Lots of us had mom/MIL drama during our pregnancies.... How's it going now that most of us have had our babies? Worse? Better?
Personally, my mom is now calling my baby "her baby" and that drives me crazy! All she does when she's visiting is hold her and take a million pictures with her phone. Luckily we got her to stop coming over for a few days. Also, I'm dreading Christmas.
Re: Moms and In Laws
She also calls DH every day to see how I'm managing. Um... How about ask how I'm doing?
She also told her husband DH couldn't do the moonlight bike ride with her bc The baby won't sleep. Um no. How about ur husband do the moonlight bike ride with u and let my husband get acquainted with his new family! Dh said no bc that's when my wife sleeps and I have the baby. Nothing about a non sleeping baby.
She's not a terrible person just annoying as all hell.
Also the fact that she facebooks drunk every night and comments on any post/photo we put on FB at least 3 times because she was drunk and forgot she already commented makes me never want to go on FB anymore.
And she texted me earlier saying she was in town and going to swing by and see the baby. I didn't answer and am hiding out in my room pretending we're asleep [-(
They tried to ruin the birth and are selfish
Also, she informed us she's planning on babysitting DS while I'm at work (instead of my mom) during that time. I'm totally not comfortable leaving DS with her because she'll be having him eating all kinds of fried foods and juice (yeah, at 6 months old) because she's grandma and she wants to spoil him. No. He's going to be breastfeeding and not eating any of that stuff. I know that's her plan though because she already does that with our dog when I leave for work and he has all kinds of food allergies and shouldn't be eating random foods like that. When we talk to her about the dog she just smiles and says she loves him and he loves her and what we don't know won't hurt us basically. I can only imagine what she'd try to give DS. Not happening. My mom said she can come with DS to her house and hang out for the couple hours a day we need child care.
She also regularly calls to ask DH if I'm remembering to give the baby water every day. No. He's breastfed. Breast milk is 88% water. He's fine. She posts on facebook how sad she is to not see a picture of HER baby if I don't post one every single day. Oh yeah, she also added on there that she just had a son. No. I had a son. You got a grandson.
That's just my MIL. SIL is even worse and she's coming for a week or two in November.
On the other hand, I live with in laws and my MIL still drives me a little crazy now as she did during my pregnancy. She still calls my daughter HER baby. When my husband and I are actually bonding with her in our room, my MIL will come in and invade that time... She doesn't have any filter or self restrictions to give me and my husband our personal time. I feel like there's gonna be some conflict as my daughter gets older...
Old needs cereal in his bottle @-)
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MIL has not been too bad. DH talked to her about her boyfriend not getting a title and she was accepting of it. I don't get their relationship and think she deserves better but she won't break up with him. Her call, but my son won't be calling someone who may or may not be around in a year Papa. She has made a few comments about DS "hating" her because he's always sleeping when she's around (this continues from when I was pregnant because he wouldn't move when she felt my belly...) And I think she is irritated that my mom sees him more but my mom is home most of the day and my neice plays with my cousin on the weekends. She works and I don't really care for being at her house because it smells like a farm, I don't like her boyfriend, and its messy with no where to sit. She told DH she would quit her job and watch DS for $200 a week but I don't like how my neice behaves after spending time there so no way my son will spend that much time there. DH got a little pissed with me today for my opinion on that but he already agreed with me a few weeks ago.
Don't give me the pretext of wanting to help when all you want to do is watch a sleeping three week old. Because I need the grass to be cut and one last room to be painted, not a babysitter.