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February 2011 Moms
kimski
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feel like a bad DIL.. am I??? kind of long
kimski
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So yesterday was LO's baptism/party at our house after. After we got back to the house a tried to nurse her away from the crowd (LO nurses terribly when distracted) and she didn't nurse very well and fell asleep. Tried our normal wake up routine diaper diaper change, messing with feet, etc. Without success so I brought her back out with the plan to attempt again when she woke up. Came out and DH knew she must have not nursed well cause she normal takes 40+ minutes for a good feeding and we were out in 15. So were chilling in the kitchen/letting MIL hold her and ~20 minutes later she wakes up and does her normal root/feed me face/cry. So DH says to his mom looks like shes hungry. To which she says she just ate (kinda of short and snotty). I was kinda pissed put tried to keep the b*tch out of my voice as I repeated that she need to eat.
So day goes on with more frequent than normal feedings as each feeding was also shorter than normal. And baby getting the normal pass around by family-as much as I try to limit frequent changes. So I had her again for a diaper change/showing family nursery before people left. And LO upchucks a good portion of the limited feeding she had last.
So get her all changed/cleaned up and bring her back to the LR. My MIL comes over and starts to hover and after like 5 minutes asks to hold her. Which I respond I'd rather not pass her around any more for right now and explained what just happened and that since she hadn't eaten well all day I wanted to keep a close eye on her to make sure she was ok. Where I got a dejected look from MIL. Then little one starts to getting super fussy and my sister suggests trying to feed her at least a little to wash any stomach acid out of her mouth/throat. So I take her back to nursery to feed her. In the process a few people needing to leave many of whom I had already said good bye to before going/or who came back to say bye before they left. But my MIL, FIL, and BIL's all just left. So I get back from feeding LO and ask DH and he's like of they left. Well I wish them would have said something. I would have brought her back out for a real quick goodbye before finish feeding her.
So I kinda feel bad that I burst my MIL's bubble 2x in one day. I mean she still got to hold baby lots yesterday. But I hope she doesn't think I'm stealing LO away from her -which is what her face looked like each time.
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Re: feel like a bad DIL.. am I??? kind of long
If they live close by and can visit often don't stress about it. My mom always looks sad when it's time to go, and i'm there atleast 2x's a week.
If they do not live close and can not visit often then next time I would ease up on some of the rules a little. Would it really hurt to have MIL hold her even if others were already passing her around?