I know that my MIL & FIL have done a lot for us, I don't deny that at all and I don't mean to sound ungrateful but ummm, I do have my hands full at the moment.
Not only am I recovering from giving birth, but I also had my tubes tied. (BIG OUCH!) I try to sleep when the babydoes but finding that very hard now that it is Spring Break & both my 15 & 10 yr old are off from school for the week.
My In Laws live right across the street and love to see the baby as often as they can. (I can't blame them but...) My MIL refers to baby time as getting her daily "Ande fix". Here's the thing, she likes him bathed and clean when I take him over to visit. I like to give him a bath right before bed to help establish a night time routine, but baby goes to visit Grandma in the afternoon. Then I get the third degree about if I am giving him a bath or not and keeping him clean. It's not like I take him over there dirty or anything of that sort. I guess it's because he doesn't have that fresh "clean baby" smell, lol.
UGH! I think I'm suffering from lack of sleep and hormones.
hell no you're not! you don't have to conform to that crap. tell her the routine and why. and that if she wants that new baby smell, to bathe her husband in baby soap, lotion him, and then take a big snif. You have to have your routine not only to make raising a brand new baby easier, but so that the routines of your older children are easier, and your recovery is easier. She can shove it. Babies are messy and 80% of the time smelly. Cause they make a mess in their diapers every 20 minutes. Give me her number and I'll let her have it.
What? it pissed me off. Implying that you're not taking care of your child like that. Rip her a new one. Thats a no fly zone regardless of relation.
no one should be telling you when to bathe your baby..that is up to you..if your MIL doesnt like it too bad for her..=) you are the mother and you decide what you need to do with your baby and when..Just tell your MIL you bathe your baby at night to help set up a bedtime routine and that is the way you want it.
yep, I DO AGREE WITH BOTH BEFORE ME!!!!!! you do what you feel is right, and take some time for yourself,,,, gee, you have been through a lot! need me to come and kick some butt????
Mahalo Ladies! Baby Ande doesn't like it when I give him a bath but after all is said and done he usually falls asleep right away. That's why I take him to see my MIL in the afternoon. He's awake and I know how much she enjoys spending time with the baby when he is awake.
He is also eating for 20 min on each side and then an hour later he decides to eat again. The ped. refers to it as cluster feedings. My MIL is implying that I am not producing enough milk. Hello!? I am so gorged it's not even funny. So I know that's not the problem, he's just a growing baby and have to feed him when he wants to eat.
now its that you're not feeding him enough? seriously, give me her number and I'll give her a few hours of putting her in place. Next time she does that whip out your boobs and start pumping. Then in a calm educational voice -and pamphlets on breast feeding- tell her how much a baby needs a day. When you're done educating her, look her dead in the eye, and remind her that as she got older, the medical community got better.
And if shes really pushing your buttons, whip out a boob and squirt some milk in her eyes and say, "I guess there's enough to do that!"
this lady is pissing me off
Quoting Krustybunny:
now its that you're not feeding him enough? seriously, give me her number and I'll give her a few hours of putting her in place. Next time she does that whip out your boobs and start pumping. Then in a calm educational voice -and pamphlets on breast feeding- tell her how much a baby needs a day. When you're done educating her, look her dead in the eye, and remind her that as she got older, the medical community got better.
And if shes really pushing your buttons, whip out a boob and squirt some milk in her eyes and say, "I guess there's enough to do that!"
this lady is pissing me off
I should be getting used to this by now. After all this is baby #3 for DH and I. Most of the time I can laugh it off but she's getting to be like how she was when DH and I first got married and had our first. I'm starting to think that I won't go over to visit but will let DH take baby over to visit. I had a little piece of chocolate tonite and she jumped all over me telling me not to eat chocolate because it will dry up my breast milk. The first time I told her not to worry because that is really not a problem. She tried to scold me again, but I put a stop to it and told her that was enough.
I mean c'mon I had gestational diabetes while I was pregnant and have been longing for some sugar and carbs. Talked to DH about it and he has no issues with taking baby over to see his parents. For some reason she doesn't critisize my DH about anything.
Man, whoever said when you marry your husband you marry his family, didn't know how right she was.
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on Mar. 17, 2010 at 7:57 PM