Classic mother in law quotes...What's yours?!

[manuka]

Mine has just said this beauty - [with reference to 8month old dd who had woken from nap and was grizzling, clearly not going to go back to sleep] "Why don't you just leave her until she's screaming her head off?" !!! I thought that was a real corker and had to share that with you all!!!
She had in fact pooed herself and got stuck in a crazy position in her cot so on reflection I'm glad I didn't follow mil's advice.

[Prettyfull]

Such a great thread!!!

My partners mother says things along the lines of,.. (at 9 months old)

" ofcourse she can try coke cola, its fine, nanny says its ok, and when she with nanny she can have whatever she wants"

GRRRR God i went mad!!! 9 MONTHS OLD AND DRINKING COKE, glad me and her son are split up now!!!

Same goes with chocolate,..AFTER i had cleary said i didnt want dd having chocolate at that age :@ grrrr

[manuka]

These are just getting better!
Mine said a similar thing to yours PrettyFull regarding dd's 1st birthday. [in a very commanding Scottish accent] "She has to have cake on her birthday" like its the law to introduce a baby to shit food on her birthday when she's only just starting to have solids.

[Prettyfull]

exactly,...what is it with the "have to" have certain junk foods?? God if they loved them that much, surely they'd say no shes too young for that!! Grrr im winding myself up lol,...def gona keep an eye on this thread!! x

[manuka]

Forgot to add Ladyoflincoln that made me really laugh!!!!!
I've just remembered what she used to say when I was pregnant " Your face is getting fatter" "Ooh you are getting big you want to be careful."
Yes I'll just have a word with my body and tell it to stop growing during pregnancy!

[sniff]

mine phones me every day to make sure I have taken DS1 to school and every night to make sure I picked him up lol I really want to say "oh shit I forgot" and put the phone down !

she doesnt like me breastfeeding and finds it all really unnesarsary(sp)

she told me now I was a mom there was no need to go to the hairdressers

and when I found out I was pregnant with DD my thir she said that nobody needed three children and knowing her (me) she will be having another after that tutting

[JodieG1]

My mil said to dh after I had a miscarriage and hadn't called them straight away as they were on holiday and were due back in a few days, "I thought we still had a baby to look forward to". Never will forget that This was because we hadn't called them while they were away, nevermind that we were extremely upset ourselves and were also looking forward to another baby.

[imnot27]

When I was 5 months pregnant, my MOL (mother-out-law, not married!) said 'oooh, are you 5 months? Exactly? That's just when this woman at work lost her baby, it just died! At 5 months! But don't let that worry you!' ffs!

[maisym]

bump again!

[stinkymalinki]

imnot27 - my MIL sounds as bad as yours!! She works on a maternity ward so should know better, but when we went to see her when i was 20 weeks pregnant, she took great delight in telling me how they'd had 2 recent patients at 20 weeks, both of whom sadly lost their babies!!! Talk about inappropriate!

[PavlovtheCat]

on bf - 'its not natural you know, we are not animals!'.
on new baby and sleeping - 'my dr told me i needed to rest after giving birth to [dp], he said i should put ds at the farthest room in the house. I slept very wel as he could not disturb me'
rofl.

[starz78]

Love this thread!

My MIL sent me a lovely fridge magnet when I had PND after ds1 with a picture of a dog in shades with the caption "Its okay,in my own world everyone knows me here" WTF!!!!!

[totaleclipse]

My mil told me the reason why ds (6) has aspergers and little bladder control is because I sent him to a childminder for 20 hours a week until he was 3 (so I could work)

[Booboobedoo]

On being told I was planning a home birth: "Oh, but the baby might die!", followed by the (oft-related) story of my DH's birth. (I was 38 weeks at this point).

To my Best friend on my wedding day, knowing that DH (her son ffs) has a rare genetic condition which means he doesn't produce any sperm "Have they mentioned anything about trying for children? I'm desperate for more grandchildren".

Also to me: "DD (my SIL) would carry a baby for you if you can't."

She's a trout.

Actually, she looks a but like a trout .

[Albert]

Having not seen my FIL for 4 years he invited himself to stay for 10 days with 2 days notice. The first thing he said was 'My God, you've put on weight!' I was a size 8 FGS
MIL is just too bad to mention.

[runnyhabbit]

There are some very strange people in this world

Out for a walk on weekend with most of the il (who I get on very well with) Mil tells dh to "bugger off because no-one gets a look in with ds when he's around" thought she might've been joking, but was deadly serious. WTF? ds is 22 mths and loves running around with his dad.

Usually she's ok, and I know there are a lot worse.

The thing is, one day I will be a mil (well at least I'll know what NOT to say)

[Anchovy]

Thought I'd just redress the balance with a dreadful thing I said to my MIL.

My MIL is extremely lovely and was a great support to us when the DCs were small. She clearly has views about me working/keeping my own name etc and has never once mentioned them. She told me that her own mother in law was so truly poisonous that she resolved never to be like that and supportive, appreciative and entirely non-judgmental.

How have I repaid her? Well, when the new pope was elected about 2 years ago I had a long diatribe about the fact that he was obviously a stopgap and probably wouldn't live that long and that people of that age tended to have very black and white views but the world has moved on etc etc. Ooops - he's two years younger than she ie!

To add insult to injury, I'd just come back from dinner and she had been babysitting as well!

[RanToTheHills]

well mine can be lovely is always fascinating but is extremely eccentric and (unwittingly it seems)very blunt!
She told me that bfing beyond 6mths was inappropriate & unnecessary
I still fume about this 1 yr on!

[catASTROPHE]

When we named our DS she was not impressed. Her comment was "Well, I don't like that name! I'm going to call him Jimmy (not his name...his middle name is James!).

And to this day she never calls him his name (refers to him as 'the baby'...he is now 1).

[RanToTheHills]

now that is tricky.

[ishouldbeironing]

When I was finding it difficult to b/f my DTS following my C section and difficult birth
" Oh I could have b/f twins - no problem "
Sighing whenever I went to pick up DTS whenever they cried - but then this is the woman who sent her only child to boarding school at 9 yrs old -what can I expect

[Tommy]

not my MIl but her friend - she phoned our house to talk to MIL who was staying with us, said "Congratulations" to me on the birth of DS3 and then followed it up with "But, what a shame it wasn't a girl...."

[mum2sons]

Mine is a nightmare, we dont see them anymore because they hate me (and I hate her!)! Anyway some classic quotes/actions:

At first dinner with DH and family: read out a long letter (upstanding) from DHs ex girlfriend

At big family bar b q when given a new nightie for her bday present "Oh I bought this for A (ex gf) in a size 8, she wore it as a little dress" (I am size 16)

After I had miscarried a longed for baby after 4 years of trying she told me all about a termination of pregnancy she had, comparing this to my loss

They gave me a mans travel bag and empty marble effect plastic soap dish for my 30th bday!

Plenty of others to tell, so pleased this thread has come up! We have almost split up because of DHs family

They dont see my boys and spend every moment with their other grandchildren which breaks dhs heart.

[AuldAlliance]

On discovering that I'd washed DS's clothes (he was 7 weeks old) in the same wash as ours:
"You must NEVER do that. I've got special baby powder for his clothes, you have to wash them separately. I suppose it'll be OK this once, but DON'T let it happen again!" Complete with wagging of finger.

[imnot27]

Oooh, so glad this thread is still going! Is true we will all have to remeber this when we are MIL, though I'm thinking it would be great fun to be a bit of an old bag....just to keep up tradition really. My DH's parents bought his brother half of his house, and gave DH a grand!!!! We can't even start discussing it (DH and me) cos I get really stroppy all over again, while he just sighs and says ' IknowIknowIknow'

[PetitFilou1]

Mine isn't too bad compared to some of these but the worst was when I decided to potty train ds. She took dh aside and told him that ds wasn't ready. I overheard. I was SO angry. Actually it made me even more determined to carry on with it.

Secondly, comments like 'anyone who has more than two children is selfish' don't endear me to her greatly.
coming from someone who sent her children to boarding school at age 7.