Annoying caregiver comments or actions

Someone else's thread reminded me of those early days when I had my parents and SIL here helping me with the babies and their sometimes annoying comments. I'm sure there are others out there but her are mine...

1. Grandpa always talking about himself in the 3rd party "you want to hear Grandpa's voice" "you just want Grandpa to hold you didn't you ?" "you just wanted Grandpa's magic fingers"

2. "Maybe they have a pain" "Maybe they have a burp" "They must have some painful gas" HUgh !! (maybe they are a baby ?!!!) ooooooo wait ....... "there it is ... there's the burp"

3. "oh she smiled this morning for the first time, write that in your book" (nope firsts only count when they smile at mommy)

4. it would frustrate me when my sweet mom would just give them the smallest amount of milk and then spend 15 mins burping them -- I had to keep saying ... "ok I think they are ready for more milk" "keep feeding them before they get tired"

5. Or my dad who wouldn't change a diaper while he was here !!! How weird !!!


Heather

 

Anything my mom says that starts with the words "You need to..." "You should start doing..." or "This <thing> isn't very clean.". Oh for Pete's sake mom! I just had --- 2 --- babies. I've gotten 8 hours of non-continuous sleep this week, recently had a major surgery, almost lost one of my children and you're lecturing me about my kitchen floor needing to be mopped?

LOL, sorry. I've got a thousand tiny nitpicky little one liners from my mom. :lol:

 

My darling grandfather (age 81) advised I shouldnt fuss over them (basically let them CIO) when my boys were 4 weeks old
My MIL kept trying to warm my breastmilk after I had pumped (??)
My FIL accused me of trying to avoid him when I spent too much time in their room alone in the first two weeks of their lives (I was pumping/feeding etc etc etc in PRIVATE)
My mum respected my every thought and decision and always asked before she did anything (I love her soo much)
all are interstate so these moments were fleeting so Id like more annoying moments if possible though at the time they drove me NUTS.

 

This probably isn't annoying to anyone else expect DH and me, but my parents used to say ALL.THE.TIME "Oooh, here is some 'change!'" when Ana would puke out every orifice of her face. I felt like SCREAMING "ITS NOT CHANGE- ITS PUKE!!!" Actually I think I may have screamed it once because after the millionth time (she spit up a lot!), I may have lost it. And in my defense, I think my parents were saying it to make me nuts... they should know better than to poke the crazy, sleep-deprived person with a stick!

 

Similar to the "here is some change" thing. My MIL used to say "I didnt want a refund" when the girls would spit up after she fed them. I just thought it was stupid

 

My mom would say "Time for a Dyddy (die dee) change" or "You want a new Dyddy don't you?" I refuse to speak in baby talk to my kids and it drives me insane! But what can I do?? She was so helpful! I'd just clench my teeth and take a deep breath. Next time she comes though, I'll remind her that we are using "real" words with the babies.

 

Early on, my mom had some old-fashioned ideas about how often babies need to eat, and would sometimes say things like "It's only been 2.5 hrs, they can't be hungry!" (But at least she got educated and learned better!)

The other grandma lives overseas, has never met the babies, but gives us, the parents, detailed (and inaccurate) descriptions of the babies' personalities, judging from the photographs.

But mostly, I am very lucky to be able to agree with this:

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My mum respected my every thought and decision and always asked before she did anything (I love her soo much)


I love my mom!

 

This topic makes me laugh! So many annoying comments, good to know I"m not alone!

My grandmother constantly tries to sitck her fingers (ew, did you WASH those lately!) in their mouths, and then if they at all open their mouths, she's like "he wants some numma-numma! Get him a bubba!" So when my mom picked up on my irritation at the words "numma-numma" and "bubba", she started using them ALL the time just to irritate me. (The "bubba" one gets me more. It's a BOTTLE people. You're not a baby. You can speak properly.)

And then my mom's solution to every baby whimper is to tell them to "stretch it out". Which after 30 times, I was like "he's just a fussy sleeper, he's FINE, stop TALKING!".

And again, my mom ... I gave one of the boys a pacifier, and she was like "sure, it's easy enough to keep a baby quiet when you shove a plug in their mouth!" Ugh. It's a pacifier. It soothes him. It helps him practice his suck so he eats better.

Then there's the perenial "just you wait" comments when I say I'm looking forward to anything. Solid foods is my current goal; we're about 3 weeks away (according to when the pedi thinks we can start), and the pedi really thinks it will help some of the reflux - and therefore sleep - issues we have. But everyone is like "just you wait, they'll spit it all out and onto YOU!" Yes, well, it can't really be worse than getting covered in partially digested formula several times a day. Everyone seems to come up with a "just you wait" to anything I say.

 

My MIL (it's always the MIL, isn't it!) has taken to saying "I know some people do [fill in the blank], but I never did it with my kids." That's her response about letting them CIO... they're over 8 months old... we're not torturing them!

She also used to tell me the reason why her first two kids (DH and older SIL) are so sweet is because she BF them, but her youngest is a brat now because she formula fed her. Umm no.. she is a brat because she's 16 and you spoiled her! (I was pumping and giving bottles of formula and breast milk... so the implication was that I was setting my babies up to be brats.)

 

These are cracking me up! :laughing:

DH's brother and SIL have a singleton that was born 3 weeks before the twins, and they take her out all over the place, which we don't do, so all the in-laws see her a lot more. So every time MIL comes to visit it's like a constant comparison. I cannot say anything about my babies without her making a comparison to Peyton. If I say "I think their eyes are going to stay blue" she'll respond with "Peyton's eyes are definitely blue." If I say "the girls started eating cereal last week" she responds with "Oh Peyton is all the way up to carrots." She has done that since they were born - at birth in the hospital she immediately labeled my babies as "happy and content" compared to Peyton, who is "high maintenance and very demanding" For goodness sake they were like 1 day old! That gets on my nerves SO BAD!

And also - MIL will not change a diaper - she just refuses. She came to "help" me one time and said "I've already changed my share of diapers, I don't do that." Well then you aren't really any help to me, at the time they were newborns you know they barely have any mess when they are tiny! A dirty diaper - big deal!

 

OH i just love hearing all this :rotflmbo:

MIL lives with us. before they were born we were renovating the downstairs for her. she was upstairs with us for the first month. well everytime i put them to bed and went to bed she was right in the room with them. of course touching them and waking them up. then i would have to get up and put them back to sleep. i told her to stay out of the room and let them sleep. that didnt work then DH said if you wake them u put them back to sleep which she always woke them and couldn't put them back to sleep so i would have to do it. then i would always hear oh they dont want to eat it has only been 2 hours. oh your feeding them wrong and too much. oh your going to give them a sponge bath not in the tub they r going to be too cold. yes i am because their cords are still on and i cant put them in the tub. oh just put something over the cord so it dont get wet. here try some SARAN WRAP!!!!! it will stck its good stuff. :umm: she did change a diaper but wasnt even on their *** it was hanging down and i could see their butt. oh and why r u using powder formula did the doctor say to use that. oh and why r u using bottled water just use the tap water. water is water. your not gonna heat those bottles up the warm milk puts them to sleep. oh dont put them in the swing they dont need that. there gonna get scared.
THE LIST GOES ON AND ON AND ON!!!!!!! My mom is passed and when my dad comes over he holds them and trys to make them laugh and says one day they will think i am funny. he never changed diapers even with us. but he has never told me what to do and how to do it. never said i am doing it wrong. he actually said you know honey your a real good mommy to those kids. do you want me to take them for a bit so you can get some rest. :clapping:

 

Remarks about cutting corners b/c we give room temp. bottles. (just like they were given in the hospital)
"Oh they just needed their nana" (nope they slept while you were here b/c that is a time of day they always sleep lol)
"Well when I had babies......." You fill in the blank LOL

Dianna

 

hehe...all SO funny!

Everytime either baby crys, step mom & sister say...oh they need a diaper change, even though it was JUST changed.

Step mom would try to burp them for like 2 seconds and if they didfn't burp right then would say they didn't need to and then would wonder why they spit up!

Sister would be over and would run into their room at any and every noise they made....SO annoying.

When mom was staying with us, she would get SO mad when if one woke up we woke the other one up to keep them on the same schedule...she would always say....I wouldn't do that...never wake a sleeping baby! ugh

 

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I need this thread this morning--it's been that kind of morning, screaming kids, locking my keys in the car, etc.

My DH's aunt came to stay when they were three weeks old. She was a great help in some ways, but she came up with some doozies. "Maybe your milk isn't rich enough for them." (after they were squalling because SHE constantly overstimulated them)

She would almost shout in their face "yupperdupperdooz" for what seemed like hours. Still, if I want to put my DH on edge, I just have to say that once. :laughing:

Plus she thought our kids were talking to the angels and she was always asking them what they said. I know that sounds cute. It's not. Especially the 100th time.

Aww man, we were grateful for her help, but we were never so thankful for a predicted snow-storm in our life, which meant she had to leave days early to try to miss it.

Oh, and my dad always thinks they're hungry. "Look, they're sucking on the pacifier, they must be hungry." No, dad, they like the pacifier!

 

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Plus she thought our kids were talking to the angels and she was always asking them what they said. I know that sounds cute. It's not. Especially the 100th time.



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Oh, these make me feel better. My favorites:

DH's aunt, every time i responded to crying babies when they were 3 months old: "He just has you wrapped around his finger!" Um, yes, he does...and I'm ok with that right now!

My mom has some great qualities, including being very supportive of breastfeeding even though what I've learned is a lot different than what she did. But she can't stop 'defending' Jack. Anytime Tom is fussing (ok, screaming), she swoops in and 'rescues' Jack. She sticks up for him any time I say anything about Tom doing something first (he does a lot of things first - it's a temperamental and developmental thing...no judgments!), or complain about an annoying thing Jack does (he SHOUTS so that the light fixture rattles). I'm beginning to understand how my sister and I got to be so competitive!

And I made my Dad change one diaper because he got away with never changing any of mine after he threw up once...but I gave him an easy one

 

Our boys have stayed with my folks just a few times. They don't seem to nap well with them so when we come to pick them up, they might be fussy or on the verge of tears. That's okay, doesn't bother me but I ALWAYS get this comment,
"They were just fine until you got here."

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

These are too funny. It is typically my MIL that says things that irritate me. For one she calls their paci's their binkies. I hate that. When they were little she would tap on their stomachs and say "oh you need to burp. I can hear a big gas bubble." Or.. You need to burp because you have the hiccups, and then the baby would burp and still have the hiccups. She came over to the house the other day and dd didn't have any socks on and she kept saying Grace why don't you have any socks on? Like Grace was really going to answer her. My dh took the babies over to their house the other day and it was in the 60's and she said why don't you have their blankets on them? I told him he should have said because they are my babies and I didn't want to put a blanket on them. My mom has been wonderful and hasn't opened her mouth once. Which is not like her at all.

 

I am loving these!! :rotflmbo:

MY MIL would always question what I was doing...tell me what she thinks should be done and end with "well, you know best..." Thank you, yes I do. She was with us for two months...she lives in Australia and even though I am so grateful and thankful that she was here to help for so long..I couldn't help but get annoyed at something almost every day.

The other thing that really got my goat was how she kept telling me not to take my books so seriously. At the time I was reading HSHHC and learned a lot from that book...I just did not appreciate her poo pooing a lot of the things I wanted to implement. What can you do? It's a MIL thing.

 

No it is not a MIL thing, my mother drives me NUTS!!! She will say when they need a diaper change, "do you need a new butt-butt?" UGH! It is a diaper! She will say, "did you know when they are at my house they don't even need a paci" UGH! yeah cause you keep them up and let them lick your dog when they are sleepy! Yeah and she has a dog named Rosie who I am a little afraid of. But my mother thinks all animals loves babies, they no longer go to her house because the dog is so jealous of me I know she will snap at the girls! I LOVED my MIL, (she is passed) when I was first pregnant she would say, "if its twins I am not taking one of them!" It annoyed me then but she never even knew we were actually hving twins so now I think it is funny.

 

Oh boy! I will say my mom sits back and lets me do the "mothering." And if she does say something, she says, "Why don't you just tell me to shut up!" So I am grateful for that. I think she is more quiet because of the inlaw side of the family...

Ready? Here we go...

1.)"Are you hungry? You look hungry!"
2.) "You must be hungry-you're eating your hand!"
3.) "Does your belly hurt?"
4.)" I think he has a stomachache-maybe it's the formula"(after we got 8 free cases of it. BTW-it's not the formula-it's the cereal).
5.) "Are you spoiled? I think you are spoiled. Meaghan-you need to leave them"(I am a sahm. Tell me how. And I do go out-weekly. Can't help it if my child loves me more than you!).
6.) "Did you miss me? Did you miss me?"
7.) "You are tired. Look at you. I think you are tired." Ummm...no...he just woke up so we could come here!
8.) DH to father "Dad give him the bottle." FIL: "Yeah but if I give it to him, he's just going to keep drinking it." Because he's supposed to!
9.) "You should give him chamomile tea. It helps his belly, stomachaches, and makes them sleepy. It's what we did in Italy." Welcome to America.
10.) "His feet are cold-maybe he needs more clothes on."
11.) "You sound congested. Are you sick? Is he ok?" We got this ALL THE TIME in the beginning because ds#2 has small nasal passages-so he sounded sick-never was!
12.) MIL kisses the heck out of them-once is enough. The noise that goes along with it is irritating all to heck. I don't need my boys kissed constantly-that's why they have mommy around. They don't need to get sick(mil works in a school).
13.) DH's aunt went up to my sister at the Christening while she was holding Nicholas, her godson. "Excuse me. Don't you get to see him/hold him all the time? I want to hold him." Geez-I didn't know we were keeping tabs on who holds who and for how long, and how often ppl see them for! That bothered me ALOT considering dh's family passed those boys around the whole day-and my family never got to hold them.

I could go on and on and on...DH's family is Italian. My side is mostly Irish. Not that it matters-but his side is quite overbearing-and even dh said he didn't think they would be this crazy. Lucky me. Sunday is Easter. Not looking forward to a house of 20 people...with 200 fingers all over my boys...

But the #1 most irritating thing I have heard is this:
"Where are MY boys?" Ummm...let's see...So you went through 4 years of infertility, countless IUI's, 4 rounds of shots/med, 4 IVF's, 2 surgeries, carried twins to 38 weeks, had a c/s and take care of them 24/7? Wow. And I thought I did all of that! What was I thinking?

 

These are quite funny and quite true!

My biggest pet peave is when my stepmom asks "When are you bringing my babies down here?" I'm sorry. They are MY babies. I carried them, I birthed them and I care for them. She has never had kids, so I think it's funny when she says if you need any advice, just let me know! Um, no. I will ask my mom, the one who has raised 3 kids. Thanks. She's a nurse, so she thinks she knows everything (nothing against nurses trust me, I am going to school to be one. But she's never been a mom!) I know this sounds mean, but she drives me crazy.

When my twins were born I had invited her and my dad over a couple of times during the weekend. Their response? "I'm sorry Kim, football is on". Glad to know were your priorities are.

My mom has been great. No complaints there!

 

QUOTE(joannabug @ Mar 20 2008, 11:17 AM) [snapback]678844[/snapback]
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She would almost shout in their face "yupperdupperdooz" for what seemed like hours. Still, if I want to put my DH on edge, I just have to say that once. :laughing:

Plus she thought our kids were talking to the angels and she was always asking them what they said. I know that sounds cute. It's not. Especially the 100th time.


i am laughing VERY LOUD at my computer. these are CRACKING ME UP!!!!! yyyuppperdupperdoooooz.

my mom is SO overstimulating. they will be crying & she is almost yelling, "what's wrong fuss budget! ohhhh, there's nothing wrong with you!!!" i always want to ask what a fuss "budget" is???? i still have to remind her not to shout and bounce them when we are putting them to bed at night.

my FIL is the worst....every peep he grabs them up & says, where's the plug? even when we didn't want to push pacifiers in the beginning bc of bfing...where's the plug? where's the plug? i'd want to say, they don't need it! they only use it in their beds or carseats! he HATES that we let them CIO but now wonders how we got such good sleepers. he doesn't "know any baby that sleeps 12 hours"...we just have "good babies." dh made sure to tell him it was because of hard work & allowing them to self soothe.

he also comments to everything with "they are good babies!". if i say, they are tired or overstimmulated...they are good babies. i say that dd didn't nap very long...she is a good baby. i love ds laugh..."well, berkley is a good baby too. they both have great laughs". it drives me BONKERS!!!!!!!!
i so badly want to say, did somebody tell you i had bad babies?

one time i said "berkley is much happier when she naps well." he responded on behalf of her, "mommy, i am always a happy baby!"

we went to visit for spring break last week & had a date night. the instructions were to stay out of the room & let them fuss if they woke up. (a little background....we actually left thanksgiving early because it was h*ll. they were so overstimulated from being held ALL THE TIME & picked up from naps, etc.) this week, my MIL picked up on our need for boundaries & told FIL this ...don't you dare go in there!

this is officially a tangent now...but they also give the babies food all the time without asking. last week they were spoon feeding them whipped cream!!!! i was stunned silent. they will let them suck on coke, ice tea, etc out of their straw. i'm going to have to think of how to respond. i just don't understand when grandparents think they can do or say whatever they want, just because they are family. yikes!!!

keep the stories coming...such comic relief!!!!

 

Well, my MIL is pretty good for the most part.
The main one is when we are leaving after they had been minding them for a bit
... she says 'they were really giggling earlier.'
I dont really know what to say to that so I go 'yeah, it's cute'
she says 'Yeah but they were really, really giggling, like getting up to a real cackle'
WT??? I wasn't sure where she was going with that one?????? So i just said 'yeah, they do - when you talk to them....'
I didn't know what to say. Does she think they dont do that at home?
The last few times we have gone there Lacey (DD) has been crying when she goes to Grandma, so I take her back if it lasts longer than a minute or two and settle her down. The last time we were there she did the same thing and Grandma, it seems would prefer her to cry than give her back!!! I stood there waiting to take her to settle her down and in the end I had to lean over and take her!!! (couldn't stand the noise for one, for two, MIL couldn't seem to settle her)
MIL also seems to love telling me how good they were at their house. Of course they were - theres more people there than you could poke a stick at to entertain them. (MIL has 3 young adopted children)

Ugh, anyway, I spoke to my sister about it and she says she gets that stuff from her MIL too.
My family (Sister and Mum) seem to be frightened to help me - saying 'Can I pick her up?' etc. Maybe they are trying to respect my wishes or something but for goodness sake I have 2 babies - I dont mind sharing!!!!
My Mum was more of a hindrance than a help when they were born unfortunately. eg. I was busy making bottles and DS woke up, she is sitting on the lounge 'Belinda, Kohbi's crying' she calls out. I am closer to the bedroom than her so OBVIOUSLY I can hear him. uuuuurrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhh!!!
In the end I asked her to leave. (she kept offering so I let her off the hook)
They drive you nuts don't they!!!

 

Great topic!!! haha One thing that is SOOOOOO annoying is every single time my grandmother holds one of the babies, she says, "If you cry, you go back to your moth-a!" Why does she hold them, if she'll be giving them back 2 seconds later??!! This is a woman with 4 children of her own...I can't imagine what she used to do with them everytime they cried!

 

Yes I knew this would be a fun thread !! Having a great laugh here.

Don't you just love it when they talk for the babies ?? "mommy I need a diaper change" "daddy pick me up" "I'm hungry mommy" ---- heck, when did my kid start to talk ?

don't you just want to respond for the baby ?.... example "mommy can to tell SIL to shut up !!" "mommy why is my SIL a crazy person ?"

 

i loved this soo much i keep coming back to read what others have to say :rotflmbo: as in previous post said

MY MIL too goes around saying oh i gotta show everyone MY BABIES. then looks at me AND SAYS WE CAN SHARE.......

she hardly ever comes upstairs for any lenght of time just for 15 minutes to say hi. then tells everyone how good she is with them and how she helps watch them for me. I AM DOING THIS ALL BY MYSELF I DON'T SEE ANYONE TAKING THEM FOR ME SO I CAN GO RELAX but she tells everyone she does

 

These are funny. I love how everyone else KNOWS what OUR babes need, better than we do!
When the babes where around a month old, my FIL told me that when I get a chance I need to take them to the hardware store to show them off....for him! I have yet to do that one.
Whenever I will hand one off to MIL, I tell her they still need to burp. Well, she must forget abpout them burping after a couple of pats. She then turns them around to talk.
When I tell IL's that they are tired, they continue to hold them instead of putting them down for a nap, which gets us off schedule.
The number one thing I don'rt like to hear is "Silas is the and Isaac must be the . They have already labeled my babies, only for it to change in about 2 weeks!

 

QUOTE(andreap @ Mar 20 2008, 04:40 PM) [snapback]679692[/snapback]
my mom is SO overstimulating. they will be crying & she is almost yelling, "what's wrong fuss budget! ohhhh, there's nothing wrong with you!!!" i always want to ask what a fuss "budget" is???? i still have to remind her not to shout and bounce them when we are putting them to bed at night.


We must have the same mom. The girls will be fussing and my mom will be YELLING "ITS OK! YOU'RE OK!" on and on and on and on. Which only makes the girls fuss louder. A couple of weeks ago my mom was over and this was happening. I was getting the girls' dinner ready in the kitchen and the noise from the dining room finally got to me and I yelled "MOM IF YOU YELL THEY YELL LOUDER!!!" She stopped and then they stopped. I felt bad about yelling since I try very hard not to, but my mom got the point pretty quickly. She is coming over tonight and we'll see if she remembers.

 

I've got a lot because things bug me!

• The first time my MIL and her boyfriend watched the babies was when they were 2 months old and we were in town visiting them. The only other person that had watched them was my mom. So we went to leave to go out to dinner and I kissed both of them. She says, "Oh Stacy. They will be fine. I HAVE raised two boys." Okay ... but I was just kissing my babies goodbye. AND for the record she has told me numerous times how she can count on one hand how many times her sons were babysat (that includes by family - grandparents, aunts, uncles, ect.).
• Another time my MIL was holding one of the babies. She is very well endowed. She said, "Aren't my boobies perfect for laying on?" You just have to know this woman!
• My mom harrasses me about things, but I have such a close relationship with her that I can tell her to back off and we can laugh about it. The one thing that always kills me though is that she ALWAYS thinks they are hungry and I'm not feeding them enough. That and I should start weaning them from pacifier. She's watching them in April for a few days ... let's see how she feels after that!
• This weekend all the adults (in my parents generation) were giving me crap. "It's amazing you kids all survived to adulthood with all the things we did wrong." But it was my family and I have no qualms about dishing it back. I particularly like quoting statistics! :lol:

These are good!

 

"They must be hot; I'm roasting!" (Noooo, you're menopausal and it's a hot flash. Leave their clothes ON, please.)

"I think he's hungry. Here." (He JUST finished eating and probably has a... yep, I can smell it.)

"OH, you're using cloth diapers? There's no way you'll have time for that and don't expect ME to change any."

"Rub a little whisky on his gums -- we did that when you were little and it worked great."

"They're ready for solids. Look, he wants my spoon!" (Babies like shiny things and NO, they aren't ready for solids)

"Gosh, they're so LIGHT. Are you sure you're feeding them?"

My all time least favorite thing, though, is when people would wake the babies so they could play with them. Drove me BONKERS.

 

QUOTE(mommymeg @ Mar 20 2008, 09:39 AM) [snapback]678654[/snapback]
My mom would say "Time for a Dyddy (die dee) change" or "You want a new Dyddy don't you?" I refuse to speak in baby talk to my kids and it drives me insane! But what can I do?? She was so helpful! I'd just clench my teeth and take a deep breath. Next time she comes though, I'll remind her that we are using "real" words with the babies.

that is hilarious!! :lol: I completely agree with you no baby talk but thanks for the help!

 

This gave me a good laugh. The "speaking through the babies" thing is so passive agressive. Why don't they just say, "Jessie, I think Aidan needs a diaper change." Not "Mommy, my diapey is all wet."

 

My MIL commented to my husband last night how she felt the girls were happier when they are at her house than when they are at home! It's a good thing she didn't say it to me...I would have been so mad.

One more thing I just have to get off my chest... Last Saturday We went to her house for a few hours. She kept telling me to take a nap, well I finally did fall asleep on her couch only to wake up to one of my babies chocking on a piece of peanut butter wafer covered in chocolate! I WAS FURIOUS!!!! I just can't believe she gave peanut butter and chocolate to the girls! They are only 9 months (6 mo. adjusted) Let alone a wafer...they don't have any teeth! HELLO!!!!!
Isn't it common to ask the mother if you can give her baby something to eat or am I just crazy?

 

QUOTE(Hananielsgirl @ Mar 22 2008, 03:23 AM) [snapback]681769[/snapback]
I finally did fall asleep on her couch only to wake up to one of my babies chocking on a piece of peanut butter wafer covered in chocolate! I WAS FURIOUS!!!!


Yikes! This crosses over the line from funny to terrifying. Do people think at all?

 

QUOTE(Hananielsgirl @ Mar 21 2008, 10:23 PM) [snapback]681769[/snapback]
My MIL commented to my husband last night how she felt the girls were happier when they are at her house than when they are at home! It's a good thing she didn't say it to me...I would have been so mad.

One more thing I just have to get off my chest... Last Saturday We went to her house for a few hours. She kept telling me to take a nap, well I finally did fall asleep on her couch only to wake up to one of my babies chocking on a piece of peanut butter wafer covered in chocolate! I WAS FURIOUS!!!! I just can't believe she gave peanut butter and chocolate to the girls! They are only 9 months (6 mo. adjusted) Let alone a wafer...they don't have any teeth! HELLO!!!!!
Isn't it common to ask the mother if you can give her baby something to eat or am I just crazy?


My DH's uncle tried giving my 5 month old son a meatball when he was here from florida. he got it in his mouth and pucked all over his uncle that will teach him. i even said to him before they r not on solids yet about 5 times before he tried to give hima meatball.