AIBU to want to beat MIL with a wet fish......

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I am so angry. I feel I am now back to square one.

DD is just over 10 months now and has struggled with weight gain due to reflux. She now has very little milk but enjoys her solid food.

Because of the reflux and then her slow weight gain (she has been to hospital more times that I have hot dinners) meal times have always been so stressful for dd and I, and I had developed a paranoia about what she eats and is she getting enough iyswim. However as if by magic the last month or so things have improved so much. She has at last doubled her birth weight and now mealtimes are fun and enjoyable for us both and the stress has just gone. I actually look forward to cooking her new things because I know she enjoys most foods.

Until....... MIL said to dp last night that he needs to tell me to cut her portions down or dd is going to get fat. FFS she knows the problems we have had and now the paranoia is creeping back in. I found myself limiting the food I gave dd today and she has been really upset.

Wouldn?t a 10 month old just stop eating if she was full???

ignore the silly witch, you know your daughter and her needs far better than she does!!!

use a frozen fish far more effective

Thank you for the yellow fin beeper, nice thinking. I am sure she was only put on the earth to piss me off still at least sister in law gets as much grief as i do.

I really feel for you, ds had awful reflux and huge problems gaining weight too. He is now 13 months and eating more than me!

Dh and I have decided that given all the emotional baggage involved the only way for him to have a healthy relationship with food in the long term is to find his own accommodation with it, so we just make sure he always has healthy food available and try not to even think about how much or how little he eats.

how about a porcupine pufferfish?
slap her with it, then hopefully it'll bite her too
silly cahhhhhhhhhhhh

Oh what a tempting thought. We have an 'action man' shark that you put your hand in so I could actually put my FIST inside before whacking my mil with it! You can borrow it if you like!
Thank god the weeks (between 16 and 26 wks with each of my boys) where I was constantly accused by MIL of STARVING my boys with ONLY MILK are long gone....
But don't worry, once all the interfering with weaning and feeding are over, your mil will find lots of other things to poke her nose in and get on your nerves

Thanks FJ that has made me feel alot better (NOT). Hope the shark is on its way to me now......