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Are my DS's grandparents too judgemental

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Elle26 · 28/05/2024 07:12

I feel bad writing this post but it's been on my mind for a while now I just wanted to get all your opinions on the matter, now obviously no one is perfect but I feel I have been brushing some stuff my parents, my DS grandparents, say as I am grateful for all the help they give me with him, they only live 5 minutes away so have babysitted him alot since he was born and even take him all day once every two weeks, my DS is now 7 months old, so at around 2 weeks old we decided to start using a dummy, we just found it so useful when waiting for his milk to be prepared and helping him get off to sleep, my parents however said quite a few times how they never used a dummy with me or my siblings and its a lazy way to deal with a baby, but myself and my husband just found it easier during those early weeks, it made me feel bad for using one. I also was set on breastfeeding for at least the first few months however I had a bad labor experience (24 hour labor then emergency c- section) which I think may have contributed to not producing any milk for the first three days postpartum then low amounts afterwards and by then my DS was used to latching on a bottle, so breastfeeding became more and more painful, then I was convinced I had developed mastitis, I mentioned this to my parents when me and my husband where around their house when my DS was around a week old for dinner, to explain why I was still bottle feeding him, my mum was very understanding having suffered with mastitis before herself but my dad was informing me how it wasn't possible I could have mastitis so soon and I must be wrong and did mention a few times how breastfeeding is best, which I don't think any new mother who struggles to breastfeed needs to hear, I don't want to make a really long post here so the last thing they have said that annoyed me was recently, my mum had a pot of food which was suitable for my DS to eat a bit of, so with a separate clean spoon I fed him a few mouthfuls as it hadn't been too long since he last had a bottle, then my parents both started eating from the pot, my DS was watching them like a hawk and they kept saying that he wanted more and wanted to give him more but of course by then the spoon had been in their mouths, I spend ages sterilising all his cutlery, I didn't want him to eat off the same spoons and i didn't have any clean ones with me, my mum just said itd be fine but my dad said that 'nasty' mum wont let him have anymore, and it just annoyed me, so am I just being way too sensitive here? Just feels better to write it all out instead of turning it over in my head and irritating myself, but I do want to stress my parents are wonderful grandparents and were brilliant parents to me growing up I just want to know if I'm too sensitive here?

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EilonwyWithRedGoldHair · 28/05/2024 12:45

I sterilised spoons and bowls for DS for a bit, then watched him pick stuff up off the floor and put it in his mouth and gave up on the whole thing (well still chucked them in the steriliser occasionally to get stains out).

A clean spoon from the drawer would have been fine, but I get why you felt the way you do and your parents didn't have to be unkind in that way. Same with the breastfeeding.

DreamerP · 28/05/2024 13:03

50/50. The spoon thing you were OTT. The rest they were being dicks.

TizerorFizz · 28/05/2024 13:36

It's ok to get babies used to non sterilised cutlery. In future this will happen and you just find a tap! Or even a tissue to wipe the cutlery down. DC actually need to "accept" non harmful bacteria and germs to build up resilience. Not fair to judge on feeding. Not worth falling out over though.

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