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AIBU?

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My sister and Mum are trying to take over

55 replies

yelloh · 29/05/2018 09:15

My Mum has just bought a house and has been staying with my sister (no dc) until the final arrangements are made, whenever I take my DS round they pick at everything I do and try to take over.
When DS was 3mo he was very big for his age and he drank a lot of formula, my sister kept insisting I needed to give him solids because the formula clearly wasn't filling him. When I said that he was fine and that he wasn't old enough to be weened she literally laughed in my face. She said that I didn't know what I was doing because I'm a ftm and that I was going by the book. I insisted that he was too young. A few days later I had to leave DS with her because I had to go to a work event with DP I came back to find that she has fed DS baby rice, twice in the space of a few hours. My Mum had also gone out and bought me boxes of baby rice and weetabix and said 'he loves it he's clearly ready to be weened, you need to start feeding him before all his naps'. I took him home and he threw up. Safe to say I waited a month and half before weening.
They also take him off of me whenever he falls asleep (he naps in my arms and co sleeps) and try putting him down in bed and it wakes him up every time and makes him cranky and even more difficult to get back to sleep. They're both insistent that me not putting him down to sleep is the reason he still wakes up for night feeds.
They even gave him cows milk whilst I was walking to the shop to buy some formula the other day, he also threw up after that. These are just few examples but it feels they're trying to take over and make me feels like I don't know what I'm doing.
It's making me not want to go round and see them anymore but they're great with DS when it comes to playing and things and he loves it there so I don't just want to stop going.
They say they're just helping so Aibu? Or do I need to try and approach the issue somehow?

OP posts:
Tinkobell · 31/05/2018 07:05

Don't go round. Giving bloody weetabix and cows milk to an infant is a menace. They sound very very outdated.
Your child, your way. Woman up!!!!!

ThinkOfAWittyNameLater · 31/05/2018 07:39

Oh hell no.

You are mum. What you say goes.

"No"
"I said no"
"Right, I'm off"
Repeat.

Do not give them an inch and be REALLY adamant that you are in charge of your baby - not them.

You could also turn the screws to hammer it home:
"I don't trust you to feed baby"
"You've proved you cannot be trusted"

No-one gets to take your baby away from you. No-one gets to tell you you're parenting is wrong. No-one. Not even the woman who raised you. She's had her turn. Now it's yours. Your childless sister can jog on.

BlueBalletDress · 31/05/2018 07:42

I had all this with my in-laws (MIL/SIL especially) taking my crying baby off me, literally yelling 'SHE NEEDS FOOD!' at me when I was saying she'd had me up in the night, pressuring me to leave my tiny ebf baby with her, encouraging my DC to do something I'd just told them not to do, the list is endless. All sitting around laughing at my parenting choices with about 6 people telling I was wrong for not giving my 5mo a jar of baby food. The list goes on.

My eldest is 5 now and to this day I get anxiety about going round there. And of course they have 'no idea' why we have such an awful relationship.

Even recently I asked SIL not to give the kids McDonald's because they had it once that week already, an hour after I left she sent me a photo of them eating it.

My in-laws are bullies with no respect for me and your family is the same. I just wish I'd spelled it out more to them at the time (DH has a lot to answer for tbh) but ultimately I know that none of the issues we have are my fault.

TestingTestingWonTooFree · 31/05/2018 07:56

Send a message today: “i am extremely upset by the way you both undermine my parenting decisions. On two occasions you have gone against my wishes and made my child vomit. It’s not acceptable. We love spending time with you but if you can’t respect that I am his mother and get to decide everything, then we won’t be able to visit any more”

This. And mean it.

hookiwooki · 31/05/2018 08:51

Merville NHS advice is twelve months for cow's milk except small amounts in food such as cheesey sauces etc after weaning has begun from 6 months.

Cereals should be made with formula or breastmilk and any drink of milk should be the same.

Cow's milk is lacking in the nutrients an infant needs.

From 12 months, full fat cow's milk can be given regularly.

Semi-skimmed is allowed from 2 years of age providing the child is gaining the correct amount of weight and has a varied diet.

Skimmed milk should not be given before the age of 5.

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