Hi,
Just need a bit of a rant and if anyone has any ideas on what to do I'd be really grateful.
DS is dairy and soya intolerant, plus a few other things which make feeding difficult. Have been on restricted diet myself as bf and was planning on slowly introducing stuff back into my diet to see how he gets on.
Thought everyone in our family understood the seriousness of all this but yesterday at DS's first birthday party, turned around and caught FIL feeding DS a bit of cheese sandwich while DS is sitting on my mum's knee!
Stopped him before it got too far, and my mum said it was only a tiny dab, while wiping cheese and mayonnaise off DS's top lip. DS's top lip then came up with a couple of spots. Anywyay, it was obviously more cos DS has been up all night - hence posting at 5am - with his stomach, and sits up in his cot even though he's virtually asleep crying and hitting his stomach and trying to scratch his nose off.
Later FIL kept offering DS bits of cake bar and saying to me that 'DS just needs a bit of chocolate and he'll be fine'. I kept saying to stop tormenting poor DS, and tried not to be too annoyed but secretly I was livid.
Am SO annoyed. What were they thinking? I assumed everyone in our families understood the seriousness of the situation and now am upset that they all think I'm just being PFB about it all.
We're meant to be going up to stay with PIL next week for a few days and really don't know if I should say something or not. I really want to, but want to do it in a way that doesn't cause a rift.
DP and I don't live together, so he hasn't been up all night with DS - although texted him just now to say we'd been up all night. DP can't understand why I'm reluctant to let others look after DS - but this is a classic reason, you think people understand, but then they do things like this.
Just fed up really as have been so worried about DS's slow weight gain and now will be paranoid about letting DS out of my sight next week in case they try to feed him stuff again cos they think they know best. OK, outpouring/rant over.
Any advice on your experiences on family memebers who don't understand and how to deal with this without causing a rift would be greatly appreciated.
Should point out the PIL are the loveliest people and have been really supportive and lovely. Just this thing that's got to me.
MG x
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so fed up with FIL feeding DS cheese - advice needed
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MummieGee · 11/10/2009 05:10
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