MIL knitting tons of clothes for baby in acrylic

[proseccogirl]

I think you are all going to tell me that IABU and I am a snob too, but what the hell....
My MIL hasn't been back to work since she had my DH (33 years ago!), and frankly never seems to me to have enough to do! Since I have been pregnant she has been knitting tons, and tons of clothes for the baby. She is a lovely knitter, and has made things that would be beautiful, but they are all made of really nasty shiny acrylic and other man made fibres. I have asked DH to ask her very politely if she could possibly knit in cotton/wool, and I have done the same, and have even bought large amounts of cotton/bamboo and wool in suitable colours for her to knit with, as I don't want her to be out of pocket. They have far less money than we do and I know that cotton and bamboo and wool are more expensive to buy.
Despite all of this she pitches up with a new acrylic item every time we see them so has obviously decided to ignore our polite requests, and I know she will take the hump massively if I don't dress the baby in one of the every day when once the baby arrives, but I really, really don't want the baby to wear top to toe acrylic all day! All my baby books say that you should dress the baby in natural fibres so that they can keep cool and evaporate sweat effectively etc.
The background to this is that my DH's parents are very working class and I am very upper middle class so I am worried they think I am a snob as it is, and this will make that worse, but equally, I don't want my baby flickering with static electricity the whole time! Or overheating in a nylon baby grow.......!Am I just being a cow?

Haven't we had this exact post already a month or so back? Is she still at it?

Shatners - that was gratuitously unpleasant.

I find it so depressing when this happens on threads - half the people trying to be nice and helpful and the other half just enjoying the opportunity to lay into someone without reading anything they have said properly. Its pathetic.

MrsC, that was someone else.

I think the OP only added the class comment to show she was hyper-sensitive about not wanting to offend her MIL as opposed to being a crashing snob, but it was unintentionally very amusing. Add to which she is pg for the first time and so believing every word of her baby books as we all did.

Literally LOL at though.

Actually after reading through the rest of this thread im really rather broody for a little tiny newborn wearing a snowy white babygro and a little tiny cardigan.

DD is 7 months old im off out to buy her some white babygro's and a rather large now little white acrylic cardy for her to wear and hopefully that'll satisfy my broodiness. Especially when she pukes her dinner of carrots down it...

this is a wind up for sure.

nice try, though.

If the knitted thiongs look beautiful, I wouldn't bother too much if they are in acrylic. Most babies will be just fine in acrylic.

I know what you mean, I'd prefer cotton and wool clothes too. But you should accept all gifts willingly, I think.

Ferret as we're all apparently craving newborns in knitwear (although 7 mo seems new enough for me), perhaps you, GOML and I could share one.

We could refer to ourselves as Three MN and a Baby.

ebay the clothes - or donate them.

Blimey!! Give them to children in Pakistan: winter's coming.

FWIW you'll be washing clothes every day and cotton and wool shrink in the dryer / machine.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Give them away if they offend!
Good luck with everything

ABF - me too.

My next door neighbour had a baby last week, what's the betting I'll have knitted him a whole wardrobe full of stuff by the end of the week?

Men with long hair in a plait (retches)

People who do any of that reenactment type stuff and take it all VERY SERIOUSLY and are seen at the new forest show dressed head to toe in authentic peasant garb in a rustic dwelling made from mud and twigs but wearing timberland boots. LOSERS.

oops wrong thread

as you were

lol at 3MN and a baby!

Oh am so broody - my dd is nearly 15 and I haven't held a baby for years.

My SIL is due in November, I don't think that helps. Every time I go to Waitorse I am cooing over the babygrows and little socks, and the smell of the baby products aisle...

Think some harsh comments towards prosecco. yes she came across as a bit snobby but I think that was just a ham fisted way of trying to explain rather than a deep seated desire to offend all and sundry.

And yes, we did believe all that shite in the baby books. Think the OP raised a valid concern tbh.

Someone said something very wise - if you dress your baby in lemon yellow acryclic stuff, other mothers will KNOW it was given by a well-intentioned aunty, and not assume it was a hideous style breach.

I want to see the experiments re rubbing babies (or cats!) wearing acrylic on artifical fibre sofas. Could you vid and post them on You Tube please?

Prosecco, I think people are being too nasty to you on this thread. Baby will be fine when dressed in acrylic. I wonder what is happening with the other lovely yarns you gave MIL? Maybe you will get a wonderful surprise Christmas present?

proseccogirl - I think that maybe you should pay a little less attention to your baby books. Baby books have their place but cannot replace a little it of common sense.

Yes natural fibres are preferable but one cardigan on top of a sleepsuit will not be the end of the world. To be honest when you have had to change the baby for the fifth or sixth time you will be glad of the spare clothing.

I have received items of clothes from family members and friends that have not been to my taste but have always let my dc wear them in the gift givers presence - it is just good manners after all.

My parents managed to raise both my sister and me without reading a single self-help baby book and we've both managed to survive - just!

YANBU. Why should you be press ganged in to dressing your baby in things you don't want him or her to wear? Simple and non hurtful solution is to put him/her in one of the things your MiL has produced when MiL sees him/her, and at all other times dress your baby how you wish. If she is too think skinned to take the hint re natural fibres, especially as you have supplied some wool YOU like, then it's too bad.

Alternatively accidentally boil wash the lot....

'I don't knit'

That's not uppper middle class.

That's nouveau, bourgeois.

Islamic Relief is taking donations right now.

ShirleyKnot, you are a comic in an MN poster's body.

Could you distract MIL with this. My MIL has made 3 gorgeous toys from it for our baby.

I don't buy this at all.

over provocative and over cooked....

a dismal 3/10.

Better luck next time Very Upper Middle Class Girl.

have you not got a dog /cat that could destroy them ? i have to agree re man made fibres ,cant stand wearing them myself ,but im sure an acyrillic cardi over a nice cottton baby gro will do no harm .

GetOrf is hormonal as well as broody :o.

Lol! yes i bloody well am.

Saw a beautiful baby yesterday in Straford - looked all gooey eyed at it. Then looked at DP and saw the whites of his eyes!

My Mum knitted some gorgeous matinee jacket for DD - she wore then lots and lots. thank goodness they were in WOOL - but guess what - it washed really well everyone. yes WOOL!

We did have a couple of acrylic handknits from an aunty & they were actually quite nice (exceptions to the rule I guess). Sounds like there is a great variety or baby acrylic yarns out there.

I recently got some acrylic cardigans (machine knits for 3 year old) in an Ebay bundle - I'm still sneering at them. I just don't like them - what would be so lovely in wool is just a cheap nasty throwaway item in acrylic. They feel like cack and look like cack. What to do with them???? I'll put them into clothes recycling bin but actually feel I should be chucking them out - but that is too wasteful.

I am quite bemused that working class people aparently dress their babies in top to toe nasty acrylic whilst the upper middle classes opt for natural clothes because baby books tell you to