My baby is 9 weeks old and I’m finding it hard to cope with my mother in law who seems to be going out of her way to ignore what I say. Every time our son is around her she immediately wants to wrap him in blankets regardless of how hot it is and what he’s already wearing. I later find him in too many layers and sweating. Recently he was left in a vest, baby grow, jacket zipped up with a hood, and wrapped in a blanket in front of a bloody open fire!!! Its summer, 24 degrees & far too hot to be in so many layers. I took his clothes off to change him as he’d soaked them through with sweat and she argues with me that he is not overheating, sweating isn’t bad for him, and that she knows better than me since she’s raised four kids herself. I’ve tried explaining my concerns and the dangers of overheating/link to SIDS but she just responds with “my kids were fine”. I have noticed when he is so hot he is very sleepy and hard to wake, which terrifies me. Now the other day the same thing happened, I leave the room for 30 mins to find he was wrapped in a fleece blanket and I can see his hair dripping with sweat so I straight away unwrapped him. MIL laughs at me and says how she knows I don’t like him being wrapped up but she does it anyway because she did it with her kids!!! Deliberately going out of her way to prove she knows better than me as soon as my back is turned. My partner tells her that we always welcome her advice, but we do get the final say and she will have to do what we ask. This has since turned in to a big argument with MIL saying she wont see our baby if we don’t trust her alone with him, and that she is hurt that her son is no longer taking his mum's side (he's a grown man for Christ's sake!!!) and is upset that he's agreeing with me over her. It’s not only manipulative to make him feel like he has to pick between us, it will eventually drive him away from her and I feel awful for him that she's being so unreasonable with him. I’m now too scared to leave my son with her, but thankfully my partner agrees with me 100%. I am not an argumentative person but felt like I had to stand my ground on this one as the safety of my son is a thousand times more important than her pride. I feel like being a new mother is hard enough without being completely disrespected and laughed at. Cant tell if I'm being too dramatic about not wanting to leave him with her, I feel like I'm right but she's got this weird way of making you feel guilty when you've done nothing wrong. Help 😂