DS is 6 weeks old, not my PFB but my DC2.
Whenever MIL holds him she talks to him non-stop, whether he's asleep or awake, saying things like:
"they don't look after you, do they?"
"they don't feed you, do they?" (she is anti-bf and convinced I am not producing enough milk for him, admittedly we are supplementing but for other reasons, we are very pro-bf)
"I don't blame you for complaining about . I would if I were you."
...and the inevitable conclusion....
"you should come and live at Grandma's house. I'll look after you properly." by dumping you in boarding school aged 9 as she did with DH
She basically has verbal diarrhoea.
She also fusses endlessly about whether he's too hot/cold/sun in eyes/not enough sun/etc when he generally seems to be quite a content little chap and rarely squeaks. Unlike DC1
I don't think she did it as much with DC1, or maybe I didn't notice it so much. Or maybe I just didn't let MIL hold my PFB as often!
DH says I should just ignore her. But I am too hormonal and sleep-deprived for that.
DC1 is 3 yo and I'm also worried what she is hearing and noticing, although she seems to have inherited her Grandma's propensity for verbal diarrhoea and talks all the fecking time rather than listens!
I don't think I can bring myself to say anything to her, or is there a subtle way to get her to stop? (I'm aware of the accepted MN method...)
AIBU to dislike it? Even if it's meaningless twaddle I am a mother with the inevitable guilt so hearing someone say "they don't look after you" isn't very nice!
Oh, and I'm sure some of you have MILs who say worse, right?
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MrsBloomingTroll · 01/10/2011 04:10
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