years in diapers times the 300 years it takes to break them down, and so on and so forth.
SIL buts in again saying that they only go through that many diapers a day when they are super young, and she only uses 3 diapers a day on her daughter MAX (like she is making some kind of arguement?) I was so pissed by then, I told her she should be changing a baby a lot more than 3 times per day, and no wonder her DD has a nasty diaper rash that never heals.
I never lash out like that, but nothing else was shutting her down. I know 2 wrongs don't make a right, but she is just so horrible sometimes.
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Re: SIL tried to humiliate me today for using CD's
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I am so glad you shut her DOWN because I was getting so mad reading this post and fretting that maybe you didn't say anything back to her - then was so glad to see that you DID. Excellent.
"When it comes to sleeping, whatever your baby does is normal. If one thing has damaged parents enjoyment of their babies, it's rigid expectations about how and when the baby should sleep." ~ James McKenna, Ph.D., Mother Baby Behavioral Sleep Center, University of Notre Dame
Thanks! It felt good. She is just such a pain!
And I want to add, don't be surprised if I find some CD/diaper rash article and post it on facebook. I am feeling a little passive/aggressive at this late hour. Just disregard it.
Good for you!! Does she really only change her DD's diaper 3 times a day? Poor kid!!
Anyway, let her eat cake! She's an idiot and most people will get how much of an idiot she is!
She is SUCH a hag.
I'm sooooooooo glad you told her off.
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Why on earth does it bother her what your baby poops in?!? Ugh. You handled it better than I would have! 3 times a day is nowhere near enough, she's clearly so perfect that casting stones at you is legit. Lamesauce.
Be sure to post something about not disposing of feces in landfills. Most people who use disposables don't know that they are supposed to dump the poop in the toilet anyway, so this whole "I hate handling poop" means "I'd prefer to violate municipal health and safety codes for my own convenience".
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E .. I must confess .. I did not always do this - but - I do now! Unless it's totally MASHED into the diaper. Otherwise - we (Jack and I) walk to the bathroom and plop the poop into the toilet (then dispose of the diaper.) He thinks it's wonderful and loudly exclaims "Ewww! Poop! Thass a big POOP! Ewww!" Then he flushes it away. And while we do use disposables, we use 7th Generation which are slightly less horrible for the environment than chemical/fragrance/bleached sposies.
"When it comes to sleeping, whatever your baby does is normal. If one thing has damaged parents enjoyment of their babies, it's rigid expectations about how and when the baby should sleep." ~ James McKenna, Ph.D., Mother Baby Behavioral Sleep Center, University of Notre Dame
This is SO true. It was blowout city with sposies and we haven't had one leak or blowout in CDs. I would be so annoyed at your SIL. It's amazing how the most uneducated are always the most vocal when it comes to things like this. Good for you for shutting her down.