ok so i am quite prepared to be told iabu and this is probably more of a rant as dp is at work and i am sitting here stewing so i will give background and try not to drip feed.
I had PFB dd in August last year after 17 years of being told that i was infertile. From day 1 of finding out i was pregnant my mum has been a nightmare with regards to interfering and telling me what i must and mustn't do and since dd was born my mum has tried to take over on everything to give you some examples
-day i brought dd home from hospital she tried to take her away and give her a bath after i had said dp and i wanted to take her home so that we could have some quiet time together and do her first bath. Mum got really cross and huffy because 'she is my first grandchild and i want to give her her first bath'
- she will literally snatch the pushchair off me and storm off round the shop with it and when i point out that she needs to ask me before walking off with my dd she again gets very nasty about it
- i am ff due to a medical condition and because of this mum has insisted that i leave dd with her while i go shopping/see friends etc - i appreciate this is a lovely offer but mum smokes like a fricking chimney, the house stinks and dd stinks after having a cuddle with her. she refuses to change after having a fag and in spite of me pointing out the guidelines state there should be an hour between her having a fag and then holding dd to prevent secondary smoke she told me 'its all a load of bollocks so i won't be doing that'.
So the issue tonight...
DD has developed a what the HV described as temporary lactose intolerance - she says it can happen when weaning starts (no idea if this is true or not) and can be triggered if they have eaten something that disagrees with their tummy or if they have had a bit of a bug. As a result she has the most awful nappy rash that was clearing up but then yesterday started bleeding. the Dr has given me some perscription cream and told me not to use anything else. Mum has decided that vaseline is the answer and is demanding i use it on dd - i mentioned it to the HV who said she didn't think that was the answer as the skin was broken (GP agreed last night) and to only use a medicated cream like sudo to prevent infection.
I called at mum's to drop off something she had left here the other day when she popped over and had to change dd's nappy while i was there, Mum tried to snatch DD off me and proceeded to have a go at me about the state of her bum and then grabbed some vaseline out of her changing bag (mum has one set up for when i take dd there) and tried to put it on dd. I asked her not to as the Dr had prescribed cream but mum carried on so i quite sternly told her that i was not going to use it as the dr had told me not to and neither was she. Now she is in a huff with me and not speaking to me.
So am i being a PFB over this or is my mum genuinely pushing her luck?? As an aside my dsis is now pregnant and says mum has barely shown any interest, but i live close whereas she lives 2 hours away