Argh! Sorry, it's another MIL thread.
Yesterday my PIL came over to inflict themselves on us see us. MIL is massively overbearing at the best of times (refers to DS as "my little boy", tells him she loves him more than anyone else does etc gag gag) but she annoyed me more than usual yesterday.
Unfortunately whilst they were here DS was running around and tripped up. He did go with a real thwack tbf and immediately started to cry. She tried to pick him up but happily he only wanted me so she was thwarted, ha ha. I sat DS on sofa with a drink and biscuit (and bloody Dora on TV) to help him get over the "trauma" and to distract him a bit. He'd stopped crying (it was shock as much as anything) and then MIL sat next to him and said "I think he needs his dummy mummy." (Also hate it when she refers to me as mummy but anyway). Thing is DS is coming up to two and a half and we are trying to get rid of dummies. It was my PIL that gave him a dummy in the first place, I never even wanted him to have one. He had been dummy free for nearly a week and had stopped mentioning it after an initial battle. MIL KNEW this. Of course when she mentioned the dummy DS started crying all over again, "Want dummy mum, want dummy."
MIL implied I was being mean to him by saying "Well, I'd give you your dummy my precious boy you've had a terrible terrible shock." FFS he'd only fallen over not lost a limb. So he ended up having the dummy because he howled more about that than he did over originally falling over and she was feeding into it saying "Get his dummy mummy." "He needs a bit of comfort he's had an awful accident" etc etc. And now we are back to square one re dummy. Had battle with him over it again last night and again at nap time today.
AIBU to want to stick a dummy in her mouth so she shuts up? And also to poke her in the eye repeatedly with a dummy? It drives me MAD. This is why people do not like their MILs.
(Sorry I know it is petty but I lay awake and fumed about it last night.)