I don't even know where to start with this. So, my MIL thinks she is some sort of baby guru. She used to baby sit everyone's kids and she thinks she is the end all, be all of baby knowledge. The week we brought the babies home she rolled her eyes at me while feeding them and told me she had all her kids drinking 8 oz within the week (beyond absurd!).
Then she was on me about putting cereal in bottles. That is not something I wanted to do and I never did it. She was an absolute maniac about my children not getting "grains". Of course my children have been eating grains since 6 months, just not in the form of deceptively filling, empty calories in a bottle. The day they had their first solids I put a picture up of it on FB and my SIL called me frantically wanting to know if it was cereal. It was peas. Which prompted a call from MIL who was beside herself that a) it was not cereal and b) orange vegetables come first.
Fast forward to Thursday night. MIL comes over for dinner and helps me feed LOs while she was over. Out of the blue, in almost a scream, she yells "have they even had grains yet?!" I say yes. Then in the same scream voice "fruit?!" "Yes Clarise they have been eating both for 2 1/2 months now" (yes her name is Clarise, hello Silence of the Lambs)
I then mention that they either have yogurt or oatmeal with their fruit in the morning. She then proceeds to ask me 15 times whether the yogurt is baby yogurt or not. Several times I informed her that yes it was stonyfield baby yogurt. She must not know what stonyfield BABY yogurt is because she just kept asking.
Later in the night she informed me that she purchased my LOs Christmas stockings, which was something I really wanted to do, but whatever.
Yesterday she calls my DH and tells him that they MUST be off purées by 9 months and she doesn't know what I'm doing. She also tells him she got them some nasty gerber meat thing and they need to have it tonight. DH gets pissed off & gets off the phone. (I make all my own baby food).
Then today she gives him the weird meat product and he must have got pissed off at her again, because she then calls me demanding that I give them the nasty meat stuff and stop purées. I politely say ok, then go on to say that many of the recommendations have changed. She then asked me if I thought they were healthy. I said they are extremely healthy, she huffed repeated the meat & purée instructions and got off the phone.
I want to punch this woman in the face! I can not stand her from the depths of my soul! I feel like I am going to wind up seriously telling her off, but I don't want that. Personally I feel that I should respect my DH's parents like I expect him to respect mine. That being said, how would you ladies handle this?
Then she was on me about putting cereal in bottles. That is not something I wanted to do and I never did it. She was an absolute maniac about my children not getting "grains". Of course my children have been eating grains since 6 months, just not in the form of deceptively filling, empty calories in a bottle. The day they had their first solids I put a picture up of it on FB and my SIL called me frantically wanting to know if it was cereal. It was peas. Which prompted a call from MIL who was beside herself that a) it was not cereal and b) orange vegetables come first.
Fast forward to Thursday night. MIL comes over for dinner and helps me feed LOs while she was over. Out of the blue, in almost a scream, she yells "have they even had grains yet?!" I say yes. Then in the same scream voice "fruit?!" "Yes Clarise they have been eating both for 2 1/2 months now" (yes her name is Clarise, hello Silence of the Lambs)
I then mention that they either have yogurt or oatmeal with their fruit in the morning. She then proceeds to ask me 15 times whether the yogurt is baby yogurt or not. Several times I informed her that yes it was stonyfield baby yogurt. She must not know what stonyfield BABY yogurt is because she just kept asking.
Later in the night she informed me that she purchased my LOs Christmas stockings, which was something I really wanted to do, but whatever.
Yesterday she calls my DH and tells him that they MUST be off purées by 9 months and she doesn't know what I'm doing. She also tells him she got them some nasty gerber meat thing and they need to have it tonight. DH gets pissed off & gets off the phone. (I make all my own baby food).
Then today she gives him the weird meat product and he must have got pissed off at her again, because she then calls me demanding that I give them the nasty meat stuff and stop purées. I politely say ok, then go on to say that many of the recommendations have changed. She then asked me if I thought they were healthy. I said they are extremely healthy, she huffed repeated the meat & purée instructions and got off the phone.
I want to punch this woman in the face! I can not stand her from the depths of my soul! I feel like I am going to wind up seriously telling her off, but I don't want that. Personally I feel that I should respect my DH's parents like I expect him to respect mine. That being said, how would you ladies handle this?
