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February 2011 Moms
Anyone else HATE thier LO being around inlaws?
Hubbys grandfathers 78th birthday party is this afternoon... aka... in law overload.
Here is the line up-
DHs aunt- Crazy drama queen that should have been a spanish soap opera actress. Says things like "OH! ISNT HE PRECIOUS!" thows her hand to her head, and cries everytime she sees DS.
DHs Grandmother- Swears DS is always freezing (We live in FL, its 78 degrees right now...) Constantly tells me he is cold, and when I turn my back, has him bundled in a dish cloth...Says REALLY stupid stuff. Last week, DS was crying while she was here, and when I took off his onsie to change him... she said in baby talk "Ohhhh! Do you like being naked? Are you going to be a stripper? Oh, ya! Youre going to be a stripper!" She then countined to say this over and over again until they left our house an hour later... WTF!
DH's sister and brother in law- Sister is nuts. Is 34, and acts 18. Knows NOTHING about babies, and I swear if I hear her say "Ew" one more time while DS is being changed/burps/etc Im going to smack her. brother in law is a complete idiot... leaves the room while we're feeding DS, because he doesnt want to get spit up on. Yes, seriously... Leaves the room, because being 7 feet away isnt far enough?
DHs mom- 3 pack a day smoker drunk. Tells the entire world that DS is "Sick" (he has acid reflux..) because he was a premie (He was born at 38 weeks!). Swears her husband knows everything because he used to be an EMT firefighter...
DHs Stepdad- CONSTANTLY tells us to burp DS, even when were not feeding him. Says something everytime he sees one of the bottle we use.... because he things its funny that the bottle are bent at an angle and "You silly kids will buy just about any gimmick"
I realize this post is long.. Just need to vent to help relieve stress before my redic day.....
Anyone else completely HATE thier LO being around thier inlaws?
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Ps- Sorry to anyone who clicked on this because the saw the title say "Anyone hate thier LO"... Computer went all funky and saved post while i was in the middle of typing subject.
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I had my DS wraped tightly in his snuggler and my MIL told me that it was going to cut off his circulation. She then asked me if "the baby sleeps like this all the time"--he was sleeping when they were here. (For God sakes, he's 4 days old--what else do babies do????)
I would much rather have my parents around but my inlaws are NOTHING like yours (thank goodness).
Yeah I have several heart attacks every time they're around her. SIL (14 yo) is the biggest offender of giving me heart attacks... it's painfully obvious that she has ZERO experience with newborns (she's the youngest sibling and the youngest in her extended family). No head support, major fumbling around, etc. Yet she seems to think that she can handle DD the way us adults can. Instead of someone picking DD up out of her arms, she'll try to pass her off herself... and when she passes DD to someone, she'll hold DD by the head and legs, effectively folding DD in half to hand her off. She tried putting DD up on her shoulder and I put a big kibosh on that... not only did SIL fumble around in trying to do so, but DD is VERY much into lifting her head up and looking all around, so if you're not ready (and not experienced!) then DD would easily throw her head all the way back. UGH.
I don't mind MIL holding her, obviously she's experienced. But I'd have a very hard time letting her watch her... MIL loves the cradle she gave us (think solid wood all around, about a foot wide and covered in thick bumpers), and boasted how DH would burrow into the bumpers as a baby. It's a very pretty cradle but for decoration, not actual use! There were a few other things she mentioned too that set off my SIDS alarm. ESPECIALLY since DD is a burrower like her daddy... I'm always having to move her face out of my chest, shoulder, even arm pit (LOL) since she burrows into me when I hold her!
My in-laws can't take a hint. When I say "she needs to eat" or "she needs to have her diaper changed" they just keep holding her and don't even attempt to give her to me to nurse or change her diaper (since they can do that).
MIL was here while she was napping last weekend and literally hovered over her cradle trying to "unintentionally" wake her up.
All in all they aren't that bad but it's obnoxious when they try to keep her all to themselves while they're around her... she's EBF, she has to come back to me at some point!
My own mother keeps insisting I try to give her sugar water when she's fussy so that's a whole different story. She's great with babies/kids but doesn't understand that I have my own views and they don't include sugar water or cereal in my pumped breast milk...
Right now I am not talking to the IL's. They were SO rude while my mom was here and I finally decided to not even play their game. It is mostly my MIL.
While my mom was here we went to go see the IL's, and my mom was, "not allowed" to hold LO because MIL wanted to hold her. Then lied to me and said she got pictures of my mom holding DD, but when I talked to my mom she said no she did not get to hold her at all. I was LIVID!!!
She told my mom that I am pretty much a drunk.
My MIL told everyone that at least LO got her looks and not my or DH looks because at least then she will be pretty.
We did some pictures and MIL would not let me hold LO for the pictures because MIL HAD to hold her. "It would look so much better that way." As she said.
She was constantly saying that DD was fussy because she needed grandma. No one else but grandma would make her feel better. I just told her she was hungry and tried and that if grandma would stop waking her up then maybe she would get a decent nap.
Oh and lastly, she told everyone that we should leave DD with her because she would take better care of her then we would.
Then right before we left she woke up DD and said I was the one who wanted her awake. Which is not true at all. I tried to feed DD before the hour long ride home but she was not hungry and went to sleep. Then she got woken up by MIL and cried the whole way home. Thanks!
All in all MIL is a major b!tch and I want nothing to do with her!!! I thought we had gotten over this and were headed to a healthy and mature relationship, but guess not. Oh well. Her loss not mine.
Oh and did I mention that the next day she FACEBOOKED DH and told him how rude I was. Um, what?
Sorry for the rant, but it still pisses me off how she treated me and my mom while my mom was in town.