i was having to feed my 8 months old son in a department store cafe today and he eats well but makes a big fuss throughout trying to thwack the spoon and flailing his arms about. Never cries just mucks about basically and we often end up laughing together as various coloured veg is flying through the air.
Anyway all of a sudden this elderly lady comes up behind me and asks me why i am force feeding my son when he clearly doesn;t want his food and that she has been watching em and she thinks i am being cruel. I explained he is always like this - she said she did midwifery (almost 100 years ago nby the looks of her) and she knew best to whcih i politely informed her that as the mother i actually knew best. she then said she shouldn' interfere and wobbled off.
I then burst into tears (i am very tired, my husband has been away working alot, we go on holiday on monday and i have had an infection in my ear for 2 months which non of the antibiotics i have been presecribed have sorted and i am slightly worn out and ill)
I tried to not be upset but coulbn't help it, i had to leave the restaurant with people looking at me and then walk 10 mins home with tears streaming down my face. I feel so upset that someone thinks the way i feed my child is cruel. just looking for someone to cheer me up. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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fandango75 · 29/08/2009 13:05
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