Am i being unreasonable, or just highly strung?
My dear old Mum lives abroad but has come over to visit this week. Suring the lead up Mum has talked about feeding my DS baby rice (he's not even four monrhs yet). I can recall three seperate conversations where i said it was too early and i didn't want to do this yet. She arrived on Wednesday and one of the first things she said to DS was that she was going to feed him baby rice when i wasn't looking. Once again i told her no. The next day she tried to give him bread to suck on, so i had to intervene again and made it really clear that i really didn't appreciate this as i had already made my feelings clear.
Yesterday she went out shopping and came back with baby rice! By that point I'd lost count of how many times i had said I don't want this and given my reasons (i don't have a problem with people who wean at 4 months but at the moment DS is being filled up still by milk, is not sitting up for long and doesn't show any interest in food). I put the rice away in a cupboard and said he wasn't having it and i wouldn't discuss it anymore.
Today we've been to a family event where DS was being passed around older relatives. I went to collect him from them (where Mum was sitting) and they said they had given him some jam and cream and he had enjoyed it. I think they were joking but i got the feeling that they had been talking about the fact i wouldn't let him have the bloody baby rice.
I appreciate she's from a different generation when things were done differently. I think partly its because she's excited about being a grandma and wants to be involved. How can i make it anymore obvious that i want to do things my own way with my DS and i don't appreciate her undermiming me. I'm tempted to compare her to her MIL who used to do the same to her, but i know that would probably cut her really deep. I don't want to upset her, but her behavior is getting really frustrating.
Long post - sorry! So am i being unreasonable?
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Pushy Mum undermiming my parenting
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WeeWaspie · 22/05/2016 22:55
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