He is NOT bloody well fat!!!! [exploding head emoticon]

[JeremyVile]

Just speaking on phone to MIL:
"how's my grandson?" says she
"gorgeous as ever" says I
"is he losing any of that weight now he's walking?"
AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH...................
" what weight would that be?"
"dont be defensive, lots of babies are fat"
"mmm, i know chubby babies are gorgeous, but ds is NOT FAT"
"well he's hardly petite is he? I dont think you realise how unusual it is for a child his age (14 mths)to have a whole weetabix for breakfast...in fact didnt you say he sometimes has banana with it? Thats more than i have for breakfast!"
And once again:
AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH @&X45$X%&X&%X$(&&!!!!!!!
This is from the woman who, when hearing that ds weighed 7.7lb at birth, exclaimed
"no wonder you needed all those stitches, he's MASSIVE"

lolol! grandmas are freaks, aren't they?

eh? she is nuts!

Can I join you in your AAAAAAAARRRGGGHHHH?

Surely not a whole weetabix and a banana???

This makes me so angry-my Dad spoke about dd the other day saying she at least looks a "little less like a prop forward".

Why would you want a "petite" boy anyway-am sure she would be the first to criticise if she were.

Here-have a glass of wine.

pmsl.... she'd die of fright id she saw what my ds of 10 months can down for breakfast.

chubby is gorgeous imo

i was a fat baby til i turned 2 and i've got a great metabolism and am a size 10 even after 2 kids. my mom's theory is that fat babies = thin adults and vice versa

lol, my ds was exactly your son's weight at birth and eats one weetabix for breakfast, and I keep getting told he's too small and must be anorexic.

omg she has a problem
weetabix and banana is perfectly normal at that age

is she too skinny herself?

of course, nothing wrong with petite boys either

Ah, just the thing whoooosh!Ta
"little less like a prop forward" lol, the crazy old fools!
And yup, freak and nuts are both applicable

Of course not Hana!!!

Just merely pointing out that in my view there would be no pleasing the woman....

is there any pleasing mums?
lol

I'd love it if my dd ate a whole weetabix, some days if we're lucky she has a whole mini weetabix! MIL's eh?!

Nope nothing wrong with "petite" or chubby Bubbas, why do so many people get bothered by it, is it some secret barometer of parenting that i never knew about?
ggirl, she's not skinny, no but must have very slow metabolism as she eats very little , though drinking on the other hand

In my opinion, babies know how much or how little their bodies need. Sod everyone else!
...and whats that you're saying back there PinkTulips? A size 10 you say, after 2 children?
How very dare you?!
[Stamping foot, pointing at door emoticon}

JeremyVile - I swear i;ve had the same conversation about my 14mo. He has had a WHOLE banana and WHOLE weetabix for many months now! Isn't it annoying!

mil says it about ds2 all the time.
'i can't hold him, he's too heavy'
she just doesnt want to that's all.

ds2 pogs his way thru 2 weetabix for brekkie, a banana and a handful of strawberries blended up for lunch and a fair old portion of whatever we are having in the evening.
along with 3 bottles of milk a day.

ds1 on the other hand who is 22m, eats sweet f.a!

just ignore the silly bint! lol

ps: ds2 is 9 months!

JeremyVile - Ignore her. DD (almost 13months) often eats a whole Weetabix + adult sized yoghurt or a banana for breakfast. I'm getting fedup of FIL saying "Wow, look at the size of her legs, she's such a bonny baby, but don't worry, it'll all come off once she's walking!" She one year old FFS, she does not need a complex about her weight!!!

Is your MIL a Pontypine?

Well I have to agree I'm with your MIL. A whole Weetabix and a banana? It's obscene.

Don't you know that other kids are starving in Japan?

Its so wierd isn't it?
I wonder with my MIL if its a control thing or some other underlying issue cos he is absolutely not too big (as you can see on my recently added profile pics btw) , or is it that babies were smaller when she had hers?
Or is it, as i suspect, that shes a raving loon?!

She leans more towards the MaccaPacca side of tbh....
With a bit of added grotbags!!

things tbh
Ggggrrr

'Raving loon ...'

I love that expression!

But seriously, it would really annoy me too.

If your MIL eats less than a weetabix and banana for breakfast she sounds like...well, my mother. Who has Food Issues. A very useful trait in a mother, I've found. Not.

Both my boys have eaten loads and been baby chubby. My 6 year old is now a skinny thing weighing 3st 4lbs and the baby is 2 next week and weighs 2st 7lb. My daughter is 4 in August and just 3lbs heavier than her babhy brother. My kids eat loads and then some.