I thought I would share since my MIL is totally driving me crazy. Last night I saw her wipe down the trash can with the dish cloth and then do the dishes with the same cloth! EWWWW! Of all the things that I've seen her do lately that is definately this grossest!
Any other in law or parent stories or issues out there?!
EWWWWWW!!! Thats disgusting!!!! She doesn't think I should be breastfeeding. According to her its not fair to everyone else. After each feeding I pump then give them a bottle with an extra oz after 3-4 feedings per day to increase their weight gain. My inlaws were over last night and she was holding Brendan while we were eating dinner. He started to cry and she couldn't calm him down. He had gas. We kept telling her that and she wouldn't burp him. They have been getting bad gas from the bottles. So she said to my husband 'let me give him a bottle' and he said no he had one less than an hr ago and thats whats causing the gas and she responded 'formula will break up the gas'. He got pissed at her and I took Brendan, burped him, latched him on to me and he went to sleep after 3 sucks.
We stayed with my inlaws for 3 weeks last year between selling our condo and closing on our house. They have a 4 bedroom house and its just the 2 of them. She refused to clean out any of the rooms for us. The room we moved into had 2 dressers packed with crap. She cleaned out 1 drawer and 4 inches in the closet. We had to bring our bed and Zach's crib. She wouldn't move the treadmill out (which hadn't been used in 2 years) or any of the furniture. My FIL walked into the room 1 day and said no one should have to live like this and shook his head. The 1st morning I went to make my son scrambled eggs for breakfast and she started shaking a box of cereal in front of him so he would want that instead of eggs. My husband was going to make breakfast for everyone on Saturday morning. He asked his parents 3 times if they wanted anything and they both said no so he started cooking. She then came into the kitchen and made her own breakfast over him on the stove. She got pissed off and started yelling at my husband because on my day off from work I took my son out because she was also off and wanted to spend the day with him. A week after I'm home from the hospital with the twins she said they would bring up dinner. They stopped at the store and bought the stuff for ME to make dinner then 2 weeks later has the nerve to call my husband crying that we don't invite her up and she can't see her grandkids. She came up about a month ago and the dishwasher needed to be emptied so she emptied onto the counter then said "I don't know where anything goes so I left it there and didn't put the dirty dishes in. Shes mad because they used to watch my 2 1/2 yr old while I was working and when I had drs and ultrasound appts and since I had the twins I don't drop him off anymore. Really? I'm going to pack everyone in the car and drive 25 minutes to drop him off at your house?
I can go on and on and on! My FIL is great though but everytime he sticks up for us she makes his life miserable so he stopped. My husband is the youngest of 4 and there is a big age difference between him and his sibblings. She was pissed that I took her baby.
First of all.... ew!!! I have so many horror stories, none of them really invovle the kids because my MIL just now has shown an intrest in the kids.
Has anyone run into parents or inlaws worrying about or bragging about telling the twins apart? To me my twins are easy to tell apart, but some have trouble. My mother beats herself up ENDLESSLY if she mixes them up, like shes a bad grandma if she doesnt know who's who. (She lives 3 hours away and we only see her a handful of times a month). And my SIL rubs it into everyone's face is she knows who's who and someone else doesn't. Like it's some kind of competition.
Girls turn 2 today!
- bikingmommy
on Dec. 22, 2009 at 1:11 PM