Just need to have a quick rant about my MIL. When she sees us she's very keen to carry dd2 (6 months) around, which is great and much appreciated - but she just doesn't know when to stop. When dd2 cries and it's quite obvious that she wants to go back to me MIL insists on trying to calm her down - just to prove that she can do it! She manages it sometimes - but only because dd2 will succum to sheer exhaustion after all that crying! I don't know what to do about it, short of tearing dd2 out of her arms, but I don't want to upset MIL as she's great in many respects, and dh thinks it's her prerogative as a grandmother to be like this. But it drives me crazy!!!