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Can we have a WTF Mom Saturday?

emmy236emmy236 member
in May 2013 Moms
We have MIL Mondays but i like my MIL.., it's my mom that is being awful. So R is the ILs first grandchild. He is also my mom's first biological grandchild. Needless to say I've had a tough time making everyone happy. It doesn't help that my mother can be one of the most difficult people to deal with. The ILs drove down from VA this weekend so they can be here for when R sees Santa for the first time. I explained to my mom we are doing it today so that both sets of grandparents can be there.

I didn't have a set time because he's a baby and we wanted to play it by ear. Well my mom just lost it. She refused to come, basically told me off saying how I ruined her Christmas and she didn't even want to see him with Santa. Why? All because we didn't go the exact time she wanted to go. My MIL got up early and watched R so I could sleep in. We had a late breakfast, R napped and we went at 1 instead of noon. Now my mother refuses to talk to me and is threatening to not watch him during the day when I work because I'm not doing things her way. She already undermines me at every turn with my son and flat out criticizes me and says I'm not doing anything well enough. I'm almost ready to just her to stop watching him and I'll pay for child care. I don't even know what to do at this point. Sorry for the long vent. I'm just so flippin mad.
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  • emmy236emmy236 member
    Thanks. Luckily she's going back to NY to suck the life out of my other siblings for two weeks. My poor ILs feel awful like it's their fault.
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  • D&S724D&S724 member
    Wow. It sounds like she is a bit jealous of your ILs (the fact that they came into town and all the "attention" is on them), or maybe she just doesn't like the idea of sharing her grandson with them. Either way, it's not fair to you, and she shouldn't threaten to not watch him any more simply because something didn't go her way.  Sorry you have to deal with that!
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  • telicious2telicious2 member
    Sorry your mom is being above and beyond difficult. Maybe the two weeks away will do her some good.

    My WTF mom vent is that she put 8 oz of BM into his bottle last night!!! And after warming and feeding it to him he only drank 1 oz!

    She was watching him last night and he was being difficult going to sleep so she gave him a bottle. I should give her the benefit of the doubt that she doesn't know that BF babies drink in smaller amounts than FF babies.
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  • watuzzigalwatuzzigal member
    D&S724 said:

    Wow. It sounds like she is a bit jealous of your ILs (the fact that they came into town and all the "attention" is on them), or maybe she just doesn't like the idea of sharing her grandson with them. Either way, it's not fair to you, and she shouldn't threaten to not watch him any more simply because something didn't go her way.  Sorry you have to deal with that!

    This is what it sounds like to me also, and I agree that it's not fair to you.

    I think it's great that you get along with your in-laws, and I hope your weekend is finishing up better!

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