First of all - food. Having been nagged to wean DS since he was about 10 mins old by EVERYONE, told to put sugar on his dummy etc, my nan told me off today for giving him some bread cause it was "hard and he might choke!"
Sleep/ Carrying around - He was overdue a nap so was crying and she tried to take him off me to walk him round the room and when I said he was okay she then tried to stuff cuddly toys in his face! (am so glad he then fell asleep so I was proved right!! :)) Following many many months of "dont carry him round, you'll spoil him"
Travel - "you cant take him out in this weather" (vest, clothes, cardigan, gloves, coat, hat, 2 blankets), followed shortly by "we used to walk miles when you were a baby in the pram, even in the snow"
Milk - yep, yet again, "is he hungry" (me - no he just ate) "ahh, but if he had a bottle you'd know how much he had".
Standing up - DS hates to sit on your lap if you hold him, he likes to stand up. But this will make him "bandy" and results in family members trying to sit him down and making him scream!
Then theres the contradicting advice: put him in his own room/keep him in your room, walk him around/leave him to cry, put cream on his cradlecap/leave it alone, take him out/keep him in, on everything you can think of!
Its not just my nan btw, my whole family are like it (I'm picking her as I went to visit today...) They all know my position on all of these things, but quite often either ignore it when they think they can get away with it or just keep going on and on trying to get me to back down.
I know all families are like it, but it just bugs me soooooooooo much! We have the "HE IS MY SON" conversation all the time, and it just doesnt sink in cause they think they know better. I dont want to row, so I keep telling them calmly, but they dont listen
AIBU for this to be driving me crazy? Do I just need to chill out and put up with it?