Best meal I’ve ever had! 10/10
Sausage and mashed potato with onion gravy and steamed cabbage & leeks
With the best view to look at while I eat
I was in for 11 days 3 meals per day 3 courses per meal and the best part - no washing up after!
Just a rant really and after advice on how to deal with this.
My mum has been amazing my whole life. It was just the two of us when I was growing up so we were incredibly close. She absolutely adores my 7 month old son but refuses to respect my boundaries when it comes to parenting.
When he was a newborn she would often passive aggressively say things like “your mummy is so nasty” to him if I was doing anything she disagreed with (such as I didn’t want him to have a cuddly toy in his Moses basket) I actually cried and told her I didn’t like her talking like this to him and she stopped..for a while. She also never respected the no kissing rule I tried to enforce.
She constantly tells me I’m wrong in the way I feed him (pace feeding as he has reflux) and tells me he must be tired/hungry/cold/hot no matter what I do she thinks I should be doing the opposite
She buys him a lot which is lovely but it’s often clothes that are too small (he’s in 9-12 and she keeps buying 6-9) and says it’s fine because he should loose weight
He is teething (has 4 teeth at the moment and another 2 on the way) so he puts everything in his mouth. She often lets him bite her fingers even though I’ve told her I don’t like him having peoples hands in his mouth and she just says “if he wants to do it I’m going to let him”
Since he started weaning about a month ago every time I see her she tries to give him foods that I would rather he not have yet (biscuits/ice cream/easter egg) or foods that are a choking hazard. Yesterday she was eating a chocolate bourbon while holding him and she asked if he can have a bit and I said no. She then gave him some anyway while I was out of the room and he choked briefly on it so I snapped and said if she carries on like this I’m not going to bring him round any more. This isn’t the first time she has done this as when he was around 5 months she gave him some of her cup of tea
She is currently going through cancer treatment so I have to be gentle around her and often just let her behave like this with him and I feel bad about snapping at her yesterday but I really don’t want him having biscuits or foods like this just yet. How should I approach this to heal our relationship?